Twisted Love
Season Three
Homecoming
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace and Fayth :)
Over at the Salvatore Boarding House it was early in the morning, Grace and Damon were sitting in the living talking with each other quietly whilst waiting for everyone to get ready, he leaned over and took her hand gently, intertwining their fingers looking down at her nails that were covered with a light amount of pretty pink nail polish.
"I'm sorry." He whispered not making eye contact with her.
"What are you sorry for?" The younger vampire looked across at him creasing her thin dark brown eye brows "You've done nothing wrong..." She added with a small adorable giggle.
"Just... for everything." Damon leant his head down in regret, his short raven black locks falling over his bright blue orbs "Getting you into all this trouble, danger, you name it, it's because you're with me and I feel really guilty about it."
Grace breathed out as she brought her fingers up to his lips, running her thumb over his slightly pouted bottom lip, he relished in her satin touch for only a moment "Damon-"
"No, let me finish." He told her firmly as grabbed her other hand before he knocked down his whiskey "I just love you so much, I can't stand loosing you, and it's so selfish of me for making you stay in this mess."
"Do you really think I'd turn my back and walk away from this mess I call a family? From this terrible place I call a home?" Grace giggled as she squeezed his hands "I wouldn't change anything that has happened to me, for the world... Nothing." She whispered as she cupped his cheek and brought his lips up to hers carefully.
Her lips trembled on his as he moved his hand around the back of her neck and pulled her closer, their kiss growing stronger, eyes fluttering shut. Her hand sat comfortable on his hand chest and the other moved from his check into his raven black locks.
Quickly Damon moved her so that she was straddling his waist as he sat with his back on the couch so he was sitting upright with Grace on his lap. The older vampire moved his hands down her body to rest peacefully on her tiny waist, using his thumb to rub the soft skin in small circles.
Soon Damon got bored with just kissing, he darted his tongue out and slowly slid it across her crimson red bottom lip, she whimpered and opened her mouth to accept his tongue, he didn't hesitate tangling his tongue with hers, bringing one of his hands up to knot in her chocolate brown tresses.
"Damon." Grace pulled back breathlessly "Elena will be here soon and Stefan is only in the other room."
"We'd better get a move on then." He attacked her neck with butterfly kisses making her moan and whimper, picking her up in his arms he zipped her into their room laying her down on the bed smiling at her, she giggled a small blush falling over her cheeks "Still after all this time, I can make you blush."
"Of course you can." Grace purred as she leaned up and kissed him again, taking control she flipped him over onto his back and pinned his wrists to the soft sheets, he growled dominantly, but she wasn't letting up, her tongue flicked out at the base of his throat feeling his feral growls and snarls vibrating against the tip of her hot tongue.
With a grunt and a bit of pressure, Damon moved Grace so that she was pressed against a wall, her legs circled around his hips as he had a smug smile playing on his lips, she whimpered and struggled against him, she wanted to be the stronger one, but would never win against Damon.
"Don't pout, Gracie." He purred nibbling her jaw line making her breathe would shakily "I'm stronger, you had no chance."
"Mmm." She arched her back as she felt his fangs pressing against her neck "Bite me, Damon. Drink my blood." Just as he was about to close his jaws on her slender neck the door to the lust filled bedroom swung open next to them and a snicker entered the room.
"Damon." Stefan walked into the room arms crossed over his chest "Mikael is here..."
Damon hissed under his breath "Perfect timing."
Damon and Grace readjusted themselves so they looked suitable for meeting with the father of the Original family, he was sat on the couch casually watching them at they walked in the room. Elena was standing across the room away from Stefan, but they were all there ready to discus the plan to destroy Klaus.
"Alright. Let's say that Mikael followed Elena in here. He tried to grab her, so he could use her as bait." Stefan suggested.
"And you what? Vervained him?" Grace questioned from across the room.
"No. We vervained him! This guy is an Original. We need to make it realistic." Damon argued looking over at his brother who nodded.
"Ok. Fine. We vervained him." Stefan rolled his forest green orbs "And in the process discovered that he had a dagger."
Grace smiled at the plan "Which he planned to use on Rebekah, but instead..."
"We drove it through his heart." Stefan nodded.
"And what happens when he asks to see Mikael's body?" Elena asked.
"Good point! You, my brother, have been compelled to do what Klaus says. So the idea is to lure him back here and kill him – last thing we need is you getting tripped up and tongue-tied." Damon cocked an eye brow.
"Well, don't look at me I am just in charge of getting him back here." Stefan held up his hands innocently.
"Klaus is smart, if we tell him that Mikael is dead, he'll want proof." Elena announced.
"Then I shall be dead." Mikael spoke up.
"What if he wants to see you in person?" Grace questioned.
"Well that means our plan is working. Klaus will absolutely want to see my body. You lure him here – and I will kill him." Mikael confirmed confidently.
"With what? Those daggers won't work on him." Grace replied crossing her arms over her chest.
"Well, I'm in possession of a stake fashioned from the wood of the ancient white oak tree. The one that left these ashes when it burned down." He inspected the bottle of white oak ash that lay next to a dagger.
"Where is it?" Stefan asked.
"Not here." Mikael answered firmly "The knowing of its location is my insurance policy."
"Against what?" Stefan hissed raising an eye brow..
"You leaving this in my heart." He fingered the dagger carefully "You see, a vampire can't dagger an Original without dying." He looked from Stefan to Damon to finally Grace "So – it falls on you." He handed the white oak ash dagger to Elena, the only human in the room, through she was a doppelgänger, she was still a human.
"Y-You want me to dagger you?" Elena asked timidly as she took the dagger from his hands.
"Klaus will leave nothing to chance – especially when it comes to trust." Mikael countered with an assuring nod.
Grace was standing with Rebekah whilst Stefan spoke with Klaus on the phone about Mikael being dead, the blonde looked across at the brunette who gave her a kind smile.
"Portland is fantastic." Klaus announced "Once you get over all the whiny music and healthy looking people it is literally a break ground for werewolves."
"Your father is dead." Stefan suddenly announced.
The line went dead for a moment "What did you say to me?" Klaus hissed.
"Oh, my mistake. Not your actual father and not dead. Mikael. Daggered. What do you want me to do with the body?" Stefan questioned.
"Well, first I want you to explain to me exactly what happened." Klaus replied, Stefan fed him the lie about him going after Rebekah and Elena. The Original hybrid seemed to buy it "I want to see him. I want to see his rotting body for myself."
"Well, he is here. Come by whenever." Stefan shrugged.
Klaus let out a frustrated growl, both the girls heard this and could tell his patients was wearing thin "If you're lying to me, Stefan, you compulsion will expose you. So, answer with your life: is what you are saying the truth."
Stefan remembered watching Elena stab the dagger into Mikael's chest "It's true. I saw it with my own eyes." He wasn't lying, he had seen the dagger go into Klaus' step-father's chest.
"I want to talk to Rebekah." Klaus hissed and the blonde looked up.
"That's not a problem. She's right here." Stefan handed his phone over to the Original blonde.
"Hello, Nik." Her voice was small, but laced with confidence as she spoke with her older brother.
"Rebekah, love. What's this I hear about Mikael's tragic run in with the dagger?" Klaus questioned his little sister knowing that she wouldn't lie to him, always and forever, they had promised each other.
"It's true. He's finally out of our lives for good..." She paused "I miss you. I'm miserable here."
"I'll be home soon." Klaus assured her.
"Good." Rebekah stiffened up "I'll see you then, brother." She looked across at Grace as she hung up handing the phone back tot he vampire "He brought it. He's coming home."
"Now – was that easy or what?" Damon smirked from where he poured himself a whiskey.
"Let's just get this over with." Elena muttered as she pulled the dagger from Mikael's chest.
Mikael was laying dead on the floor and Rebekah sat on the couch painting her toe nails to match her Homecoming dress, a blood red. Suddenly her father spluttered to life rasping and coughing "Finally." Rebekah hissed "Took you long enough."
"Rebekah." He looked over at the blonde surprised to see her.
"Whatever fatherly rubbish you're thinking – save it." She ordered rolling her bright blue orbs "Nothing you say matters to me."
"I see." Mikael nodded solemnly "Where is my dagger?"
"Elena has it. So you can forget your plans to use it on me." She hissed narrowing her eyes, gritting her teeth together, she knew her father all too well.
"You were never what I was after." Mikael assured her.
"Nik was my family. If you were after him, you were after me." She growled flicking her beautiful blonde locks from her beautiful eyes.
"He blinded you, Rebekah." Mikael shook his head "He killed your mother!"
"I know what he did, and he'll pay for it with his life. But Nik was not born a killer – none of us were! You did this to is when you turned us into vampires! You destroyed our family. Not him." She growled menacingly.
"Rebekah-" Mikael called, but she just turned away from her father and walked, she didn't want to hear anymore of his excuses she was done with him.
Elena was at looking blankly into her closet trying to find a dress for the Homecoming Dance, whilst Bonnie sat on the bed looking at the pictures of the carvings on the wall under the old Lockwood cellar "I hate everything in my closet." Elena announced angrily "I have nothing to wear to Homecoming."
"So, don't go." Bonnie suggested "Let's stay home and order takeout and overanalyse ancient hieroglyphic thingies with Alaric." She grinned hopefully at the doppelgänger.
"We have to go." Elena told her looking across at a picture of the four friends, Grace, Caroline, Bonnie and herself, it had been a simpler time then, when the two vampires were still human, Bonnie wasn't a witch and she wasn't a doppelgänger, that had normal problems and were normal teenagers, but now it was different "Caroline will kill us."
"Ha – Caroline actually has a date..."
"You know that you can talk to me about Jeremy, right?" Elena glanced over her shoulder at her best friend.
"I don't need to talk about it. He fell in love with his ghost girlfriend and lied about it. What's done is done." Bonnie shrugged looking down at her nails, seeing the chipped paint where she had been gnawing on them.
"You have to talk about it." Elena moved to the bed perching on the side reaching over and taking her olive toned hand carefully "He hurt you, Bonnie. I am mad at him, too."
"You are mad at your little brother. You'll yell at him a little, teach him a life lesson. You can't really be mad like I am mad." Bonnie argued.
"Bonnie-"
"And you shouldn't have to be." She added quickly cutting off the girl "He's your brother. So no I can't really talk to you about it." Bonnie shook her head.
Grace and Damon were in their bathrooms preparing weapons for the night, like vervain grenades, wolfsbane grenades, stakes and so on
"We can't trust Rebekah not to turn on us." Grace whispered "As much as I would like to."
"What your best friend." Damon grinned across at her "Your best Original blonde friend..."
"Shut up, Damon." Grace growled at him and he through her a smouldering look which made her heart thud in excitement "Rebekah may be mad at Klaus now but – he is her brother." Grace shrugged as she hopped up onto the counter fixing a grenade "We can't count on her to stay that mad at him..."
"Her lying, mama-killing, dagger-happy brother." He smirked "Wolfsbane is ready."
Grace looked across to see him pouring the liquid into a grenade "There are too many things that can go wrong with this plan. Too many people that can make it go wrong..."
"Well, I am formulating a secret contingency plan." Damon grinned across at her.
"Really?" Grace smiled her eyes lighting up at her boyfriends intelligence "What is it?"
"Well." He walked over to her and pecked her lips standing between her thin legs, his hands roaming over her creamy thighs making her breathing deeper "If I told you, then it wouldn't be a secret..." She cocked an eye brow at him as he moved in for a kiss, cut off by someone walking in the room.
"I need to borrow a tie." Stefan walked into the room and Grace gave Damon a look, annoying filling their eyes.
"You have your own ties." Damon retorted as he moved back to his side of the sink.
"Hmm, I'm a 162 years old and I'm going to a Homecoming Dance. I need better ties." The younger brother countered as he started to search through his older brothers draws.
"You could not go." Grace shrugged from where she sat.
"I'm compelled to protect your sister. And if I look at both of your track record at High School Dances – it's pretty tragic. With my luck she'll go and get herself murdered by the Homecoming Queen..." He referred to Barbie Original.
Grace gritted her teeth as she picked up a stake, Damon pried it from her hands giving her a look before placing it back down on the side about to dunk it in wolfsbane.
"Please tell me you have a better plan than wolfsbane grenades?" Stefan mused as he walked into the room looking at the array of weapons.
"Never you mind, brother." Damon replied firmly "The less you know the better."
"My freedom from Klaus rests entirely upon you two executing you plan perfectly. So, excuse me if I'm a bit cynical." Stefan told her.
"You're the one that we should be worried about." Grace told him in a cold voice "If Klaus asks you one wrong question – whole thing falls apart."
"You do have a reason to worry, but if I look back in our history of epic plan failures, it's usually because one of us let our humanity get in the way. If I'm taking odds on how his thing goes down, it's certainly not gonna be me who screws it up. I'll see you at Homecoming. I can't wait." He gushed as he turned on his heels and walked from the room.
Over at Mystic Falls High, Matt and Tyler were working on the old VW bus, painting it so it looked pretty and ready for the dance.
"Hey, can you hand me the glitter gun?" Caroline questioned and Tyler passed it over to her "Thanks."
"Hey, can't we ditch the decorating and go grab a bite?" Tyler grinned at her.
"Oh, I have a thermos in my bag." The blonde answered about to turn and grab it but the hybrid stopped her.
"I mean a real bite. Rebekah knows some people who like to be fed on. They're into it, we don't even have to compel them." Tyler argued.
"Ok, first of all, I finally almost just got you mother to stop hating on me – so probably don't wanna get caught in some weird vampire threesome with her son. And secondly, quit hanging out with Rebekah the evil blood slut." Caroline narrowed her silvery orbs at him.
"Just keep the claws in tonight at the dance, ok? For me?" He fluttered his eye lashes at her.
"So, who has the misfortune of being compelled to be her date?" Caroline asked casually.
"Matt said he'd ask her." Tyler answered.
"What? You set her up with Matt?" Caroline growled.
"She wants to go to the dance and he didn't have anyone to go with. He drinks vervain. She can't feed on him, what's the big deal?" Tyler shrugged.
"The big deal, Tyler, is that Matt is an innocent, good person who should not be going to dances with evil blood sluts!" The blonde hissed.
"Matt's a guy, Caroline. And Rebekah is hot, don't overthink this."
"This is a sire thing, isn't it? Please tell me this is some weird family extension of your sire bond to Klaus!" Caroline begged.
"I'm here, hanging streamers and I have glitter all over my hands." He smirked "If I'm sired to anybody it's you."
Grace was tying her hair back into a messy bun, using hair pins and so on to make it look nice as she walked into Stefan's room to see Rebekah getting ready for the Homecoming Dance. The blonde threw her a smile as the brunette grabbed back her foundation.
"I didn't think you'd mind, buddy." Rebekah told her as she drew her eyeliner on.
"No problem." Grace shrugged as she put some of the make up on her face, making sure to rub it in "Getting a head start, huh?"
"Embarrassing truth? This is my first high school dance." Rebekah looked over her shoulder at the brunette, who smiled a little, cooing at the embarrassment of the blonde.
"Ever?" Grace questioned.
"I never really had time for high school before. Nik and I were always moving around, running." She paused for a moment "Anyway – I didn't want to leave anything to chance. Have you heard anymore from him?" She asked carefully.
"Nope." Grace answered "But I'm sure that when he does return he'll do it with flair."
"And Damon and my father are all set with their plan?" Rebekah asked.
"Yes."
Rebekah quickly stood up with her hands up "Don't tell me. I don't want to know, I just – I want to go to the dance and leave the rest to Mikael."
"I know it's really hard. So thank you for helping us get Klaus back into town." Grace threw her a genuine smile and Rebekah returned the favour as Elena walked into the room.
"Hey." Elena smiled as she handed Grace an item.
"Hey." Grace smiled.
"I want to warn you." Rebekah turned to them watching the item in Grace's hands "I've been running a thousand years for a reason. Mikael is not a good person and he definitely can't be trusted. No one in my family can." tears brewed in her eyes.
"Are you ok?" Grace asked in a soft voice.
"I've spent my whole life loving and hating my brother with equal measure. I never though that I'd be the one to help drive a stake through his heart." She whispered tears threatening to fall.
"Hey. C'mon. No tears – don't want to ruin your pretty make up." Grace cooed "Here."
"What is this?" She asked accepting what Elena had originally passed to Grace "My mothers necklace?" She gawped at it, looking up gratefully at both the girls.
"Do you want me to put it on for you?" Grace question kindly.
"Yes." Rebekah nodded.
Grace unclipped the necklace and faced Rebekah towards her, taking hold of her silky blonde tresses over her shoulder she put her hand around her neck clipping it.
Whilst Grace was doing this Elena got out the dagger with white oak ash layering the tip and forced it through the Original's heart "I'm so sorry, Rebekah." Grace whispered as the girl stumbled down into her arms "I can't leave anything to chance either."
A little while later Damon entered Stefan's bedroom to see Grace covering over Rebekah's body with a blanket whilst Elena watched.
"In the back!" Damon laughed "Harsh."
"It had to be done." Grace answered shooting him a look "Rebekah was never gonna be completely on our side."
"Hey, I'm not judging you, very devious, evil, very... Fayth-like..." He smirked and Grace's eyes went ice cold, her mouth a straight line, he stepped back for a moment thinking she was about to pounce and rip his head off.
"Not the way to make me feel better about myself, dick." She glared.
"It was a compliment. Sort of." He laughed.
"Stefan's right." Elena whispered from where she sat, Grace had told her about the conversation they had had with Stefan earlier "Someone's gonna let their humanity get in the way and screw this whole thing up. It's probably gonna be me."
"Elena, you just daggered somebody." Grace told her "You will be fine." she winked.
"Yeah – but I feel bad about it. I care too much, that's the problem, Grace. I'm the weak link."
"If it makes you feel any better, she's not really dead." Damon mused.
"Elena, I feel bad about it." Grace told her "It's completely normal, Rebekah wasn't particularly a bad person, it's just we couldn't completely trust her..."
"Yeah, she's right." Damon nodded.
"Do you trust him? Mikael?" Grace questioned quietly.
"No." Damon answered.
"What about Stefan?" Elena asked.
"No. Not as long as he is under Klaus' control." Damon replied.
"Then we need a better plan." Elena mused and the whole room went deadly silent.
"I know what to do. You're just not gonna like it." Grace nodded looking across at her sister.
"Why not?" Elena creased her eye brows.
Grace sighed "Because when this all goes down, I don't want you having any part of it."
"What does that mean?" Elena asked.
"As a sister. Do you trust me?" Grace gave her a honest look.
"Yes. Of course." Elena nodded.
"Then you have nothing to worry about." She grinned.
Over at Mystic Falls high Caroline approached the school and saw the fire brigade sitting outside and Tyler waiting for her "What happened?" She asked.
"The gym flooded." Tyler answered.
"What?"
"Dance is cancelled." The hybrid shook his head mournfully.
"Excuse me? What are we supposed to do now?" Caroline moaned in disappointment.
Grace was speaking on the phone with Caroline whilst Elena sat beside her looking through a old book "So, what does that mean? Is it cancelled all together?"
"No! Tyler is moving the party to his house." Caroline replied.
"Kegs and beer pong for Homecoming?" Grace giggled "Sounds like my kind of party."
"Damn right it is!" Caroline laughed "Is Elena still coming, right? After all of this she really needs to get out and get wasted."
"You bet your ass she is." Grace smiled and threw her sister a wink "See you there, Care." she added as the door was knocked.
Elena walked over to the door and answered it, Matt was standing there with a kind smile on his lips "Elena-"
"Matt... Hey."
"Hey."
"Um – slight problem with your Homecoming date." She gnawed on her bottom lip.
"What happened?" Matt looked at her concerned.
"How would you feel about a backup date?" Elena smiled.
A little later on that night Grace was waiting on the edge of the Lockwood property waiting for her guest of honour to arrive, she looked at her phone to see she had no messages and that the girl was late, suddenly a brush of air went past her and Katherine was standing there with a grin on her face, dressed in a sleek, simple black dress with a blazer.
"You're late." Grace hissed at her "Everyone needs to be perfectly timed if we want this to work."
"Sorry." Katherine mused "I was busy getting ready... Takes time to look this beautiful."
"You need to be on your best behaviour." Grace told Katherine firmly "You're Elena, remember that."
"Don't belittle me, little vampire. I know what I'm doing, but if we're truly going to get the better of Klaus then we're going to have to put out differences aside and work together." Katherine threw her a look.
"I agree." The younger vampire answered as she crossed her arms over her chest as she wore the slick black mini dress that Rebekah had picked out for her.
Caroline and Bonnie both enter the Lockwood Manor to see everyone from their school having a great time, dancing to a live band in the garden, drinking way too much.
"How did he plan a better party than me so fast?" Caroline hissed "What? Is that a band outside?"
"Who are all these people?" Bonnie questioned as she looked around at the people who look formal and not ready for this party.
"This is weird." Caroline noted "Where is Tyler?"
Stefan was walking through the crowd at the back of the house, they were all jumping and dancing to the music as he met up with Tyler "Hey Stefan! What's up?" The hybrid grinned.
"Hey Tyler. Nice party you've got going on." Stefan complimented.
"Thanks, but I'm not the one throwing it. I'm just going what Klaus wants." Tyler shrugged as he drank his beer.
"What do you mean?" Stefan looked across at him.
"It's not a party, man. It's a wake." Tyler grinned sadistically as Klaus walked up onto the stage, making the guests cheer.
"Good evening everyone! I want to thank you for being here with me to celebrate! It's been a long time coming." Klaus grinned.
Matt walked into the Lockwood manor with Katherine on one arm and Grace on the other as they both scanned the crowd of people "So much for Homecoming." The older vampire muttered.
"This is weird. Us being here together..." Matt admitted.
"There's Caroline. She doesn't know anything. Act normal." Grace ordered.
"Hey." The blonde walked over happily "Klaus is here."
"What?" Matt hissed.
"Yeah! Apparently our sired hybrid-friend Tyler thought it would be ok to let his master throw a party! I expected more surprise." The blonde rolled her eyes.
"I've learned to not be surprised by anything Klaus does." Grace replied bluntly making Katherine snicker "Elena, come with me to find Bonnie." They both walk off into the crowd.
"What's going on? And what are you three doing here together? Thought you were supposed to be here with Rebekah." Caroline looked at Matt curiously.
"Plan's changed." Matt replied "I need a drink." he walked away from her.
Katherine linked her arm with Grace as they walked down the stairs leading towards the live band, she nodded towards where Klaus and Stefan were stood talking.
"Quite the Homecoming." Stefan mused.
"I've been planning my father's funeral for a thousand years. Granted in no version of it were any of these people invited, but you get the idea." Klaus shrugged.
Stefan nodded as he gazed around "So, what now? Stop running?"
"Hmm – now I reunite my family." Klaus smiled.
"You family... You mean the people you cart around in caskets?"
"None of that matters anymore. Mikael is gone. Bygones will be bygones." He saw the Homecoming Queen wandering around the crowd "Seems the Homecoming Queen still walks among the living, which leads me to believe Rebekah isn't here... Where is she?"
"I had no idea. I thought she was coming with Matt." Stefan answered truthfully.
"Oh, be honest with me now, Stefan. Where is my sister?" Klaus ordered with a firm look.
"I said I have no idea. How would you like me to take you to your father?" Stefan offered.
"Well, it wouldn't be a party without the guest of honour, would it? Bring him to me." Klaus commanded.
"Alright, perhaps there's something in it for me...? My freedom from your compulsion?" Stefan suggested.
"Oh, you want your freedom. Well, once he is dead and his weapon is destroyed, you'll have your freedom. I'll be my pleasure to give it back." Klaus gave him a smile.
Over at the Salvatore Boarding House Damon was pouring himself a glass of blood when Mikael walked into the room fixing his shirt "Did my daughter go to the dance?" Mikael asked.
"Yep." Damon lied "You missed the photo op. Did you get the stake?"
"I did." Mikael confirmed.
"I'm not going to take your work for it. No offence to your honour and all-"
"None taken." Mikael nodded at the boy as he pulled the white oak stake from his inner jacket pocket.
"Fancy. May I?" Damon reached out, but Mikael put it out of his reach.
"It's the only weapon on this earth that can kill an Original. So I think I'll hold on to it. No offence." Mikael scoffed.
"I'd offer you a drink, but Fayth tells me you're more of a 'vampire on the rocks' kind of guy." Damon lifted his glass in a cheers fashion to him.
"Well, technically you could still offer." Mikael threw him a look.
"Why feed on vampires? I mean, I like to drink my girlfriends blood as much as the next vampire mate, but I couldn't live off it." Damon argued remembering the times where he and Grace would feed off each other.
"I had a hand in creating vampires, but bloodlust was never my intention. Over the centuries I learned to feed from the predator, not the innocent." Mikael replied with a small shrug.
"Change of plans." Stefan entered the room "Klaus is back. He is at the Lockwood's and he wants your body delivered to his doorstep."
"I'm afraid he is in for a colossal disappointment." Mikael answered.
"Well, he's certainly not gonna come here. I hope your plan didn't depend on that?" Stefan hissed.
"Didn't depend on that." Damon answered for the Original.
"But you do have a plan, right?" Stefan asked firmly.
"Oh, yeah. We have a plan, right. Just doesn't involve you." Damon shrugged as Mikael leaped on Stefan and began to feed on him until Stefan fell unconscious "You couldn't just break his neck?"
"Well that certainly occurred to me." Mikael nodded at his dried his mouth of blood.
"My mom would seriously freak is she saw all these people here." Tyler announced to Klaus, speaking over the thudding music.
"You mother won't be a problem: I compelled her to go to church and pray for your friends." Klaus smirked.
"What are you talking about?"
"I want you to look around. There is Bonnie, there is your girl Caroline, there is Matt, there is Elena and pretty little Grace. Epic dance was wrecked tonight and who came through with the party? You did. What a pal. But who are all these other people here?" Klaus questioned.
"I have no idea. I've never seen half of these people in my life." Tyler admitted.
"That's because I've invited a few dozen friends of my own. That's my friend Mindy – picked her up long the way in Kansas." He looked across at a beautiful woman standing as still as a statue among the crowd "Did you know that there's an entire blood like of werewolves in the heartland? That's Tony from North Dakota and let's not forget the Seattle contingent."
"Are those people all hybrids?" Tyler looked around.
"And they love a good party." Klaus grinned "And they're like you sired by me, they wish to serve their master. So if anyone should so much as make a move against me, they may feel obligated to retaliate. You're free to warn your friends." Klaus grinned.
Tyler was walking through the crowd of people searching desperately for Caroline, he saw the blonde sipping her drink bored out of her mind, when he grabbed her and brought her in his bedroom shutting the door behind him "What are you up to with Klaus?" Tyler demanded.
"Uh – nothing." Caroline answered truthfully.
"He is on to you, Caroline. Whatever you all think you're about to pull off – he's two steps ahead of you!" Tyler told her.
"Ok, I don't know what you're talking about." She laughed her eyes full of confusion.
"You're lying to me." Tyler hissed.
"You know, actually, I'm not. I don't know anything." She hissed narrowing her silvery orbs at her boyfriend "But even if I did, I wouldn't tell you about it, because you are sired to team Klaus now. And you can't be trusted. So can we please just go back to the party now?" She pushed past him about to leave when he grabbed her and vervained her with one of Alaric's syringes, it was for her own safety.
Grace was standing at the drinks table pouring herself a beer, to her distaste, she preferred something stronger and something that reminded her of the man she loved. Katherine was stood a little way back, able to listen in on any conversation she had, but not getting involved as Klaus approached her with a grin "Been a while, sweetheart. Have you missed me?" He winked cheekily.
"Actually, kinda hoped I'd never see you again." She answered narrowing her chocolate brown orbs at him, he chuckled under his breath at her deathly looks "No such luck, eh."
"None at all, sweetheart." He grinned eyeing her up and down "Dance with me?"
"You haven't got a chance, dick. Go to hell." Grace hissed narrowing her eyes as she turned about to walk over to Katherine when something stopped her dead.
"Shame. I guess I'll have to kill... her." He pointed to a random girl dancing in the crowd, she was so preppy and happy Grace felt a churn of guilt in the pit of her stomach.
"No!" Grace turned abruptly and slammed into his rock hard chest looking up to see the challenge in his sea blue mixed with forest green orbs "No. No killing, Klaus."
"Then dance with me... All I'm asking for is one dance, love. That's all." Klaus through her a smouldering smile, she hissed as she placed her hand into his and he dragged her out onto the dance floor, he nodded at the band and they started a slow song, it was heart wrenching as he pulled her into his body comfortable.
"God." She muttered as he placed his hand on the small of her back, the other one hand hold of her hand, they both twirled around elegantly along with other couples on the floor, he looked down at her.
"So, love. Anything interesting happen whilst I was away? I hope Rebekah behaved." Klaus mused as he scanned the crowd, before looking down into her large, liquid chocolate brown orbs "I know she had quite a temper on her, can be fairly hard to get along with her sometimes."
"Mmm." Grace muttered "We bonded, if you must know." Another churn of guilt turned in her stomach as she thought back to the Original, having to dagger the girl because they couldn't completely trust her... it was depressing.
Klaus smirked to himself "Oh, really? How so?"
"We became great friends over school, men, drinking." Grace replied looking over her shoulder at Katherine who was giving her a look.
"You know, I'm a little surprised." Klaus leaned down so he was eye level with her, she tried to pull away, but she could feel his breathing on her lips making her uneasy, she was frozen in the spot, in the moment "How your sister, Elena, managed to dagger Mikael."
"She's a strong girl when she needs to be." Grace whispered her bottom lip shaking, he leant his head down ghosting his lips over her slender next, she suddenly snapped out of her trance and smacked her palm against his cheek sending him into a small state of shock that she had hit him.
"What are you doing?" He growled as the music picked up again to an upbeat tempo.
"Don't." She hissed "Just don't you dare try and flirt with me... You killed my Gran. I... I can't believe you."
"Heidi Johnson." Klaus mused "What a waste of a life." She reached out to slap him again, but this time he caught her hand clenching it until the bones began to snap, she called out in agony tears falling down her cheeks "Don't ever hit me again."
"Klaus. That hurts." Grace breathed but he wasn't letting up until every bone in her hand was completely broken "Ah."
"I want you to apologize." Klaus leaned down so he was close to her face, Katherine was about to step in, but she didn't want to blow her cover.
"Klaus-"
"Say your sorry." He ordered.
"I-I'm sorry." She whimpered as he leaned over pressing his lips to her cheek, he released her from his iron grip, giving her a stern look before walking towards the drinks table, Katherine was stood there, but the Original hybrid didn't know it was the vampire-doppelgänger and not the real deal.
"I'll have a drink." Klaus told her, but she ignored him "Well, seems I have you to tank for Mikael's demise."
"He came at me." Katherine lied "I didn't have a choice."
"Still I'm impressed." Klaus nodded "It's not easy for a human to dagger an Original."
"It wasn't the first time." The vampire smirked.
"Right. Elijah." Klaus remembered the story "You seem nervous."
"I'm not nervous." Katherine lied, one wrong move in this plan and they were all dead, including her and her sister "I just don't like you."
"Let's get straight to the point then, shall I, love? People have been after me for 1000 years. And I am always one step ahead. So whatever it is you're thinking, go for it, give it your best shot. You won't succeed."
Damon walked up to the front of the Lockwood Manor brushing himself down so he looked suitable, as he went to walk through the door someone blocked him "Invite only, Vampire." He hissed narrowing his bright brown eyes at him.
"Here's my RSVP." Damon punched the hybrid in the face making him slump to the floor "Hybrid." He added.
"What did you do to her?" Matt demanded as he saw Caroline's lifeless body on the Tyler's bed.
"It's just vervain." Tyler shook his head dismissively "She'll be fine. But I need you to get her out of here as fast as possible."
"What's going on?" Matt questioned.
"Something's going down against Klaus and this party is full of hybrids like me that can't let anything happen to him." Tyler replied quickly.
"What do you mean can't?" Matt creased his eye brows, he was only a human so he didn't understand the complex bond of a sire bond that Tyler and Klaus shared, or that Klaus and all of his hybrid minions shared.
"I can't explain it." Tyler replied "I can't fight against it. I just know that I need to protect him no matter who gets in my way."
"By attacking Caroline?" Matt gave him a look.
"I'm protecting her, Matt! This is the only way to keep her safe. Please. Just get her out of here safely. Get everyone out." The hybrid ordered as he walked from the room, walking down the stairs he collided with Damon who grabbed him by his shoulders and launched him into an empty room
"As the host you should know these hybrids don't make the best friend impressions." Damon hissed angrily
"Whatever move you're making, Klaus is gonna be ready for you. He'll kill anyone at this party if he has to." Tyler attempted to warn him.
"Tell someone who cares." Damon narrowed his bright blue orbs as he attacked Tyler, it turned into a huge fight and the hybrid attempted to take a chunk out of the vampire.
Damon shoved the hybrid back against the wall grabbing the white oak stake from his pocket and about to shove it into Tyler's chest when suddenly Bonnie ran in the room and began her mind spell that made them both call out in pain, until Tyler was completely unconscious "What's the hell is wrong with you? You weren't suppose to witchy migraine me!"
"You weren't supposed to kill Tyler!" Bonnie added.
"He tried to bite me!" Damon retorted as he tucked the white oak dagger away into his inner jacket pocket.
"What is that?" Bonnie questioned.
"Nothing." Damon lied.
"Oh my God, is that the-"
"Shh!" Damon growled "They're everywhere!" He referred to Klaus and his hybrids.
Klaus was around the back of the party playing beer pong with everyone cheering around him, having a good time when one of his Hybrid slaves approaches him "You have a visitor."
"Well, tell my visitor I'm on the brink of victory here." Klaus replied with a small smirked.
"He said his name is Mikael." The hybrid answered and the Original looked up sightly surprised.
"Then we mustn't keep him waiting. Move everyone out back. I'm going to have a little chat with my dad. Tony, you know what to do." He patted his right hand man on the shoulder as he walked to the front door to see Mikael standing there.
"Hello, Niklaus." Mikael looked up at his son.
"Hello, Mikael. Why don't you come in? Oh, that's right. I forgot you can't." Klaus smirked evilly, obviously Carol Lockwood lived in the Lockwood mansion, a human so he would need to be invited in by her.
"Or you can come outside if you want." Mikael offered.
"Or I could watch my hybrids tear you limb from limb." The hybrid mused with a small careless shrug.
"They can't kill me." Mikael replied firmly.
"True. But it'll make a hell of a party game." Klaus smirked "All I have to go is rub these two fingers together and they'll pounce." He smirked holding his middle finger and his thumb together watching the hybrids that surrounded Mikael visible tense.
"The big bad wolf." Mikael shook his head "You haven't changed. Still hiding behind your playthings like a coward. You only forget. They may be sired by you, but they're still part vampire. And they can be compelled by me." A grin spread across his lips as one of the female hybrids pushed Katherine into Mikael "Come out and face me, Niklaus. Or she dies." Mikael warned knowing the end of Elena would be the end of his hybrids.
"Go ahead. Kill her." Klaus smirked.
"No, Klaus. He'll do it!" Grace called, the hybrid hadn't noticed that she was stood in one of his hybrids arms, struggling against them.
"If she dies, this lot will be the last of your abominations." Mikael added.
Klaus braced his hand on the door frame, fighting the urge to go out there and save Grace from his hybrids arms, a small growl escaped his lips "I don't need them. I just need to be rid of you."
"To what end, Niklaus? So you can live forever, with no one at your side? Nobody cares about you anymore, boy!" He called, Klaus looked over at Grace who was no longer making eye contact "What do you have other than those whose loyalty you forced? No one."
"I'm calling your bluff, father. Kill her." Klaus hissed.
"No, Klaus." Grace called from where she continued to struggle.
"Come outside and face my, you little coward. And I won't have to." Mikael growled menacingly.
"My whole life you've underestimated me. If you kill her you lose your leverage. So go ahead. Go on. Kill her." Klaus dared "Come on, old man. Kill her. Kill her!"
Mikael laughed darkly "Your impulse, Niklaus. It has and will forever be the one thing that keeps you from truly being great." Mikael stabbed Katherine with the dagger and she fell to the ground dead, Grace began to sob and ran over to her 'sister'.
Whilst Klaus watched Grace, he could feel a tear in his heart, something that couldn't be mended when suddenly a unbelievable amount of pain crashed through his body and he saw Damon stabbing the white oak stake into his stomach.
"Katherine..." Mikael growled as Grace helped the girl off the ground with wolfsbane grenades in their hands.
"Boom." Katherine smirked as both launched them into the crowd of hybrid making them blind momentarily, weakening them so that Damon could finish the job.
Damon was about to finish Klaus off once and for all when suddenly his brother tackled him to the ground holding him down "What are you doing?"
Klaus picked up the white stake from the floor and pounced on his father knocking him to the ground as he stabbed the stake into his chest, it set aflame making everyone gasp.
"What the hell did you do?" Damon hissed as Katherine and Grace watched in shock as Mikael set ablaze.
"He's earned his freedom." Klaus announced as he walked towards the younger brother "Thank you, my friend. You no longer have to do as I say. You're free." He freed Stefan of his compulsion. As the younger Salvatore brother looked around for his brother, or Grace, or Katherine but they had already fled the scene as quick as they could.
Caroline woke up on her bed in her own house feeling weak, she groaned as she heard the door open and Tyler walk in "Are you ok?" He asked in a soft voice "What do you think?" She rubbed her blonde head.
"I'm sorry I stabbed you." Tyler apologised in a low voice "It was the only thing I could think of to get you out of there."
"Oh, yeah, not hey Caroline, um, I'm worried about that might happen this evening so maybe you should go home and watch Dancing with the Stars." She groaned sarcastically.
Tyler chuckled before his face drained of the humorous emotion to a more serious one "If you knew all your friends were gonna get together and try to take down Klaus, would you have left?"
"No." Caroline hissed.
"So there you go." Tyler replied "I saved you from your own stubbornness."
"This isn't funny, Tyler! How am I supposed to be with you when you're sired to him!" Caroline hollered.
"I need you to understand, Caroline." He took careful steps towards her.
"Understand what? That you're one of the bad guys now?" She growled.
"Understand this is who I am! There's nothing I can do about it. Klaus can't be killed. I can't be fixed. Under that I'm ok with it." Tyler whispered.
"But... How are you ok with it?" The blonde asked.
"Because it's better. I don't have to turn, Caroline. Not unless I want to. I never have to go through that pain again. If being sired to Klaus is the price that I have to pay, so be it." The hybrid carried a good argument, she would never understand the pain of turning, but she knew what he had to go through every full moon.
Caroline sighed "But... you don't have any true control over yourself."
"I never did before. The full moon control." He retorted "After everything that we've been through, you've been there for me through it all. Don't turn your back on me now." He begged.
"Tyler-"
"Right." He nodded accepting her true fate.
"I just-"
"I got it." He turned and walked away feeling an uncomfortable ache in his heart.
Grace and Damon walked into the Salvatore Boarding House, he was so angry as started pouring himself a whiskey, Grace walked over to Elena and hugged her.
"Fayth took off after she got a call from Katherine." Elena informed her "She told me what happened... about Stefan."
"We thought of everything! Klaus having hybrids. Mikael turning on us. We brought in Katherine and Fayth. Anything hat could have gone wrong we were prepared!" Damon growled loudly, the doppelgänger flinched at his words.
"Elena, Jeremy is waiting back at your place." Grace told her in a soft voice "Drive straight there and call me when you're home, ok?"
"Yeah." Elena nodded seeing that they needed a moment, she hugged her sister one more time before leaving the house.
"I don't understand." Grace's voice was small as she took her hair down from the messy bun it was in, it fell elegantly down her back "Stefan wanted Klaus dead. More than anything That's what we were counting on."
"We blew it."
"Where did Fayth and Katherine go?" Grace asked as she shrugged her coat off laying it on the back of the chair.
"They ran for the hills like usual, the minute things got bad! And who could blame them! Klaus would've crushed them." He paused holding back his anger "I had him, Grace. I had Klaus! This could have all been over." He suddenly picked up a bottle of scotch and threw it violently into the fireplace with a growl.
Grace walked over to him and grabbed his face between her little hands and pulled him down into a sensual kiss "We'll survive this. We always survive. Trust me." She whimpered as she kissed him again "After everything we've been through I'm not going to let that Hybrid dick end this for us. I love you too much. It will not happen, Damon."
"I love you, too." He buried his face into her neck and she stroked that back of his head, she could feel his hot tears against her neck which made her heart break "We've never getting Stefan back. You know that, don't you?"
"Then we'll let him go." It hurt her to admit that she would have to lose a brother, but if it meant protecting Damon, protecting Elena and everyone else then that's how it had to be "We'll let him go."
His phone began to vibrate in his pocket, she reached in there for him and got it out answering it, Fayth, the ID read "Not interested in a play by play of our failure right now, Fayth." Grace hissed as she soothed her boyfriend.
"I'm just calling to say goodbye. I don't know what you tell you. You and Damon came up with a good plan, and that's high praise coming from me, little vampire." Fayth added as she looked across at her sister who was driving.
"That's not very comforting at the moment." Grace hissed "You're going back into hiding?"
Fayth smiled to herself "At least my life is not boring. Goodbye, Grace."
"Take care of yourself, Fayth." Grace replied as she hung up.
"She doesn't know where it all went wrong?" Katherine questioned and Fayth shook her head.
"She doesn't need to know." Stefan added from the back seat.
Katherine slowed the car to a stop and both girls looking over their shoulders at him "Are you good from here? I need to put about a million miles between ourselves and Klaus as soon as possible..." Katherine saw the trance Stefan was in "Stefan?"
Flashback to after Mikael drained Stefan
Stefan lay on the floor in the Salvatore Boarding House, completely out of it as both Fayth and Katherine approached him, they look around to check the coast is clear and then wake him with a blood bag handy.
"Stefan!" Fayth kicked him in the side making sure to wake him up.
"Grace? Elena?" Stefan whimpered.
"Not exactly..." Katherine smirked as she handed him the blood bag "Pep up! I only got a minute before your best lil' sister Grace realize that I'm not at the party..."
Flashback to when Klaus was speaking with Elena
"You seem nervous." Klaus announced as he watched what he thought was the doppelgänger.
"I'm not nervous." Katherine lied, one wrong move in this plan and they were all dead, including her and her sister "I just don't like you."
"Let's get straight to the point then, shall I, love? People have been after me for 1000 years. And I am always one step ahead. So whatever it is you're thinking, go for it, give it your best shot. You won't succeed."
"It won't be for lack of trying." Katherine retorted.
"Ah, you've be smart to tell your sisters boyfriend Damon to mind his manners tonight, because if I die, I've already ensured that he'll die along with me! Even in death my hybrids have their orders. So, kill me and you're killing him, too, along with breaking your sisters heart." Klaus smirked as Katherine's mouth fell open.
Back to the present, in Katherine's car
"How did you know that I would stop Damon?" Stefan questioned.
"I didn't. I was just hoping that you would want to..." Katherine admitted with a small laugh.
Flashback to Stefan drinking the blood
Stefan sat on the floor healing up after Mikael had drained his blood, Katherine and Fayth both stood over his hands on their hips "If Klaus gets killed he is taking Damon down with him." Katherine informed him.
"So pull the plug on the plan." Stefan rasped out as he finished his bag of blood.
"And face the wrath of Mikael? We'll all be dead! Ok, look. I know that you've turned off your humanity and that you don't care, so there's only one solution." Katherine noted.
"What's that?" Stefan looked up at the female.
"Care, Stefan." She replied as if it was just that simple for him "Care enough to save Damon's life. Care enough to save Grace's life. Because I am going back to that party and I'm seeing this plan through. Klaus will be killed. We'll have our freedom. But then Damon will be dead. Grace will be heart broken. Elena won't want to see you again. They'll all be gone from you, Stefan. Unless you care enough to do something about it." Katherine added.
Back to the present
"You wanted Klaus dead for 500 years. Why would you risk all that, just to save Damon's life?" Stefan asked looking between Fayth and Katherine as they continued to sit in their car.
"I wasn't just trying to save Damon's life, Stefan. I was trying to save yours. Your humanity. Let's just say I liked the 'old you' better." Katherine smiled at him.
"Nah. Come on, Katherine. You don't care about anybody but yourself and your sister. You never have." Stefan narrowed his forest green orbs at her.
"You and I both know that that's not true." Katherine smirked "I loved you. Humanity is a vampire's greatest weakness... no matter how easy it is to turn it off – it just keeps trying to fight it's way back on. Sometimes I let it." She shrugged.
"I can't let it all back in. I don't want to." Stefan whispered "Not after everything I've done."
"Of course you don't want to. But if you don't let yourself feel, you won't be able to do what I need you to do next." Katherine nodded as she looked over at Fayth who was smiling.
"What's that?" The younger vampire rolled his eyes.
"Get mad." She told him.
Grace walked into Stefan's room to see Rebekah's body laying on the floor her lifeless form just staring blankly at her, she took a seat next to her and sighed heavily "You know, Bekah. I really am sorry." Grace told her "I hope some day we can undagger you, but I have a feeling you're gonna be pissed..." She smirked "I would be and we both know your temper."
"Grace, are you coming." Damon asked as he stood in the door way looking at Grace speaking with the blonde, he was confused. She hated Klaus, she was meant to hate everything to do with Klaus, including his family, but her and Rebekah have bonded in some way and Damon felt a small tinge of jealousy in his stomach as he watched her sit next to Barbie Original.
"Sure." She stood up and fell into Damon, he played with the zip on the back of her dress impatiently "A night to remember, eh?"
"You can say that again." He leaned down and pressed his lips against her, just a simple light kiss, but Grace deepened it, he pulled back for a moment looking deep into her tranquil chocolate brown orbs before moving down into the kiss again, ghosting his hand over her cheek bone.
They both zipped through the house into their bedroom slamming the door shut behind them, removing each others clothes with a great deal of passion and lust all built up into one giant ball of love, after a night like tonight they need each other fully and completely.
He moved her back onto the bed pressing their bodies together, licking his way down her neck to her collar bone, she arched and moaned at his touch, he nuzzled into her neck before crunching into her throat making her call out.
"Making up for this morning, Gracie." He smirked as he began to drink her sweet blood.
"Damon." She clawed her long nails down his back, tearing the skin on the way "Damon!"
"We're gonna get through this, aren't we?" He whispered as he pulled back, it felt odd to Grace having him so insecure, she was usually the one looking to him for support, but now the tables had turned.
"Of course we are." Grace smiled at him stroking his cheek carefully "We're Grace and Damon, we can get through anything... I promise."
Damon nodded at her, pressing his lips against her softly prying them open slowly so slid his tongue inside, twisting and tangling his tongue with hers as their bodies tangled together romantically, in utter need for each other.
Upstairs in Stefan's room Rebekah's phone began to ring in her purse, she obviously couldn't answer it so it immediately went to voicemail to the callers annoyance.
"Rebekah, where are you?" Klaus asked in his beautiful British accent "Pick up the phone, darling. Daddy is dead. It's time for a family reunion." He smirked as he hit end, suddenly he got another call, assuming it to be Rebekah he picked up, but saw it was his good old friend "Stefan! Miss me already?"
"I'm just calling to thank you for my freedom." Stefan replied his voice was darker than usual.
"Oh, I like to believe I'm a man on my world, more of less." Klaus replied with a small smirk as he walked through a small, private truck depot.
"Thing is, it came at too high a price. You took everything from me, Klaus." Stefan told him.
"Let bygones be bygones, trust me. Resentment get's old." Klaus smirked as he approached one of the trucks, it was the one containing all of his family caskets.
"You know what never get's old?" Stefan questioned "Revenge." He added as Klaus opened the truck to see that it was completely empty.
"No." He growled.
"What's the matter, Klaus? Missing something?" Stefan smirked as he stood inside of a room looking at all of Klaus' coffins.
"What are you doing?"
"Just enjoying my freedom." Stefan's voice was filled with an sadistic humour.
"I will kill you and everyone you ever met!" Klaus growled at him his muscles tensing under his clothes.
"You do that – and you will never see your family again. I wonder Klaus, as someone who has been one step ahead for a thousands years – are you prepared for this?" Stefan chuckled as he hung up on the Original.
A/N
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