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Chapter 34: Klaus
Adele closes the bathroom door to the hallway as easy as possible. Last night she had told Damon that she was going to go over and stay with Jasmine, that the two had a lot to talk about when really she just needed to grab some clothes and go sit with Elena. When she had realized it was morning and Elijah still wasn't awake, she decided to change.
Looking down the hall towards Damon's room, she sees the door is still closed and sighs in relief. All she needs is for Damon to catch her. She turns back towards the stairs and begins her way to them.
She freezes, her foot in the air as she hears a door from behind her. She stops breathing; maybe if she stands completely still whoever it is won't see her. She can only hope. "Adele?" She turns around. To her surprise and relief, it's Andie.
"That would be me." Adele answers with a smirk. She might not want to be caught, but that doesn't mean she's not going to be a smart ass. "What either amazing pretty blonde with an amazing attitude do you know?"
"How long have you been here?" Andie asks completely ignoring snide question. She isn't at all thrilled to see her.
"Um…I just got back. Spent the night somewhere, is Damon still sleeping?" She just needs to make sure.
"Yeah but he should be up soon. What do you mean, just got back? You we're here before?" Adele can't help but roll her eyes, not only at the question but because she had just noticed what Andie is wearing, Damon's black button up and a pair of shorts.
"Wait…" Adele takes a closer look at the shorts, there small on her showing off more than they should. "Are those mine?"
"Oh…" Andie glances down at the shorts. "Yeah. Sorry. I'll give them back."
Adele shakes her head. "No. Keep them. Look, I have to go. Tell Damon, I'm going to be with Jasmine and that I'd really like it if he didn't offer up my clothes to other people and don't even think about touching my shoes."
~x~
"Okay, Damon is still sleeping. I just ran into Andie in the hallway. She was wearing my shorts." Adele says coming into the cellar. Elena is sitting against the wall next to the open door. She looks up as Adele enters and scrunches her nose. "Really? They actually fit her?" Adele shakes her head which causes Elena to snort a laugh.
Adele is about to explain that Damon could wake up any minute when Elijah finally gasps, his whole body jerking and Adele almost gags at the sound of cracking bones. Elena rushes forward, dropping the dagger as she does and Adele picks it up. Elena leans over Elijah who looks up at her with wide eyes. "Katarina!"
Elena looks back at Adele who shrugs. She had no idea what was going on in Elijah's head at the moment. He'd been dead for a few days now and he obviously thinks he's looking at Katherine. Just her name makes Adele's skin crawl.
"Elijah. It's me. It's Elena."
Adele faintly hears him mutter an oh my god before seeming to pass out which causes Elena to sit back and look at her again. "I don't know. Maybe he's tired." Adele says walking forward only to jump back when Elijah's body spazzes and he almost rolls over onto Elena. He pushes himself to stand up, his eyes landing on Adele standing in front of him. "I…I can't breathe. What is happening to me?" He tries to run, but his lack of oxygen causes him to slam into the wall. Adele rushes over to him, helping him to stand up.
"I can't…I can't be in this house." He looks up at her as she frowns. What is he…?
"You're not invited in." Elena says.
"Then get me out of here." Elijah groans but before they can do anything he's gone and Adele looks at Elena who takes off out the cellar door after him. Adele sighs before taking off after her.
~x~
Rounding the corner to the front door, they find it open and Elijah is one on knee outside trying to catch his breath. He looks up at them as the sisters stop just inside the house, making sure to stay where he couldn't get them, which proved to be a good idea when Elijah speeds up and tries to enter the house.
"What happened?" He finally speaks but Elena shushes him, pointing above them, telling him that the brothers we're upstairs.
"We'll tell you but not here." She whispers. "Can we trust you?"
He raises an eyebrow at them. "Can I trust you?" Elena looks to Adele and Elijah follows her gaze to look at the blonde as well. She slowly starts to nod. She flips the dagger in her hand, to hold the handle out to him. Elena seems surprised at this gesture but not as surprised as Elijah as he reaches out slowly thinking she might change her mind and try to use it instead. He only choses to believe them when he has the dagger firmly in his hand.
~x~
Stefan jolts awake, suddenly realizing that Elena wasn't in bed. He doesn't here her in the bathroom either so he slides out of bed. Maybe she had gone down stairs to get a drink. He pads quickly down the hall and down the stairs calling out her name to see if he'll get an answer. He doesn't.
Coming around the corner from the stairs, he sees Andie which is a little shocking to him. Why would she be here when Adele is? Unless Adele isn't here. Maybe she's with Elena, but then again where exactly would the two of them go together? He's come to notice that when those to get together alone they have some kind of wicked plan that they don't want anyone else to know about. There both smart –or stupid depending on the way you look at it– enough to land themselves in trouble with their own wacky plans but get them together and you have plans that could turn deadly in a matter of seconds. Going to see Katherine in the tomb and sneaking off with Rose to try and find out more on Klaus are just two excellent examples.
"Hey." Stefan calls to her. She's standing there with a coffee mug like she's surprised to see him in his own house.
"Hey." She mutters back.
"Have you seen Elena?"
"Uh…no." She answers as Damon comes walking into the room.
"Hi Sweetie. Oh my coffee." He takes the mug from her before giving her a good morning kiss that has Stefan wanting to roll his eyes. His brother can be such a good actor when he wants to be.
"Good morning." Andie sings, smiling brightly at him.
"Mm, good morning." He mutters back to which Stefan actually does roll his eyes.
"Hey, where's Elena?" He calls to him, hoping maybe he had seen her.
"I don't know Stefan, she's your girlfriend. Mine's right here." He retorts as Stefan decided to just call her. He pulls his phone out of his pocket dialing her number all the while blocking the couple out. When her phone rings twice and then goes to voicemail he frowns. "Hey, it's me. Where are you? Call me." He hangs up turning back to Andie and Damon who are back to kissing.
"What are you doing? She's not a wind-up toy." He remarks to his brother who pulls away from the news reporter to glare at him. Andie seems to glare at him as well.
"It's really none of your business, is it, Stefan?" She snaps.
"Yeah, what she said." Damon smirks and Stefan raises his eyebrows before smirking back.
"And where's Adele? She's not somewhere around here?" Andie's glare hardens.
"She is at Jasmine's until later today. You see? At least I know where my twin is." Damon seems a bit smug about that to which Stefan nods. At this point he highly doubts that Adele is at Jasmines right now. She's with Elena and where ever they are, the two are up to no good. He just has a feeling.
"I have to go to work." Andie mutters letting go of Damon, Damon gives her a pouty face as she walks away from him. Stefan had turned around ready to go in search of Elena just to make sure he's not mistaken and she is somewhere around the house when he stops as his eyes catch sight of the door to the basement. It's wide open. He looks back over to Damon, who is looking back at him before taking off into the basement. Damon is right behind him.
Stefan skids to a stop at the open cellar door, cursing under his breath. Elijah is gone while Elena and Adele are nowhere to be found. Damon comes skidding to a halt right behind him, looking over his shoulder into the room. His mind is reeling, as he now realizes why Stefan had asked where Adele was. She had lied to him. She wasn't at Jasmines at all last night. She was in the house, going completely behind his back and once again risking her life.
"No, they didn't." Damon mutters more to himself then to Stefan. If that pain in his ass wasn't already dead, he was going to kill her himself.
~x~
They had taken off in Elena's car after grabbing a couple blood bags for Elijah. They had decided against taking Adele's, it was just a bit too small for the three of them, so she was now stuck driving Elena's car because she liked to be the one to drive. It was just the way she is.
She slows to a stop on the side of the road when she figures they are far enough away and turns to look at Elijah who is finishing the last of the blood bags. "You look better." Adele comments. She wasn't lying, finally with his color back, his eyes brighter and his hair back to being amazing, he really did look good besides the dirty clothes.
Elijah glances at the blonde Gilbert; he wants to make a comment about how she always seems to look good, but holds his tongue. Now was not the time for that. "Where did you get the dagger?" He finally decided to ask, feeling it was more vital at the moment. Elena leans forward from the back of the car. "We'll tell you everything, but we have to work together. Elijah, I need your word."
"Your ability to make demands has long passed." Elijah says in return. Adele looks back at Elena waiting for her to say something else. This was her idea, now she was going to take care of it.
"No demands. I'm offering you my help. And in return, I want yours."
"And why should I even consider this?" This time Elena looks to Adele who then turns to Elijah with a deep breath.
"The same reason that you haven't killed her. You need her help to kill Klaus. She needs you and…I need you." Elena looks between the two, Elijah seems transfixed on her sisters blue eyes which are wide and if Elena does say, they are quite hypnotizing. God! How does she do that? Elena seriously needs to ask, maybe she could learn.
Elijah breaks his gaze when Elena's phone rings. Adele turns in the driver seat to look back at her as she digs her phone out of her pocket. "It's Stefan." She mutters with a sighs. She answers but doesn't get anything out before Stefan starts.
"Where are you? Are you okay? Adele is with you isn't she? Is she okay?"
"I'm fine; Adele is here and is fine too. We're fine." Elena answers quickly, she knew this was coming.
"Where's Elijah?"
"He's right here."
"Where? I'm on my way."
"No Stefan. Elijah, Adele and I need some time alone."
"Listen to me. He can't be trusted he'll use you both to get to Klaus." Elena looks from Adele to Elijah who is looking back at her.
"Elijah is a noble man, Stefan. He lives by a code of honor. We can trust him. He knows that we'd be incredibly stupid to betray him again. By removing the dagger, we have proven ourselves." It sounds like a well-rehearsed line to Adele; one Elena's probably been working on all night leading up to this one conversion. Elijah seems to think so as well.
"You can't do this alone."
"Which is why I'm not alone, I have Adele."
"That's not what I mean and you know it."
"It's our decision, Stefan. Please respect it." Elena looks like she's about to hang up when Adele stops her.
"Tell him to make sure Damon doesn't do anything stupid." Elena nods before giving Stefan the message and hanging up. Elijah holds his hand out to her and she sighs before handing him her phone. He then looks at Adele.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" It finally clicks. "Oh you have to be kidding me." When he raises an eyebrow she sees that he isn't and mutters a curse before digging into the waist band of her leggings and pulling out her cell phone. She hands it off to him.
~x~
"Did she just hang up on you?" Damon demands, having heard the dial tone before Stefan ended the call. "She did." Stefan confirms and Damon digs his phone from his pocket, quickly dialing Adele's number. When it goes straight to voice mail he lets out a long line of curses. "They've lost it." He snaps.
"If anyone can get him to help us kill Klaus, it's them." Stefan says sounding like he's not only trying to convince Damon but himself as well. Damon doesn't notice.
"Bonnie's the way to kill Klaus, Stefan. He thinks she's dead. We have a chance with her." Damon points out.
"She'll kill herself in the process. Elena's looking for another way and Adele is obviously trying to help her so she doesn't do anything to dramatic, like I don't know, turn herself over to Klaus. I can bet you all Adele is doing there is chaperoning Elena, all she cares about is her sisters safety, she doesn't care who dies to save her, like you, she'd rather see Bonnie die then Elena."
"Elena's way is going to get her killed and it's going to get Adele killed as well which I'm not willing to see happen. We need to find them and stop them." Damon stands, ready to leave the house and tare the town apart if need be.
"No." Stefan stands as well. He happens to believe in both Elena and Adele. "You need to back off."
"What?"
"Look, I don't like this any more than you do. But we need to trust them. We got to just let them do their thing."
Damon shakes his head. "Elijah has some kind of weird interest in Adele. I don't want him anywhere near her. So that might be your plan but mines better." He moves to leave, to go out and find Adele but Stefan reaches out catching him by the arm in a tight grip. "I said back off." If Damon went storming in on Adele and Elena hell on earth would be unleashed without Klaus's help. Adele would have their heads if they didn't let her do her thing. He'd seen her pull a gun on Katherine for shit's sake, if she wasn't even the slightest bit afraid of hurting Katherine then she sure isn't afraid of hurting them if need be and he's not convinced she wouldn't try.
~x~
"He's here." Elena blurts out, having sat in silence long enough after ending her call with Stefan and Elijah taking their phones. Adele had decided that she wasn't in charge of this mission they've so bravely taken on and Elena's not too sure how she feels about that. Adele's never let her lead before.
"Klaus is here?" Elijah sounds…shocked, horrified, worried, Adele wasn't sure. Maybe it was a combination of the three.
"He's taken over Alaric body." She adds as an afterthought. She didn't expect Elena to be adding that in there anytime soon. At this, Elijah doesn't look so shocked.
"Of course he has. One of his favorite tricks." Really? Adele thinks, her brows furrowing as she looks at Elijah. The more she hears about this guy, the more she doesn't like him.
"Well, what are his other tricks?" Elena starts. "What is he going to do next? You're the only one who knows him."
"Yes, I do." Elijah agrees but is otherwise silent. Adele blinks at him. She glances at Elena once who is also blinking at him.
"Are you serious? That's all you're going to give us?" The sound of her voice sounds just as irritated as she feels. Elijah looks at her before pointing to the road. "Drive." He commands and she has the urge to throw her arms up. She grinds her teeth and turns the car back on. "Where to your Majesty?" She all but snaps causing Elijah to grin and Elena to gap at her as she pulls out onto the road. "The Lockwood Manor." He answers.
The drive to the Lockwood manor is silent and the walk up to the house is filled with the sound of their footsteps only. It makes her uncomfortable and incredibly annoyed; she could tell this was going to be a long day. By the time she's done mapping out everything that could go wrong today, the door is opened and Carol is standing there.
"Elijah, Girls, what are you doing here?" Seeing Carol reminds Adele of Tyler who she had been pushing from her mind any chance she got. She missed him, she missed him a lot and she hasn't heard from him at all. She silently sighs. "What happened?" Carol is referring to the dirty shredded mess that is Elijah's clothes.
"I've had a bit of an incident, Carol." He informs her and knowing Carol as well as she did, Adele knew that she was wondering exactly what kind of incident this was and why the Gilbert twins we're involved. "I'm hoping you could help."
"Well, I'm on my way to a meeting, so I…" Carol falls silent, her face going blank as her eyes meet Elijah's and Adele wants to reach out and slap him on the back of the head but she figures that would be a stupid move.
"It won't take but a moment of your time." Carol looks to be having a small struggle like she's trying to fight off the compulsion but it doesn't last as she soon smiles.
"Of course, anything you need." She assures him stepping aside and letting them pass. Adele come in last and is not surprised when Carol pulls her back. "Have you heard from Tyler?"
Adele had been dreading this, she knew that in coming here Carol would ask her if she's heard from Tyler there for reminding her that she hasn't seen or heard from him since he left. Adele swallows back the lump forming in the back of her throat. "No. I'm sorry Carol, I haven't." Disappointment and a deep painful sadness flashes through the older woman's eyes before she quickly covers it up, Adele reaches out to squeeze her hand, she realizes that this is hard on her and she can only imagine how hard it is on Carol.
Finally Adele joins her sister and Elijah who haven't actually moved to far into the house. Elijah is the first to speak up. "First things first, I'm going to need a change of clothing."
"Well, we can try one of my husband's suits. I haven't boxed them up yet." At the mention of Richard Lockwood, Adele begins to feel worse. Not only had Carol lost her husband but her son has run away without so much as a goodbye to her and who knows when he's coming back.
"Wonderful." Elijah answers smoothly and Carol sends them all another smile before she takes off up the stairs. Elena turns to Elijah asking a question that Adele hadn't even thought about.
"How did you know she's not on vervain?"
"Because I'm the one who got her off it right before you and your friends killed me." What a way to make her feel even worse. This is officially a bad day in her mind. "Twice. If you'll excuse me, I'll be down in a moment." Elena looks over to her sister who just shakes her head and turns around to make her way into the living room to wait.
~x~
"So I assume that the Martin witches are no longer with us." Elijah says after sitting around for a few minutes with nothing being spoken. The Gilberts had no idea what to say, Elena wasn't even sure this plan would get this far.
"No." Elena shakes her head softly. "I'm sorry." Elijah's eyes fall on Adele who is sitting at the other end of the couch from her sister and she knows what he is waiting for but she can't give it to him.
"I'm not sorry." She says causing Elena to look at her, with wide brown eyes. "Jonas tried to kill me in what in my mind if the most awful way to die so I'm sorry that I'm not guilty in the least bit." She explains and though he doesn't say anything she knows he understands.
"And Katharina?" He goes on. "She would have been released from my compulsion when I died."
"Klaus took her." Adele informs, sitting up a little straighter.
"We think she may be dead." Elena adds.
"I doubt that. Not Klaus' style. Death would be too easy for her after what she did." Elijah's eyes are full of disgust.
"I don't understand. You say that you want Klaus dead, but you still made Katherine pay for betraying him." Adele looks from Elena and Elijah, she'd be lying if she said she hadn't noticed that as well.
"I have my own reasons for wanting Katarina to pay. There was a time... I'd have done anything for Klaus. Klaus…Klaus is my brother." Elena's back straightens as Adele's eyebrows raise. That…wasn't entirely shocking to her. Sure it was a little but she wasn't completely blown away by the news, not in the way her sister obviously is. "Klaus is my brother." Elijah repeats when neither of them says anything.
"I…I heard that. I'm still processing." Elena mutters.
Elijah picks up his tea and brings it closer to his lips. "Yes, I'm a little behind on the times but I believe the term you're searching for is 'O.M.G.'" He takes a sip of the tea. Not being able to help herself Adele burst into a fit of small giggles that has Elijah smirking in her direction. Though she's sure that wasn't meant to be funny, it was completely hilarious.
~x~
After controlling her laughter, Elijah is able to continue and he tells them about the fact that there is a whole family of original vampires. "There's a whole family of originals?" Elena asks, as if not wanting to believe it.
"My father was a wealthy land owner in a village in Eastern Europe. Our mother bore seven children." He explains to them briefly and Adele can feel her eyes widen. Seven children? Are you kidding me? Adele wasn't sure she'd ever be able to handle seven children. She admires the ones who can do it but she knows she can't. Her stopping point would be two, three max. At least that was her plan when she was convinced her and Michael would be together forever, now she wasn't even sure she would ever have kids not with the guys she was going for, which brings her to a different train of thought…
"So your parents we're human?" She asks.
"Our whole family was. Our origin as vampires is a very long story. Just know... We're the oldest vampires in the world. We are the Original family, and from us all vampires were created." Elijah explains.
"Right but Klaus is your brother and you want him dead?" Adele can see how that is where Elena gets a bit shaken. She can't see wanting any of her siblings dead. Not Elena and not Jeremy, for the love of everything good in the world, not Jeremy.
"I need some air." Elijah says, completely ignoring the question. Adele rolls her eyes as he walks forward, pushing past Elena. "I'm still feeling a bit…dead." He remarks.
~x~
There walking across the Lockwood property. Where they are going Adele's not sure, she's just focused on keeping up with Elijah, who is walking faster than she is able to at the moment. "As you've seen nothing can kill an original. Not Sun, not fire, not even a werewolf bite. Only the wood from one tree. A tree my family made sure burned." He's telling them.
"That's where the white ash for the dagger comes from." Elena puts two and two together.
"Yes." Elijah answers. "The witches won't allow anything truly immortal to walk the earth. Every creature needs to have a weakness in order to maintain the balance."
"Okay, so if sun can't kill an Original, why is Klaus so obsessed with breaking the Sun and Moon curse?" Adele asks finally being able to match his long legged strides and be able to walk beside him instead of behind him.
"Right. The curse of the Sun and the Moon. It's all so... Biblical-sounding, don't you think?" He smiles a smile that makes no sense to Adele or Elena. They glance at each other as Elijah comes to a stop to face them.
"What's so funny?" Elena mutters. Elijah then jumps into explaining to them that Klaus is a very talented drawer and that the Aztec drawings was his finest piece of art. Elena frowns at this as Adele closes her eyes with a sigh.
"I don't understand." Elena says. "Klaus drew the Aztec sketches about the curse?"
"Roman scrolls, African tribal etchings, and any other culture or continent we felt like planting in it." Elijah answers.
"But why?"
"Easiest way to discover the existence of a doppelgänger or to get your hands on some long, lost moon stone is to have every single member of two warring species on the lookout." He explains to her, and while Elena remains slightly confused as she looks at her, Adele has already drawn the only conclusion there was.
"The curse isn't real." Adele tells her. Elena snaps her head back over to look at Elijah but he's already half way across the small bridge that goes over the small pond in the Lockwood yard.
"What?" She runs after him while Adele looks back towards the house. She just wants this day to be over.
~x~
"Klaus and I faked the sun in the moon curse dating back over a thousand years ago." A thousand years? Damn, he's old. Adele not sure she could ever live for a thousand years, seems way to boring to her.
"But if there's no curse…" Elijah cuts Elena off.
"There's a curse, just not that one. The real one's much worse. It's a curse placed on Klaus."
"What are you talking about?" Adele asks from walking behind Elena.
"Klaus has been trying to break it for the last thousand years. And Elena is his only hope." Elijah answers, though he didn't answer exactly what curse he's talking about. Elena's phone begins to vibrate in Elijah's jacket pocket.
"What is the curse?" Adele presses as Elena's phone continues to buzz. Elijah stops walking to turn and look at Elena.
"Your phone will not stop its incessant buzzing." He pulls the phone from his pocket and holds it out to her. "Answer it, please." Elena takes the phone with a sigh and answers it quickly. Adele runs a hand over her upper arm as she waits for her to be done and for Elijah to answer her question.
"Stefan…What's wrong?" Adele looks at her sister. "No. No, no, no, no." Elena turns around to meet her eyes and Adele frowns. "Okay. We'll be right there." She hangs up turning back to look at Elijah who is frowning at the both of them. "Klaus went after Jenna. We have to go to her." Adele's eyes widen. Oh great. Just what they needed at this moment in time, he couldn't have waited until she had told her what's going on?
"I'm afraid that wasn't part of today's arrangement." He argues and Adele shakes her head, peering over Elena's shoulder at him.
"She's family Elijah. We have to go." He looks at her, he looks like he wants to let them go, but isn't sure he can trust them to come back.
"We'll be back. You have our word." Elena tries and he gives them a sigh.
"That doesn't mean anything to me until you live up to it." Adele sends him a smile in thanks before turning around and taking off towards the house. She barely hears Elena give him a thank you before she's running after her.
~x~
Elena enters the library before Adele as she slows down to a stop outside of it. She can see Jenna sitting on the couch and Elena who stops when Jenna backs herself further into it not wanting Elena any closer. "I'm so sorry. I never meant for any of this to happen."
"When I was little your mom used to tell me bedtime stories. Stories about vampires. I never thought that what she said could be true." Jenna's voice cracks with fresh tears.
"It is true, Jenna. I should have told you. I thought that if you didn't know, you'd be safe. But then things got so out of control and everything I had done to keep you out of it, it just blew up in my face." Adele enters the room slowly as Elena is talking.
"Who else knows? Jeremy?" Elena nods. "John?" Jenna's eyes move over Elena's shoulder to Adele. "You know?" Adele nods and Jenna cries harder.
"We we're trying to protect you." Elena says.
"Protect me?" Jenna exclaims.
"I was going to tell you." Both Elena and Jenna look at Adele as she stops beside Elena. "I was going to tell you everything. Ric and I decided it was time that you knew. We realized how much safer it would be if you knew. I just thought I had time. I had no idea this was going to happen."
"You should've just told me. I'm the one who's supposed to be protecting you."
"We know," Elena starts. "But there's nothing that you could've done. There's so much more to it…"
"No." Jenna snaps. "This is- this is so… I don't know how… it's…" She throws her head into her hands, her fingers tangling in her hair.
"I know…" Elena places a hand on her knee. "Hey." Jenna lifts her head and looks between her two nieces.
"I'm scared." She finally whispers and Elena moves over to her side, wrapping her arms around her. Adele crouches down in front of her and takes her hand softly in hers.
"We're so sorry Jenna." She whispers as Jenna bares her head in Elena's shoulder and squeezes Adele's hand.
~x~
Adele closes the library door softly behind her and Elena. That had to be one of the worst conversions she's had to have in her whole life. Stefan quits pacing and looks between the two of them as Elena walks up. "Is she going to be okay?"
"She's in shock." Elena answers quietly.
"We tried to tell her everything we could but we only scratched the surface." Adele explains.
"I'm so sorry." Stefan says, he looks so broken up about what had happened, Adele shakes her head at him, stopping next to Elena. "I hate this."
"It's not your fault Stefan." Adele sighs causing him to scoff. "It's ours." Stefan looks a little taken back by hearing her say that. He doesn't understand how any of this could be their fault. He's the one who stepped into their lives and brought them into his mess.
"Anyways…" He looks at Elena. "We have to go back…to Elijah."
"What? No." Stefan shakes his head.
"Stefan, we promised him that we would return. We can't break that promise." Stefan looks defeated, he must've realized that he needed to back off just a little because he nods, Adele pass by them as Elena mutter that they will be okay.
They are close to the door when Damon comes jogging around the corner with Andie close behind him and Adele stops short, cursing to herself as his eyes lock on her.
"Well look who it is, little miss I'm going to lie to Damon and put myself in danger…again." He snaps slowing to a walk. "Where do you think you're going?"
"Back to Elijah." Adele answers shortly, and moves to pass him. She's taken by surprise when he reaches out and grabs her upper arms in a vice like grip that's painful and is sure to leave bruises.
"If you so much as try and take a step out of this house..."
"Damon…" Andie cuts him off. "Easy."
"Stay out of this Andie." Damon snaps.
"Yeah, Andie. Stay out of it." Adele gives her a hard glare before it turns to Damon and hardens even more. "I will do what I want, when I want Damon. You should know that. Now let me go."
"I don't think so. I just got you back, you're not going anywhere."
"Let her go." Damon's eyes move over Adele and Elena to land on Stefan.
"Excuse me?" He growls out and Adele struggles to pull away from him. She jerks slightly when Stefan grabs Damon's forearm tightly.
"You heard me. Let her go." He growls back.
"That's twice today you've stood in my way." Adele isn't sure what that means but she doesn't want to stick around and find out. Damon is mad, mad at her, mad at him, mad at the freaking world for all she knows and she wants to be as far from him as possible when he's like this. "I wouldn't try a third."
He lets her go and she sighs in relief, reaching her hands up to rub the spots where he was holding. She glares at him. "That's going to bruise you asshole." She mutter pushing past him harshly, he staggers to the side clenching his jaw as he watches the twins disappear.
~x~
Elena is the first to walk into the house, Adele close behind her having slipped on her leather jacket on the way in, she was right about Damon leaving bruises, on each arm she had big angry red hand prints and she didn't find it a good idea to let Elijah see them.
He seems surprised but otherwise happy to see them as Adele closes the door behind her. He sends them both a smile while holding a glass of wine. "Welcome back."
"Tell me." Elena demands right away, slipping her arms out of her jacket as Adele makes herself comfortable in one of the arm chairs. "What is Klaus's curse?" Elijah mentions for Elena to sit down on the couch and she does after throwing her jacket onto the table.
"My family was quite close, but Klaus and my father did not get on too well. When we became vampires, we discovered the truth. Klaus was not my father's son. My mother had been unfaithful many years before. This was her darkest secret. Klaus is from a different bloodline. Of course, when my father discovered this, he hunted down and he killed my mother's lover and his entire family. Not realizing, of course, that he was igniting a war between species that rages until this day." Elijah explains to them, taking a sit next to Elena as he does before standing back up and returning to the same spot they found him in when they arrived back.
"A war between the species?" Adele speaks up sitting forward to rest her elbows on her knees, only to flinch slightly when the sleeves of her jacket tighten around the still forming bruises.
"The vampires…and the werewolves." Elijah answers causes Elena and Adele to glance at each other in confusion.
"So Klaus's real father was from a werewolf bloodline?" Elena looks back at Elijah. "What does that make Klaus?" She wonders out loud. "A vampire or a werewolf?"
"He's both." Adele's back straightens, her lips parting in an 'O' shape as she looks at her sister who looks back at her with startled brown eyes. That was about the worst thing they could hear at this moment.
"A hybrid would be deadlier than any werewolf or vampire. Nature would not stand for such an imbalance of power. Therefore the witches, the servants of nature, saw to it that my brother's werewolf side would become dormant." Elijah walks across the room to lean his shoulder against the doorway.
"That's the curse Klaus wants to break?" Adele is still in shock, her mind being too slow to comprehend what he's telling them.
"He wants to trigger that part of him that's a werewolf. If allowed, Klaus would sire his own bloodline. He'd build his own race, endangering not just vampires, but everyone." Elena stands up as Adele runs a hand through her tangled hair. Oh god. This just gets worse and worse.
"But you helped him?" Elena steps towards the original, her eyes narrowed.
"I helped him because I loved him. That's changed, now he must die." Elijah retorts quickly.
"We have the dagger now." Adele stands up. "We can stop him."
"When a werewolf is wounded by silver, it heals. An Original can't be killed by anything but white oak ash on a silver dagger. So you see the conundrum. The dagger does not work."
"What are you saying?" Adele crosses her arms in frustration. "Klaus can't be killed?"
"There's one way to kill any supernatural species… at the hands of the servants of nature themselves."
"A witch, if they can channel that much power." Elena points out. "But it would kill them."
"The curse must be broken during the full moon, when Klaus is in transition. That's when he'll be at his most vulnerable. A witch with enough power... can kill Klaus." Elijah looks between them as the sisters look at each other before Adele can stop her, Elena speaks up.
"What if I told you that I knew a witch that could channel that much power?"
"Then I would tell you there's one more thing that you should know." Elijah then explains to them how he had talked to the witches before the sacrifice was to happen and was able to get them to find a way to spare the Doppelgangers life. Adele rushes forward at this.
"You found a way to save the life of the doppelganger?" She breathes and he nods slightly.
"Yes, I did. But unfortunately, Katarina took matters into her own hands first." He walks over to the coffee table to pick up Elena's jacket before bringing it back over to her and holding it up. "I believe you already know how that played out."
Adele can't help but put the pieces together. "You cared about her. Didn't you?" She whispers softly. Elijah looks at her.
"It's a common mistake I'm told. One I won't make again." Elena takes the jacket from him before they both watch him leave knowing that he wants them to follow. Adele sighs, biting her lip. Why do all the good ones seem to fall for this one evil bitch? Man what she wouldn't do to be able to stake her herself.
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Stefan walks into the room in time to see Damon kicking Andie out after she had handed him a glass of bourbon and tried to get through to him. "Tired of your little play thing already?" He teases.
"Don't start with me, Stefan." Damon groans, he was already in a bad enough mood. "She's just my distraction."
"She's a person. You're victimizing her." Stefan moves to leave but Damon stands up.
"I know you hate that I love Adele, so you know you should be thankful she's here." He snaps and Stefan stops walking to turn around and look at his brother.
"You're right I do hate it but you can be in love with Adele all you want to if it means that you'll protect her and Elena, but there is one thing I know as well as you do…"
"Yeah, what's that?" Damon mutters through clenched teeth.
"She's too good for you." Damon punches him, so hard he flies back into the bookshelf and it breaks apart. Stefan jumps up and run at Damon and they catch each other by the shoulders making it impossible for either to gain the upper hand.
"Stop!" The voice carries through the room as if it came from a speaker. Damon and Stefan break apart automatically looking back to see Adele glaring at them from the railing, her hands placed firmly against it and Elena standing behind her with Elijah looking between the two of them.
"What the hell is going on?" She snaps.
"Now you've invited him in?" Damon asks completely ignoring her question.
"Elijah and I have renewed the terms of our deal." Elena speaks up walking forward to stand beside her sister.
"Really?" Damon asks making it sound like he thought this was all just one big joke.
"The two of you will come to no harm at the terms of our deal. I only ask for one thing in return." Elijah says moving forward.
"What?" Damon asks.
"An apology." He answers and Stefan's eyebrows raise as Damon leans forward.
"A what?" He asks as if confused and Adele rolls her eyes. Stefan looks between everyone in the room before stepping forward and around pieces of smashed bookshelf. It looks to Adele that Stefan was going to be the bigger man here.
"I'm sorry for the part that I played in your death. I was protecting Elena. I will always protect Elena." He says and Elijah sends him a nod.
"I understand."
"The sacrifice is going to happen, Damon. Bonnie will be able to kill Klaus without hurting herself and Elijah knows how to save my life. I told you I'd find another way. And I did." Elena says to a sour looking Damon. He doesn't know whether to storm off or attack Elijah.
"Is that true?"
"It is." Elijah answers.
He finally meets Adele's eyes and she straightens her shoulders. "And you're trusting him?" He sounds slightly betrayed. Up until now Damon and her have been on the same page completely and now she was turning away from him, he doesn't know what to think. At the moment, it all just hurts.
"Yes." She whispers.
"You can all go to hell." His eyes never leave hers as he says it and she closes her eyes, letting out a harsh breath. She feels strangely like she's been punched in the gut as he finally storms off. She has no intentions of following him, knowing how he is she knew he'd need some time to cool off.
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Her last punch hits harder than she meant it to causing Justin to stagger back with groan. She reaches up to cover to mouth with her hands. "Oh my god. Justin I'm so sorry."
"It's okay. It's okay. I've had worse." He groans out rubbing the side of his head with a taped hand. "What is up with you tonight? This is the fourth punch that is going to leave a mark, not to mention the countless kicks to the gut I've taken."
"I'm sorry, today just hasn't been my day. Damon is seriously mad at me. He thinks I turned on him." She huffs, grabbing her water bottle from the side and smiling at Jasmine who hands her a towel. Adele had picked her up on the way, figuring this way they could talk more.
"I'm sure it's not that bad." Justin laughs and Adele raises an eyebrow at him.
"He told me to go to hell. I mean he told us all to go to hell but he was looking at me. He told me to go to hell."
"Wow, what did you do?" Jasmine asks from sitting on the grass.
"Elena and I woke up Elijah and made a deal with him." Justin freezes in grabbing his own water and turns to look at Adele. He unscrews the top of his bottle and chugs half of it before reclosing it and throwing it to the side once again.
"Well then I completely understand why he's mad. Are you kidding me Adele? The guy is an original. He's one of the most dangerous men in the whole world, far more dangerous than one man should be." Jasmine stays silent watching the exchange between them.
"But he's not the most dangerous Justin. He's not half as dangerous as Klaus." Adele throws her water to the side as well, after taking a long sip from it.
"Elijah's older." Justin points out.
"But Klaus isn't just a vampire." Justin tilts his head, narrowing his eyes at her.
"What?" Jasmine squeaks.
"He's not just a vampire. Elijah and Klaus don't have the same father. Klaus's father was from a werewolf bloodline. He's both vampire and werewolf."
Justin takes a wide step back, looking pale and slightly sick. "Is that even possible?" He gets out.
"Apparently so. The curse of the sun and the moon doesn't exist at all. Klaus made it up thousands of years ago to have every species on the lookout for a doppelganger and a moonstone. The real curse was placed on Klaus, basically the witches made it impossible for him to wolf out and he wants the option to do that back. There's more to this that I'm just a little too depressed about to tell at the moment."
"What are you guys going to do?" Jasmine asks standing up from her place on the grass and brushing off her legs.
"We're going to stop him. Bonnie is going to take him out while he's in transition."
"Doesn't that mean…" Justin trails off.
"That the sacrifice has to happen? Yes." She doesn't sound exactly thrilled about this, as Jasmine notices. "But Elijah says he has a way to bring her back. We're trusting him." A muscle in her jaw jumps and her eyes darken. She's not in the least bit happy with this plan.
Justin looks about to say something before something catches his attention and he freezes, becoming as still has a statue. Adele and Jasmine glance at each other. Adele walks forward, towards him. It doesn't even look like he's breathing. She's about to reach out and touch him when suddenly he turns, whipping around and shooting out his hand. Adele hears a click and then a rush of wind before a short scream of pain off in the distance.
"Justin! What was that?" Adele demands, watching as Justin pulls up the sleeve to his work out shirt to unstrap the stake shooter from his forearm, he throws it to the side before reaching down into his gym bag silently and pulling out a stake.
"Vampire." He mutters walking forward. Adele glances at Jasmine before jogging forward to catch up with him. There nearing the woods, Adele can hear the sound of groaning and cursing. Justin seems to hear it to because the determined expression turns into one of annoyance in a matter of seconds.
"Nate!" Justin snaps, coming to a stop over the crumbled figure. "What are you doing here?"
"Getting shot apparently." Adele raises an eyebrow. Okay so, this was an Australian vampire that Justin knows?
"I had every right to shoot you. You know not to sneak up on me like that." Justin shoves the stake into the waistband on his pants before reaching down and yanking the stake sticking out of Nate's shoulder out. Nate lets out a roar of pain.
"How was I supposed to know that you would shoot me?" Nate pushes himself to his feet, brushing off his jeans and straightening out his bloody t-shirt.
"You're a vampire, I'm a vampire hunter my natural instinct is to kill you." Justin points out to him.
"We should really work on changing that, I am after all your best friend. I don't know what kind of relationship we could have if you keep trying to kill me." Nate's eyes roam over Justin before moving onto Jasmine and then Adele. "Well, look at this, Justin has finally found some very beautiful girls to hang out with. Surprise, surprise." Justin rolls his eyes at him.
"Nate, this is Jasmine Reed." He mentions to Jasmine before turning to Adele. "And this is Adele Gilbert." Nate's deep brown eyes widen to twice there normal size as he stares at Adele. Slowly his head turns to look at Justin.
"Adele Gilbert? Are you fucking insane? This is what you've been doing? Making friends with the girl James wants more anything in the world?" Justin shoves his hands into his pockets.
"He's not going to get her. I'm personally making sure of it." Justin says quietly.
"Oh my god, you're going behind his back. He'll kill you if he finds out."
"I know." Justin whispers.
"No." Nate breathes. "I don't think you do. It won't matter that you're the best hunter he's ever had, it won't matter that you're his nephew. He will kill you, personally." He sends another glance in Adele's direction. "Is she really worth it?"
Justin glances back at Adele, who is watching them intensely while gripping tightly to Jasmine's hand. He looks back at Nate. "Yes. Saving her is worth the risk because if I can save her, I can take him down."
Nate glances back at Adele before nodding slowly. "Then you have my full support brother but if you die on me, I will never forgive you." He holds out his hand and Justin smiles softly before taking it. "This is going to be a long and painful road ahead of you though." Nate warns and Justin nods.
"I know."
Okay, okay. I know what you're probably thinking. Who the hell is Nate and where the hell did he come from? Nate is an OC I came up with for the squeal but I felt that it might serve best if I introduce him now. I'm not sure how much he'll be in the story these next three chapters because like I said, he's a character I came up with for the squeal and he'll play a huge part come that time. Just letting you know.
Anyways, please review. You're reviews keep me going. (: