Twisted Love
Season Three
The Murder of One
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace and Fayth :)
When Grace woke up in the morning she looked around her room catching the sun beaming through her blinds holding her hand out she traced the light with her finger tips tiredly, as she sat upright she heard some music flowing loudly downstairs, it was properly Elena hiding her pain of losing her guardian with cooking.
Standing up she walked over to the bathroom and showered quickly as she walked back into her room the smell of human food filled the whole house. Grabbing a black of dark wash short shorts and a black and white plaid button down shirt she slipped them both on before grabbing a pair of converse and bolting down the stairs.
"Morning." Elena called from the kitchen and her smaller twin stepped inside with a confused look on her face to see that the doppelgänger had been cooking up a storm in there, but Grace felt nauseous to eat in the morning "Here. I know you don't eat anything, but I just need to get my mind of everything, I ran out to the Grill and got Alaric these." She handed her a bag of muffins and two cups of coffee "Will you go over and give them to him."
"Sure." Grace answered as she grabbed her car keys "How are you... How are you holding up, 'Lena?" She questioned in a small voice looking over at her.
"Better than I thought I would." Elena replied tucking a single piece of her long chocolate brown locks behind her ear before looking up at her twin "I just... I miss having my family around me, I know I have you, but I miss Jeremy and I miss Alaric and Bonnie and everyone else."
"I know what you mean." Grace nodded before hugging her sister warmly holding her in her arms for a moment "As soon as this whole Original mess is over we can all be a family again, I promise."
"How are you handling everything?" Elena pulled back from her sister, leaning casually against the side "I mean, you can't deny whatever you feel for Klaus, but you have to just stand by idly whilst Damon kills him and his family?"
"I may feel something for Klaus, but that doesn't change what he has done to everyone." She gnawed on her juicy lower playing with the tips of her chocolate brown curls "He's caused a lot of damage in our family, Elena, and saving my life a few times doesn't change that. Besides, I won't be sad to see his slut of a sister gone." She clutched her keys tightly in her hands "I'm gonna go drop this off, are you going to be alright here?"
"Sure." Elena nodded looking over giving her sister a kind look, Grace turned on her heels and walked from the house, closing the door behind her.
"Morning, love." Klaus purred as he leaned casually against the wooden post that made up the porch outside, she jumped startled to see him "Good to see you, haven't heard from you in a while."
"Oh my God." Grace whispered as she looked up into his mixed coloured eyes "What are you doing here?"
"Well, I do live in Mystic Falls. You will see me around." Klaus shrugged taking the bag of muffins from her hands "Are these all for you?" He pulled one of the mini muffins out and took a bite out of it looking into her eyes seductively.
"No." Grace answered snatching the bag back and holding it firmly in her hands giving him a cold hard look "What are you doing here, Klaus? At Elena's house."
"I'm here checking up on you." The hybrid shrugged brushing his finger tips over her cheek softly she shivered at his touch "Yes. Just checking in on what if mine."
"Yours?" Grace's voice wasn't as threatening as she wanted it to be, it wavered and was small he smirked as he leaned his head down brushing his lips against her, something about it was different to when Damon had done it the night before, there was nothing, no sparks, no need "Stop." She ordered as she pulled away "You need to leave. Now."
Klaus gritted his teeth looking down at her intensely, he thought with the blood connection that she wouldn't be able to resist him, clenching his hands into tight balls he gave her a curt nod before turning and leaving at supernatural speed.
Letting out a soft breath Grace made her way over to car climbing inside and sitting down for a moment with her eyes closed leaning her head back against the head rest before starting the car and driving to Alaric's apartment.
She didn't waste any time in bounding up the stairs, reaching under the doormat to grab the spare key Alaric had told her about one time. Opening the door to see Alaric, Damon and Stefan working with some wood, she almost dropped the items in her hand.
"What the hell..." Grace muttered and all the men stared at each other in shock, they hadn't planned on anyone outside of their little circle finding out about this until they wanted them to "What... What is this?"
"We're just showing Alaric how to whittle." Damon lied badly and Grace cocked an eye brow at him moving closer and picking up one of the stakes observing it close.
"This is a stake... I've never seen this wood before." Grace whispered as she delicately ran her fingers up and down the wood, Damon watched almost biting his lip tilting his head to the side, oh how he missed her touch...
"You have." Stefan nodded as he threw a finished stake into a bag "But the last time you saw it, the wood was in ash form."
"What?" Grace whispered looking over as Damon gave his brother a deathly look "This... This is white oak?" She questioned in a small voice dropping the stake back into the bag with wide eyes "Oh my God. H-How many do you have?"
"12." Damon answered giving her a look seeing that she was fairly shocked and even looked a little bit hurt "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Grace shrugged the questioned off looking over at Alaric who stood up gathering his jacket "Where are you going?"
"To turn myself in." Alaric answered like it was plain and simple, everyone looked over at him like he was stupid.
"No you don't." Damon zipped in front of him blocking his exit, he had only just got his best friend back, he wasn't about to let him go running back into police custody.
"I have a homicidal alter ego." Alaric replied in a firm voice "Unlike some people in this room, I would like to take responsibility for people I've killed." He added but Damon just shook his head.
"If you wanted to turn yourself in, you wouldn't be saying it out loud." Damon informed him and the history teacher narrowed his eyes at him "Just saying." he held up his hands innocently.
"Hey, listen, out of all the people you cannot psychoanalyse me. I killed Caroline's father; I nearly killed Meredith." There was hurt and regret written in his eyes, it was the first woman he had loved since Jenna had passed and now he had hurt her so bad "Everything's changed."
"You can't turn yourself in." Grace spoke up, there was a state of begging in her eyes and Damon just wanted to run over and capture her in his arms but he resisted swallowing down the pain of seeing her scared and hurt.
"Look, you're not turning yourself in. Bonnie's herbs are working and we have Originals to kill." Stefan told him in a sure voice but Alaric creased his eye brows not sure of what to do.
"His morals get very questionable when he has revenge on the brain." Damon informed them both and Grace smirked a little looking over at the man who she used to think of as a brother.
"Klaus needs to die. We finally have the chance to kill him, so you are not turning yourself in." Stefan told him in a solid voice placing the final stake into the waiting duffle bag.
Grace couldn't help but feel some sort of guilt in her stomach for Klaus, but after everything he had done to the people she lived then she knew this had to be done... He had tried to kill her, he killed her gran, turned Tyler into a hybrid, Damon almost died because of him, Stefan was the way he was because of him, Bonnie's mom was a vampire because of him, the list went on and on and it time for his reign of terror to come to an end.
Damon reached into his pocket and pulled out his Gilbert ring and placed it on the side for him "Here's your ring, Ric. Put it on." He ordered, this was a dangerous situation that could lead to death and he wasn't about to risk his human best friends life.
"This ring is the reason I've killed people." Alaric's voice was low as he pointed to the devil ring, Damon, rolled his eyes and pushed it towards him with an exasperated look on his face.
"It's also the reason you're alive." Damon answered "You're going vampire hunting, Ric. Wear it." He ordered and his friend picked up the ring and placed it on his finger timidly.
Caroline and Elena were walking casually through the woods talking about Alaric's recent killings, the blonde was surprised she didn't think that the history teacher had it in him to killing two men, and attempt to kill himself and his girlfriend.
"Alaric Saltzman killed my father." There was a reasonable amount of anger and scepticism in her voice, she just couldn't imagine it.
"I can't expect you to be ok with this." Elena muttering crossing her arms over her chest with a sad look on her face "But at least these herbs that Bonnie's giving him, they're healing him and they're keeping the dark side buried."
"Yeah, and that's supposed to make everything ok?" Caroline hissed about to turn and walk away, but the doppelgänger grabbed her arm and turned the blonde to face her looking into her silvery teary eyes.
"No, Caroline, it's not ok. It's horrible and I feel horrible about it." Elena whispered to her, taking her hands carefully "But he's a victim of something supernatural, he didn't ask for this, it just happened to him... Just like Bonnie's mom, I mean, she didn't ask to be a vampire. And neither did Grace or Damon or Stefan or even Tyler."
"Or me..." Caroline whimpered nodding her head understandingly, she understood what it was like not being able to control something so cynical in your life, something that was out of their hands that they couldn't control.
"Or you." Elena gave her a subtle smile "None of you asked for this, but who would I be if I just turned my back on any of you?" Caroline manoeuvred herself to sling her arm over her shoulder, hugging her close as they made their way through the forest.
"Oh, Elena Gilbert, saviour of the cursed and the damned." Caroline smirked when suddenly Matt stepped out of the brush making his way towards them.
"Hey." Matt smiled at them both and they returned the favour "What's with the cryptic secret meeting text?" He questioned
"I don't know. Stefan just said to meet here." Elena answered with a small shrug looking down at her phone when suddenly Grace, Stefan and Damon all step out of the brush looking at them all.
"Where's Bonnie?" Stefan questioned taking a head count, everyone expect Bonnie was present "I texted her too."
"Erm, Bonnie's mom bailed on her. Again." Caroline muttered and Grace's bottom jaw went slack as she found out the news, Caroline had already told Elena over breakfast "So, I think we should leave her out of this one." Stefan nodded respectfully.
"What are we doing here?" Matt questioned looking at the three vampires with a questionable look.
"We found some white oak. Long story, wait for the movie." Damon's voice was deeply sarcastic and Grace threw him a dirty look, he just rolled his eyes.
"Hang on." Elena held up her hands wanting them to stop talking for a moment so she could get her head around the current situation "White oak? You have a weapon that can kill Klaus?"
"Nope. We all have a weapon." Stefan gave her a grin and she could stop her heart from flutteringly lovingly, she did love Stefan with all her heart, but now was the wrong time to fall back in love.
"Nope. We all have a weapon." Stefan threw a black duffel bag to the floor and it was open so they could see the white oak stakes that lay inside, all of them looked on like kids in a candy store.
In a busy city Finn was wandering down the crowded sidewalk trying to ignore all of his siblings but when Klaus approached him he could help but feel a thud of fear in his chest.
"Hello, Finn." Niklaus purred giving him a smile as he quickened his pace to catch up with his older brother.
"Hello, Niklaus." Finn's voice was low and deathly "I have nothing to say to you." He told him before walking faster.
"Well, I'm not here to chat. I will ask you one time though, where's our mother?" The hybrid asked him a level of seriousness in his mixed coloured orbs.
"Gone to find another way to end out abominable lives. And when she does, I will sacrifice myself all over again." Finn informed him and Klaus gritted his teeth shaking his head.
"Well, how fortunate that I found you, I require your assistance." Klaus grinned at his older brother hiding his rage from him, Grace had already pissed him off this morning, he didn't need his brother Finn pushing him any further this morning.
"I have no wish to help you." Finn spat narrowing his dark orbs at his younger brother "Only to see you dead."
"Right, well, that's the thing; you see you won't be able to see me dead, because if I die, then you die. So, wish unfulfilled, I'm afraid." Klaus stated in a matter-of-fact tone making Finn roll his eyes.
"Oh, bother someone else with your hollowed charms, Niklaus." Finn retorted in a annoyed tone making the hybrid smirk a little.
"Why? Why not come both my big brother." Klaus cooed "I need you to accompany me back to Mystic Falls, I have a witch there who can help undo Esther's spell that linked us together." Klaus told him in a firm voice.
"I have no wish to be unlinked-" He was stopped when his younger brother took a quick step in front of him and placed his hands on his chest ceasing his movements.
"Again with the wishes. Let me rephrase, you will come back with me or I will put you back in that coffin in which you rotted for 900 years." Klaus smirked at his brother, but Finn could one up him on this one.
"What happens to one, happens to all. You may not feel the effects of the dagger, but you'd lose your precious Rebekah." Finn replied in a spiteful voice but Klaus just shrugged carelessly.
"Wouldn't be the first time." He shrugged a little before moving so Finn could walk past him, before he knew it his older brother zipped of at supernatural speed down an alley thinking he had lost his young brother but saw his dear little sister standing in front of him blocking his path.
"Let's not make thing any worse than it has to be, darling brother." Rebekah pouted flipping her golden locks over her shoulder with a set look on her stoney face.
"You're siding with him?" Finn scoffed looking at his young sister who had her hands placed firmly on her hips "Rebekah, he stored us in boxes."
"At least he's not trying to make us extinct." Rebekah spat as her older brother turned to see her hybrid brother standing there.
"What are you gonna do? Kill me?" Finn questioned, he knew that Klaus was out of cards, whatever he did to him it would happen to all of his siblings including himself and Klaus' one weakness was family.
"Oh yeah, that's right, you've got a death wish." Klaus smirked a little, but his eyes showed no humour, his patients had worn thin for one day "Fine, pathetic, but fine. The thing is, I'm not gonna let you take the rest of us down with you." He shoved him back against the brick wall of the alley and made him crumple to the floor.
"Klaus has always been one step ahead of us, but now we have the advantage. We're all armed and they are all linked, meaning we only need to kill one of them." Stefan shrugged as if it was that easy for one of them to just go up to a Original and stab a stake into their heart "We need to seize the best opportunity, which means we need to prepare for ever opportunity."
"Scenario number 1." Damon held up one finger.
Stefan took Elena's arm and moved her over to a spot just behind them 1) to keep her out of harms way and 2) she was playing Klaus "You get to play Klaus." He joked and she nodded understandingly "Rebekah is our target so we distract her and catch her off guard. To do that we need to keep Klaus separate and occupied..." He glanced over regrettable to Grace who groaned loudly earning a smirk from Damon.
"Why do I have to be Klaus bait?" She moaned looking over as Damon stepped towards her with humour deep in his icy orbs.
"Because you two are linked, you can't get all nervous knowing what we're doing because he can feel your emotions and know what's coming." Damon answered "Plus you slept with him, he's basically putty in your hands."
"You slept with Klaus!" Caroline shirked, this was the first she had heard of it, there was a twinkle in her eye that told Grace she wanted all the details "Later." She commanded knowing Grace would know what it meant.
Grace smacked Damon's arm as hard as she could, but he just chuckled and captured her arms holding her firmly in place "But right now you get to play your best friend Rebekah. We use the quarterback to distract her. Just keep her talking." He nodded at Matt.
"How?" The only real human there questioned in a small voice, he didn't know what to talk about with a 1000 year old super strong vampire.
"Act interested. She's lonely, desperate." Damon answered "So, anyway, beefcake holds bombshell. I come up from behind her." He grabbed Grace's arms holding her firmly against him, she gasped feeling him so close, but it felt oh so good, they both shivered "And, uh, and, erm..." He gulped losing his train of thought "G-Grab her like this." He told Matt relishing in holding Grace so close.
Then Stefan stepped in front of Grace about to stab her in the chest but stopping at the last second giving her a cheeky smirk "Gives me time for one shot."
Grace could feel Damon's lips at the back of her head, she closed her eyes for a moment before she became loose in his grip and she was released, both of them looked over at each other nervously for only a moment.
"Got it?" Stefan questioned and the group of supernatural's mixed with humans nodded in confirmation "Good. So we all have one stake, we keep it hidden and we look out for an opportunity we have."
"No last minute attacks of pity for any of them... Grace." Damon glanced over at the young vampire who threw him a dirty look.
"I'm ready for this to come to an end." Grace told him in a firm voice and he couldn't help but feel admiration for her, he used loved Fayth and still even now he couldn't imagine killing her in cold blood, but Grace was about to show courage and killing this Original hybrid.
"Elena?" Stefan questioned in a subtle voice, it wasn't easy for the goodhearted doppelgänger to want to have to kill someone, she always felt pity, but not this time.
"Don't worry about me." Elena told him in a sure voice "Not after what happened to Bonnie's mom." She added and Damon leaned his head down almost in a way of guilt.
"Barbie?" Damon glanced over to the blonde who smirked looking up from her newly manicured nails with a ready looks in her silvery orbs.
"Oh, I'm ready. Anything that will free Tyler from his sire bond to Klaus." Caroline informed him, but she still gave Grace a look which made her shake her head.
"Busboy?" Damon glanced over at Matt who was standing nervous in the corner, he had every right to be nervous, each one of them could protect themselves in one way or anything, Stefan would give his life for Elena and the rest were vampires, he was the only human without a protector.
"Do I have a choice?"
"Good boy." Damon purred and he didn't even realise that he had taken a step towards Grace, she smelt so good to him, not just her intoxicating perfume, but her sweet blood that pumped through her veins too.
"Listen, we have 12 stakes, 12 shots at killing one Original. We can do this." Stefan assured them in sure tone "Alright, let's try another scenario. Elena grab a crossbow." He handed her the weapon and she was surprised at the weight "Matt, you play Klaus." She pulled the bow up and looked the lens at the crosshair.
Klaus through his older brother Finn brutally into the foyer of his mansion a tried look on his face, he was fed up with dealing with his suicidal brother and it was time to pull out the big guns on him, Rebekah followed closing the large door behind her throwing her keys into the bowl.
"Gather your witch. Let's get his blood and get on with it." Rebekah ordered in a low voice as she walked across the foyer.
"You can't force me to help you." Finn pushed himself off the ground and Niklaus gave him a smug look which told him other wise.
"Oh, I most likely could, but why force when I can persuade?" Klaus nodded towards the elegant spiral staircase, Finn turned to see the love of his vampire life, Sage, walking down the stairs, a gleam of excitement in her eyes as she saw her lost lover.
"Hello, Finn." She purred as she reached the bottom of the stairs, The oldest Original wanted to run over and capture dear Sage in his arms and her smile told him she wanted to as well.
"Sage." He whispered her name as he rushed over and embraced her so tight he thought he would snap her spine, but she whimpered as he held her.
"What do you know, true love prevails." Rebekah muttered as she leaned casually against the wall, arms crossed over her chest, a bored tone to her voice hearing the beep of a message tone from Klaus' phone.
Kol – Let me know when I'm needed.
"It does occasionally have its uses." Klaus muttered as he hit the reply button on his phone, his brother was on a secret mission at the moment that not any of his siblings knew about.
Klaus – I will.
"Easier than torturing him." Klaus murmured as he slid his phone back into his pocket casually giving a smile to his sister.
"I have something to do." Rebekah informed him as she pushed away from the wall, looking away from the mushy love scene next to her "What do you need from me for this spell?"
"Just your blood and your blessing." Klaus smirked a little bit as he gave his sister a skeptical look "Where are you going?"
"I have some unfinished business with Damon Salvatore." She spat his name out, a spiteful look on her face which made Klaus smile evilly "Ask Sage what they did to me. Then you'll understand why retribution is in order." She turned on her heels and walked out of her house.
Damon was up in one of the extra rooms in the Salvatore boarding house with his good buddy Alaric. The vampire was hiding his stake in the pile of wood that was next to the fireplace that was in the room.
"I mean, did you learn nothing from the moonstone in the soap dish?" Alaric questioned in a skeptical voice, he was speaking about the time Damon had hid the moonstone away from Fayth and Katherine in a soap dish in his bathroom, hiding items in plan sight was what he was attempting to do, although it never seemed to work.
"Why? Where'd you put yours?" Damon questioned, but before the history teacher could answer there was a noise from downstairs, they both glanced over at each other "What the hell was that?"
Damon stalked out of the room, jogging down the stairs, he began to skulk around looking for where the noise might have come from, after finding nothing he turned around he saw a body get thrown down the stairs.
The history teacher hit the floor with a loud thud "Ric." He muttered before running over glancing up the stairs to see that no one was there, turning around he was looking into a pair of icy blue eyes, a dagger stabbed directly into his stomach and he groaned loudly.
"Hello, Lover." Rebekah purred voice filled with a sinister tone.
Elena was speaking on her phone trying to get hold of Bonnie whilst Caroline was hassling Grace about sleeping with an Original, the brunette kept rolling her eyes at the questions, and Matt was walking along with them silently.
Grace would have loved to not talk about her little rendezvous with Klaus, but unlike Elena the blonde vampire didn't back down as easily, she pried and pried, getting all the juicy information out of the brunette.
"...So, wait, let me get this straight, he gave you his crazy hybrid blood and that made you do the deed?" The blonde looked over at the vampire questionably "Isn't that like rape or something like that?"
"No, Care." Grace hissed gritting her teeth "It wasn't rape, I wanted to have sex with him, at the time, as unbelievable as that sounds, I did... And yeah, I may regret it a little bit, but I don't want to live an eternity of 'what ifs' and 'who knows'..." She added with a small shrug.
"Well, I just think you're an idiot." Caroline muttered and Grace looked over at her, a deathly look in her dark brown orbs "I mean, you and Damon are meant to be together! You're each others epic loves! And he goes off and tries to screw Rebekah and you screw Klaus, c'mon, why do you do this to each other!"
"I hate what I've done to him, I hate myself, so much, but I can't take back what I've already done and I have to live with that, I don't want to lose him..." Grace whispered as she looked down "I miss him."
"I know." Caroline wrapped her long arms around Grace's neck pulling her into a small but loving hug "I know you do, I can see it... And also, I know it's only a matter of time before you jump each others bones again and fall madly back in love, you know I could write a epic love story about this..."
"Is it weird that Klaus' brother is in the middle of town square?" Matt questioned suspiciously and they all looked over to see, Grace growled a little when she saw Sage fluttering around beside him, the two hadn't really hit it off when Damon introduced her to Sage.
"That's Finn." Elena noted, she remembered when she was meeting with Esther for the first time, Finn had been there to donate his blood and link all of his siblings together "Who is that with him?What are they saying?" She questioned looking over at Grace and Caroline who were tapping into the conversation with their supernatural hearing.
"That's Sage, she's... she's a real bitch." Grace muttered as she crossed her arms over her chest, seeing the loving look on the red heads face as she danced around with the Original.
"So, can you guess what I've dragged you out here?" The red head questioned in a playful tone as he followed her every whim, every subtle movement, listened to ever hypnotizing word that fell from her mouth.
"If memory serves me, this is where the Natives use to make sacrifices to their Gods." Finn nodded as he looked at how much it had changed from 900 years ago, he shirked a little seeing everyone walking around with cell phones and listening to music on their iPods, oh how the world had changed so rapidly before his eyes.
"This statue was built where we used to rendezvous." Sage smirked seductively as she ran her hands over the statue, he watched her very involved in her eye movement "Back when you used to have to sneak away from your siblings to see your tall true lady friend."
"I assumed after 900 years you'd moved on." Finn shrugged a little bit, it was no life for her to wait around for Finn to be let out of a box by his younger psychotic hybrid brother.
"I took care of myself, but I never stopped loving you, Finn. I don't want you to die." There was a pleading tone to her voice and he caught it, it made his heart break, as much as he hated himself and thought he was an abomination, he loved Sage more and for her he was willing to fight.
"Hello." Stefan asked as he answered Grace's call, her twin sister was following her as she spoke with her own ex boyfriend.
"Hey, Stefan, where are you?" Grace questioned as she looked back over her shoulder at Sage and Finn who were still lovingly walking around, hand in hand.
"I, uh, I just got home." Stefan informed her as he threw his keys on the table.
"Klaus' brother, Finn is in the town square and he's with Sage, that vampire Damon knows, why do they know each other, Stefan?" Grace asked her voice was almost scared, but she kept it calm for Elena's sake, she didn't like having to deal with an Original vampire, she wasn't ready.
"She's been pining over him whilst Klaus had him locked in is coffin, Klaus told me about her once... Don't do anything until Damon and I get there, Grace, she's very old and very strong. You don't stand a chance against her."
"Well, hurry. Get Damon and get down here." Grace ordered before she heard Stefan gasp at something "What is it? What's wrong?"
"What the hell happened to you?" Stefan questioned as he walked swiftly over to the problem, Grace glanced fearfully at Elena who looked back with a questionable look.
"Stefan? What's going on?"
"Rebekah happened." Grace heard Alaric rasp on the other end of the line, she gasped a little as she clutched the phone tighter in her hand.
"I think we have a problem." Stefan muttered as he looked down at Alaric's injured body with a concerned look on his face.
Rebekah tighten the bear traps around Damon's wrist, they gnawed uncomfortable into his writs, his shirt ripped open to expose his wonderful toned chest and abdomen, his eye fluttered open and he saw the beautiful blonde stood in front of him arms crossed over her chest with a moody yet vengeful look on her pale features.
"I found them in the shed." Rebekah informed him in a spiteful voice as he glanced up at the bear traps around his wrists "What kind of monster would trap a poor, defenceless animal." She pouted her bright blue orbs wide and innocent.
"You've got to admit, even for me, this is a little kinky." Damon muttered, his voice was weaker than usual and was raspy, he had been weakened by something, more than likely vervain.
"You pretended to be interested in me and was going to sleep with me, until you moaned that sluts name and then your trampy friend Sage snapped my neck so you could both steal my thoughts. Ever since then I felt this incessant need to one up you. At first I was going to steal your precious lover, Gracie, but then I changed my mind, you see, Nik would kill me if I hurt his little play thing." Damon gritted his teeth when he spoke about Grace that way "so I decided to go for you instead... I'm going to bleed you of all that blasted vervain in your system." She muttered as she ran a razor sharp knife over his chest, he groaned in pain wincing.
"You want to compel me to be your boyfriend?" Damon smirked a little but she shook her head, a sinister look in her eyes.
"No, no, actually, I figured you'd be distort if I killed Grace, but if I compelled you then... well that you just be too good." Rebekah grinned a little and Damon fought against his chains trying to get out "Nevertheless, since vampires heal then this might take a while. We should probably stick to major arteries..." She moved the knife to slice his throat making blood pour from the wound.
Footsteps entered the room and then a laugh followed, the youngest vampire glanced over to see Klaus walking towards them "Well, look what you've caught... Trying to bleed him of vervain, don't you think it wold be easier to hang him upside down?" He questioned and Rebekah glanced over her shoulder to give him a filthy look.
"I'm perfectly capable of inflicting pain, thank you very much." She answered in a low tone as she watched Damon's wounds already heal, she narrowed her eyes as she reached out and cut him again.
"Well, excuse me, it's not like I have any expertise in the matter." He gave Damon a sarcastic look as he rolled his eyes "I'll let you get on with this, I'll make sure to comfort Grace if anything... unfortunate was to happen, don't worry, Damon." He chuckled darkly as he turned on his heels as he walked from the room.
"Yes, return to your witch." Rebekah called in a angry voice "Hmm, now where were we?" She questioned.
"Tick-tock." Klaus taunted as he entered another room in his amazing mansion, he saw Bonnie hunched over her grimoire, he could practically feel her fear pouring out of her "I should hear chanting by now."
"I'm still studying the unlinking spell. It's not that that easy, especially under duress." she muttered as she glanced over her shoulder at the anxious hybrid, he was more than ready to be unlinked from his overly exposed siblings.
"You've been warned. If you're looking for a way to send for help, I will kill anyone who comes to your rescue." Klaus' voice was thick with the threat, Bonnie saw the seriousness filling his mixed colour orbs and gulped a little.
"This is the spell. I just don't know if I'm strong enough." She muttered as she stepped towards the window glancing out pressing the pads of her fingers to the old glass.
"Then you should have a little more faith in yourself, Bonnie..." He walked towards her getting uncomfortably close "Your energy helped my mother link us. Honestly, I think someone isn't trying hard enough." He gave her a look but she stood strong, it would be unfortunate if she couldn't preform the spell in time, but Niklaus had ways to persuade her "Very well." He pulled his phone from his jacket pocket and called his younger brother Kol "Kol. How's the weather up there in Mile High City?" He questioned and the young witch creased her eye brows in confusion "And how's our friend? May I see him?" He brought the phone away from his ear and hit one single button before turning it so Bonnie could see.
A video of Jeremy appeared on the screen, he looked so happy playing with a golden retriever puppy, throwing a chew toy from him as he stood in the park, the dog bounded back giving it to him obediently.
"There's Jeremy, playing fetch with his new puppy." Klaus taunted, he knew that Bonnie was still carrying a torch for dear sweet Jeremy and was going to use it against her no matter what, as long as whatever he wanted was done then that was it "Oh, isn't that the most adorable thing you've ever seen?" He questioned putting a little before pulling the phone away hitting another button and holding it to his ear again "Thank you, Kol, we'll be in touch..." He hung up sliding his phone back in his pocket "So, Bonnie, how about that spell?"
Caroline entered the Salvatore library to see Alaric lounging across one of the chairs, she could see that he was in pain as he lay there, hand pressed to his ribs and she stepped towards him
"Hey. I hear you had a run in with Buffy the vampire." The blonde muttered and Alaric let out a pain laugh at her joke.
"Yeah, I'll live. What are you doing here?" Alaric questioned, he was surprised that she was coming to be his nurse after everything he had done to her family, he was the one that had ended up killing her father and the blonde knew that.
"Checking up on you. In case you're not you." Caroline answered with almost a cheeky smile, she was hurt for what he did to her father, but there was nothing she could do to change what had already happen and hating Alaric wouldn't make it any easier.
"I'm me." Alaric replied with a swift nod, he wished his life wasn't the way it was and he wished he hadn't had done all the murders he had committed, but he had and he had to face the truth, things were not going to get any easier for him any time soon, if anything they would get worse.
"Well, I guess not you would sat that too. Which is why..." She pulled a bottle of darkly coloured herbs out of her bag with a subtle smile "Elena said you have to drink these. I hope it taste better than it smells." She handed them over to him and he popped one in his mouth.
"It doesn't." He muttered as he drunk what he needed to "Mmm. That's disgusting." He whispered as he placed it back down on the side.
"It's either that or kill people, so..." She shrugged her shoulders as he gave her a more than guilty look "Elena told me everything." the blonde took note that Alaric wasn't look at her, so she took a seat on the coffee table.
"Caroline." He looked up into her silvery orbs with a regretful look on his face "I am so sorry. I don't even know what else I could say..."
"Right after I turned into a vampire, I killed something." Caroline admitted, she remembered that night vividly, Stefan had helped her out a lot, Grace had protected her from Damon's wrath, Bonnie had given her the cold shoulder, but now everything was better for her, in some ways "A stranger. I just... killed him. And what's worse is I liked it. I have blood on my hands too, I mean, we all do."
"Yeah, but the blood on my hands is your fathers." The frown lines on his forehead flared up and she shook her head a little, her curly blonde locks bouncing with the movement.
"Yeah, it is." She nodded a little "And maybe the guy I killed was someone's father too. Look, all I know is, I'm no better than you." She shrugged her shoulders a little "So, I'm going to take a page from the Elena Gilbert handbook and choose to believe that you can be saved. Ok?"
"Ok." Alaric nodded giving her a grateful smile, it was so great of her to just forgive him like that, he felt more admiration for her than he ever had before giving her a curt nod to show his appreciation.
Both Elena and Grace approached Stefan in the Grill, he was sitting up at the bar when they walked over to him "Hey. How is he?" The doppelgänger asked curiously, she was concerned for Alaric, he was almost like a father to her.
"Hey. He's just banged up. Caroline's gonna stay with him and make sure Alaric says Alaric..." He shrugged his shoulder lightly "Matt text me and said Finn is still in the Grill. We need to plan our next move."
"Whoa. Hold on a second." There was clear disgust written all over Grace's face as she looked at Stefan "That bitch has Damon; our next move is finding him." She told him in a defiant voice, her face was hard and firm.
"No, we need to stay on point." The older vampire challenged her, staring her down, but she stood her ground "See an Original, kill an Original. That's the plan."
"Yeah, that was before Damon's life was hanging in the balance!" Stefan could see that was about to become hysterical, gritting his teeth he looked down at her frustrated and angry.
"Look, Grace, I understand that you love Damon and you're concerned about him, but if he even knew, for one second, that we were talking about missing a chance to kill these people he would lose his mind!"
"Yeah, and if the roles were reversed he would stop everything to save you." She told him in a spiteful voice, he knew she was right, but they couldn't afford a chance to miss staking Finn, it was too good of a opportunity.
"I know what my brother would want."
"What he would want and what we should do are two very different things, Stefan." Grace countered in a cold voice, Elena looked around carefully making sure that no one was listening in on their conversation.
"Listen, Grace, I don't have time for this, are you going to help me or not?" He growled in a low voice and she gritted her teeth "Fine, I'll figure it out myself." Elena watched him walk away, Grace told her to go with him as she looked around the room.
Damon coughed loudly as he was slack against the traps holding him up, they were biting harshly into his wrist and he winced as he looked around, the door opened slowly and someone entered the room, as they get closer to him he saw that it was Grace, his heart pounded so fast.
"What are you doing here?" Damon looked into her determined chocolate brown orbs as she stood in front of him shocked to see the shape he was in "Rebekah will kill you."
"Then hurry up and – and tell me what to do." Grace ordered in a sure voice there was fear written in her eyes and he looked up at his wrist before looking back at her.
"Open them carefully, baby." He muttered in a weak voice she stood on her tip toes reaching up, having to stretch her whole body in order to reach to unclamp his hands freeing him, helping him to walk.
They walk down the hall but Damon collapses she gasped and tried to move him, but even with her vampire strength he was a lot of muscle to try and move by herself.
"Damon. Please. C'mon. Please get up." She begged tears in her eyes, he stroked her cheek carefully and willed himself to get up, she held him and they made their way to the open parlour, falling again, this time she was under him, she gasped loudly.
"I'm not going to make it out, sweetie." He muttered against her hair, smelling the sweet smell that flowed from it, she held the back on his shirt firmly.
"Yes you are!" She rolled him over and she was straddling his hips, he took her face in both hands and pulled her down towards him "Damon, c'mon. We don't have time to be fooling around, we have to get out of here."
"Let me kiss you." Damon whispered she looked at his lips once and then back up into his frost blue orbs nodding, leaning her head down to pressed her soft lips against his perfectly sculptured lips.
He groaned and rolled her over underneath him again, she didn't waste any time in shimmying his shirt over his shoulders carefully, he deepened the kiss and she moaned as he pulled her short shorts down her little body.
"I miss you." Damon whispered as she rolled him over onto his back sliding her tongue into his mouth working on his jeans with her hands, he groaned pulling back "Gracie, I love you."
"I love you too, Damon. So much." She whispered as she tugged her shirt over her head, suddenly she jolted forward, a look of utter pain flashing over her face, he creased his eye brows as she fell forward onto his chest lifeless a gaping whole in her back, Rebekah standing over them the youngest vampires heart in her hand.
"Oops." Rebekah muttered as she crushed the organ in her hands making the blood spluttered everywhere, Damon's face was filled with shock as he rolled his dead lover off his chest shaking his head as he knelt over her "My hand slipped."
"You bitch!"
"Oh, now no need for that language now is there." Rebekah laughed as she was stood in front of Damon, his eyes burst open from his dream, it was a dream he reminded him self, Grace was still alive and he loved her, that much he knew. The younger vampire was breathing heavily looking at her as she laughed cruelly "Wasn't that a fun little dream."
"You slut." He growled in a low tone, she just laughed as she wandered around him at a sickly slow pace.
"It's not fun when someone messes with your thoughts, is it?" Rebekah hissed stopping in a spot and crossing her arms over her chest.
"It was pretty fun until this blonde slut turned up..." Damon growled and she narrowed her eyes gritting her teeth clutching the knife tightly in her small hands.
"Well, I hope you were nicer to Grace than you were to me, no snapping necks or anything like that." She hissed narrowing her icy blue orbs, he smirked a little.
"Oh, come on, I couldn't have hurt you that bad. You didn't really think I had a think for you, did you? I'm in love with Grace. Why would I want you?" There was an edge to Damon's voice, it was hurtful and almost filled with disgust and looking to scar her, he saw the hurt flash across her face "I get it. If Klaus bossed me around for a thousand years, I'd probably be pretty desperate for attention too-" He was cut off when Rebekah stabbed her knife into Damon's chest and he screamed loudly.
"What was that?" Bonnie questioned as a loud male scream echoed the whole mansion, she looked around concerned but Klaus just shrugged a little.
"I would let it both you, love. Just my sister dealing with some riff-raff." Klaus answered with a calm smile, but the witch wasn't buying any of it.
"Well, it does bother me. You both me." Bonnie growled in a low tone and he smirked a little bit "The way you use people to get what you want, it's not right. The way you treat Grace most of all, you confuse her when all she wants it to be happy, but with you... she can never been happy. You can't make her happy, you'd get bored and end up killing her."
"I would never hurt Grace!" Klaus roared protective of his emotions for young Grace but Bonnie didn't flinch at all, she knew that he needed her to unlink the spell, she was his final hope so she was going to stick up for her friend.
"Yeah, is that why you tried to rip her heart from her chest when she said she didn't want you a while back!" Bonnie countered standing up to him and he gritted his teeth turning away, he was stuck, he couldn't kill her, she was of use to him.
"I was being emotional, just as you are now, Bonnie." Klaus growled at her and she rolled her eyes "I understand that things have been rough for you. You know, with your mother leaving. Again. It's very sad. I can help you find her, if you want. I have people who can find people who can bring her back to you. Or, if you choose I can just bring parts of her back." He threatened in a low voice and she gulped a little "Isn't it obvious that I'm just going to continue to hurt people you love until you do the spell? Now, I know it's in the grimoire and I know it requires the blood of my siblings, so here we are." He grabbed a briefcase, clicking it open to reveal four vials of blood inside "Elijah. Rebekah. Kol. Finn." He grabbed a final vial and bit into his wrist pouring his blood in "And finally, mine."
Finn and Sage were sat at a table inside of the Mystic Grill, they were sat awfully close to each other, she was basically on his lap a playful flirtatious look on her pretty young face.
"You've never had tequila before?" Sage laughed a little as she poured two shots of the strong alcohol into the waiting shot glasses.
"Mm-mm." Finn shook his head, he had been locked away in a coffin for 900 years so he hadn't see a lot of things in his short life, but he was more than ready to be taught from his gorgeous crimson haired lover.
She poured a thin line of salt on his wrist, she licked it off seductively before doing the shot, he followed suit but doing it off of her wrist, she bit her lip sexily with a happy look on her face as she passed him a slice of lime.
"Happy now?" He smirked sucking on the lime, placing it on the side finished with it "I'm truly in awe by the evolution of mankind." He muttered and the beautiful red head laughed as a handsome young man approached their table, he was gorgeous with short chocolate brown locks, toned body, a knowing smirk.
"Hey, Sage."
"Hey, Troy." She answered giving him a 'leave' look and he did quickly, nodding once at Finn before leaving the Grill, Sage could see the almost jealous look on her boyfriends face making her heart thud lovingly.
"You know him?" Finn questioned in a low voice, Sage ran her fingers over his strong chest a vague look on her face.
"I turned him-"
"You turned him?" Finn questioned, he had turned Sage out of pure love, so her turning another man was painful for him to imagine "Why?"
"Because I'm in enemy territory. When your brother and sister called, I thought I might need a little back up. You can't trust anyone here." She muttered thinking back to Damon, he had lied to her and was planning on kill Finn, Matt walked past them as he bussed table, she grabbed his wrist carefully making him face her "Two more tequilas?"
"Yeah, cool, I'll let your waitress know." Matt answered as he walked back over to the bar, Stefan had been sitting there the whole time, he slid him a tiny bottle of vervain which Matt subtle grabbed.
Bonnie began to chant the spell to unlink all of their Originals, she was pouring the vials of blood into a larger cup and Klaus stood to the side watching her with a sadistic smile.
"How many people have you turned?" Finn almost sounded disgusted and she took this as an insult sitting upright to look at him.
"I don't know. A lot." She shrugged her shoulders rolling her eyes seeing the judgement that was rolling off of his body "Don't judge me. Finn, you turned me!"
"Exactly Sage, I turned you." Finn answered her slamming his hands down on the table "My passion overtook my morals."
"My passions overtake my morals on a daily basis. It's called living life to the fullest." She answered in a short voice, she had really had enough of his judging attitude.
Stefan's yanked his phone out of his dark wash jeans pocket hearing the argument that Sage and Finn were both having. Opening up a message to send, it typed in two simple words.
Stefan – Get ready.
Continuing her witchy chant she spilled the blood onto the table just as the grimoire had said, Klaus watched eagerly, more than ready to be unlinked to his brothers and sister.
"Finally." Sage muttered as a waitress placed two more shots of tequila on the table for them to indulge in, they didn't seem to notice Stefan slipping out of the bar as they rose their shots "Cheers." He clinked his glass against her "To living life." She added and they both quickly did their shots but when they taste a painful burning sensation they spit them out "What the hell!"
"Vervain." Finn growled as he looked around seeing Stefan watching him, he leaves for the door and the couple quickly follows close on his tail.
The blood began to split into five different circles, signalling the five Originals. Rebekah, Finn, Elijah, Kol and Niklaus. Bonnie was chanting the spell faster now, concentrating more making sure not to mess anything up, a lot was riding on this.
Stefan quickly bolted around a corner to see Grace waiting with a angry look on her face, she just wanted to stake this stupid Original and go save Damon, they hear footsteps advancing for them, the pounce as they make it around the corner, but the stake falls from Stefan's hands down a concrete stairwell.
"Finn, the stake!" Sage shrieked as she held Grace firmly against a wall, she was kicking trying to get out of her 900 year old grip, Finn zipped down the stairs and grabbed the white oak stake looking at it for a moment.
Flames flare up violently as Bonnie continued her unlinking spell, the blood was now bubbling on the page and she watched in amazement that she was actually preforming this spell, it seemed unbelievable, she must had been a lot strong than she had originally thought.
Stefan grabbed Sage's shoulders and launched her with all his strength against the other wall, Grace pulled the white oak stake she owned from her back pocket and pounced down the stairs landing on Finn shoving it deep into his chest a deadly look on her face as she finished him off.
"No!" Sage screamed as Finn began grey, veins appearing over his body, Grace sat on his body in shock for a moment, shaking almost, Stefan grabbed her shoulders and held her close to him shhing her.
"I killed him..." Grace whispered looking down at Klaus' brother, his body set alight signalling that she had killed him once and for all "I-I killed an Original."
"I know. I know. It's over now." Stefan tighten his grip around her waist looking over his shoulder to see the red head in tears on the floor "We need to get out of here, c'mon." He threw her over his shoulder, carrying her fireman's style before zipping away.
Inside of the mansion Bonnie looked down exhausted at the sight in front of her, five separate pools of blood on the page, she rose from where she was kneeling to look at Klaus who seemed pleased with her work.
Rebekah walked out of the large ball room she was keeping Damon locked away in, drying the blood off her hands with a towel smirking at the young witch.
"Aww, leaving so soon?" The blonde bitch pouted "I was hoping we could watch a good chick-flick and do each others nails..."
"Sister. Be nice." Klaus ordered in a low tone "Bonnie here has just done us a big favour, thank her." He ordered and Rebekah rolled her light blue orbs.
"Thank you, Bonnie. See you in physics class." She wiggled her fingers as she turned on her heels and walked back into to where Damon was shackled pouring herself a drink, Bonnie looked to see the older Salvatore brother weakly looking at her, a pleading look on his eyes.
"Oh my God." Bonnie muttered looking at him, she could help but feel a silent hatred for him, she may had known Grace loved him with all of her heart, but Bonnie truly hated him for what he did to her mother.
"Yeah, you'll have to excuse the mess." Klaus shrugged slowly looking at the blood that was pouring down Damon's toned chest "Apparently Damon hurt her feelings. Go on, help him. Save the man who turned your mother into a vampire. Do it for Grace." There was challenge in his voice and Bonnie bit her bottom lip.
"Just get me out of here." Bonnie ordered as she looked over at Damon with a look filled with sorrow, turning on her heels Klaus escorted Bonnie from the mansion.
Stefan sat Grace down in the parlour room and tried to calm her, Elena quickly walked into the room to see her sister was in a state, bolting over she took a seat next to her.
"What happened?" Elena asked concerned, there was so emotion in Grace's face but the tears still poured continuously, she missed Damon she wanted his hold; his touch; his assuring words.
"She killed him Finn." Stefan answered for Grace "I think she's just in shock at the moment... It can be fairly traumatic." He added rubbing Grace's arms "How's Alaric." He questioned trying to keep Grace's mind of the murder.
"He'll be ok. Caroline and I gave him Bonnie's herbs and he went home. So you killed him, did it work? Did it kill them all?" Elena questioned as the blonde walked into the room too to listen to what had happened.
"Nothing worked until I see Klaus' dead body myself." Stefan growled as he heard Elena's phone ring she pulled it out of her pants and answered it.
"Bonnie. Where have you been-"
"Rebekah has Damon. Tell Grace." Bonnie ordered but Grace heard, her tears stopped and she grabbed the phone from Elena standing up.
"How do you know? Rebekah should be dead by now. I just staked Finn, he's dead." Grace growled drying away her tears, she heard Bonnie whimper as she began to sob "Bonnie!"
"Klaus forced me to do a spell that unlinked all the siblings." Bonnie answered and Grace cursed under her breath clutching the phone tighter "They are both still alive."
"Bonnie, where is Damon?" Grace's voice shook as she asked the question and Bonnie paused for a moment trying to recover.
"At Klaus' mansion. It's bad, Grace. She... She has him tied up and... I think she's are bleeding the vervain from him!" Grace stifled her tears stiffening her upper lip, Rebekah had gone too far this time "And Klaus... he... he threatened Jeremy. And my Mom."
"Ok, Ok." Grace nodded "Thanks for telling me, Bonnie. I need to go get him. Are you ok? Did they hurt you?"
"No. I don't know. I'm sorry, I have to go. I just – I have to – I have to go." The phone line went dead, both Caroline and Stefan looked in shock, but Elena didn't know what had happened.
After explaining to Elena about Jeremy and Bonnie Grace quickly grabbed her coat and Stefan following suite, he didn't need to be a telepath to know where the younger vampire was heading.
"This is crazy!" Elena called to them both "Klaus and Rebekah are both two times stronger than you both put together, we need another plan."
"We don't have time for another plan! That slut is going to get what's coming to her, once and for all!" Grace countered as she turned to her sister thinking of how much she despised that blonde bitch for touching her man "Just stay here with Caroline, it will be safer, alright?"
"Klaus needs to die." Stefan added in a deathly low voice, he turned but Elena grabbed him making him turn to face him, he gritted his teeth as he looked down into her beautiful chocolate brown eyes looking at the love that filled them.
"Stop. You're going to end up getting yourself, your brother and Grace killed. This is madness! You're both acting on anger."
"Anger gets things done, Elena." Stefan answered, his voice wasn't as certain as he wanted it to be which pleased the doppelgänger, she was breaking him down "Klaus doesn't get to survive this. Not after everything he took from me. My life. My love. My emotions. It ends now."
"Neither does Rebekah." Grace added in a frustrated voice and they both turned and walked from the house, slamming the door violently behind them, the doppelgänger flinched.
"Well, I don't know about you, but I think Grace misses Damon a little bit." Caroline's voice was filled with sarcasm as she walked into the hall where Elena was standing with a distort look on her face, the love of her life and her own sister had basically gone out to get killed.
Grace screamed as she was thrown through the heavy wooden door, she groaned as she hit the floor, Stefan followed her inside landing next to her groaning in pain cursing under his breath looking up to see a Sage and Troy enter the house.
"Ding dong." An American voice erupted, Caroline went to attack the red head bitch that had broken in but Sage caught her and launched her across the room straight through the arch that lead into the parlour room.
"I'm not here for you. I'm here for her." Sage looked down at Grace, she picked her up by her throat, bruising it aggressively, she kicked and moaned.
"I had to kill him, Sage!" Grace rasped clawing against Sage's firm grip, she looked down into her eyes pleading, but there was only death written in Sage's cold icy blue orbs.
"One thing I'm not sure your precious Damon told you about me, sweetheart. I used to box, why don't we go a couple of rounds!" Suddenly Sage began to cough and she dropped Grace who was caught by Stefan, her nose began to bleed and she looked around.
"Sage?" Troy questioned from across the room, worried for the vampire that made him into what he was, when she tried to punch Grace the younger vampire caught her fist and threw her to the floor proving that Sage was getting weaker by the second.
"Troy, help me!" She ordered the young brunette, he ran over but when he did he began to cough up blood, clutching his throat in agony "What is happen to me!" She ordered as she curled up into a ball and drifted away into death.
"She just died." Elena muttered as she helped Caroline get up and Grace looked down in completely shock at their bodies, they were both dead and so was Finn their Original maker.
"So, Sage and this Troy guy die within an hour of Finn." Caroline was thinking along the same wave length as Grace creasing her eye brows in confusion.
Elena nodded a little looking down at their bodies for an bites or wounds "But why? Were they bitten by a hybrid or...?"
"Hybrid bites don't look like that. They don't work that fast..." Grace muttered as she knelt down by their bodies, there was nothing physically wrong with either of them, what happened to them was working from the inside.
"Maybe Sage was so in love with Finn she just died of sadness..." Caroline shrugged a little bit but Stefan shook his head.
"No, that doesn't explain Troy." He paused for a moment seeing that Grace had an idea she was just aching to spit out, he looked at her curiously.
"The blood. It's in the blood. I mean, Finn turned Sage because he loved her, but there Sage turned Troy. They are all linked in some way. They're all part of the same vampire bloodline that originated with Finn." Grace informed them in an almost scared tone, that means whatever Original that created them all couldn't die, but which one. Kol was out, he was locked a coffin, that left it down to Rebekah, Klaus and Elijah.
"She's right." Stefan added.
"Wait, so you're saying, when an Original dies every vampire turned from their bloodline dies along with them? Because that would me-"
"If that Original's die, so do all of you. The entire vampire species would... it would just be dead." Elena added and they all looked at each other shocked.
Not long later that night Grace entered the room that was holding her ex-lover captive with Stefan in tow, Damon looked up a small smirk on his lips as he hung there limp.
"This was so much different in my head. You were on your own little mission, it was hot." He added and Grace walked over to him stroking his cheeks looking at his chains before taking a step back.
"Klaus!" She called and it echoed the entire room "We're here! Let's do this." She added and within moments Klaus entered with Rebekah there too, the blonde was smirking and Grace was about ready to whip that smirk off her face.
"Ah, good, a hero and a heroine." Stefan smirked at them both eyeing Grace up and down suggestively, he stepped towards her standing uncomfortably close, Damon growled protectively, they may not have been together anymore, but it didn't mean he liked Klaus anywhere near Grace "I have to say, love. The determined look you have fashioned does suit you, very sexy-"
"We're here to make a deal." Stefan ordered throwing a black duffle bag to the floor, Damon glanced down at it and growled at them both.
"What are you doing?" He ordered but his younger brother cut him off with a deadly look and Grace gave him a soft look.
"Eight stakes made of white oak. The part of Wickery Bridge that you forgot to burn." Grace announced looking over at Rebekah who grimaced at her.
"That's impossible-"
"Actually it's not. Finn is dead. I killed him." Grace informed her and she was taken back a little bit, about to attack Grace, but Klaus stopped her.
"She killed our brother, let me have some fun with her, Nik. I'll teach her a less or two."
"Touch her and I will kill you, Barbie." Damon threatened and Grace looked up at him scared for his fate, he looked like he was in a bad way, but she was willing to do anything to get him out of here alive.
"Enough, Rebekah." He ordered in a low tone "No harm will come to her yet, is that understood?" He ordered and the blonde just gave her a deadly look, the youngest vampire couldn't shake off the feeling that Klaus had said yet that made her blood run cold.
"Damon in exchange for eight weapons that can kill you." Grace promised in a sure voice, she was trying to keep her emotions in tact, if she slipped up now Klaus would know that they were lying so she stood her ground firmly.
"And how do I know there aren't any more left?" He questioned leaning down to look into her dark chocolate brown orbs, they seemed dark than usual, more sinister "I hope you're not lying to me, love. That would be unfortunate."
"There isn't." Grace assured him he ran his lips over her cheeks and Damon growled fighting against the chains, she gulped looking up at him, he did still feel something for her, burning deep inside, they loved each other.
"Let's be certain, shall we?" He moved away from Grace looking up at Damon who was now completely drained of vervain, nothing was going to be able to stop Klaus' compulsion.
"Do you not trust me?" Grace quickly asked and Stefan looked over shocked that she had said anything, he glanced over his shoulder at her "You love me, don't you? Trust me."
"She's playing you, Nik." Rebekah told him in a firm voice, Klaus turned fully to Grace looking down at her sure eyes "Nik, don't fall for it!"
"You see, that's the things, love." Niklaus stated running his hands through her hair "Love and trust are two different things in my book."
"If you don't trust me, then you don't love me at all." She turned away from him "Choose, Klaus. Either compel Damon and get your answer, or trust me..."
"And what?" Klaus questioned running his finger tips down her back stopping at the small of it, feeling her adorable little dimples that he so loved to play with "What do I get from the trust I'm willing to give you?"
"Niklaus, stop this nonsense!" Rebekah ordered "She is playing you for a fool-"
"Enough!" Niklaus ordered turning to her "Not another word, Rebekah, or you will regret it... Will you accept my offer, Grace?" He questioned in a low voice and Damon looked over weakly, tears forming in his eyes.
Grace gulped looking up into his mixed coloured orbs carefully trying not to let anything slip "Yes. I will leave you. Forever." She stuttered over the words tears forming in her eyes "I will be yours, Niklaus." Anything to get Damon out of there.
"Grace, no!" Damon yelled but Klaus moved down to kiss her firmly
"I've have enough of this bullshit!" Rebekah zipped over and caught Damon's face "How many stakes are there, not including the one that was used to kill Finn? How many stakes can kill me?" She compelled him and with the lack of vervain in his system he was forced to answer truthfully.
"11." Damon answered, Klaus' lips stopped moving against Grace's they went stoney and hard as he pulled away at a deadly slow pace "There are 11 stakes."
"Well, there goes that trust." Rebekah pulled away from Damon and he looked over at Grace fearfully, Stefan gawped at what had just happened, Klaus was going to be vengeful, no one had ever played him like that before, the youngest vampire had played his own emotions against him
"Klaus." Grace whispered but before she knew it she was launched across the room, hitting a full length mirror she groaned as she fell to the floor, the glass piercing her pale skin.
"I offered you the world!" Klaus roared "I offered you everything and you go and use that against me!" He growled picking her up and throwing her to the floor with so much force she screamed in pain crying, Stefan ran over with a white oak stake in hand but Klaus threw him away violently "I saved your life!" He kicked her in the stomach.
"Niklaus, enough." Rebekah ordered but he continued to beat her, Damon was groaning trying to pull himself from the traps, when he didn't stop she zipped over and threw him away "Enough! What she did was wrong, but you're no better. Take them both, Stefan, and leave. Now."
"No!" Klaus ordered and Stefan didn't waste any time releasing Damon's wrist helping stand upright.
"Bring us the remaining stakes." Rebekah ordered as a weak Damon walked over to Grace with the help of Stefan "Or this won't be the worse things that happens to dear little Gracie, alright? Take her and go." She turned and walked from the room pulling Klaus with her.
"What was she thinking." Stefan muttered as he dropped to his knees "He could have killed her." He growled throwing her over his shoulder, putting his arm around Damon's body helping him to walk too.
"Uh." Grace whispered as she looked around, a familiar smell filled her nostrils, Damon's aftershave, glancing around her vision was blurry for a second before she opened her eyes to see she was laying in Damon's bed "Elena?" She rasped "Stefan?"
"I'm here, sweetie." Damon walked into the room quickly, he had a towel draped around his waist, he was a lot stronger now than the last time she had seen him, looking down at her petite trimmed body she saw she was wearing one of his shirts "I, uh, I cleaned you up and washed your clothes, they were a little bit bloody."
"What happened?" She held her head wincing in pain looking up at him, he helped her to sit upright and passed her some blood "Here. You need to drink this. You're weak, I fed you some of my blood, but when you're a vampire it doesn't work so well."
"Oh." She whispered sipping at the human blood gulping a little bit "Damon, what happened? I remember we went to Klaus' mansion to save you... then what?"
"You really don't remember?" Damon questioned in a small voice and she shook her head slowly, it was still thudding from the pain "Klaus... He attacked you because you lied to him. He did quiet a number on you, if you were still human he'd of killed you."
"What?" Grace looked up at Damon confused before her eyes widened and all of her memories of the beating came flooding back making her wince for a moment "I-I remember... I was so scared I would never see you again."
"I was too." Damon admitted with a small smile, they were so close, their lips just so close to touch but he pulled away for a moment "The offer. Klaus' offer, what was it?"
"He... He offered to take me away from Mystic Falls, 'help' me forget everything from my life before and just be with him. I'm sorry." She whispered but he shhed her kissing her forehead carefully.
"All that matters is that you're safe." He assured her, running his fingers over her cheek that were turning a deep shade of red "Now sleep, alright. I'll take you home back to Elena later, ok?"
"Ok, thank you, Damon." She yawned her eye lids feeling more heavy from how weak for was "Do... Do you think that his blood with leave my system? I don't want it there anymore."
"I don't know, Gracie. What do I know if that you need to sleep to regain your strength." He answered as he held her lay down and she instantly fell asleep "I love you." The older vampire whispered as he ran his finger tips over her cheeks watching her.
Stefan was wandering around Alaric's apartment trying to find the final stake, he had already found the others, he was just looking for the history teachers one now.
"Sure, Stefan." Alaric nodded as he walked across his apartment room to a bookshelf "It's right behind these books here." He started to search around whilst Stefan waited patiently "Where the hell is it?" He paused and turned back to Stefan "It's not here..."
"Maybe you just forgot which shelf you put it on." Stefan suggested as he began to help the teacher search through but ti was useless it wasn't there.
"No, I didn't forget!" Alaric assured him "It's... I-I put it right here!" He pointed to the place he had hidden his stake to kill an Original "A stake doesn't just just vanish into thin air, Stefan."
"Who else did you tell, Ric? Did you tell Damon? Grace? Elena?-"
"No, I didn't tell anybody. I was the only-" He cut himself off his jaw going slack, he had had another black out and his murderous alter ego had hid the stake from himself.
"What?"
"I'm the only one who knew about it, Stefan." he gave him a look and Stefan pinched the bridge of his nose out of annoyance.
"Are you telling me that your vampire hating alter ego has a stake that can kill an entire line of vampires? Possibly mine?" He growled and Alaric nodded his head slowly.
"That's exactly what I'm telling you."
A/N
Whoa, so there it it another chapter, I think I might try and get another chapter up today, or maybe later on tonight, because I have some plans for the next chapter which I'm pretty sure most of you have worked out already ;D
So, what did you think? Klaus being super mad with Grace for playing him, Rebekah stopping him, Bonnie even seems to be team Drace and she hates Damon.
Also considering this story will be coming to an end soon until October then I might be doing another story, maybe Klaus/OC Fayth/Damon Lifa/Klaus but it's up to you, tell me what you think :)
Thank you to everyone reviews and to everyone on tumblr, I really love hearing what you have to say, it makes my day, so for here on out, I will be replying to all the reviews, so if you leave a review this chapter than I will reply to it in the next one :D You can ask anything questions what might happen, I may be a little vague, but you can ask anything about anyone Drace, Klace, Grebekah, Stace, Grelena (Grace and Elena), Grelijah (Grace and Elijah).
Graciiee xx