Ava groaned in pain when she felt something hitting her back. She heard a voice but decided to ignore it. She was exhausted…everything from yesterday had taken its toll on the fairy.

"What the hell-"Ava heard a familiar voice muttered, and once again was shoved forward. The fairy's eyes remained closed, her head was throbbing, and she felt nauseous and sticky.

Caroline frowned, she was worried about Ava. She knew that Alaric's death had hit the teen hard; she called Elena and knew that the doppelganger was at home with Jeremy. But when the vampire tried the fairy there was no answer. So she decided to check up on. But the blond vampire was stumped when she found that the door wasn't opening.

Caroline didn't want to do any damage to Ava's front door, so opted to sneak around the back. She knew Ava was in; her heightened sense picked up the sound of the smaller blond teen's steady heartbeat. Caroline also knew that what Ava needed most was a distraction, so without further ado she blurred towards the back of Ava's house and peered through the window. She could make out a leg which most definitely belonged to the fairy. Caroline entered the house through the back door. She followed the sound of light snoring and her eyes landed on a slumped figure against the front door.

The fairy was in the exact place where Jeremy and Matt had left her; Ava was surrounded with couple of empty bottles of alcohol as well as candy wrappers and a few boxes of pizzas. Caroline was even more disgusted when she saw that Ava's mouth and chin were smeared with dry food and drool.

"Ava that is just gross-Ava? Wake up!" Ava whimpered and groaned. "Wake up!" she reached down and gently shook the fairy's shoulder.

"You….you're…wake?" Ava's mouth jabbered rubbish.

Caroline sighed; wonderful she'll be dealing with a moody fairy with a killer hangover. "Yes I'm awake so should you be."

"No…"Ava groaned and rolled over, Caroline grimaced seeing the other teen's hair going into some left over pizza. "Go…just let me lie here and….die…"

Caroline sighed "And I thought I was dramatic." She mumbled "Come on Ava-get up-"

Ava groaned, her brows furrowed "What's the point? Just go away-"the vampire wasn't having any of this, and took Ava's sticky hands and pulled her onto her unsteady feet.

"Ava-"

"God Caroline just bugger off." She snapped and stumbled out of the room, Caroline lips tugged into a frown and she followed after the fairy. She saw Ava rummaging through the freezer. And frowned in disapproval when she saw the ice cream tub the blond got out.

"Really Ava? This early?" Caroline asked

"Does it matter?" Ava muttered, she was parched and her throat was dry. "I don't want you here Caroline. And I can look after myself-"she plopped down on a breakfast stool.

"You may not want me here, but you need me." The vampire snapped, "Elena and Jeremy are repainting Alaric's room-"

"Oh great-"Ava dug her spoon "that's what I need. For you to remind me that…"she trailed off and shoved the spoonful of ice cream into her mouth. Before she could it was snatched away. "Caroline-"

"What Elena and Jeremy are doing is good. They are keeping busy-"Caroline stated. "That's what you should be-"

"Just…I wanna be on my own. OK?" Ava snapped, the ache in her head was lessening somewhat. She went to storm off to god knows where but the vampire was having none of it.

"No not ok Ava." Caroline snapped back startling the fairy. "You're my friend Ava…I saw what you went through when Claudine died and…you nearly lost yourself. I don't want that to happen again-"she grabbed the cloth by the sink and gently started to wipe the stains off of Ava's face.

"You're one of my best friends Ava, you were there for me when I was in a bad way…"the fairy had been there for her when Bonnie turned her back on her briefly. She helped her come to accept being a vampire, in fact the petite teen made it enjoyable. "Please Ava; Alaric wouldn't want this for you." Ava's eyes softened at that, causing Caroline to smile realising that she had got through to the little fairy. "Great now how about we go to the school-"

Ava frowned "Why?" she ran her fingers through her messy hair.

"Well we're part of the clean-up committee" she smiled brightly, and wasn't at all disappointed by Ava's reaction.

"NOOO" Ava screeched "Why? Dear god why?"

"Ok….well this is going well." Caroline muttered under her breath and nearly jumped out of her skin when there was the sound of small paws scampering towards her. She saw Coco running into the room. "And you're on the floor-"true to her word Ava dramatically dropped down to the ground still screeching 'No' "Go shower you smell funky-"

"You're going to make me clean…that's not going to cheer me up." Ava was still lying on the ground. She was kind of grateful for having Caroline here…it did cause a distraction from her miserable thoughts. Coco trotted over to Ava and licked the remnants of pizza that was left on her face.

"Eww…that's nasty Coco-"Ava shoved the puppy off of her. The chocolate Labrador whined causing Ava to groan, she scooped him up. "I can't be part of the clean-up committee and-"

"I'll make it worth your while." Caroline cut her off; Ava froze and narrowed her milky green orbs in the direction of where the vampire's voice came from. The taller blond grinned she got her hooked; now all she had to do was reel the little fairy in.

"How would you do that?" Ava asked.

"Well if you come with me to the school today and help clean up, I'll buy you that chocolate fudge cake you're so fond of." Caroline uttered

Ava snorted "What? You think a slice of cake is going to actually work on me? Now give me my ice cream back-"

"No" the vampire grinned "But I know a whole cake might convince you otherwise." She was reeling the fairy in. Caroline noted that Ava's demeanour seemed to have changed slight.

"A whole cake?" Ava sat up "You Caroline are offering me a whole cake just to clean-up?" she wetted her lips, damn she could just taste the chocolaty goodness in her mouth.

"Yes-"as soon as that word left Caroline's mouth, the petite blond shot up, standing on her feet.

"Ok….well you got me-"

"Honey I got you since I mentioned cake." Caroline smirked, grabbing Ava's hand dragging her out of the kitchen guiding her up the stairs.

"Ok…is it me or does that sound sexual?" Ava asked, "I don't swing that way Care…sure I think girls are pretty but not in a sexual way…now men I can go on about. Hell I have a list…you've got one as well as right?"

Caroline snickered as they climbed up the stairs and arrived at the landing "Duh, who's on yours?" now this was what she wanted Ava's insane babble.

"It's obvious…Elijah is at the top, followed closely by Benedict Cumberbatch and then…hmm…I wouldn't mind Tom you know the bloke who plays Loki? Him. Pfft there's too many to count." Ava frowned slightly.

"So Damon isn't on your list?" Caroline giggled they came to a stop outside the bathroom. She was going to make sure the teen had a shower; she smelt of sugar, sweat and pizza…not very nice things which made the fairy smell iffy.

"Damon doesn't count…I've already done him. Plus he's my boyfriend-"

"Oh of course I don't know what I was thinking." Caroline said pompously, she glanced down at her cell and saw that Ava should really start to get ready otherwise they would be extremely late. "But-"

"Huh…Damon can be third and-Hey-"she yelped when the vampire shoved her into the bathroom "What-"

"Shower now. You can tell me the rest in the car." Caroline ordered "I'll go sort your outfit out. You're going to look super cute-"with that the blond flounced away, leaving a miffed fairy behind. The vampire entered Ava's old room, and had just opened the closet door when she heard shouting.

"FUCKING HELL COCO YOU STAY OUT OF THE BATHROOM. " Caroline peered out of the door and just saw Ava dumping the fairy outside the bathroom door. But the exuberant puppy scampered back in. Damn Caroline thought that puppy kind of have a weird attachment to the petite teen. She frowned when there was no more shouting so decided to use her heightened hearing and managed to catch Ava's last sentence, she grinned and giggled at what heard.

"Alright-"she heard the fairy whispered "You can stay but don't be a pervert and watch." With that Ava turned the shower on.


"It's weird being here." Ava commented, she and Caroline were walking down the empty halls of Mystic High.

"I know…but you're taking a leaf out of Scarlet's book-"the vampire threw her arm around the smaller teen's shoulders.

"Oh please don't start with the Gone With The Wind crap…"Ava scoffed and squeaked when Caroline pinched her side,

"It's an epic love story…kind of like Twilight-"they rounded a corner, their shoes echoed against the empty halls.

Ava scowled "Please Twilight love story is….shiiitttt-"she dragged the last word out.

"No it's not-"Caroline huffed, she was a true fan-girl to the whole Twilight Saga, Ava not so much. In fact whenever discussion was brought up about it Ava would just slate the whole concept. "It's just soooo romantic, Bella and Edward love at first sight-"

"He was interested in her because she smelt…and he couldn't read her mind" Ava scoffed "Plus staring at her while she slept how fucked up is that?"

Caroline rolled her eyes and looked down at her friend "He was admiring her beauty-"

"He was a hundred year old something virgin who watches teenage girls sleep…plus Gran told me he sparkled? How dumb is that?" Ava sniffed and tucked in a stray curl, Caroline had braided her hair so most of it was pulled away from her face. "I reckon Ron and Hermonie tale is the epic love story of all time." She declared.

Caroline stared at her friend as if she'd grown another head. "Witches and Wizards? Lame-"

"Says the one who's into sparky sperm carrying vampires." Ava shoved her lightly "No Ron's and Hermonie's story is amazing….they have real love, they went into a world full of prejudice, hate and evil…hated each other at the beginning, became close friends and even come through a war loving each other…they saw pass each other's flaws…now that is real love." Ava nodded.

"Oh crap you win." Caroline sighed "Happy?"

Ava nodded "Of course." She uttered just as Caroline's cell rang. "Who's that?"

"My Ron." Caroline grinned seeing the confused look on Ava's face she rolled her eyes. "Tyler?"

"Oh." Ava nodded; they walked passed Alaric's class room. The fairy felt a small bout of sadness but pushed it down; the whole point of being here was not to let her morbid thoughts come into play.

She opted to listen to what Caroline was saying to Tyler. "What do you mean you're ditching my clean-up committee-?" she snapped.

Ava's mouth dropped into a frown "No…come save me Tyler you ass I don't want to be here-ditch-"she was cut off when the vampire covered her mouth with her hand, instantly muffling Ava's cries of protest. "Stop laughing-"the taller blond ordered her boyfriend. They carried on walking down the corridor; the fairy was only able to hear Caroline's side of the conversation. "Well since when did sire-bonding equal mover slave?"

Ava's brows furrowed, so what? Klaus was actually leaving…she sort of felt relieved at the same time…and kind of…she couldn't quiet put her finger on the other emotion. It wasn't sadness…no not that…but something else. In the oddest way possible the Original did kind of grow on her despite being a huge ass, he did save her on numerous occasions. She was brought out of her onslaught of thoughts by Caroline.

"Wait so he's doing this because he knows that Ava won't leave Damon for him?" by this time Caroline had removed her hand from the fairy's mouth. "That's just petty."

"Damn right." Ava muttered.

"I love you too." The vampire hanged up. "Seems like you put Klaus in a bad mood Ava."

They kept walking down the corridor "Whenever is he in a good mood?" she countered causing Caroline to chuckle.

"Good point." Ava was about to add more but immediately stopped, she heard something, and Caroline obviously did as well since she gently gripped Ava's upper-arm stopping her.

"Hello?" Caroline called

"Is anybody there?" Ava added, they waited for a second but there was no response.

"Come on it's no one." Caroline uttered walking in to the direction of the cafeteria where last night's dance had taken place.

Ava was about to follow after her but stopped short…she glanced over her shoulder, even though she couldn't see she felt like someone was watching her. "Ava come on-"Caroline shouted.

"Alright you loud mouth bit-"

"What?"

"Nothing." Ava huffed and pushed the double doors open. As soon as she entered she heard the sound of shuffling, someone was already here.

"Where's Matt?" Caroline asked frowning at who was there.

"He bailed." Rebekah stated alerting the fairy it was her who was in this room. "He got called into work at the last minute."

Ava sighed "Oh come on even Matt is out of this." She muttered under her breath.

"Are you kidding me?" Caroline whined "So it's just us?"

"The three blonds…perfect start to a horror movie." Ava mumbled and stretched her arms above her head.

"Yes." Rebekah answered Caroline's question. "And you're both late, committee started at 8 o'clock."

Caroline scowled and looked down at her cell to check the time "It's like 8:02"

Ava hummed; they were only two minutes late? That was like a new record for them. Whenever Ava and Caroline were going places together they show up an hour or so later. "Exactly I managed to arrive on time and I didn't even attend the dance that I organised." Rebekah snapped dropping the bin and stalked passed Caroline.

"Right, Ava take this and there's a pile of rubbish scattered around." Caroline said pressing a bin bag into her hands before walking off in the opposite end of the Original. Ava didn't blame her, there was no love lost between the two vampires.

The fairy sighed and started to pick up what felt like streamers, she licked her lips remembering that it wasn't only them who lost someone because of last night. The Original had lost her mother. Ava felt a swell of pity for her.

"I'm sorry about your mom being a fucked up psychopath who ruined all our lives." Ava said as she picked up some more rubbish. Rebekah stared at her for a second before a smile came upon her lips; Caroline who'd just witnessed this shook her head. She'd never get used to Ava's and Rebekah's weird relationship. "I know you hated her and everything but she's your mom, you'd only get one of those. So I'm sorry." She said the last part sincerely.

"I'm sorry about your teac-I mean Ricster." Rebekah said softly, "he seemed like a nice guy."

Ava smiled and nodded "That's an understatement but I'll take it."

"I'm going to get started on the gym." Rebekah stated before walking out.

Caroline glanced over to Ava who was picking things up off of the table. "Why are you so nice to her?" she asked, she more curious than anything else.

"Why not?" Ava shrugged her shoulders.

Caroline stared at her dumbfounded "Ava she's bad…and-"

"She's not bad." Ava defended the Original, they had more than one thing in common and that was the fear of loneliness. "Just…bad things tend to happen to her. You know what Care? Get to know her, you might actually like her."

Caroline hummed "Ok…but if she's after Tyler-"

"Nah she's after Stefan you're good for now." Ava uttered casually. Caroline giggled and they carried on cleaning up.

They were brought out of their brief state of cleaning when there was a loud bang, Ava thought it sound like someone being slammed in to the lockers.

"Ava stay here-"Caroline sped out of the room with vamp speed.

"Yeah no way-"Ava raced after her, she emerged just as Caroline and Rebekah together staked vampire Alaric through the chest. Ava jumped when she heard the sound of roaring pain.

The two blond vampires backed up and exchanged alarmed looks when the stake didn't at all affect the previously deceased history teacher.

"Caroline-"Ava shouted and yelped when Caroline grabbed her by the arm, the fairy felt like her arm was going to rip out of its socket as the vampire pulled her along as they ran. "What's going on?" she shouted they were outside now.

"Alaric is back-"

"Yay-"Caroline fumbled in her pocket for the car keys. Her mind was in a panic

"No not yay. He completed his transition Ava-"Ava's heart stopped, if Alaric was a vampire that meant his darker side was unleashed. They were all in danger; he was going to be faster and stronger than any of them.

"Oh-"Ava breathed "why are we standing here for a car? Run woman-"just as she was about to grab Caroline's hand she was shoved away violently. The fairy crashed into the ground skidding her knees.

The blond froze seeing the reflection of the person behind her. "AVA RUN-"she screamed, Ava backed up and gasped when there was a resounding snap. Alaric looked over to the little fairy, a dark smile appeared on his face, he needed extra leverage and she was perfect. "Stay where you are little fae-"he warned her.

Fear spread through fairy, she didn't heed his warning. If Ava ran she could get away and get help for her friend. That was the only thought running around in her mind. So she turned on her heel and sprinted. Alaric growled and appeared in front of her, she slammed into him.

"Ric-"Ava swallowed.

"I tried to be nice and it didn't work. Now I have to do this." He knew that she wouldn't come willingly, he felt the sun burning into him. He would have to use force. Ava took a hasty step back

"Ric-"

"Sorry-"he didn't sound sorry at all "you're about to have a killer headache."

Ava yelped in pain when he grabbed a fistful of her blond curls and smashed her head against the car. The fairy felt an explosion on pain and nothing. Rebekah watched aghast as the former teacher hefted the fairy onto his shoulder and dragged Caroline, he was heading back to the school.


Ava groaned, there was an immense pain coming from her head. She felt something wet and warm running down the side of her face. Her mind was hazy and she was confused. Ava attempted to raise her hand to her throbbing head but couldn't. Something was stopping her.

"What the-"she groaned and tried again this time lifting both of her hands but couldn't. Ava realised that her wrists were strapped down and tied to the chair she was sitting in. "No, no, no-"she gritted her teeth feeling the coarse ropes cutting in to her delicate skin.

"Stop right there honey. You're going to hurt yourself."

Ava froze, her head snapped up, she regretted that action, as a spasm of pain hit her. "Ric? Where's Caroline?" her brows furrowed.

"Well-"she stiffened when his voice came right beside her ear. "If you're quiet you might be able to hear her.-"

"Ric-"

"Ssh-"she cringed when he slammed his hand over her lips forcing her to be quiet. Ava's ears twitched hearing a whimper of pain coming from her other side. Her eyes widened Caroline was here and from the sounds of it she was in pain.

Ava exhaled when he pulled his hand back, but tensed when she felt his callous fingers none too gently running down the side of her face.

"You're bleeding." He tutted "Apologies my dear-"

"Oh…shove off-"she snapped, this wasn't the man she said goodbye to last night. No in his place was a monster. Who was taking utter enjoyment in Caroline's pain, it disgusted her.

"Be nice-"Ava hissed in pain when he pressed his fingers into the gash. She squirmed in her seat

"Oww-"tears welled up in her eyes.

"Hmm fairy blood-"he licked his blood-stained fingers. And moaned in delight at the exquisite taste. "Such a wonderful thing."

Ava was panting, she was scared…no she was terrified truth be told. "Now be a good little girl, while I'll make a quick call." She flinched when he kissed her blood covered cheek. And let out a puff of air when she couldn't feel him anymore.

"Caroline?" she whispered fearfully. Caroline blinked through her tears of pain, she didn't dare move an inch since her hands were pinned to the desk via pencils, and her mouth was gagged with a vervaine drenched cloth.

From the corner of her eye the vampire could see the state of the fairy. There was a large gash to Ava's head, blood was dripping down but it was beginning to clot. Like her the petite teen was pinned down. But instead of having pencils stabbed into her, Ava's wrists were tied to the arms of the chair with thick coarse rope. Ava wetted her lips "I promise you one thing, you're going to be the first person I'll rescue successfully. I'll get us out." She promised. Ava knew that if Caroline didn't get out she'll most likely end up dead. Since Alaric was now wired to kill vampires.

"Listen carefully-"she gripped onto the armrests, the ropes were doing their job of holding her down. She felt Alaric's hand brushing against her shoulder and he strolled passed. He came to a stop so that he was standing right in front of her. "

I'm at the school-"Caroline peered through her wet lashes, not liking the wicked smile on Alaric's face. It looked so out of place "I have Caroline here, and if you want to keep her alive I need you to get into your car and come down here right away. If you tell anyone where you are going I will kill her" he exclaimed.

"Son of a bitch. You're not going to touch her-"Ava shouted struggling with her tied wrists.

"Oh and if you need an extra incentive to hurry down here Ava is right here." Caroline was even more scared when she saw the hunter bearing down on the small blond. "Now I won't kill her, but I'm not going to make her stay pleasant…there'll be a bit of this-"Alaric dug his fingers into her bloodied wound.

Ava felt an intense fire of pain from the gash, she screamed out in pain fresh blood dripped down the side of her face. Ava gasped and was left breathless when he pulled his hand back. "Hurry Elena." he hanged up and canted his head to the side looking at the pale fairy. "Sorry about that…some people just need that extra push-"Alaric smiled serenely. "Now how about we share some stories? Hmm…like the time-

Ava's eyes hardened "You want me to share stories with you?" she spat "You? I don't even know you-"

Alaric grinned and brushed back Ava's blood matted hair away from her face, her braid had loosened. "Of course you know me…I am Alaric-"

"No the Alaric I know wouldn't be doing this." She sneered, she was sore, aching, scared and Caroline's quiet gasps of pains were putting her even more on edge if possible. "He was friends with vampires. Cared for them…you-"

"SHUT UP" Alaric roared causing Ava to lean back in her seat "Don't say another word. You don't think I know that? I was such a disgrace-"ok now she was confused "I befriended those vile creatures…I-"Ava blinked he was ashamed?

"You're ashamed? You helped them Alaric-"she taunted him. Caroline closed her eyes wishing for the blond to shut up. What on earth was Ava thinking? Taunting a homicidal maniac. "You were drinking buddies with Damon-"

"I SAID SHUT UP-"

"Some hunter" Ava shouted back she didn't at all expected Alaric's next action. SLAP-Caroline gasped and snarled in anger when Alaric backhanded across her face. Ava felt a thunder of pain when he hit her.

Her cheek felt like it was on fire and she could taste a coppery taste in her mouth. He split her lip, Ava whimpered when she felt his hand glided down her red cheek. His hit only signified to Ava that there was none of her Alaric left…he would never have hurt her.

"I told you to shut up." He snarled "I told you Ava…this will keep you quiet." Caroline watched as he walked over to his desk and picked up another piece of rope. The fairy barely struggled as he tied rope across her mouth creating a gag. Ava was dizzy with pain and clenched her eyes shut wishing for Damon to come to her rescue.


Ava was jolted out of her hazy mind when Caroline let out another whimper of pain. The fairy winced as she shifted in her seat. The corners of her mouth were being cut into by the coarse rope. She inhaled through her nose, the blood from her gash once again started to clot, so half of her face was caked in dry blood.

There were dribbles of blood escaping from her tied wrist. She blinked slowly and inhaled again.

"Right on time." Alaric stated, alerting Ava that Elena was now here. She prayed that the doppelganger had come up with a plan…and that she wasn't stupid enough just to come here on her own.

Caroline let out a moan of pain, feeling the vervaine entering her system once again, Ava swallowed and shifted in her seat wanting nothing more to help the other blond. She didn't at all like the sound of her bubbly friend being in pain.

"Stop moving-"Alaric ordered the fairy "Or you're going to just keep hurting yourself." Ava wanted to scowl but could she bit down hard in to the rope. The fairy heard the sound of footsteps echoing down the hall. The petite blond pulled up the barriers in her mind.

"Elena?" Ava thought loudly, it felt like it's been a while since she used her mind abilities. She couldn't use them against the vampires in this room, since she couldn't exactly pick their brains. "Elena?"

"Ava? Oh my god where are you? Are you ok?" she heard Elena's frantic thoughts.

"Alaric's classroom. Please tell me Damon and the others are here! Elena?"

"I came on my own-"Ava slumped in her seat, and heard the sound of the footsteps speeding towards their direction.

Elena didn't know what to expect when she entered the classroom. She took a deep breath and steeled herself as she walked into the classroom. Her eyes immediately landed on Alaric who was sitting in his desk chair, the hunter looked bored.

Elena's eyes flew over to Caroline when she heard the blond whimper and gasped at the sight.

"Caroline." She breathed and grimaced at the sight of the pencils that were stabbed into the backs of the vampire's hand. Elena's eyes then landed onto the figure next to her and her jaw dropped at the sight of Ava.

"Ava oh my god." She saw the side of the teen's face, it was caked in blood, her lip was split and like Caroline she was incapable of moving. Her wrists were bound and her mouth was gagged. "Let them go Alaric." she ordered her former guardian.

Ava resisted the urge to roll her milky green eyes, "Yeah that would work Elena."

"Will you stay out of my head?" Elena thought back, her eyes remained focused on Alaric who quirked an eyebrow.

"Free them yourself." He shrugged his shoulders. Ava frowned getting the feeling that he was up to something.

"Ok weird… I said the exact same-forget it. Free Caroline first." Elena agreed, the vampire was in much more obvious pain compared to Ava. So the brunette rushed forward and knelt down in front of Caroline, her dark brown eyes darted between the pair of blond teens.

"Hey-"Elena swallowed and gently grasped the pencil. Ava shifted anxiously waiting on bated breath for her to free Caroline.

Elena was beginning to pull the pencil out but it was slammed back into her hand causing the doppelganger to jump. Ava gasped and paled hearing Caroline's scream of pain it was louder than anything else that came out of the vampire's mouth.

"You said that you would let her go-"Elena shouted frightened as she backed up.

"He's a fucking psycho you actually believed him?" Ava thought and squirmed in her seat, her head was still throbbing but she wasn't focused on that anymore.

"How many times do I have to tell you Elena stop trusting vampires?" Alaric snapped his eyes were dark and full of malice. All of Ava's wriggling was beginning to loosen the rope gag from her mouth.


Ava let out a sigh, the gag was now gone, the piece of rope was loosely around her neck. Elena's eyes darted over to Alaric who was busy soaking Caroline's gag in a tub of amber liquid. She noted that the fairy seemed more alert than before.

The doppelganger had a plan, hopefully like her many others she prayed that this one would work. "Ava?"

"Yeah?"

"Are you strong enough to hold down Ric?" Elena didn't miss the look of confusion on the petite teen's face. "I reckon Stefan might've figured out where we are…so we just need a second to get away."

"…I can try…"she didn't have a chance against him. But that wouldn't stop her from attempting. Perhaps she could distract him long enough for them to run. "Yes I can. Just tell me when and we'll run."

"Got it." Elena licked her lips, and saw that Ava's wrist wasn't as bound as tightly before. It must've been because of all her previous squirming she thought.

"Just a second Caroline. Then I'll be done." Alaric smiled as he dipped the cloth even more.

Ava felt her heart beating hard and fast. "No no more Alaric-"Caroline sobbed.

"Stop it Alaric." Ava snapped "Such a prick-"

"You want me to shut you up again?" Alaric snarled, causing Elena to stare at him in alarm. The man was literally deranged. "This time I won't be so nice."

Ava's lips thinned and she pressed them together, she winced feeling the soreness from the corners of her mouth.

"Alaric stop-"Elena got onto her feet but she was shoved back down into her seat.

"Sit down." He ordered "This keeps the vervaine in her system it's like inhaling razor blades." Ava was sickened by this. "With every breath." He tied the cloth around her mouth, causing Caroline to whimper and moan in pain.

"You are such a sick fuck-"Ava spat "let her go-oww-"she howled in pain when he grabbed the back of her braid and pulled harshly on it.

"You are full of foul words aren't you-"Elena started to get up to no doubt aid the fairy, but one glare from Alaric stilled her. "One more word out of your mouth and you will regret it." He threatened her; Ava sagged in her seat when he let her go. Dear god, it fell like he was ripping the skin from her scalp.

"Why are you doing this?" Elena questioned her voice shook with fear. Ava bit down hard on her bottom lip, but immediately let go when there was a sharp pain. She forgot about her cut lip.

"To make it easier on you when you put Caroline out of her misery." Alaric explained twirling the white dagger in his hands.

"What?" Elena and Ava questioned in panic.

"You are-"

"No-"the doppelganger spoke over her, not wanting Ava's mouth to run away with her.

"Isn't this what you wanted Elena?" Alaric said, he was now standing in front of the brunette. "For me to teach you how to kill a vampire? Well here's a vampire Elena." he gestured to the sobbing vampire with the white oak stake. "Kill her." Alaric offered the teen the stake. Ava's eyes widened in alarm, she didn't know how this was going to play out.

"This isn't what I want-"Elena shook her head.

Alaric cocked an eyebrow "Of course it is. All those hours you spent training getting stronger. You could be a great hunter Elena-"

"Fuck I knew that would come back and bite you on the ass." Ava muttered wriggling her wrists; she felt them loosen the slightest bit.

"You never actually staked a vampire through the heart." Alaric announced his eyes flickering towards the struggling fairy.

Alaric started to pace up and down, Elena refused to budge and it was agitating the hunter. If she didn't do it, he decided to move onto the fairy.

"Why are you doing this?" Elena said angrily.

Alaric turned on her "Because you need me. You and Ava-"the fairy squawked at that and mumbled about not needing another deranged vampire in her life. "Because Elena you're an eighteen year old girl without parents or guidance. And Ava? Well she's only seventeen and let's face it this one needs all the help she can get."

Ava was insulted by that. "Don't react." She heard Elena's though. Ava dug her nails into the armrests. "Neither of you have any senses of right and wrong-"

"Ha-"Ava scoffed loudly, Elena palmed her face. "You're one to talk about right and wrong. Dude you hit a blind chick that just reeks of wrong. And look at what you're doing to Caroline? She doesn't look like she's having fun. Dick." The corners of her mouth was burning, the skin was irritated and slightly enflamed.

"Ava has a point this isn't right-"Elena pointed at Caroline.

"She's a murderer-"Alaric informed them. "She told me she killed someone and liked it." The doppelganger glanced over to the vampire. Caroline lowered her gaze. "How is that right?" there was a moment of silence, neither girls knew how to answer that. Alaric moved over to Elena.

"Listen Elena your parents led the council it was their life's mission to keep this town safe. They weren't dead six months before you undid it all." A bubble of guilt ebbed up within the doppelganger. "And Ava?" he rounded on the fairy, bracing his hands on her desk, Ava leant away feeling his warm breath on her face. "Your parents sacrificed themselves for you. For you to remain here and this is what you repay them by?"

"Back off ass" Ava snapped "you never even knew my parents. So don't pretend you know anything about them."

"Hit a nerve have I?" Alaric chuckled, gently tugging on the end of her braid "I'm not wrong though am I? Do you two think that your parents, Claudine would be proud of you?" his eyes met Elena's.

"I'm going to tell you one thing-"Ava forced herself to remain still when she felt him running a digit down the side of her face. "If you don't side with humans you're just as bad as them."

Ava licked her chapped lips "I'm a fairy so I don't count-"she countered.

"Ah but they're monsters and faes are not. Pure creatures after all….but come to think of it you're hardly pure are you?" Alaric murmured, "Getting all cosy with creatures that would have no inclination of hunting your kind down. In fact they did. Did they not? Those creatures who are you defending Ava, there the reason for you being all on your own."

Ava dropped her gaze, he certainly did hit a nerve, and she did find herself wondering at times if vampires didn't hunt her kind down, would they all be here? Would she have actual blood relatives? People who were the same as her? Alaric smiled seeing the conflicting emotions crossing Ava's face. He slowly stood up.

"Now kill her." Alaric ordered Elena. "I would love to see her have ago-"he nodded towards Ava. "But I got a feeling that she doesn't have such good aim."

"Ha, ha, ha-"Ava muttered clenching her hands into fists.

"Move now." he snarled at the doppelganger "Or I'll do it for you, and I'll make it hurt." He vowed. Elena's eyes flew towards Ava and then Caroline's trembling form. Ava heard grunting as Alaric pulled Elena onto her feet and forced the stake into her hands.

"Ava are you ready?" Elena asked her telepathically. She had to hand it to the fairy for keeping her cool and not being startled by her. From the corner of her eye she saw the glass of vervaine.

"Yes-"

"When I say now do it." The fairy gave her the slightest almost undetectable nod. Elena's eyes met Caroline's, the doppelganger clenched her fist and spun around in a poor attempt to stab Alaric but the hunter caught her wrist.

"I thought I taught you better than that." Alaric hissed not too pleased at what was happening. Ava closed her eyes and focused, she dug into her mind looking for power she felt the pit of her stomach tingling with anticipation.

"You did-"Elena hissed without warning she grabbed the glass of vervaine and smashed it in Alaric's face. the hunter roared in agony. "NOW AVA-"she screamed. Ava's eyes snapped opened and ripped, tear and mauled her way into Alaric's mind forcing him onto his knees, and clutching his head. .

Elena didn't waste any time and ripped the pencils from Caroline's hands ignoring her cry of pain. They both worked together freeing Ava.

"Go, go, go-"Ava shouted "I can't hold him for long-"just as those words left her mouth, her hold on Alaric was drastically dropping.

"You're coming." Elena shoved the blond vampire out of the room, shouting at her to get help. They sprinted down the corridor.

"We have to split up." Ava panted. "It'll confuse him-one goes through the back entrance and the other we'll go round the front. Meet in the parking lot"

"Ava no-"

"Just do it-"Ava freed herself from Elena's grip "Best chance we've got. We have to keep him away from Caroline-"

Elena swore "Fine." She sprinted in the opposite direction of the fairy. Ava ran as fast as her legs could carry her. Even if she couldn't hear him the petite blond wasn't slowing down. She held one hand out and splayed it across the lockers, in a way to guide herself.

She didn't hear anything behind her before she could ease up in her running she slammed into something hard sending her careening backwards. Ava hit the floor hard.

"Really? Splitting up?" Alaric stalked towards her. The fairy scuttled backwards and her stomach lurched when it connected with the lockers.

"Really? Going after the blind one? How cliché-"she countered,

"No I didn't come after you-"Alaric grabbed her by the collar of her top and hauled her small form up. "Because you're blind. I think you can give me a run for my money-"

"Yeah?" Ava dug her nails into his hand "me too." She slammed her knee upwards connecting it with his crotch. His grip slackened and Ava didn't linger she sprinted away from him, The bloodied fairy didn't even get a foot away from him, before Alaric grabbed the back of her shirt and threw Ava into the lockers.

Ava grunted and lost her breath at the force. She couldn't even get it back before Alaric's hand clamped around her throat. She gasped and grabbed his wrist attempting to get him to let go.

"You're a pain in my ass-"Alaric hissed.

"Good to know-"Ava's eyes started to water.

"I should kill you." He slammed her causing her head to hit the lockers; Ava clenched her eyes shut in pain. "I should gut you like Brian Walters, Bill Forbes and all the other cowards I plan on ripping apart. You're the worst offender of them all Ava-"her faced scrunched up in pain, he dug his fingers into her throat her feet left the ground as he held her up. "You don't deserve to live."

"Fuck you Ric." Ava hissed "I've been through way too much to try and survive. Come to think of it why the hell are you just chatting to me?" she asked. "You have plenty of chances to kill me. And you didn't-"something was up, she could tell. He could've killed her the moment he captured her yet he didn't. He didn't keep it a secret that he despised her or Elena.

"There's nothing of the old Alaric in you. So what is stopping you?" she snapped "Kill me! I dare you-"the fairy was oblivious to his face transforming "KILL ME-"her heart skipped a beat when she felt his hold on her tightened before he abruptly let her go.

Ava coughed and struggled to stay up right. "I can't kill you." He snarled her breathing was heavy and laboured as she had trouble getting her breath back. "But I wouldn't mind having a taste-"he lunged towards her.

Ava screamed as he slammed his body into her causing her to land on her back. "I had enough of fucking vampires trying to take a fucking bite out of me. Enough-"a surge of power travelled through her, and Alaric cried out in pain as white light erupted from the fairy's hand, blasting him away from her he felt like he was burning. Ava groaned she felt weak and drained.

"Ava-"Elena ran around the corner and gaped at the sight of Alaric on the floor, "Come on-"he saw the hunter twitching. The doppelganger was so close to the exit before she heard screaming, specifically Ava's screaming. The brunette helped Ava onto her feet and grew worried when the teen could barely stand. Ava was spent, exhausted, drain and in pain. "Come on-"Elena half dragged half carried Ava when she saw Alaric beginning to get his bearing. "Please Ava just run." She begged.

Ava heard Elena's voice through her hazy mind, she sensed the urgency and the brunette was relieved when she felt Ava started to carry her own weight, they ran down the corridors. "I figured something-"she told Ava. "About us and Alaric and-"she gasped when Alaric appeared in front of them. Before he could even touch them, Stefan and Damon blurred onto the scene and held the hunter between them.

"Stay here-"Elena ordered Ava, she needed to get something. The fairy took several steps away from the chaos.

"Do it now-"Damon gritted his teeth, him and Stefan were struggling to hold onto Alaric. His icy blue orbs landed on Ava's pale frightened face. Anger surged through him when he saw the state that she was in. "Now." he shouted but Alaric was fast, he easily snapped Stefan's back and then attacked Damon.

Ava staggered back, the fairy had backed herself into the lockers, preventing her from an escape route, she didn't miss the unmistakable sound of a neck being snapped.

"Oh and I thought I was crap at rescues." She muttered, fear purged within her and she licked her lips. "Ric-"before he could attack her, Klaus blurred onto the scene.

"Run Ava-"the Original shouted plunging his hand in Alaric's chest and gripped his heart. Ava stood frozen on the spot; she didn't know what the hell was going on. all she could hear was grunting and groans of pain. Ava gasped when she heard Klaus crying out in pain. Alaric slammed him into the ground…he was going to kill him.

"NO don't-"Ava shouted, there was a possibility that the Original was responsible for Damon's and everyone else's bloodlines. "Alaric don't-"she ran forward as the hunter raised the white oak stake above Klaus's chest. And was about to plunge the stake in to his heart but Elena appeared beside Ava, the doppelganger went off to find a knife.

"Stop-"Elena shouted causing the fairy to jump out of her skin; she had focused all of her attention on the two males before her. "Let him go or I'll kill myself-"Alaric didn't bat an eyelash. "And Ava will kill herself-"

"Fucking hell I don't want to die-"Ava yelped when the doppelganger elbowed her.

Alaric's eyes hardened "Put it down Elena." he ordered, the petite teen was confused why he was so determined not to kill them? There had to be something in it for him she concluded. Unlike Ava, the brunette had it all figured out.

"Why? Why because you need either one of us alive right?" Elena asked, the small knife was poised at her throat. "There's a reason why Ester used us to make you isn't there? She didn't want you to be immortal, she tied your life to a human one, or in this case a fae's one as well."

Ava's eyes widened they were all linked? But then she remembered that their blood was used over a thousand years to create the Originals…fae blood was a bonding agent. Powerful and rare causing any spell cast that used it to be powerful and strong.

"Oh this is wonderful. We're tied together." Ava exclaimed so perhaps there was a possible way to end Alaric. "So you have one life span to kill all vampires? And then you're gone. Shit Ester screwed you over." She rubbed her throbbing temples. "Got to hand it to Ester though she's smart. If one of us dies than so do you."

"That's it." Elena nodded glad that the blond was getting it.

Alaric growled, the amount of pressure he was putting on the stake caused it to shake "You're wrong."

"Bitch please." Ava scoffed "we're right. Vamps were created through fairy blood, hybrids were created with it and so were you…" she uttered.

Elena decided to call his blood and pressed the knife against her throat, she started to slice into her skin.

"Stop, stop, stop-"Alaric shouted, Ava swallowed

"Elena stop-"she shouted hearing her friend whimpering as she cut herself. Klaus saw his chance as Alaric was too distracted, he kicked the hunter off of him.

"Talk to you soon love-"that was the last thing Ava heard before she was engulfed in blackness.


Ava moaned in pain, her head was throbbing and she felt so, so tired. Her milky green orbs were beginning to droop once again.

"No Ava stay awake." A voice hissed to her right,

"Elijah?" she asked, her voice was slurred due to the blood loss. The fairy had lost a decent about from being literally thrown everywhere.

"No Elena-"

"Oh damn" Ava muttered, Elena rolled her brown orbs. She had been awake for the last couple of minutes and was relieved to see the fairy was awake somewhat. The doppelganger swallowed nervously seeing the tubes coming out from her hands. Ava was in a similar state or was about to be. The nurse just plunged the second needle into the back of the petite teen's hand.

"Oww…fucking hell-"Ava's brows furrowed together in confusion. "What? What's going on….?"

"Oh sorry, be careful-"she heard a woman's voice "moving around makes it hurt more."

Ava's jaw clenched, scared of not knowing what was going on. "What? I'll hurt you-"the corners of her mouth were slightly bloodied due to the rope burn. "What's going on?" she asked aloud.

"Well love-"Ava froze hearing that accented voice. "I'm draining Elena all of her blood and I'll take a couple of pints of yours and then you and I shall be on our way." Klaus said casually.

"What?" Ava weakly struggled, her wrists were bound once again to the armrests but not with rope this time. Instead with silk cloths. "Why? Just take a couple from hers…don't drain-"

Klaus tutted "No can do love. I rather have the hunter dead and for that to happen one of you two will need to die. Doppelgangers are blah I rather keep the fairy." He smirked.

Elena's eyes widened and Ava leant back in the chair, the fairy scowled they get out of one mess and are dropped into another one.

The fairy heard the sound of footfalls; someone was coming hopefully someone who could help them.

"Elena? Ava-?" Tyler gaped at them.

"Tyler-"

"Tye stop gawping and help-"Ava uttered, the hybrid rushed forward to aid them he hadn't catch sight of Tyler.

"He can't" Klaus said "he needs to go fetch me more blood bags. About five litres worth." Three would be for the doppelganger and two would be Ava's he wanted to take enough from the blond so she would fall asleep for a short while.

"Tyler please get Stefan." Elena begged, she nervously glanced at Ava and saw the fairy's eyes were beginning to droop. Tyler followed her gaze and once again moved ahead but Klaus's voice halted him.

"Tyler dude" Ava breathed and lightly shook her head "do it and I'll let you have one of Gran's old bottles." Elena sagged wondering if the fairy was really attempting to bribe a rescue out of the hybrid.

"No Tyler get the bags." Klaus said more firmly.

Ava blinked and exhaled, she needed a good stretch. Her muscles were all tensed and knotted. Tyler steeled himself and went to blur forwards to help the teens but the Original stood in his path. Klaus shoved Tyler back.

"Forget the girls and get the bags." Klaus snarled.

"Forget the bags and take the girls. That's what he means." Ava snapped Elena's eyes were drooping; the nurse had immediately stuck with her needles. Hence she was losing more blood than the teen.

"Now." Klaus growled, Tyler's eyes met Elena's and he very, very reluctantly left. Leaving them behind with the Original.

Elena gritted her teeth and struggled with her bounds. "So that's it?" Klaus came to stand behind Ava, gently brushing the fairy's hair away from her face.

He frowned seeing that her golden locks were matted with blood, and half her face was caked in the scarlet liquid. He needed to remedy that. "You're going to bleed my dry?" Elena asked. "And take Ava away?"

"Yes." Klaus answered. Ava's heart jolted she already lost Alaric and now he was going to kill the doppelganger who was more like a sister than anything. "But draw comfort Ava, knowing that Elena won't suffer. It'll be painless; as the last drop is drawn she'll simply fall asleep."

"Not such a comforting thought-"Ava mumbled, her eyelids were starting to get heavy. But she pushed herself to remain focus.

"Hmm well at least I tried." Klaus's lips brushed against her ear. "I'll get something to clean you up with." Ava heard the sound of his boots echoing against the hardwood floor. She felt her arm brushed against Elena's. The doppelganger gripped the fairy's hand and held on tightly.

"It'll be ok Ava, you'll see." The doppelganger reassured her.

"Can't exactly…sort of blind here." Ava countered eliciting a weak chuckle from the brunette. The fairy sighed and held onto Elena's hand.


"That's one bag done for you sweetie. Another litre for you to go." The nurse smiled kindly at the fairy.

"Fuck off crazy bitch." Ava sneered; she was slumped in her seat. She was getting more and more anxious about this whole situation. She knew that Elena was in an even worse state then her. When the nurse first had arrived to collect the full bags of blood from the doppelganger Ava attempted to control her. But it was pointless, the woman was under heavy compulsion and Ava was weak from the amount of power she had used on Alaric.

"Be friendly love." Klaus scolded her lightly; she glared in his direction, and dug her nails into the wooden armrests when she felt the cool wet cloth against her face. Her cheek was beginning to bruise and the gash wasn't bleeding anymore.

The hybrid was wiping the blood off of Ava's face. Elena would've thought the scene was a tender sight, if it weren't for the fact that Ava was tied down and cursing at the hybrid.

"What about your hybrids?" Ava asked feeling Elena's head lolling against her shoulder. "You need her to create more hybrids. Elena stay awake." She ordered the fairy needed to buy some time; Elena was in the place between conscious and unconscious. She was focusing on Ava's voice.

"You're going to need more than that for your army." The nurse walked off with the fresh blood. Klaus canted his head to the side, and looked at Ava before straightening up and taking a blood bag off of the nurse forcing her to wait.

"These last few litres of the doppelganger blood will have to suffice." Klaus uttered "You see by attempting to kill us my mother has strengthened the bond between my siblings and I. I don't need hybrids-"

"Bull shit-"Ava spat, tiredness was laced her tone. "If you and your family are so close, why are you taking our blood at all? I can tell you why Klaus…you want a backup family. I get it too…you want someone to love you-"Klaus narrowed his eyes. "They're never going to trust you are they? You staked them. Stored them away in boxes. How are they ever going to trust you Klaus?"

Klaus leant down, his nose brushing against Ava's nose. "I promised you Ava that Damon will lead you to your doom. If you stay in this god forsaken town it'll be the end of you." Klaus gently brushed aside a fallen lock. "I said I'll take you and I will. Even if it's you going unwillingly. I can offer you the world Ava-"her breath hitched feeling his thumb brush against her split bottom lip.

"And I will, technically Ava I am doing you a favour. By killing Elena you'll have hardly anyone…wait no in fact no one in this town. Why would you wish to be surrounded in town full of death?" Klaus could see that Ava's exhaustion was beginning to catch up with her. Her eyelids were beginning to droop.

"You think…"Ava swallowed and canted her head to the side "That after killing Elena I would just skip out of town? You're more delusional than I thought. Take me if you want…but know this Klaus I will never stop. I will never stop trying to get away from you." She promised.

Klaus's lips turned into a full blown smirk. "Ava, time is a wonderful thing. Admit it…over the summer I started to grownon you-"

"You were beginning to control me." Ava said slightly breathless, she wasn't going to succumb to the darkness.

"Now that was wrong I admit-"he ran the tip of his nose across her skin. "Now Ava how about a kiss?" he grinned showing his dimple.

"Go to hell you ass." Ava scowled and felt Elena sagging beside her. "STAY AWAKE-"this caused the doppelganger to jolt back to reality.

"Love it when you're feisty." Klaus's lips brushed against hers, but before he could kiss her Ava turned her face away so he actually kissed her cheek. He stood back and looked down at the doppelganger who was beginning to drift off again. "Sweet dreams Elena, it's been fun. Catch you later Ava." He ran the backs of his knuckles down her cheek and walked out.

"Elena please stay awake…stay awake." Ava muttered squeezing her hand tightly.

"Ok…"Elena whispered, she glanced over to her left and saw the terrified look on the fairy's face. She needed to try and stay awake, both of them needed to.

Ava was brought back to reality when she felt Elena jostling beside her. She didn't miss the desperate cries from the brunette. "Elena…stop. You're going to tire yourself out faster." The blond blinked lazily. She perked up hearing the sound of footsteps; Elena looked towards the door and saw Tyler running back into the room.

"Ava-"

"Get her first. She's losing more blood." The fairy said softly, wanting the hybrid to get Elena out since there was less chance of Klaus actually killing her.

Tyler did as he was told and freed Elena from the blood bags before started to work on the ropes. "Oh no-"

Ava's heart spiked hearing Elena's distressed thoughts. "Tyler-"he followed the brunette teen's fearful gaze and saw that it was focused on someone behind him. Tyler stood up, standing right there was Klaus, who had witnessed what Tyler was doing.

"So much for that sire bond." Klaus thundered, Elena's hands were free, she reached over and managed to tug one of the needles out of Ava's hand causing the fairy to hiss in pain.

"I'm not your little bitch anymore Klaus." Tyler stood up to him.

"You go Tye…you're my bitch not his-"Ava uttered, causing both hybrids to look at her. Perhaps she banged her head a little too hard?

"How did you break the sire bond? I doubt you have fairy magic." Klaus drawled knowing that was how Ava got out of her sire bond.

"By breaking every bone in my body over a hundred times for the woman I love." Tyler replied staring straight at him. He was no longer frightened of this Original.

"That's impossible." Klaus scoffed

"Is it?" Tyler stalked towards him "or maybe real love is stronger than fake loyalty-"

"Here here-"

"Shut up Ava." Klaus, Elena and Tyler snapped. It was getting more intense in this very room.

"Alright-"Ava lightly shook her head "are you all PMSing?" she muttered under her breath. She wriggled her wrists trying to free herself. Sure the material wasn't as harsh on her skin as the coarse rope but she was bound tightly.

"But what would you know about real love?" Tyler asked Klaus

Klaus visibly bristled at that "You know you should be thanking me. I gave you a gift, I took away your misery-"

"You didn't give a damn about me." Tyler shouted back "You just didn't want to be alone. That's why you're obsessed with taking Ava away-"Klaus growled and his hand wrapped itself around Tyler's throat.

"Do not assume you know anything about the way I feel for her." Klaus said harshly before he shoved him back.

Tyler shook his head and turned back, he was going to help Elena and Ava out of this. They were his friends. He just freed the doppelganger and helped her onto her feet but Klaus wasn't having any of that.

The Original used his heightened speed and pushed the doppelganger aside, Ava heard Elena's gasp of pain as she hit her head against the wooden step. Klaus slammed and pinned Tyler against the wall.

Ava gritted her teeth, now would be the perfect time for her to get out. She fought against her bound wrist but all she got was more pain since the soft material was rubbing against her sore wrists.

"Goodbye Tyler-"Klaus raised his hand.

"NO KLAUS DON'T" Ava shouted but Tyler was just as fast and twisted Klaus's wrist, next thing what happened was quick. Damon and Stefan appeared; the elder Salvatore grabbed one of Klaus's arm whilst Tyler took the other. Stefan plunged his hand into Klaus's heart linking them. Ava jumped out of skin when she heard Klaus's roar of pain, what were they doing?

They were using the desiccation spell on Klaus instead of Alaric. It was the safest way to get rid of Klaus without permanently killing him since there was a chance that he was responsible for their bloodlines.

Klaus struggled against them; his eyes glanced over to Tyler and then Stefan. Damon didn't like the fact that the Original's eyes landed on the fairy. Klaus felt his heart beginning to slow down; when Damon deemed that Stefan had it handled he flew over to Ava.

"Hey Ava." Damon cupped her bruised cheek "Seems like a day without Damon got you in serious trouble." She leant into his touch revelling in it. Stefan meanwhile drew his hand from Klaus's heart. The Original was put in a deep sleep, he turned his attention on Elena an helped her onto her feet.

"Don't be a douche-"Ava muttered "and get me out of here."

"Gladly." Damon easily freed Ava's wrists and pulled her onto her feet. He wrapped his arm around her waist. "Let's get out of here come on-"the blond took one step and nearly fell, she had been sitting down for so long.

"I guess you're going to-"

"Shut up Damon and carry me." Ava ordered, Damon rolled his eyes and picked her up bridle style. The fairy wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed her cheek against his shoulder.

"Oh you're sexy when you're bossy." Damon smirked before blurring out of the room. Stefan and Tyler could both hear Ava swearing at the raven head vampire.


"You're quiet Ava…that's too weird even for me." Damon said, Stefan and Elena were in the house, whilst the fairy and he were sitting on the Gilbert's porch. The vampire was disinfecting the gash on Ava's head.

"Hmm…"Ava hummed

"Ava what's wrong?" Damon asked, he had spent the whole day fretting for his little fairy. "Do I have to take you to the hospital?" his eyes ran across her face. He spied the gash on her head that he was currently bandaging up. The corners of her mouth were pink and slightly raised.

"No, it's just Klaus is dead." Ava stated. Damon frowned

"I know that. He's casket is in the back of my car. And you feel sad?" he asked

"I don't know." Ava said honestly "I'm…is it bad that I'm…he's Klaus and-"

"Knowing that freaky guy he'd somehow come back…hopefully not too soon. Just be happy Ava, you're life isn't in danger…well Ric will soon be on the streets but-"

"Technically that means your life is in danger." Ava countered; Damon placed a bandage across it. And closed the first aid box.

"I know that, but we'll find a way round that." He assured her, and surprised the blond by pulling her into his lap. "Just…let's just take a moment." Damon's breath fanned across her face. Ava burrowed her face into his chest. Now this was what she was scared of most today not being able to hug, kiss and be held by Damon. "After this mess Ava, we are going to Vegas. No arguments or anything. Just you and me."

Ava smiled and closed her eyes "I'd like that." her hand moved up to cup his cheek. Damon's hand encompassed hers, and he leant down and gave her a sweet and soft kiss.

"Damon-"Stefan exited the house. Damon reluctantly pulled away and glared at his brother. "We should go."

"Where-"

Damon placed his hands on her hips and gently hauled onto her feet. "To dump Klaus's body in the Atlantic. It's safest for everybody."

"Right…well keep safe and-hmph-"she was cut off when he crashed his lips against hers. Ava smiled into the kiss and Damon cupped the back of her head. Stefan rolled his eyes and blanched when he realised that things were beginning to get too heated.

"Ok-"Stefan stepped in. "We really should go-hey-"he clapped his hand startling the couple.

Ava blushed "Right keep safe and erm…don't get killed."

Damon chuckled and smoothed down her hair. "Of course-I'll call you when we're on the road. Don't cause much trouble." He added.

"Right…well by Damon." Ava called he kissed her temple and stepped off of the porch.

"Love you Ava." Damon grinned.

"Love you too." Ava smiled waving. Stefan cocked an eyebrow what was he? Invisible?

"I am here too Ava-"

"God Stefan such an attention seeker." Ava teased but she launched herself at him and hugged him. Damon waited by the car as Ava and Stefan said their goodbye.


Ava entered the kitchen; she could hear chatter and laughter.

"Ava there you are." Jeremy exclaimed, he hadn't seen her all day. He hugged her hard, he wasn't the only one here, so were Bonnie, Matt, Caroline, Tyler and of course Elena.

"Hi…stop sucking up Jere; I'm not giving you money-"Ava shoved him,

"Aww damn." Jeremy huffed "I only need a fifty-"

Ava shook her head and leant against the counter, she could bottles being opened and the sound of plates being set down. "What's going on?" she asked.

"They're invading my house that's what." Elena huffed with a disapproving look on her face.

"Well we're having a victory party." Caroline exclaimed.

Ava quirked an eyebrow "What victory?" Elena asked crossing her arms across her chest.

"Is there a victory? Crazy Ric is out there…and yeah…"Ava trailed off.

"We know." Bonnie nodded, her eyes darting between Ava and Elena, both teens seemed to have went through hell today. "But we've been trying to get rid of Klaus for so long and Caroline convinced us to enjoy it."

"Plus it gives her a chance to drink up." Ava muttered under her breath, causing Jeremy to snicker.

"Gonna be honest." Matt filled the bowl full of chips "Kind of pissed that you didn't let me take down Original brother number two."

"Well you're Matt, you show up randomly." Ava exclaimed causing the others to laugh.

"Plus he would have taken you down to the hospital." Tyler snorted,

"I'm stealthy like a ninja-"Caroline snorted at what the jock said. She poured them all shots. She slid one over to Elena and then the other to Ava.

"You two need this." She said.

Ava gladly took the shot, "Ava give me your hand." She held out her hand, and felt salt being placed on it. He then moved on to Elena.

"Thank you for standing up to Klaus." The doppelganger smiled at him.

"Yeah you've got balls." Ava nodded it took her a while to actually to stand up to the Original.

"Thanks but let's just say it's been a long time coming." Tyler grinned.

"Way too long." Caroline grinned "Ok let's drink-"

"I do not condone this by the way." Elena looked at Jeremy who rolled his eyes.

"Be responsible tomorrow." Jeremy held his own shot glass. They all raise their glasses but Tyler stopped them

"Hang on." they all froze "You hear that? it's the sound of a Klaus free life." They cheered, but the fairy didn't

"To a Klaus free life-"

"Isn't it morbid? Drinking to someone's death?" Ava questioned.

"Ava just drink." Caroline shook her head, the fairy did as she was told and downed the alcohol. She coughed feeling the fiery liquid; the teen hadn't got accustomed to the taste of tequila. They drank their drinks,

Ava's stomach rumbled loudly, causing the fairy to blush whilst they all laughed. "What?" she said defensively, "I'm hungry-"

"Dig in-"Jeremy said placing the bowl of chips in front of her., the blond didn't waste any time and much to her friends disgust she wolfed down the bow. "I don't know whether to be impressed or grossed out." He admitted. Ava rolled her eyes and carried on eating.

"We should film this." Matt muttered wondering how someone so small can eat all of that.

"On it. This is going up on YouTube." Caroline grinned holding up her cell. Ava was oblivious to it all she was more than peckish.


Soon enough everyone had left, only Elena, Jeremy, Ava and Coco remained in the house. The two Gilberts were upstairs painting Alaric's old room. Whilst the fairy was downstairs eating them out of their home.

"And we have found the poptarts Coco." Ava told her puppy, she carried the fuzzy creature with one arm. "Jeremy is such a douche…hiding it behind the fridge now?" she scoffed "what is he Coco?" the puppy let out a bark. "You're right…he's an amateur." The blond headed into the living room and plopped down on the couch.

Ava was on her fifth poptart before she heard footsteps coming down the stairs. It was Jeremy "Ava you was meant to get a brush what the hell is taking-oh my god." He stopped short and his jaw dropped, there sitting on the couch was Ava with his box of poptarts. "I hid them-"

Ava grinned "Yeah behind the fridge idiot-"

"They're mine-"

"And now they're mind." she bit down hard on the tasty treat.

"Ava-"

"Nope-"Jeremy stomped his foot.

"I'm telling Elena." He stormed upstairs leaving a giggling fairy behind. Ava stood up, Coco had fallen asleep under the coffee table.

"Oh yeah that's real badass telling on me." Ava called up from the bottom of the staircase. She was about to take another bite but froze.

"OH MY GOD AVA-"

"BLOODY HELL JERE IF YOU'RE THAT DESPERATE THAN TAKE THE DAMN BOX-"Ava shouted. Jeremy sped down the stairs, in panic and hysteria.

"No, no…its Elena she's unconscious and bleeding-"Ava dropped the box in shock. "What do we do?"

Ava licked her lips, her mind was working a mile a minute "Hospital we'll get Meredith…-go get her, you're driving-"Jeremy ran up the stairs and Ava scooped up Coco. As quick as they could they clambered into the car. Jeremy had set Elena in the back seat and Ava took the front passenger seat.

"Shit Ava I don't have a license-"

"Fuck off and drive." Ava ordered, there brief moment of peace came crashing down. The fairy prayed that everything will work out. Jeremy slammed his foot down on the accelerator and they were off down the dark road.


AN: Apologies for any grammar or spelling mistakes. Outfit link on profile. Thanks to those who reviewed.

This chap came out quicker and a lot went down: At the beginning Caroline drags Ava out of the house, putting her on clean-up committee to keep her distracted. Damon isn't really on her list of guys she'd sleep with. Coco is a pervert. Ava and Caroline debate who has the epic love story saga, Harry Potter or Twilight. Rebekah offers her condolence, Alaric returns, Ava and Caroline but get captured. Ava is held hostaged with Caroline, she goads Alaric who hits her. Elena comes onto the scene, she and Ava form a plan, Alaric points out that Ava's and Elena's parents won't be proud. He tells Elena to kill Caroline, Ava attacks Ric and they split up and run. Ava vs Alaric, Damon and Stefan arrive and Klaus. Ava, Elena and Alaric are all linked, Klaus takes them. He is draining Elena and wants to take Ava, Ava and Klaus speak, he said she'll get over it in time. Klaus ends up in a deep sleep, Dava moment, where Damon promises her a trip to Vegas. Finally Ava and Jeremy rush to the hospital because of Elena.

Next Chap: The Departed: Familiar faces , more insight into Ava's parents death. Vampires, she and Elijah reunion. Ava is giving an ultimatum...we see toddler Ava causing havoc even back then...Mystic Falls won't ever be the same again.

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