Twisted Love
Season Four
After School Special
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace :)
Giggling a little the little brunette slid out of the shower grabbing a fluffy beige coloured towel tying it around her petite form as her loving older boyfriend stepped out grabbing her by her narrow hips pulling her close to his warm, wet body pushing her against the tiled bathroom room wall kissing her with a heated passion running his thumb over her cheek as he looked down into her chocolate-brown eyes with a loving look in his eyes.
Leaning down to whisper directly into her ear. "Do you have to leave?" He brought his firm, masculine lips down to trace beautifully along her soft, feminine jaw line making her full lips pop open sucking in an inaudible gasp of air. "It's not like you attend school regularly anyway..." He nibbled at the shell of her ear very close to convincing her as he moved his lips up to whisper sweet nothings in her ear.
"Y-You know I have to go back to Mystic Falls..." She breathed out unable to find a level to her voice he licked down her throat kissing the base as his hands found their way sliding around her hips. "I have... I have to be there for the m-memorial service and Tyler." Her voice jumped on the hybrids name as Damon bit into her throat out of possession with a savage, brutal side to it which made the smaller vampire wince. "Damon..." She whimpered dragging her fingers through his wet raven-black hair.
The older vampire drunk down her metallic tasting blood in large gulps pulling away to lick his lips gazing deeply into her tranquil orbs wishing more than anything he could compel her to jump into bed with him, stay here and just not care about anything going on in town, but truth be told he understood why she had to go, Tyler was her friend and Carol Lockwood had been a very good woman, one of the best mayors that town had ever had now she was gone and the entire council was in shambles.
"I know, sweetheart. I understand." He pecked the very tip of her button nose as he pulled away grabbing his towel and tying it around his waist, winking at her and then walking back into the bedroom which had been attached to the bathroom. She smiled a little watching him leave the room, he was giving her a lot more freedom which she was enjoying the younger vampire loved spending time with him, but she also had her family and friends to be worried about and was glad that he understood that.
As she walked from the room she saw him pulling on his dark wash jeans running his hands through his sopping wet hair in an attempt to dry it, she giggled as she began to get dressed also pulling on an ordinary pair of dark Aztec styled leggings which would be comfortable for her drive home and an old dull almost grey coloured jumper which would be warm. She knew if she left now she would be home just in time for the mandatory sleeping they were having in honour of the late Mayor Carol Lockwood, they had got up early so that she could get ready before leaving and they could spend some time together.
When the brunette was completely finished with her hair and make up, which he had promised to let her do in peace but found it hard to keep his hands off of her she finally stood up and grabbed her phone and purse. "I'll be back later on tonight, babe." Grace whispered as she crossed the room reaching over and squeezing his hands looking up lovingly into his icy blue eyes. "I'll call you when I get out of the memorial service, ok?" She informed him standing up on her tip-toes to press a passion filled kiss to his lips, he hadn't expected the amount of love she had behind it, holding her close he spun her lifting her up onto a dresser so she was only slightly taller than him.
Cupping her cheeks with both hands he pulled her back into a lust filled kiss which she giggled into pulling away and giving him one final chaste kiss trying not to start anything she was already late for getting away as it was she couldn't afford to waste anymore time. "If I'm late Care will never forgive me." She informed him in a gentle voice as he helped her down from the side smiling up at her boyfriend. "See you soon." She told him as he walked from the room.
When Grace finally arrived in Mystic Falls she didn't bother in going home, she was already running late due to her early morning shower session with Damon, pulling into the parking lot she entered a space and got straight out of her car locking it and half jogging towards the front entrance of the school to see Bonnie waiting on the steps she stood up as soon as she saw her.
"Hey." The brunette greeted her with a welcoming smile as they both entered the school to see their small group of friends waiting to go into the school gym along with the rest of the student body who were already entering taking their seats on the bleachers in front of Sheriff Forbes. They all had so many bad memories from being in this gym but this one really was the cherry on top, saying goodbye.
As soon as all the students were seated the Sheriff started her lovely speech on the town's mayor. "Carol Lockwood always said that togetherness in times of tragedy, leads to healing. That one community is strong than a thousands of its members, but how does a community stay strong after losing its leader? And Carol was so much more than a leader; she was an open-minded friend and a concerned mother taken from us too soon by a terrible accident." Of course the death hadn't been an accident, Klaus had been the one to drown her in the city fountain when there was no witness around, but the Sheriff couldn't go around telling them all that.
"Screw this." Tyler muttered from where he sat in between Caroline and Grace as he stood up and began to shuffling along the row of his fellow classmates in an attempt to exit the gym in a frustrated huff, he hated sitting there listening to the lies the Sheriff was spilling to the students, he knew what had really gone on and he wasn't about to sit there and accept everyone's condolences for something that was a complete and utter lie. He wasn't going to ignore the judging or empathetic looks everyone would be giving him. He wouldn't and more importantly he couldn't.
"What? Tyler? Tyler?" Caroline hushed towards him but he just ignored her continuing to leave the room. The small brunette glanced over at the forest green-eyed female vampire that sat a seat away from her, scooting along Grace reached over taking her hand in a supporting way as the Sheriff glanced over at them both with a look of sympathy on her face as she continued her speech about the mayor.
"Please join me in observing a minute silence in her memory." The Sheriff looked at them all before hanging her head starting the minute's silence for her. All the student body was quick to lower their heads too. As Elena was lowering her head she caught a blonde array of hair across the room, her eyes flickered over quickly to see the sneer on Rebekah Mikaelson's face. Closing her eyes and putting her head down she tried to shake away the image but as she opened them again she saw the Original was gone. Something was very wrong.
The witch sitting next to her seemed to notice the tensing in her muscles as she looked around all the students in the room to search for the Original but didn't seem to see her anywhere hidden within the crowd. "Are you ok?" Bonnie whispered trying not to disturb the mourning teens around her.
"Be right back." The newborn informed her friend as she stood up earning a look from both Caroline and Grace but she just shrugged them off and moved down the row of students to follow the Original from the room she wasn't even sure she had seen her but the vampire knew she had to investigate.
"Thank you so much. In the wake of this tragedy, the town has selected an intern mayor. Many of you may already know him. Please welcome Mr. Rudy Hopkins." Liz announced making the witch in the crowd of students eyes go wide as an older, tall, African-American male stepped forward smiling weakly at them all.
"Thank you so much Sheriff." He nodded gratefully at Liz who just smiled not saying a word and took a step back letting the new man take the floor completely. "Carol Lockwood put this town first..."
Just out in the hall of the high school, Elena was searching for the blonde Original that she had spotted in the gym. Suddenly, she heard someone crying, turning around the corner she saw April Young sitting against the lockers drying her eyes. The teen glanced up when she heard footsteps approaching her seeing the new vampire approaching her with a concerned look on her face. "April, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, I'm fine." April tried to brush her off as she stood up from where she had been sat against the row lockers trying to avoid eye contact with the brunette that was stood in front of her, she couldn't help but been mad in the pit of her stomach, this girl who was supposed to be her friend had lied to her face about everything going on in this town.
The vampire creased her eye brows as she stated. "But you're crying." She just wanted to know if she could help her young friend in any way.
"It's just the whole mayor thing, you know. It's bringing up stuff about my dad." The raven-black haired girl informed her in a soft voice making the newborn nod her head empathetically, she knew what it was like to lose parental figures and be left orphaned. "And I know you're a vampire." She added bluntly taking the vampire off guard.
"Wait, what?" Elena blanked her dark brown orbs growing wide at the teens announcement when suddenly Rebekah zipped around the corner standing behind her and snapping her neck letting her fall on the ground with a loud thud that echoed the hallway, the vampire would only be momentarily unconscious.
"Was that necessary?" April questioned innocently as she stood in front of the blonde with a concerned look on her face glancing down at the knocked out brunette on the tiled school floor, it was obvious the two were now working together and the human knew everything about all of Mystic Falls dirty, dark secrets.
"No, but it was fun." Rebekah grinned menacingly.
When the memorial serviced was finally all over the students began to file out of the gym in almost an utter silence, the Sheriff and Principal hadn't given them all a personal day to mourn over the towns awful loss, but this only meant that the small family of supernaturals had the day to deal with a lot more than just hanging around with each other. Tyler had mysteriously disappeared halfway though the service, Elena was missing also, Bonnie was acting strange, Stefan didn't even show up, Jeremy was dealing with Damon and the Hunter's training.
The brunette was quick to pull out her phone and call her boyfriend like she had promised, but to her surprised he didn't answer his phone she creased her brows as she kept the phone to her ear deciding to leave him a voicemail biting her bottom lip, she hated doing these, she never knew what to say.
"Hey... I guess you're busy with Jer, but I just wanted to let you know that I got here fine and I'm out of the memorial service now, but considering Tyler's MIA I probably won't be home till late tonight, I wouldn't wait up if I were you... I miss you so much." Grace whispered as she manoeuvred through the students that were departing from the school. "I wish I was there with you, but... Well you understand it's not easy to lose someone that's close to you and it helps to have your friends... Listen to me I'm rambling..." She laughed lightly rubbing the back of her neck. "I love you, Salvatore. See you when I see you." She added ominously before hanging up and sliding her phone back in her pocket to see that Caroline had called Stefan at the same time. "How are Stefan and Elena? Why isn't he here?" She glanced over to the blonde.
"Oh, they're both fine... Stefan is just avoiding this entire situation considering it was Klaus that did all of this." She blurted out and the brunette looked over at her eyes wide. "Oh, Grace... I mean, it seems pretty obvious it's a pretty dick move for him to make but it's totally something he would do to get back at Tyler for everything he's done involving his hybrids... You know more than anyone that Klaus' middle name is revenge." She quickly tried to explain but the brunette just shook her head only making her angrier. "What happened to Carol wasn't an accident. It was Klaus."
"You don't know that for certain, Caroline. Maybe you should stop jumping to conclusions." The brunette answered in a thick voice as she moved her hair from her face, she hadn't realised how protective she had got over the hybrid. Her blonde friend stared at her wide-eyed at her surprised by her outburst. "No, I'm sorry... Maybe you're right..." She shook her head walking straight forward.
In the library of the high school Elena was leaning uncomfortably against a large bookshelf, she looked around her mind groggy from her attack whilst she had spoken to April before climbing up to her feet with the help of the shelves. The door swung open and the raven-black haired teen walked into the room.
"The assembly is over." April informed her in a soft voice as she walked further towards her as if she hadn't been part of the plan to knock Elena clean out and stash her away in the empty school library.
"What the hell is going on?" Elena demanded in a low voice as she rubbed the side of her head gently, now she knew what it was like all those times Stefan or Grace or even Damon were knocked out by another vampire, or an Original. It hurt.
"The school will be empty soon." The teen informed her from where she was standing fearlessly opposite the newborn vampire. "How many times did you compel me?" She questioned studying her face to see the shock run over it, April really did know everything, the blonde had been quick to fill her in. "Don't... Don't lie. Rebekah says you lie."
"Rebekah isn't who you think she is, April." Elena tried to warn her, the blonde would use anything if that meant getting what she wanted and at the moment it seemed like she was using her to get revenge on the vampires.
"What? She isn't a thousand-year old vampire?" April tested with a set look on her face but the vampire opposite her was so shocked by her attitude, she had never seen the raven-black teen act like this, she supposed this was what it was like to scorn April.
"Listen, we can figure this out, but we have to get out of here." The brunette informed her in a soft voice as she reached over circling her hand around her wrist, as they turn the corner they see the Original standing there.
"Sorry, not allowed." The blonde announced as she walked towards them both looking directly at Elena with a stern look on her face beginning to compel her. "Why don't you take a seat? The rest of the class with be here shortly."
Over at the Gilbert Lake house, Matt was helping the Hunter with his training as Damon walked out onto the dock with his phone to his ear listening to a voicemail his loving girlfriend had left him. "... I love you, Salvatore. See you when I see you." She finished before he stopped the voicemail and walked towards the Hunter and the human.
"Alright, go ahead - make a move." Jeremy dared a challenging look flashing through his dark orbs as he looked at his human friend.
"I drove up here to be your wingman, not kick your ass." Matt answered rolling his eyes before throwing a punch his young friends way surprised when he caught him by the wrist and flipped him landing hard on the ground coughing a little as he looked up at Jeremy whom was holding a smug look on his face. "Ok I get it, I get it. You're a badass." He informed him with a small smirk pulling himself up.
"Did you see that?" Jeremy called to the vampire who was walking towards them with his hands in his pocket.
"You couldn't miss it." Damon answered which made the young Hunter feel proud of himself as he gave the vampire a soft smile. "It was in slow motion." He added making Jeremy glare over at him.
"Then teach me something useful. We've been here for days, and so dar, all you've done is bark orders, at least not Grace is gone you're both not disappearing every five minutes." He reminded him making the raven-black haired vampire smirk, that had been a fun time when Grace was still there with them.
"Ok." He grabbed the stakes that were sitting on the wooden outdoors table and threw them over to Jeremy half-heartedly before he glanced over to Matt who still stood there waiting for orders. "Take a seat on the bench, quarter back. Kid wants a shot at the title." He smirked.
"Jeremy, you're not ready for this." The human tried to warn him but the teen wasn't about to listen, he figured he would be able to take on Damon so he took off at the vampire in a sprint with a stake wielded in his hand but the raven-haired man was to quick, grabbing him by him with one hand and by the neck with the other.
The blue-eyed vampire smirked looking at the Hunter who was trying to get out of his iron grip but he wasn't about to let up. "Now, all I have to do is apply a little pressure to you jaw..." He was about to show the Hunter the usefulness of pressure points but tires were rolling against the gravel it made him stop and look over his shoulder to see a pizza car pulling up. "Really? Again?" Jeremy tapped his shoulder wanting to be let go and the vampire released him.
"Double pepperoni three days in a row now." A pretty blonde pizza girl stepped from the car with a carefree smile on her face as she held their pizza in her hands walking towards Matt and Jeremy. "You guys eat anything else?" She joked when suddenly she felt a rush of air from behind her suddenly turn to see Damon looming over her.
"Why? Are you offering?" He smirked and she hid her smile from the handsome vampire as he slid some money into her hand. "That's something extra to cut off the pizza pipeline for a couple of days. No matter how much they beg, don't come back." He ordered in a soft voice and she gave him a half-hearted shrug before looking over at the two vampires flashing the cash.
"Sorry, guys." She smiled a little before half jogging back over to her car getting inside greedily counting the money in her hand with a devious smile on her face.
"What? You're going to starve us now?" Jeremy hissed as he crossed his arms over his chest studying the vampires face.
"If that's what it takes to make you into a Hunter. Now, run around the Lake... Twice." He ordered and the teen sighed heavily before taking off down the dirt trail that would lead the entire way around the Lake, the icy blue orbs of the vampires fell on Matt next. "Keep him company."
"I don't have to listen to you." Matt stated trying to act tough but Damon just smirked as he placed the pizza box down on the table taking a seat next to it.
"You do if you want to eat." The vampire answered in a sure voice as the human took off down the dirt path with his friend in front, Damon slipped his phone out of his pocket and began Grace's message all over again. "Hey... I guess you're busy with Jer, but I just wanted to let you know that I got here fine and I'm out of the memorial service now, but considering Tyler's MIA I probably won't be home till late tonight, I wouldn't wait up if I were you... I miss you so much..."
Her heavy black boots stomped purposefully down the empty hallway, Grace had decided to grab some books from her locker so that she could do some studying whilst she watched over Jeremy with her boyfriend, if she had to be there it might as well not affect her grades.
Turning the corner she passed all the English rooms before she reached her locker twisting the dial to put in her combination, reaching inside she pulled out her old leather jacket, an English book, her past history essays and a couple of text books for math.
"Well, well, well." A heart stopping British voice came from behind her. "Aren't you a sight for sore eyes..." She announced and the brunette turned giving the blonde a meaningful glare. "I hope you're not upset that I got myself a new friend, I mean you were completely missing from my life, I just assumed that you wouldn't mind if I moved on."
"Oh, no. Not at all, Bekah... I'm just surprised you managed to get a new friend." Her voice was slick with sarcasm.
The blonde cackled loudly throwing her head back as April just continued to look between the two. "You see, that's what I've missed about you... Your quick wit." She snapped her fingers on the 'quick'. "Honestly, I would banter with you all day, darling, but I have bigger plans to continue and unfortunately for you, you're part of them..." She informed her and the brunette tensed as she looked at her. "You remember April Young?" She glanced to the raven black-haired girl with a sickly smile. "Well, she remembers certainly you... Ripper." The younger vampires were went wide.
"You... You tried to drink my blood at the memorial service for my father..." The teen announced making the blonde shake her head crossing her arms over her chest tutting in a judgemental way. "Then... Then I remember... That guy in the Grill... He killed you... At least now I know he didn't really kill you... I know you're a vampire and I know all of your friends are vampires, too."
"April, I'm sorry and I don't know how much you know but when I tried to... Drink your blood. This is no excuse for you, but I was going through a rough time and I'm better now. At least I'm getting there with the help of some people. I'm really sorry, we never wanted you to find out about our town this way-"
"Enough sappy talking!" Rebekah shook her head laughing a little as she walked towards the brunette in front of her. "I really don't want to snap your neck, darling, so would you kindly just make your way to the school library and join your sister, it would be much appreciated."
Grace suppressed a growl when the blonde spoke about her sister. "What do you want with us? What have you done with Elena?"
"You'll find at when the rest of your useless little family show up." Rolling her eyes a little grabbing the smaller girls facing making her look at her. "I can see you're clearly going to keep asking questions. So, friend, why don't you make your way to the school library and wait there with your sister." She compelled her and the brunette took off down the hall shaking her head a little.
Over at the Mystic Grill, Stefan was sitting there still mauling over a glass of his favourite whiskey when suddenly his phone began to vibrate on the table, he glanced down at the caller ID to see it was an unknown caller, rolling his eyes he picked his phone up and pressed accept. "What?!"
"Guess who, I'm back dagger free and I'm holding your girlfriend hostage at the high school, just thought you should know." Rebekah's brilliant British accent spilled down the line making the younger vampire tense, the last he'd seen of Rebekah her own brother had stabbed her with a dagger.
"Who the hell was dumb enough to pull that dagger out of you?" Stefan hissed as he stood up he felt a protective wave wash over his body when he heard about her having his girlfriend.
"I'll be asking the questions today, see you soon." The Original replied as sharply as she hung up leaving the younger Salvatore brother there growling as he picked up his glass and finally finished off his whiskey before dialling another number.
"I'm only ready to talk to you if you're ready to join civilisation." Caroline's perky voice came down the other line as she milled around her house trying to find things to do until Tyler was finally ready to talk her about everything, she figured he'd want space at this point and she had lost touch with Grace after their little disagreement about Klaus.
"How would you like to drive the white oak stake through Rebekah's heart?" Stefan questioned knowing he was going to be able to get his blonde friends attention that way.
"If that means you're not drinking you way through the Mystic Grill, sure." Caroline shrugged her shoulders.
On the other side of the Grill, Liz was sitting down at the table with the new mayor Rudy Hopkins. "So first speech under your belt, now for the fun." She joked with a small smile. "Welcome tot he world of careful cover ups. The rule of Carol's death is head trauma, that's the official autopsy."
"She did not go gently did she?" Rudy whispered shaking his head. "Any leads?" He moved on quickly and she gave him a lopsided smile.
The Sheriff nodded her head. "We have ideas."
"Let me guess: sharp teeth and bad table manners." Rudy stereotyped cocking an eye brow, obviously he knew all about the towns dirty secrets to do with all the supernatural beings that were hiding out in this town.
"You sure you want this?" Liz questioned with a concerned look on her face, this wasn't a safe job for anyone and it meant lying to a lot of good people. "I mean six people were offered this job before you, they all said no for a reason." She reminded him.
"I'm saying yes for a reason, and my reason just walked in..." He informed her ominously as his eyes flickered over to the door to see Bonnie Bennett walk into the room ruffling her fingers through her bangs.
"I'll let you know what we find." Liz told him in a soft voice as she pushed up off the table grabbing her coat.
"Thank you, Sheriff." Rudy nodded at her respectfully at the strong woman in front of him as he watched the young witch approach the table with a small smile, she had really grown into a beautiful woman.
"Hey, Sheriff." She nodded at the woman, they both knew each other well considering Caroline was her best friend, the witch glanced down at the recently appointed town mayor. "Hey, dad." She announced giving him a half-hearted
"Hey."
"So, far-cry from being a pharmaceutical rep." She smirked a little referring to his last job now he was in charge of an entire town and a whole bucket load of secrets, it was a big jump from one to the other.
"I noticed a few of your friends missing from the assembly." Rudy informed her with a look on his face which she rolled her eyes at. "So much for mandatory, I guess." He shrugged his shoulders.
"Dad, stop. You can't come in here and start making rules." She told him in a firm voice crossing her arms over her chest leaning back against the booth seat.
Rudy couldn't help but roll his eyes at his daughters attitude to everything. "Eh, I think this town could use a few more rules."
"You're forgetting that I can help protect the town." She told him reminding him of her powers, they didn't come from his side of the family, her witch powers belonged to her mother and her grandmother and the long line of Bennett's, he was just a normal human.
"I'm well aware of your gifts, Bonnie. But don't forget I'm your father. That means that I get to protect you..."
In the school hallway, Caroline was walking down the hall with the white oak stake in her hand as she turned into a room looking around for the blonde Original. Looking down at her phone she texted her older vampire friend the all clear before hearing a noise shuffling from behind her and turning around.
Stefan's phone vibrated in his pocket pulling it out to see a text from Caroline telling him that she hadn't seen sight of the Original yet. He searched a science lab before hearing a rushing noise. Walking from the room he looked towards the end of the hall to see nothing, he began to text his blonde friend back when he was interrupted by a British accent.
"Hello, Stefan." She cooed and he shut his eyes sighing heavily before pushing his phone back into his pocket before turning around to face her, she stood there purposefully with her hands placed firmly on her narrow hips.
"I'm here, who do you want?" Stefan hissed.
"The same thing I wanted when you helped Niklaus dagger me." Rebekah answered in a low voice, obviously she was speaking about the cure and how she stilled wanted it, how she wanted to lead a normal life and be human.
Suddenly the blonde shoved him back against the row of lockers but he acted quick moving around her brutal throw to be holding her firmly against the same lockers he was going to hit. "I hope you're not waiting for Caroline to show up and stake me?" She pulled the white oak stake out flaunting it in front of him. "Because I already found her..."
The door to the library swung open and in waltz Rebekah who was trailing the younger Salvatore brother along behind her. Elena's eyes went wide when she saw him, jumping up to be protective over her boyfriend. "Stefan." Her rich brown orbs were filled with concern.
"Did I say you could move?" Her voice was filled with genuine bitchiness and the brunette took a seat back next to Caroline who had a very bored Grace sat next to her and across from them April Young was sat. "Class is in session." She announced pushing the spiky haired vampire to be sitting. "You've all been compelled; you know the rules. Answer my questions honestly, no disobedience, no one leaves."
She was stalking sickeningly slow around their round table before her dazzling blue eyes stopped on the only human sitting there. "April, my sweet, take notes. This is how you get answers in this town. Let's start with a little quiz. In the year 1114, my brother learnt, thanks to yours truly, about a brotherhood of vampire Hunters with tattoos that grew with each kill. These tattoos revealed what, Elena?" Her icy glare stopped on the glaring brunette.
"A map."
She nodded gratefully that they all were caught up to what was now going on in their small town. "Which leads to what, Caroline?" The glare flickered over to other blonde in the room.
"The cure for vampirism."
"Perfect, so were all caught up." She smiled for only a moment before she looked over at the Salvatore. "Stefan Salvatore, the last time we saw each other, you had a vampire Hunter, but in order to decode the map, you needed the location of the Hunters sword which you got out of me using some very dirty tricks. Assuming you found the sword, you also found the cure, and yet, you're all still vampires which means something went wrong." She looked around at all the vampires in the room before stopping on April who was jotting down words in a notepad. "What are you doing?"
"You asked me to take notes..." She looked up at her with wide, innocent doe blue eyes.
"I wasn't being literal, darling." The blonde sighed heavily before opening her eyes. "But now that you mention it, a flow chart would be nice, which means index cards and push pens, go, fetch!" She clapped her hands together, her bracelets jingling as she did and the raven haired girl jumped up exiting the room quickly.
"You're wasting your time, Bekah. None of us know anything." Grace told her in a firm voice from where she was leaning back on two legs of the chair licking her lips slowly. "You might as well just let us go now..."
"As much as I genuinely like you, Grace, I honestly didn't realise you had a voice for yourself without my brother and Damon talking for you. How have you and my brother been? Has he tried to beat you to within an inch of your life again or have you forgiven him for that yet?" Rebekah smirked making the brunette glare up at the as the entire group went deadly quiet. "Something has happened. What am I missing."
Everyone in the room remained quiet as people glanced back and forth looking between the blonde and the younger brunette. "You're compelled. You have to tell me." Rebekah reminded them in a low voice making the smaller girl roll her eyes and lean forward resting her elbows on the table.
"She's sired to him. She's sired to your brother, Ok?!" Caroline blurted out accidentally earning three looks from her vampire friends around her as the Original's eyes were unnaturally wide in shock looking directly at the smaller brunette who was now avoiding looking at anyone.
Back at the Gilbert Lake house, the young Hunter was sat on the outside table looking over the beautiful Lake as pushed bullets into the magazine of a revolver with a fair pace, whilst Damon stood over him frustrated with the amount of time he had taken him, strong arms crossed over his broad chest waiting for him to finish.
"Good." The vampire muttered snatching the gun from his hand and unloading it so the bullets fell in front of him with tiny metallic sounds as they hit the wooden surface of the table before putting the gun back in front of him a sickening smile on his face. "Now, do it like your life depends on it which it does."
"Don't act like you care about my life." Jeremy scoffed loudly as he glared up at the raven-black haired vampire. "You care about the Hunters mark and curing Grace so she isn't sired to that ass." He announced earning a hard look from Damon.
"Both require you to be alive." The older Salvatore brother answered in a snarl. "Which is why I updated our relationship status to 'its complicated'." He added smirking a little as he glanced down at his phone. "Has... Has Grace called you at all? Have you spoken to her?"
"No. I haven't... Why? Running out of voicemails to listen to?" He scoffed loudly as Damon looked over to him glaring.
"I'm sorry." A voice called from behind them that made them both tense. "Did I interrupt play time?" They both turned to see Klaus walking towards them.
"What the hell are you doing here?"
Klaus smirked a little. "I'm simply appreciating the sites and smells of nature - neither of which presently include the smell of rotting vampire flesh, so I'm a bit concerned concerned. How many vampires has he killed?" He disregarded the Hunter completely.
"If we throw Jeremy out into the real world now, he's chum." Damon pointed out expertly from where he stood angrily opposite the hybrid.
"Yeah, see that's not a number. Twelve! That's a number." He informed him as if the raven-black haired vampire. "That's how many of my hybrids I slaughtered with my sword. Four. That's the number of times Grace tried to call me since my little outburst in Mystic Falls." The younger vampire suppressed a growl from the back of his throat as he spoke about his lover. "Three. That's how many days it took to quell the urge to kill your brother after he knowingly watched as I walked into a death trap. One. That's the number of purposes you serve." His voice lowered but it didn't faze Damon at all. "You are here to grow Jeremy's mark, so I'll ask again, how many vampires has he killed since he's been here?"
"Zero." Damon answered honestly, there was so use lying to the hybrid that wasn't going to get any of them anywhere, this answer only made the hybrid smirk.
"That's a pity. I'm going to need that cure sooner rather than later. Hybrid shortage and all. How can I help?" He questioned almost politely as he moved forward opening his arms wide.
"You know, now that you mentioned it. Jeremy, watch and learn." He glanced over at the younger Hunter as he pointed the barrel of the revolver directly at the cocky hybrid and squeezed the trigger several times sending wooden bullets into his chest. "That's for Carol Lockwood." He announced in a sour voice.
Back at the high school, Rebekah was wandering slowly around the table a large grin on her face. She was thinking how much this would be hurting her older brother, knowing that whatever the brunette had ever felt for him was being manipulated and twisted by the bond that they shared.
"This is why I'm glad that little April brought me back. This is fascinating, I've never seen this before. In my thousand years of living I've never seen something as rare as a hybrid-vampire sire bond... Tell me, how does that affect yours and Damon's relationship?" She quizzed a hard look on her eyes from where she stood across the table.
"I-It doesn't." She answered in a shallow voice glancing down to see her necklace, which was holding their promise ring was tucked away nicely, she didn't want everyone knowing about it and it was not something that she wanted to flaunt around. This was something that only herself and Damon knew about and she was comforted by that fact. "Damon isn't phased by it, although he hates it."
"Yeah, I bet he does." The blonde chuckled as took a seat a giant smirk on her face which only made Grace's fury grow. "Knowing that Niklaus could just snap his fingers and you'd have to jump into bed with him at a moments notice-"
"Ok, I do not want to hear about that disgusting hybrids sex life!" Elena announced quickly a heavy-set frown on her face. Her sister whom sat across from her held back a feral snarl from the way she was talking about Klaus, she covered the noise with a suspicious cough patting her chest gently.
Licking her lips softly the brunette put her head down, maybe she tried to keep out of the line of fire the guns wouldn't continue to be pointed at her, maybe the blonde would find a new punching bag out of her friends. "It wouldn't be the first time he used his blood to coax you into bed, would it, Gracie." She snarled.
"He never coaxed me to do anything with his blood." Her voice was stern and confident. "It was my decision to drink his blood and my choice to sleep with him. Everyone thinks that everything I do for Klaus is because of the sire-bond, but it's not. Unlike all of you, I'm willing to look past all of that and-"
"See what's truly underneath, blah, blah, blah." Rebekah rolled her eyes as she stood from pressing the palms of her hands to the back of the chair. "Well, I've known Niklaus for a little longer than you have, darling and let me tell you what is underneath that hard, murderous exterior. Nothing. Only coldness and emptiness. He's turned his back on me more times than I can remember and one day you'll realise that, too."
The brunette was breathing hard by this point as she dug her sharp, strong nails into the wooden chair she was sitting on feeling painful splinters shooting under her nails, she winced gently as she looked up at the blonde standing opposite her. "What does any of this have to do with your stupid cure?" She hissed out like acid on her tongue.
"You're right. We got off point. Stefan, how do I find the cure?" She saw his hazel green eyes roll gently at the question. "Unless you'd all rather go back to us talking about Grace and Klaus... I certainly have more questions to ask."
"There's a professor. He knows where the cure is." Stefan spoke up glancing over to Grace who was staring down at the heavy wood table trying to focus on that and not how much the British girls' accent was chipping away at her patients.
"Thank you, and um, where do I find this professor?" She quizzed looking around at all of their faces searching for an answer.
Over in Professor Shane's office, Bonnie was pacing around the room telling her Professor friend all on her problems try to get them off of her chest so she didn't explode the next time she saw her father, Atticus just nodded a little as she spoke.
"So now, I'm gifted? He hates my witch heritage." She ranted about her father to the one person she knew would truly listen. "That's why he travels all the time; he can't handle it, and now suddenly, he wants to be a protective father? No, not like this." She announced looking down at him. "Come on, distract me." She challenged as she took a seat opposite him. "Isn't there like some sort of magic therapy that you haven't shown me yet?"
"Listen, Bonnie I hate to tell you this - actually, I take it back. I'm proud to tell you this. You don't need my help anymore." He announced and for a split second she was actually hurt by this, did that mean he didn't want her around anymore? Her mind was spinning with questions. "In fact..." He pulled out a small wooden box from a draw and pulled out a beautiful threaded bone charm necklace. "I was hoping to present this with a cupcake or something... Happy graduation." He handed her the necklace over.
She clasped it in her hand for a long moment, admiring the subtle beauty of the ancient relic wrapped around an old-fashioned piece of string. "It's beautiful." She informed him with a grateful smile.
"It's human bone." He told her and that made her make a noise of almost disgust, she didn't mind wear fake bones, but wearing a real human bone seemed a little strange to her. "Legend says it was worn by the 2000 year old witch, Quietschy, who drew on it for strength." He explain and the witch nodded as she looked down at it. "Bonnie, you have come so far so fast. You trust my opinion. Your magic is exactly where it needs to be."
"Does that mean that I have to go home now?" She questioned with a small pout on her face, she didn't want to leave, she felt as if Shane was the only person that she could really talk to about her personal life and her supernatural life. She felt safe and secure with him and last thing she wanted was to lose that.
"I've got a stack of papers that I have to grade by tomorrow." Shane informed her with a small smile which she just grinned at standing up grabbing her back.
"I can take a hint." She joked. "Thanks, Shane." She nodded respectfully at him as she walked from his office shutting the door behind her, walking down the hall she locked eyes with a tall, rich brown-haired boy who grinned at her for a long moment before continuing to walk past her. She knew that face, cocky grin, full hair. Kol. "Oh my God, Kol!" She shrieked as she sprinted back to Professor Shane's room to see it was now empty, no sign of the Original or Atticus.
Over at the Lockwood mansion Tyler was sitting on the couch feeling a flicker of rage building inside of him with every though of his mother or Klaus or the amount of death that they had seen in this town. His phone began to vibrate annoyingly in his pocket, he dug it out quickly and saw that his girlfriend was trying to call him, once again.
He had told her he didn't want to talk, he wanted time to process what had happened, plot his revenge on the Original without getting anymore people killed in the process. "I told you I don't wanna talk."
"I heard that you're keeping all that rage bottled up inside. Caroline's worried sick about you." Rebekah thick British accent came through the speaker and this made the hybrid tense, thinking about the blonde reminded him way too much of the other Original he wanted to murder.
"Rebekah?"
"Hello, Tyler." She cooed down the line grinning across at his girlfriend who sat there with an extremely hard look on her face. "I heard my brother made a real mess of your life. Believe me, I can relate. You have my condolences. In fact, why don't you come down to the high school and accept them in person?" She offered.
"And why would I do that?"
"Because I have your girlfriend. Maybe, you have a better shot saving her then you did your mother." She stated heartlessly making all the vampires looking up at her suddenly. "Bye now." She hung up smirking placing the phone back on the table.
The door swung open behind them, all of them turned and were struck dumb when the one and only Kol Mikaelson stuck his head around the corner of the door grinning. "Sister." He got her attention looking at all the compelled vampires in the room. "Look at this; you're even worse than Klaus..." He remarked earning a fierce growl from the blonde.
"Kol, finally." She muttered as she turned to him fully. "Did you bring what I asked for?" Rebekah wasn't one for doing her own dirty work, if she could she would have her brothers do everything for her, but it seemed like she was losing them left, right and centre. First Finn, then Elijah, then Klaus. All she had left was Kol who had obviously kept his word as he shoved Atticus into the room, the Professor just looked around fearfully. "You must be Shane?"
Sitting under the moonlight out around a camp fire by the Lake the raven-haired vampire was using an incredibly sharp knife to carve bullets for Jeremy as he heard crunches on the leaves of the floor. He knew who it was without even having to look. "If you're here for payback, go for it. It'll only make Grace hate you more once I give her the cure..."
The Original only took a seat next to him watching as he angrily craved the wood into the correct shape. "You know, if you adjust your angle a bit, you'll find a sharper edge." He informed him helpfully but this only earned a harsh look from the vampire sitting next to him.
"I know how to whittle. Thanks." He responded in a sharp voice making the Original smirk a little. "Did she really try to call you? Four times?" He glanced over at him almost not wanting to know the answer. "Did you ever answer?" This time he lifted his head to look at him directly.
The Original couldn't help but smirk a little, watching as the vampire next to him squirmed as they spoke about the girl they both had such deep feelings for. "No, I never answered and I'm assuming she would never had called me if I hadn't tried to call her 20 minutes before murdering Carol Lockwood. I didn't mean to make her feel as if there was something she could have done to stop me."
"But you did and you should know that Grace takes these things hard. She would gladly lay down her life for someone else. Hell, she almost had dozens of times before." Damon growled from where he sat next to him. "You think you can help her with this sire-bond and with her bloodlust, but you're not good for her at all. You're poison."
"I suppose you're welcome to your opinion on the matter however wrong it may be." Klaus muttered nodded his head gently. "Actually, I'm perplexed as to why Jeremy hasn't killed any vampires." He was quick to change the subject off of the little brunette.
"Darwinism, Klaus. He needs to know how to protect himself before we hunt down his first vampire nest." Damon answered in a sure voice, he knew what he was doing with the Hunter and he didn't need that Original ass coming in and stomping all over his toes every five seconds.
"And here I was thinking you were the fun brother!" The hybrids voice was deeply sarcastic. "Let's play a little game, shall we? Jeremy needs more victims, and there's a whole town just down the road with people waiting to be turned into vampires for the slaughter." He reminded him.
"You don't think that occurred to me Klaus."
"Tragedy is Damon it did occur to you, you just choose to ignore it. My guess is you did it to impress little Grace. Somehow to honour her you'll find a way to spare innocent lives and walk Jeremy down the moral high road. You see that's the very distinct difference between you and I. I will do what needs to be done, regardless of the consequences, of how much Grace will end up hating me. You will do anything to keep up the facade that you're a good vampire to her." The raven-haired vampire was doing his best not to pounce of the cocky Original. "That's why I already made the necessary corrections." He looked at Klaus eyes wide.
"What did you do?"
Inside the Gilbert Lake house the door bell rang alerting the boys inside that there was someone there. Matt approached the door to see the lovely pizza girl standing there. "Don't tell me we ordered another pizza?" The blonde teased with a charming grin.
"No, I'm just an idiot." She answered in a soft voice as she rubbed the back of her neck gently. "I ran out of gas, and my phone is dead. You think I could use yours?" She quizzed looking up at him.
"Yeah, come in. I'll run upstairs and grab my cell." The blonde turned and bolted up the stairs leaving the girl standing at the door on her own.
As she tried to walk into the house her foot hit something hard, like a brick wall she couldn't get passed. "What the hell?" She muttered as she stood there looking blankly at the door frame trying to figure out why she couldn't get past it.
At that moment Jeremy walked around the corner to see the pretty girl standing there looking slightly confused. "Hey, what are you doing here?" He greeted walking towards her.
"Car drama." She shrugged her shoulders a little as she stood out there in the nippy night air. "Your friend just went to get his phone.
Jeremy nodded his head gently. "Well, I'm just about to take a shower, but you're more than welcome to wait inside." He told her in a sure voice as he turned and ran up the stairs too. This time the girl walked through the door looking around surprised she could be standing in there.
"Thanks."
Back at Mystic Falls high, Kol shoved the Professor into a janitor's closet roughly making him look back at the two Original vampires with a surprised yet excited look on his face. He'd only ever heard about their family and the tales of them all. Now he was in the presence of two of them at the same time.
"Kol and Rebekah Mikaelson. Two members of the Original vampire family. This is such a trip." He muttered to himself breathing hard as the blonde swiftly walked towards him looking directly into his wide eyes.
"Where's the cure?"
"Compulsion won't work; it's a little trick I picked up in Tibet." He almost boasted from where he stood opposite her.
"Right well, we're just going to have to do this the old-fashioned way." She announced rolling her eyes looking over at her older brother who was now grinning. "Beat him until he tells you where to find it." She ordered him before walking from the room to see that her four compelled vampires were still sat in the library. "Still glued to your seats? Ah, it's thick with tension in here. Let's spice things up a bit. Turn family against family. Elena, truth or dare."
Stefan growled from where he was sat next to his girlfriend. "We're done playing your stupid games, Rebekah."
"Truth or dare, Elena." The blonde repeated with a harsh tone to her voice as she glared directly at the younger Salvatore brother. "You're compelled to answer."
"Dare."
Rebekah couldn't help but smirk at the newborn vampires answer, she really thought by choosing a dare she could get out of telling the truth so easily. "I dare you to tell Grace the truth about what you think about her."
"Seriously!?" Caroline blurted out from where she sat next to Grace, it had already been tough enough on the twins now she was going to make the newborn spill her guts over what she truly thought.
"I think over this past year something has changed about you and I don't think it's just the sire-bond or whatever blood issues you have that is doing that. I think it's you. I think you're sad and I think you're scared." Elena announced, this made the twin suppress a growl. "I think the only reason you didn't let go of Klaus before all of this sire-bond crap was because you're scared if you lose Damon you'll have no one left because no one else is going to want you."
Grace gulped from where she was sat, this was her sister, her blood sister that was made a vampire though her own blood saying all these things that was making her so angry and yet so upset at the same time she could feel Caroline's eyes boring into the side of her face. The worse thing was, she just had to sit there and take it.
"I thought that you could be the one person I could turn to being a new vampire because you made it look so easy from the first day you turned, but I remember the day you attacked Connor. I could feel this burning hate for you that was only amplified by my emotions. You lied to all of us about struggling because you're too hard-headed to let someone in and help you." She scoffed shaking her head. "And who's the person that came to rescues you from the blood? Not your boyfriend, no. It was the disgusting hybrid who tried to drain me of all my blood! Nice choice."
"Do you still consider Grace to be a member of your family?" Rebekah questioned in a small voice, she honestly hadn't expected the twin to be that harsh on her.
Elena shook her head. "No."
"Did that hurt?" The blonde looked to Grace who had tears lining her eyes as she looked directly at Elena who wouldn't look at her anymore. "Having someone you love, that you trust drive a dagger through your heart?"
Her voice was weak, she didn't even know if there was going to be a level to it, but her dark eyes darted up to Rebekah. "Go. To. Hell." She hissed as she quickly blinked away the tears.
The Original only hissed from where she stood opposite the brunette. "Did. That. Hurt."
"Yes."
"Welcome to the last 900 years of my life." Rebekah growled out glaring around at the four of them when suddenly the door opened and Tyler walked through it with an angered look on his face. "Ah, good you're here." The blonde announced turning to him with a sickening smile plastered on her lips. "It was just getting depressing."
"What the hell is going on?" He quizzed in a low growl looking around at everything, there was a mixture of anger, disappointment and betrayal in the air as he looked at all of their face, each telling a different story.
"Listen to the rules carefully. Stay in the building, no vamp running in the hallways." The Original informed them all which only added confusion to their mixture of tangled emotions.
The younger blonde vampire was quick to question her rules. "Vamp running from what?"
Rather than answering them in detail the Original turned to the hybrid and smiled once more before demanding. "Turn." All of their breathing got caught in their throat, he would kill them all if he turned.
Elena hissed. "What?"
"He can't he'll lose control." The younger blonde hollered her silvery orbs wide as she looked over at the Original bitch.
"That's the point, I've exhausted all your knowledge. Now, I have the professor to help me find the cure. You're just competition." She decided in a sure voice making them all glare over at her, first she destroys relationships then she was then going to kill them. "Whoever finds it first gets to decide what to do with it. Use it, share it, destroy it, save it." She listed the options of what she could do with the cure. "I want that to be me."
"But if I turn, I'll kill them." Tyler stated the obvious making the Original smirk as she turned around facing him again.
"Yes, you will. Turn." She ordered before turning around and walking from the room shutting the door firmly closed behind her, now to go find her brother and see what information he had on the cure from Professor Shane.
Back at the Gilbert Lake house, Matt had his phone in his hand as he was jogging down the stairs to lend it to the pizza girl who was having trouble with her car. He looked around the house but couldn't find her when suddenly he felt a rush of air, turning quickly he saw the small girl standing there.
"Did you find your phone?" She questioned in an innocent voice before pouncing on him landing on the hard floor trying to get at his neck but she didn't have a chance.
The new Hunter walked from the room and saw this happening, grabbing a stake from his back pocket he launched himself at the girl driving the wooden weapon deep into her back piercing her heart. Matt watched as her skin paled and she fell limply on top of him, he rolled the dead vampire off and breathed hard as he looked up at his friend.
Jeremy however wasn't looking back down at his older friend, he was looking at his arm that he had wielded the stake in. The tattoo was growing before his eyes winding up at muscular arm in thick black ink he knew that no one else could see apart from himself, the Hunter.
Over at the high school, Bonnie was stalking angrily through the hospital, she knew Shane had to be there somewhere she just had to find him and figure out a plan of attack. This was Kol Mikaelson she was talking about, 1000+ year old vampire, also completely insane.
Quickly she headed into a biology lab to see that April Young was hiding out in there, the raven-black haired girl looked surprised to see the witch in the school she hadn't been part of Rebekah plan to take the vampires of Mystic Falls down.
"Bonnie?" She quizzed looking over at the light green-eyed girl. "How did you know everyone was here?" The younger girl asked tilting her head to the side.
"Who's everyone? I came to find Shane." Bonnie looked back at the teen through confused eyes, now she knew that something serious was going down. First Shane going missing with Kol, then April was mysteriously at the school mentioning 'everyone' being there on a day when no one was supposed to be in school.
"Did you do a GPS magic locator spell or something?" April announced as if it was something so casual to mention in public, the witch was taken back for a second before her head snapped around to look at the teen wide-eyed. "Rebekah told me that you were a witch." She added shrugging her shoulders.
"Rebekah?!" Bonnie hissed narrowing her eyes. "What the hell is going on?" She growled looking at April intensely try to find the full story, if the blonde Original was back in town then it was going to be bad for them all.
"Rebekah has Stefan, Elena, Grace and Caroline compelled. She's getting them to actually tell the truth for a change." April's voice was snide and acid-like which made the witch look over at her worried. "What?"
"Shane can't be compelled. Ok?" Her heart skipped a beat when she thought about the Professor being tortured for all the information he knew, this flared up a protective streak inside of her. "She'll probably torture him to find out what he knows..." She mused as she began to search for an item on the counter. "What are you looking for?"
"I need salt." She informed her in a hard voice as she continued to search through all the draws trying to find it.
"I think I just saw some." The black-haired girl announced as she walked over to a shelf and grabbed a jaw of salt, Bonnie was quick to take it from her pouring it into a three glass beaker as the teen stood there to her watching confused. "What are you doing?"
"If this pendant will connect me to Shane, then I can do a protection spell." Bonnie informed her clutching the new gift from the Professor tight in her hand before holding it against her chest closing her eyes firmly shut, a look of complete relaxation on her face as she began to chant a spell in her head.
The teen jolted stepping back away from her when suddenly the salt inside of the beakers ignited in a roar of flames, Bonnie was becoming very powerful.
"Where is the cure!?" Kol demanded as he dunked the Professor's head into an iron sink drowning him. Pulling him roughly out by his collar he looked down to see the human was gasping desperately for air. "Where is the cure?" The Originals voice calmed looking for an answer on Atticus' face.
The door opened behind them as the beautiful Rebekah stepped into the room looking at them, Kol was practically venting the anger from within him and Shane was gasping loudly for air to fill his lungs rather than water.
When the Professor didn't answer after a long time of taking in deep breaths of air the brother dunked his head under the water again making sure to smirk as he was doing it. He really did love it when his sister asked him to torture for her.
Back in the biology labs April began to cough gently rubbing her throat, it felt like she had swallowed water and it had gone down the wrong hole. Patting her chest she coughed a little louder trying to clear her wind pipe but the irritating feeling never wavered. The witch was beginning to get annoyed by the girls incessant coughing, she opened her eyes glancing over at her.
Yanking Shane's head back above the water level he began to cough and splutter chunks of water as he tried at the same time to gasp desperately for breath. Rebekah wandered over with her hands placed firmly on her narrow hips looking down at the man in her heels.
"You're human." Rebekah stated with a hard look on her face. "Why do you want it anyway?" She quizzed in a rough voice.
Gasping Atticus answered. "That's the beauty of it. You can have it. I just want Silas." He informed them both, as soon as the first immortals name was mentioned the older brother's blood ran cold as he glared down at the Professor.
"No." He growled through clenched teeth. "What do you know about Silas?" He demanded holding him firmly by his shirt shoving him brutally hard against the wall.
"He's the world's first immortal being who just happens to be imprisoned with the cure. I want to free him." He announced that this made something inside of the Original explode as he dunked his head back in the water much to Rebekah surprise.
Kol growled. "No!"
April could feel the same irritating feeling all over again, beginning to cough gently from where she stood across from Bonnie. As it began to worsen the raven haired teen clutched her throat with one hand trying to gasp in breaths but each time not being able to. "April?" The witch questioned looking over at her.
Grabbing her throat tighter the teen could feel a cold rush of fear running down her spine as she continued to choke on what appeared to be nothing. "What's happening?!" Bonnie demanded as she rushed over to the bright blue-eyed girl.
As she reached her water began to cough from April's lungs, slowly they filled and her eyes went wide as she doubled over coughing and spluttering as Bonnie helped her stand watching her fearfully wondering frantically what was going on.
"Stop!" Rebekah ordered in a rough voice as her older brother yanked the Professors head above the water level letting him go so he fell to his knees coughing up the unwanted water that had filled his lungs.
Back in the biology lab April had stopped cough up water now as she took deep breaths in with the witch rubbing her back making sure she was ok.
"He's of no use dead." Rebekah informed her brother giving him a look, but his eyes were wild and rugged as he looked back at her, she had never seen him this fearful before.
"Did you not hear what he said? Silas will kill us all, sister." He reminded her as she scoffed and walked around him rolling her eyes trying to get everything straight in her head, as if it wasn't enough trouble trying to find the cure now they were adding the fear of Silas into it all.
The blonde informed him. "Silas does not exist. He is a fairytale made up to scare children into eating their vegetables."
"Silas is very real." Shane told them in a dark voice from where he knelt on the floor hands on his knees, water droplets falling from his face soaking his shirt. "And I know where he's buried and soon I will have the spell that wakes him."
"Wait a second, you're lying." Kol growled back at him, his eyes wide and frantic trying to look for a tell on the Professor's face, but he only saw the truth brooding in his eyes. "You can't get to him-"
"Without his tombstone?" Shane finished his sentence knowing the story and for the first time in a long time Kol felt real fear. "A dozen to die in a blood sacrifice?" He added making the Original even more nervous. "Believe me, I know. I've done it. Those massacres are a pain to engineer."
Rebekah came to the realisation that it was him that had constructed the passing of Pastor Young and 11 other town council citizens. "You're the one who got the council blown up."
"It was a noble sacrifice." Shane was breathing deeply as he looked between each of the Originals standing in front of him. "Temporarily. Because once I wake Silas, Silas will raise the dead. He will bring back every last soul who died on his behalf." He informed them both when suddenly he saw a quick flash he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, looking down he saw a metal pole impaled into his gut.
Back in the biology labs April suddenly felt an awful pain in her gut, pressing her hands over her white shirt she felt a warm liquid begin to spread over her fingers. It was obvious now that Bonnie had linked both Shane and the teen through her spell and unwanted side-affect, but it had happened.
Bringing her fingers back she saw a murky crimson red substance painting her fingers, her blinked a couple of times before the pain hit her. "Ah... Ah!..." She groaned as she could feel her life sleeping away from her as she fell to the ground.
Over in the library Tyler slammed his broad body into a bookshelf making books fall to the floor with loud thunks, the four vampires stood around unsure of what to do. They couldn't make a real run for it and it was all too easy for the hybrid to turn now he had broken his bond. "Ah! I can fight this!"
He kept telling himself as he fell to the floor feeling his bones twist and bend uncomfortably until he felt that same stomach churning snap from when he used to turn. As he pulled himself over to the empty table pushing himself up hitting it hard as he felt another bone begin to ache.
The four vampires were standing a fair distance away from him and knew he was going to have to turn, Rebekah had compelled him too, no matter how much the hybrid wanted to fight it off it was going to happen. Stefan turn to the three girls and ushered. "Go. Go."
The four of them all run into the hallway as Stefan pressed his back to the heavy door taking deep breaths before nodding at them and running one direction with Caroline following, Grace and Elena were already bolting the other direction as they turned a corridor slamming the door shut pressing their hands against it.
"Grace..." Elena started, she wasn't sure what she was supposed to say but when a sudden slamming came from the other side of the floor they both pressed their bodies to it breathing hard. A snarling voice came from under the door as Tyler threw his body at the door trying desperately to get inside and take them both down.
The door was bending and denting at his muscular body, Grace saw a red body hanging on the wall just inches from her as she scooted over leaning over keeping her foot and leg pressed against the door as she smashed her elbow into the glass pulling out the fire axe moving back to stick it between the door handles in an attempt to keep him out.
It seemed to work but not particularly well, Elena walked across the hall leaving Grace to keep the door shut on her own. Her feet were sleeping as Tyler forced himself against the door repeatedly never tiring. She whimpered as she forced her body between the doors. Her sister came running back with a locker door forcing that between the door also reenforcing it even more.
Taking a couple of steps away both brunettes watched the door for a long moment waiting to see if it would hold, they heard a feral growl from the other side as he began to crush his body against it once more. Both nodded at each other timing it just right as Tyler hit the door they forced all their weight and muscle against it also hearing a small whimpering coming from the other side. It had worked.
Rebekah was staring down blankly at the dead Professor on the floor, he had been her last chance of getting the cure before Klaus and now it was all destroyed because her impulsive older brother had killed him. "You should be thanking me." Kol muttered.
Rebekah could feel a sickening feeling sadness bubbling in her stomach as she glanced up at him. "You killed my only chance at finding the cure." She did her best to make sure her voice didn't break.
"Silas on the loose would be hell on Earth..." Kol informed her his voice was hard and sure. "Frankly, sister..." He reached into his inner jacket pocket and pulled out the white oak stake, the one that could kill her and their family. "I don't think you could handle it." He inspected it intensely as the blondes eyes widened.
"How did you get that?"
"Too easily." Kol answered in a smirk before turning and walking from the janitor's closet leaving his baby sister standing there radiating anger as she looked down at the Professor one more time and then taking off from the room shutting the door for a moment.
After a few long moments Shane's eyes burst open and he gasps in a loud breath of air as he looks down at the metal pole sticking from his gut, placing his hand around it he let out a strangled cry as he pulled it out sitting up against the wall throwing the bloody weapon to the floor. "Bonnie."
As Grace and Elena continued to run frantically down the hall trying to find a safe place they could hide from the hunting hybrid the heard terrified cries. "Help! Someone help!" They knew that voice, bursting into the room they saw their witch friend knelt next to April's lifeless body.
"Bonnie, what's going on!?" Elena screamed when she saw the teens body on the floor, Bonnie was holding back sobs as she looked down at the pale girl. She never meant for anything this bad to happen, she thought that she would be able to protect Shane but she ended up killing April.
Bonnie breathed out. "She's needs help."
"What happened?" Grace asked in a calm voice as she knelt the other side of the raven-black haired girl with a concerned look on her face, one of them had to take hold of the situation and not freak out.
"I did a protection spell, but it accidentally linked Shane to April." Bonnie informed them both as Grace extended her fangs, both girls flinched thinking it was the blood and she saw rolling her eyes but as she crunched into her own wrist they both relaxed.
"And you couldn't control it?" Elena asked, there was a slightly judgemental side to her voice which made Grace glare over at her as she pressed her wrist to April's lips.
"I didn't know I was doing it!" The witch argued her eyes wide looking down at the teen who was accepting the blood but not opening her eyes. "Usually, I feel pain or I bleed, but this time I felt more power." She informed them both.
April suddenly woke up gasping loud looking around at them all petrified pulling away from the older vampires wrist. "It's ok. You're ok." The brunette assured her in a kind voice looking directly into the teens eyes. "You're ok..." She whispered nodding her head and the raven-black haired girl nodded. "Bonnie, get her out of the school. Just be carefully. Tyler's out there and he turned." Grace ordered in voice that was firm.
The witch stood up brushing off her knees as she looked between both twins. "Well, what about you?" She quizzed helping the teen to her feet as she shook with fear.
"We can't leave. Rebekah compelled us." Elena informed her as she leaned back against one of the high tables in the room as her twin sister stood back up and walked around the room avoiding looking at her. "Just go. We'll deal with her later." She assured her friend and both girls walked from the room leaving the twins alone. "Grace..."
"No." Grace hissed looking away from her, she didn't want to talk about what had happened, there was nothing Elena could ever say or do to make up for what she had said and it wasn't like she didn't mean it because she was compelled to the tell the truth.
Elena sighed heavily as she took a timid step towards the older vampire. "Grace, we need to talk about this. Please."
"Talk about what? Huh?" Grace hissed looking directly at her sister with a furious look in her raven black eyes. "How many more ways are you going to make me feel like a complete outsider in my family?" She added gritting her teeth as she other brunette nodded her head a little, she understood that she was angry.
"I'm sorry."
"I wish you really meant that." Grace whispered as she walked across the room slamming her clenched fist into the wall leaving a large mark as she rested her forehead against there, her shoulders were shaking with the heavy, hot breaths of anger. "You're right. I am scared." She informed her and Elena took another step towards her. "I'm scared of losing people because I've already lost so many... And now I've lost you, too." Her voice was nothing as the door behind them swung up and in walked Rebekah who was pulling Stefan along with her.
"Well, it looks like a party in here." Rebekah's snide voice announced as she grinned at the three of them.
Caroline was wielded with a weapon as she entered the school gym, but she was took by surprised when she saw Tyler's body limp on the ground just in front of his mothers memorial art piece. She ran over and dropped to the floor beside him. "Tyler." She whispered as she pulled a large sheet over him covering his nakedness.
"I'm so sorry." He whimpered as he began to sob, at first she figured he would be talking about turning and trying to kill all of them.
The blonde cooed sympathetically. "What? No, It's not your fault." Stroking his hair lovingly just being there for him.
"Yes, it was." He sobbed looking at his mothers portrait, the blondes eyes flickered up to see what he was really talking about, his mother. He was feeling her loss and finally letting his girlfriend in looking past the anger of Niklaus and seeing the broken little boy underneath. "This whole thing... It's all my fault."
"No..."
He was now sobbing even harder his huge frame shaking with her hot tear. "I should have saved her." There was nothing Caroline could say or do for him so she just held him kissing the side of his head every now and then but being there.
The biology lab was so deadly silently that you could hear a pin drop. Grace looked broken but there was no tears, like she had told Klaus she wasn't going to be the victim, she was just going to walk if Elena didn't want her then fine let her get on with her life.
Taking short steps over to the taller brunette she looked down at her to see the devastatingly guilty look on her face. "There's a solution to all your problems, you know. I could compel her. Erase every memory she has of your, of your family, of her life around you... Except for Damon and possible Niklaus..." He added and the brunette looked over to the smaller vampire who just stared blankly at the wall. "Take it all away. All the pain you've caused her, the betrayal, the hate, the deceit. Give you both a clean slate. Just sat the word and I'll make you and all that misery you caused him disappear."
"Do it." Grace's voice came from across the room and the three looked over surprised by her rash decision.
Rebekah was slightly taken back as she walked over to the brunette who refused to look at her. "Excuse me?"
"Erase it all. Every memory." She ordered in a sure voice finally looking up at the blonde who looked back down at her for a long moment. Stefan was trying to talk her down from where he stood with his girlfriend. "I said: do it." She told her again but the Original just began to cackle with laughter.
"No. It's be far too easy." Rebekah informed her and the brunette licked her lips as she looked away from her for a long moment. "I refuse to make you forget everything the way Klaus made Stefan forget me." She turned to the couple from across the room. "Perhaps if you'd never gone against me none of this would never had happened." She looked down at the other twin with a smirk on her lips. "But at least you know that Grace hates you just as much as you hate her." She couldn't help but laugh again. "Consider her pain my revenge, Stefan. I've used you for all you're worth, so now, you're free to go." She walked from the room leaving the three alone.
Grace stood there for a long moment not bothering to look at the two vampires standing across from her, she just stood up and began to exit the room. "Grace, wait." Elena called but she didn't stopped she just kept walking.
Over at Whitmore college Professor Shane was back in the comfort of his room changing his shirt as he yanked his soaked, ruined shirt over his head throwing it to the floor with a sopping thud the door was shoved open behind him and he turned around pulling a new shirt over his head.
"Turns out I miscalculated; Kol's going to be a problem." Shane informed her in a small voice as he looked over to see the incredibly angry look on her face.
"I almost killed some and that that's what you miscalculated!? April could have died today!" She announced, if she had killed the teen after everything she had been through in this town she would never have been able to forgive herself. She was a witch, a servant of nature. Not a killer.
"And that's only because you didn't know the extent of your abilities-"
"My father just became mayor. I can't go out doing black magic." She told him in a firm voice as she turned around on her heels and began to exit the room.
Shane growled a little as he stood a step towards the witch. "That's not what expression is!"
"Then, what is it?" The witch turned around to face him with an angered look on her face, she had had enough of his lies, she thought that Shane was someone she was going to be able to trust, not use her.
"It's a way of doing magic that isn't mentioned by nature or spirits. It isn't good or bad, but it also has no limits. So how you use it is up to you." He informed her in a sure voice trying to convince her that she was she was doing was neither right or wrong it just was. "That's what I'm here for. To help you. Bonnie, listen to me. You are the key to everything. I'm not going to let anything bad happen to you." He assured her.
It was almost midnight when Damon was wandering around on the ground floor of the Gilbert Lake house, it had been the fifth time he had tried to call Grace and each time she had not answered, at first he figured she must have been driving but now he was just beginning to worry.
As he turned around his eyes caught something at the end of the dock, under the beautiful moonlight there was a black silhouette, the vampire couldn't help but growl as he walked outside into the bitter night air. Another of Klaus' vampires. Stalking towards the end the girl didn't move and as he approached her he placed his large hand on her shoulder turning her to see the face of his girlfriend blood covering her mouth.
"Grace." He whispered looking down at her, the clothes she was wearing was ruined completely, ripped almost shredded revealing her scratched flesh underneath. "Gracie, what happened to you..." He quizzed again as she just stared back up at him through blank chocolate brown eyes that were almost raven black under the moonlight sky.
"I was hurting." She whispered and he cupped her face making her look up at him at first he was thinking that she was physically hurting but before he could ask where she was hurting she continued. "My heart felt as if it was going to break into a thousand tiny pieces... So I left and I was... I was coming to see you and I... I stopped at this bar and got into a fight..." It looked like more than a fight but he let that slide.
"Gracie." He whispered as he looked down at her the wounds were deep but were healing he helped her back into the house sitting her on the couch looking down at her. "You're gonna be ok, sweetheart. Just tell me what happened to you, why are you so upset?" He quizzed and she looked up at him through broken eyes. "You're gonna have to talk to me, babe, because I'm scared you're gonna run off and do something you'll regret in the morning."
She went through the entire heartbreaking story telling him everything Elena had said and how it was all true because she had been compelled, but the entire time she didn't shed a single tear only spoke in a level voice, he could feel the anger bubbling in his stomach as he leaned up and pressed his forehead to hers.
"Elena isn't a dictator, Gracie. She doesn't decide what your family does or doesn't do. It's their lives, not hers. She may not want you in their family, but that doesn't mean that Caroline is going to not want you, or Bonnie." He pecked her lips once but when he felt her lips not move back against his he moved away looking at her. "I'm never going to leave you. You're never going to be alone. I promise." He used to wonder why she wanted Klaus in her life, even before the sire-bond and now he knew she was just scared.
They both just sat there for a while, no words were needed as they both stared intently into the fireplace. Damon had her placed on his lap as his hand rubbed comforting up her side pressing tenderly against her ribs before sliding back down to her hip. She felt his phone begin to vibrate in his pocket but he chose to ignore it pressing his soft lips to the shell of her ear.
"Go take a shower." Damon told her as his phone began to vibrate again, he manoeuvred them so he could slide his phone out of his pocket and see that Klaus was ringing. "Get yourself all cleaned up I just need to take this real quick." He informed her as she stood up and walked up the stairs even her body language was off, he frowned as he slipped his phone out of his pocket. "Look, whatever it is you want it's gonna have to wait, I have more important things to deal with at the moment."
"I think you should come meet me in that little town we were talking about earlier..." Klaus' slick voice came down the speaker which made the vampire growl a little as he grabbed his jacket. "Oh, and bring the Hunter with you." He added before hanging up leaving Damon frustrated he knew Grace needed him but all hell was going to break loose if he didn't go and meet the Original. "Jer, grab your coat. We're going out." He called up the stairs making a split-second decision.
Elena was sitting down in the parlour room of the Salvatore boarding house nursing a glass of bourbon in her hands when she suddenly felt a strong warm hand landing on her shoulder squeezing it assuringly. "What she did you wrong, but you know we have to do this." He leaned down and breathed in her ear before kissing it gently.
The door swung open from behind them and heels could be heard stalking into the foyer, the older vampire moved away from his girlfriend standing up straight to announce sarcastically. "Please, let yourself in." He poured himself a glass of bourbon also sipping at it as the blonde walked into the room.
"You called me. Should I be checking for hidden daggers?" She questioned as she walked into the room her arms crossed firmly over her chest looking at the couple.
Stefan looked at her with a hard look on his face. "You still wanna find the cure?"
"More than anything." She answered nodding her head. "I want to ram it down Niklaus' throat and look into his eyes as he realises he's moral again. But Shane's dead, and you are useless, both you." She glanced over to Elena narrowing her eyes. "So I'm right back where I started."
"Shane's not dead." Elena informed her as she stood up turning to face her the look on the Original's face changed from angered to confused, she was sure she saw her older brother kill the Professor, she saw him die before her eyes.
"But I watched Kol impale him?"
"Well, you probably shouldn't have left him alone. Bonnie did a little spell; he's perfectly fine." The brunette informed her in a knowing voice which made the Original made as Stefan handed her a glass of alcohol.
"You didn't have to tell me that. Why am I really here?" She looked between the two feeling confused, after what she had done today they were still going to tell her something that would help her get the cure.
"You're here because we all share a mutual interest. We all want the cure for some reason or another and you could use all the help you could get."
"Well, if you really want the cure, you should know that Shane has an agenda, and it's a dark one." Rebekah informed them both, she figured they had shared some helpful information for her and she was going to do the same for them. "He said he organised dozens of people to die in sacrifice. He admitted to the council explosion where twelve people died. I'm guessing it's not a coincidence that twelve hybrids died at the hands of my brother."
"Twelve..." Stefan muttered creasing his eye brows looking over at the Original. "Channelling the energy from mass death is used in witchcraft to perform dark spells. It's called expression." He commented, he remembered the story of Damon asking the witch to unsire Charlotte from him and that also used twelve humans. "Shane admitted all this to you?"
"Proudly."
"Well, then I guess we'll have to figure out how to manage him when we find the cure for ourselves." He looked around at the three.
"We?" Rebekah scoffed as she looked around at all of them. "There is no 'we', Stefan." She made herself very clear, she preferred to work alone less things could go wrong and less deals had to be made.
Elena stepped forward. "Listen, I hate my sister, you have your brother. But Damon and Grace have Jeremy and Klaus has the sword. Shane has Bonnie. You, Stefan and I are the only ones left with nothing. You said it yourself, right? Whoever finds the cure first gets to decide what to do with it." She quoted the blonde who smiled a little. "So what do you say? Are we a team?"
Over at the Mystic Grill April was sitting down at a table with Sheriff Forbes and the new town mayor, Rudy Hopkins. "My father had no reason to kill eleven people. He had no reason to kill himself." The raven-black haired girl started earning sympathetic looks from the adults. "He loved me. He loved Mystic Falls. He was brainwashed into sparking that fire. Professor Shane organised his death and eleven others that died with him."
This statement made both of the adults look at each other concerned, this wasn't an accusation they were going to take lightly. "It's time this entire town started telling the truth." April added angrily.
Damon led both the Hunter and the human inside of the bar in what seemed to be in the middle of no where. They were all took by surprise when they saw that the entire bar had been slaughtered, sprawled across the tables, lifeless on the floor and thrown across the bar, blood draining from their mouths and neck. There could only be one explanation for all this: Niklaus.
The younger vampires eyes searched around the room until he finally saw the hybrid pouring himself a drink as he sat at the bar smiling a little at his handy work. "I was beginning to worry you boys wouldn't find the place." He announced.
Jeremy looked around shocked by all the bodies, innocent people being murdered. "What the hell...?"
"Did you kill all these people?"
"Not exactly..." Klaus smirked as he stood up smirking over at Damon who creased his eye brows looking back at the hybrid. "They're in transition." He added, but the vampire was fairly certain the Original had a double meaning behind his original statement, he remembered Grace she had got into a fight in a bar, was this the bar? Did she help Klaus kill these people? "Killing them is your job." The Original's eye flashed up to the Hunter.
"You said you were going to convince Klaus to do this another way!" Jeremy growled at the raven-black haired vampire, he didn't want to kill innocent people he wanted to kill people who deserved it.
"Well, I thought about it and then I realised his idea was better..." Damon admitted reluctantly earning a horrified look from Matt and a glare of disbelief from the Hunter just as the bodies began to move around them.
A/N
Ok, that's this chapter ending :) It very well could have been Grace that helped with Niklaus and killing all those humans but you'll have to wait until next chapter to find it ;) Plus, poor Grace, I actually cried a little whilst writing those scenes, she seemed so broken and lost but Elena really hit the nail on the head with her being scared of losing people but living in Mystic Falls who wouldn't be?!
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Mia Salvatore - Thank you so much honey ;) You're exactly right about the promise ring, there is just way too much going on for them at the moment for them to be especially with Niklaus and them trying to find the cure, but I'm sure when the time comes Damon will step up and really be with her :)
Guest - I'm really happy that you don't think my Grace is a Mary-Sue, she isn't perfect and she does have her fair share of problems with family and with herself. I'm really glad you like the story so far it makes me smile to see people actually enjoying my work.
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MissWhatEver207 - Don't worry I completely understand, I think we both get each other now. You don't need to worry being like a 'brat' we all know what we like and we can be a little frustrated when we don't get it :)
Guest - Oh, thank you so much :) I do try to update the chapter as often as possible, but I really do like to add a lot of detail to each chapter now, because back in the day it wasn't that detailed. Also I'm glad you like the love-triangle. I'm not usually a big fan of them in TV shows, but I do like the one in my story :)
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Aryabloodlust - Yeah there was a lot going on in that chapter, but I hope you enjoy this one :)
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xxxRena - I'm really glad that you liked it :D I think I want to savour Klaus finding out the promise ring for a little while, just enjoy that one when it comes, I realise Damon is gonna want to shove it down his throat and rub it in but the chapter was too busy with other things going on :) But don't worry I'm planning to show the promise ring to Klaus very soon :)
PattyFleur87 - I'm glad you enjoyed it :) I feel bad for Klaus, too :(
Whitttyyy76 - You're very sweet, honey :) And I'm glad you understand why he didn't want to get engaged to her, I mean Damon has been alive for a long time, he knows what is best for her and he knows she needs to grow a little before she's ready to tie the knot ;)
Nymartian - I agree Klaus really did show that he truly does feel very genuine feelings for her and even Stefan sees this even if no one else does.
TinyDancer365 - Ah, I'm so glad that my story made you feel better :'D I agree with you, Drace are very pure and real and Klace is very passionate and taboo, I honestly think that is why I enjoy writing them so much ;) Thank you so much for reviewing :D
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Tvdlover87654 - I really enjoyed writing that ending so much, and thank you so much for the compliment of my writing, I enjoy writing so much so thank you :D Hope you enjoy :)
susl - I know you love Klace, I really do too they are very special and taboo and passionate but Grace was there with Damon and she's with Damon at the moment, I'm not sure what's going to happen in the future, but I'll guess you'll just have to wait and see ;)
SomebodyWhoCares - I'm glad that you enjoyed the falling into the water ;) I actually loved writing that, I'm such a loser :D
David Fishwick - I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter :) I'm a very big fan of Stelena so I really enjoy writing their scenes. Hayley lied to Tyler because she's selfish, well to everyone that actually likes Tyler she's selfish ;) but in her eyes she was doing it for the good of finding her biological parents and Klaus was so awful drowning Carol, it was truly heartbreaking. But at the moment, no, Ty is still with us :)
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