A/N: Hey! Thank you all so much for the reviews! 400 reviews! I love every single one of them! To answer some of your questions, no Damon is not her love interest, but he's important for Beth's storyline. And Kol is going to show up within the next few chapter! Hope you guys like this one! Thank you all again for the reviews!

A Distraction:

"No! I told you, Damon. I didn't want to be apart of this in the first place but I'm helping you so you don't get killed. But I don't want to lie Klaus." Beth repeated herself for the third time as he drove to Elena's house. He had to give Bonnie the information he got on her mom. They finally told her and Elena where the coffins were and that they were trying to get Bonnie to open it for them.

"Listen, we trusted you with the information, the least you can do is help. And you're not lying to him, you're just keeping him busy." He reminded her. "Besides, this is going to be a mother/daughter reunion and you wouldn't want a hybrid butting in on that would you?" Beth sighed. "You won't even be lying to him. Just keep him off our scent for a while. Just bat your eyelashes at him and he'll be a goner."

"Fine but that's all." She told him firmly and he gave her a smirk and nodded as they pulled up to the house. They got out and walked in to here Bonnie talking to Elena about her mom.

"Abby Bennet Wilson, Monroe, North Carolina. Born in Mystic Falls hospital, graduated at Mystic Falls high school, blah, blah, blah…" Damon informed the girls as he handed Bonnie the file. "A little compulsion helps speed up the research process."

Bonnie took a look at the picture. "This is her." She confirmed.

"Yep! Road trip. I call shot gun." Damon announced excited. Beth rolled her eyes at him. Elena was grabbing the other files.

"Yeah, no."

"Want me to hang out in the back with you?" He offered suggestively but Elena still ignored him.

"You're not coming, Damon."

"Why? I'm the one who found her."

"Okay, Damon, look. Bonnie hasn't seen her mom in over 15 years. We don't need your snarky commentary narrating the experience." She reasoned. That would definitely be something that Damon would do the whole time. Elena went to move past him but he didn't budge. They stopped and stared at each other for a moment.

Bonnie and Beth caught that and looked to each other confused. "What's going on with you two?" Beth asked.

"We kissed." He told her nonchalantly. "Now it's weird. Have a great trip." He said sarcastically. Beth's mouth dropped open in shock as Damon pulled her out of the house. They got back in his car before taking off.

"Whoa! You two kissed? How did this happen?" Beth asked surprised. He just shrugged.

"Well with all that building sexual tension it was bound to happen sooner or later." He winked at her. No matter how casual Damon was acting about this Beth knew how he felt about her. It was more than just some random kiss, it meant a lot to him. "Listen, do we really have to do the whole talk about your feelings moment?"

"Oh, cause that would be the worst thing in the world to talk about how you've finally kissed the girl you're in love with." Beth said her voice dripping with sarcasm and Damon just rolled his eyes. She wasn't going to get anything out of him. "Fine. Ignore me. See if I care."

He was silent for a moment before going, "She said it couldn't happen again, that it wasn't right. She feels bad that Stefan doesn't know about it." He admitted to her. "And I'm not going to push her into anything. We have enough to deal with right now. Ok? And I'm not saying anything else about it."

"Now was that so hard?" Beth asked. "Where are we going?"

"I'm going to take you home. You can find a way to distract Klaus and whatnot and then I'm going to meet up with Alaric." He informed her as he stopped in front of her apartment. Beth got out of the car and leaned over to talk to him.

"And how exactly am I supposed to do that?"

"You're the Klaus bait. Figure it out." He told her with a simple shrug. She groaned and slammed the door shut. She moved to go upstairs. "Hey, Beth? Thanks for this." She nodded and gave him an uneasy smile before he took of down the street.

xxxxx

Beth finally got up the nerve to call Klaus after around an hour. She wasn't comfortable with tricking him but it was what she had to do. It was common knowledge that Klaus would kill anyone; even Damon to get his coffins back and she didn't want that. So that's how she ended up walking into the Mystic Falls Grill to see Klaus sitting at the bar, waiting for her. "Well, love, I half expected you to show me up." He smirked at her.

"I called you, remember?" She reminded him as she took a seat besides the hybrid.

"Which I must say, came quite a surprise to me. I thought you were angry with me, sweetheart. Even though, I told you I wasn't going to let Caroline die." He said as he handed her a beer. No one was around and Klaus would make sure she didn't get into trouble. She took it and drank from it.

"Let bygones be bygones right?" She smiled hopefully at him. He was still suspicious though. Beth was stubborn and it seemed too easy for her to just forgive him like that. Beth finished off the beer and put down the bottle. "So are you going to get a girl another round?" Klaus just grinned and gave them both another one.

Another beer and three tequila shots later, Beth was a giggling mess. Klaus just smiled at her. "Yep. Tequila always puts me in a good mood." She laughed out. She was mostly pretending to be drunk but it was working with him. Beth had never felt so guilty.

"I think you've had one too many, love." He winked at her.

"You can never have too many shots." She said to him as she went to take another one but he stopped her. She turned to him and gave him a flirty smile. "Awe, come one, Klausy. It's not that early." He glared playfully at her.

"It's not even eight, sweetheart. I hardly think that Safari Sam will want to see you coming back drunk." He told her as he got her a glass of water. She rolled her eyes but drank it.

"You're no fun."

"And you're adorable when you're drunk." He grinned as he leaned in and she smiled at him. Beth couldn't even say how guilty she felt but she had to keep reminding her it was too keep him from hurting Damon. If he found out he had the coffins, he'd hurt Damon.

"And you…. have pretty eyes." She commented looking into his icy blue orbs. He was slightly taken back by that statement. Beth just continued to smile at him, which he returned. Klaus started to lean in a bit more. "They're not as lovely as yours, love." He breathed as his eyes flickered down to her mouth and back to her eyes. Beth froze as he started to lean in. Yes, she was supposed to keep him away from Damon but she couldn't do it like this. She couldn't lead him on like that, though there was a temptation to kiss him.

Before he could press his lips to hers, she turned her head. He let out a sigh when they both heard a noise. "Um…. you're phone is ringing." She told him looking down. He was pleased to see she was blushing, but got out his phone all the same.

"What is it?" He hissed into his phone. Beth sighed as he began to talk. "Are you sure? Well, it seems as though they came through after all." He smirked over the line. That didn't sound good to her at all. He hung up. "It seems my hybrid has found out that the Salvatore's are keeping my coffins hidden in an old ouse?"

"The witch house?" Beth asked sounding surprised.

"Yes, love. And now that I know where they are, I'm going to collect what's mine." He said standing up.

"I'll go with you!" She offered quickly standing up. "The witches don't exactly like vampires being there, so you'll need some help." She said to him.

"All right, sweetheart. Are you sure you're up for it?" He asked, concerned about her intoxication.

"Yep, just let me put cold water on my face in the bathroom and I'll be ready to go." She assured him. She walked over to the bathroom and quickly turned on the sink, just in case he was listening in. She typed out a quick message on her phone. She felt bad but she knew that Klaus would be out for vengeance and if he had his coffins there was no reason for Damon to stay alive.

'Get a coffin out. He's coming.'

xxxxx

Klaus and I entered the witch house to see Damon already there. Klaus grinned as he stepped towards him. "What took you so long?" He asked. Damon flashed his eyes to me and he gave an almost unseen nod. "Hiding behind your witch friends. In a squalor no less." Suddenly, he fell to his knees clutching his head. Beth ran towards him. It was the witches and all of them could hear them.

"Insulting a bunch of dead witches…not smart. I made the exact same mistake when I came here." Damon commented with a smirk. Beth tried to stop the pain but she couldn't do it.

"Well, you know, the funny thing about witches is, that living or dead, they care about their own. A hundred dead witches have a thousand living descendants…" He started to struggle to get up but he did and screamed at them, "And I have no problem killing every last one of them, if I don't get my coffins back! As we speak, my hybrid friend is prepared to end the Bennet line." Beth gasped, and suddenly the noises stopped. "Now. Please…show me the coffins." He asked politely. After a moment, they looked and saw the coffins appear but there were only three of them. "Here we are? Where's the fourth?" He asked. "Show me!"

Damon hissed. "Well here's the thing. They can't."

"What did you do?" Klaus glared at him.

Damon smirked and walked around the coffins. "Well, El, here gave me the heads up." He admitted with a smirk. Klaus turned his glare to her. He couldn't believe she did that. The whole time she was with him, was just to keep him distracted. "I didn't have enough time to get all four, but I did have time to get one. Thanks to our favorite Klaus bait." He smirked over to Beth.

Beth glared at him but turned to Klaus who looked hurt, which made Beth feel even worst. She shouldn't feel bad cause he's hurt and killed a lot of people and she knew he would kill Damon. He said so himself but she still felt horrible. She didn't think about how it would be when he did find out, but she had to do it and she had to try to explain. "Klaus, I had to…"

"I don't want to hear anymore of your lies." He snapped at her and then turned to Damon, his face now full of rage. "I will tear you, limb from limb. And only then, when you're a riving mass of blood and flesh, will I rip your heart from your chest." He threatened angrily at him as he walked closer to him and Beth took a step in front of Damon.

"Klaus, please." Beth asked. That only angered him instead. He quickly grabbed her and rushed her behind and shoved her into the wall with a glare, his hands on her throat. It was tight grip, too. Beth looked hurt at his sudden display of violence, but he was too angry. "Klaus! Please, you're hurting me."

Klaus' gripped loosened slightly, but he let go completely when he sees the true fear in her eyes. They're no longer filled with that happy glow, just pure fear of him. He knew the last time he had saw that in her. And he never wanted to see that again. Damon rushed and threw Klaus back off of her before he could hurt her again. "How about you not touch me again and I make your death quick?" Damon checked to make sure she was still okay. Other than some bruising she was fine. He pulled her away from Klaus, who looked, for a minute, guilty but it disappeared as quickly as it came.

"Sorry. The same rules apply. You know, leverage and all. I know you want your family back. But something tells me, you want what's in that coffin a lot more." He smirked at him. He grabbed Beth and rushed her out of there before Klaus could stop them. When they finally stopped, they were a few miles away.

"What the hell, Damon? Why would you tell him?" Beth yelled at him as he let her go.

"Because it's fun to rub it in his face." He replied with a simple shrug. Beth scoffed and she rubbed her head. It was really starting to hurt from what she drank at the bar. It was pounding now. "What? We got what we wanted and no one's dead!"

"Yeah but now he's angry with me, because you wouldn't shut up." She hit him on his shoulder and he rolled his eyes. "I helped you, Damon! I helped you so that you would stay alive. The least that you could do was not say anything! He's my friend and now he's angry."

"You can't trust him, El! You're right he is angry and he'll probably try to take it out on you. Or Elena!" He said firmly. He didn't understand how she could want to be friends with him, after everything he's done to everyone. Beth scoffed and pushed past him but he grabbed her hand. "He's going to hurt you, El, in more ways than one. I'm just trying to help you."

"No you're not. You're trying to make sure Elena doesn't get hurt." She snapped at him. He didn't answer as she snatched her hand from his and walked away from him, without looking back.