Twisted Love
Season Four
A View To A Kill
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace :)
As the hunter jogged down the stairs he saw his older sister sitting in the kitchen at the table, sitting with a mug of coffee as she glanced down at her phone every now and then. "Elena." He whispered as he entered the room, she looked up at him with a tired smile. "What did Klaus mean yesterday? When he was speaking about you kicking Grace out?" He looked down at her to see the guilty look that crossed her face.
"It's... It's a pretty complicated story, Jer." She informed him but he didn't seem to mind as he took a seat next to her with a waiting look on his face, the hunter's entire life was pretty complicated at the moment, he was sure he could deal with a little family drama, it actually sounded a lot better than planning to kill the impulsive Mikaelson brother.
Finally when Elena finished the entire story there was a mixture of confusion and hurt spreading across the teen's face. "Why would you say those things to her?" He whispered as he stood up, shaking his head gently not wanting to look at her at the moment. "We all need family right now, Elena. Every single one of us. You can't just make a decision for everyone and start kicking people out because you don't agree with some of the choices they've made..."
The vampire sighed heavily looking down at the table before looking up to meet the disappointed eyes of Jeremy. "It wasn't like I wanted to say it to her, I mean, I was compelled-"
"Yeah, compelled to tell the truth. It was a bad situation to be in, but this isn't the first time you've made her feel like an outsider among the people she should feel safe and secure around." He reminded her and the newborn sighed heavily. "No wonder she keeps running to Klaus, because at least she knows he'll never turn her away."
The brunette was taken back for a moment as she caught on to what her brother was saying, trying to pin everything on her. "Are you saying that Grace's dependency on Klaus is because of me and our fighting?" Elena looked up at the hunter surprised but he just shook his head gently.
"No, I'm just saying that fighting constantly with the people you're meant to turn to for comfort and support can't be easy. So, it isn't really any wonder that she'd find it somewhere else, even in Klaus..." He shrugged his shoulders as he stood up giving her one finally look before sighing and walking up the stairs.
It had been a long brutal night for the other Gilbert sister, she hadn't been able to sleep at all and when she had finally got to sleep, she was plagued with horrific dreams of Klaus not being able to stop her boyfriend in time and him actually killing Jeremy. The brunette shuddered at the thought as she climbed from her large bed which felt all too lonely and cold without her lover to wrap herself up in.
Sighing heavily she rubbed her tired dark eyes as she stepped into the bathroom to look at herself in the unforgiving mirror. Frowning she saw the mess she was in, her usually silky chocolate-brown hair was knotty and dry hanging loosely around her face, there were dark rings under her usually bright eyes and her skin was pale and pasty. Grace felt as if she had been the one that was locked away in a cell all night long instead of Damon.
Rubbing her face with her small hands she decided to just yank her hair back into a messy bun just to get it off her face and then apply a thin layer of make-up, which she didn't want to do, but she hated how she looked without it. Giving herself a once over in the mirror she just rolled her eyes and walked from the bathroom.
Reaching into her closet she pulled out a loose-fitting tank top which seemed to hang a little low for her liking, but perhaps that was just the lack of sleep making her touchy and annoyed with everything. Grabbing an old pair of skinny jeans she slipped them on over her hips. She had decided that if she was going to have to spend the entire day trying to fix her relationship with Damon she was going to wear something she was comfortable in, even though all she wanted to do was crawl under the bed, curl into a ball and not speak to anyone ever again.
The younger Salvatore brother had decided it was about time he paid the blonde original a visit. He had talked it over with Elena and she had agreed it was better to keep Rebekah on their side, especially considering she had Silas's headstone now and that seemed to hold an importance in them finding the cure.
He was sitting with the blonde in her new home that she had brought to get away from her older brother and both of them were drinking from a bottle of gin, joking a little but mostly talking about the fact that Kol had turned up torturing Grace, compelling Damon and then almost killing his sister just because he had a deep brooding fear of Silas.
They were both surprised when they heard the heavy front door open and close, footsteps walking through the house until Klaus appeared in the arch way of the living room, his younger sister was quick to jump up almost baring her teeth at him, so territorial over her home and not wanting him in it. "This is my place, Nik, and I don't appreciate you invading my privacy like a creeping Tom."
The hybrid only smirked as he looked between them both and the half empty bottle of gin on the coffee table. "Well, I apologise for breaking up your little gossip session, but I do have urgent business or have you forgotten our paranoid brother Kol is running around with the white oak stake and homicide on the brain?"
"He tried to kill me last night." She reminded him in a rough voice, she honestly hadn't thought that her brother would have gone to those lengths to try to stop them from all getting the cure, something that she wanted so much and even if Silas was a threat she thought that he would want her to be happy. "I didn't forget."
"Yes, well, unfortunately he seems to have absconded with my set of daggers." He announced and for once this actually made the blonde happy, knowing her older brother wouldn't be able to dagger all of them whenever he wanted to.
"Oh, poor Nik. How ever will you get your way without your precious daggers?" She pouted before a prominent smirk pulled over her lips making him narrow his eyes at her. "They were so handy when you wanted to end a conversation with one of us!"
The hybrid decided to look past her teasing to get down to the real problem. "Kol's irrational fear of Silas has pushed him over the edge. We need to put him down before he does anymore damage." Honestly he was still so mad at Kol for what he had done to Grace, torturing her, but it seemed to work out in his favour when she came crawling to him for help. "Now, I know you have the last dagger, and I know you have some white ash, so hand it over."
"Mm-hmm, and leave myself unprotected? You can file that request under 'no chance in hell'. Be gone by the time I have showered. Lurkers aren't welcome here." She informed him in an icy tone before she stood up and stalked back to her bedroom leaving Stefan and Klaus staring intently at each other.
Klaus saw the way Rebekah and Stefan were getting close again and knew that he might be able to use the newly formed friendship to his advantage. "I need that dagger, Stefan. Talk some sense into her."
"Why don't you talk some sense into her?" Stefan narrowed his eyes over at him, he didn't want to use the blonde, he didn't want to get on her bad side before they found the cure. "I'm headed home to help Grace keep Damon on lockdown, he's been there ever since Kol compelled him to kill Jeremy."
"You see? That's my point exactly!" The hybrid announced as he took a step towards him with a thoughtful look on his face. "If you let Kol roam free, then Jeremy won't live to see his junior prom, and we can kiss our map to the cure goodbye. But if you help me dagger Kol, Damon will be uncompelled, Jeremy will live, and we'll be on our merry way to human Elena." He announced knowing that he would be able to convince him with the help of his girlfriend.
Over at the high school, Bonnie was helping her blonde friend setting up for the dance that evening, by blowing up balloons, hanging decorations and setting up the lighting. It was the school's usual decade dance and the theme was the 80s. The witch was speaking to Elena on the phone.
"Where are you?" Elena quizzed from where she stood in the Gilbert house, trying to clean up and keep her mind off of what they were planning on doing today.
"I told Caroline that I'd take her place at decade dance prep, but none of the rest of you have shown." She announced, there was a hint of aggravation to her voice as she stood there all on her own trying to set up for a dance she didn't even want to attend.
Over at the Gilbert's house, the newborn was just trying to keep herself busy whilst she waited for some kind of visit from either Klaus or Kol and trying to work out how she'll get them to back off and how she'll manage to kill an Original.
"I know, I'm sorry." Elena shook her head gently. "I had to, though. I have Jeremy under house arrest because Kol wants to kill him, and Klaus wants to take him on some vampire-slaying road trip. And since neither of them are invited in, it's the only place I can keep him safe." She informed her witch friend as both Matt and Jeremy played intensely on the Xbox behind her, gun shots firing rapidly.
Bonnie creased her eye brows as she heard all the gunfire, it sounded as if Elena was in the middle of warfare. "Why does it sound like you're under fire?"
"Apparently I'm living in a fraternity house now." She announced as she snatched a bag of chips from both boys who just gave her a look before getting back to their game, pulling faces when they tried to concentrate hard.
Jeremy scoffed loudly. "I'm training." He announced and the blonde nodded next to him agreeing.
"Train yourself to do some dishes, and put these weapons away before someone tries to use one on me." She ordered them both but they were both so engrossed in the TV that all Matt could do was throw her a thumbs up, they'd get to it eventually.
The young witch on the other side of the line sighed heavily. "Well, it's hard for me to look forward to this dance while you're trapped in your house." She dropped another red balloon to the floor by her feet, kicking it away.
"Listen, I have a plan to end all of this. I want Jeremy to kill Kol." Elena informed her trying to keep her voice calm, each time she said it the whole idea seemed to sound more and more terrifying and impossible in her head.
Bonnie was sandbagged by this idea, she hadn't excepted to ever hear those words coming from her vampire friend's mouth. "You want Jeremy to kill an Original?"
"Think about it." Elena quickly interrupted her train of thought, she knew it was a risky idea but it would be worth it in the end. "Kol's sire line must stretch to the moon by now. If Jeremy kills Kol, every vampire that he's ever turned, not to mention everyone that they've turned, will die, which means the Hunter's mark will be complete and we'll have our key to the cure."
The witch breathed out, she did hold a very valid point. "I'm on my way, we'll figure it out. Do you think Caroline will notice if there's only 89 red balloons?" She questioned as she kicked her way through the balloons that were scattered over the floor.
"Actually, probably yes." She answered in a teasing tone making both of the girls laughed, the vampire dunk her hand into the sink but was surprised when her hand was attacked by a stinging sensation, calling out she dropped the phone and her pain alerted both of the boys.
Bonnie's voice erupted through the speaker. "Elena!" The brunette gave both of the guys across from her a reassuring look as she picked her phone back up holding it to her ear apologising. "What happened?"
Elena was slightly confused as she dabbed her hand with a dish cloth frowning a little as she looked down at her hand, it was slightly swollen and a little red. "I don't know. There's something in the water..."
As soon as the witch heard about something being in the water that could only hurt vampires everything connected in her head and she called her father to find out what was going on. "Are you serious? You dumped vervain into the water supply? Where did you even get it?"
"I have my sources." Rudy answered enigmatically making his daughter frowned as she continued to walk around the school gym. "I'm also reinstating the curfew and cancelling all town events."
"Dad, there's a dance tonight." She announced as she looked around the gym at all the hard work she had put into preparing for that night, it may not have meant a lot to her, but she knew how much it meant to Caroline, all the school dances did.
The mayor scoffed a little as he responded. "Not anymore."
"Are you serious?!"
"Honey, I'm trying to protect you, not punish you. The well-being of this town is my job now." He informed her hoping that she would understand but knowing it was going to be hard to get through to his adolescent daughter.
"No! Dad, it's mine and I've been doing fine without you getting involved!" The witch answered protective of herself and the town she had protected from anything supernatural for years.
"You've been doing fine? Would you like me to read you all the names of the people that have gone missing or died in tragic accidents, in your senior year alone? Head straight home please, we're having a family meeting." He informed her in a rough voice before hanging up leaving his daughter absolutely fuming with anger.
The witch sighed heavily as she walked from the gym into the empty corridor when suddenly she was shoved against a wall, a large hand clasped over her neck as she looked up into a dark, desperate set of brown eyes. "No one can find the cure if you're too dead to find it." Kol concluded threateningly as menacing veins appeared around his eyes, opening his mouth to show her his fangs.
Bonnie knew she had to act quickly, she didn't exactly wanted to use her expression again but she couldn't get killed when they were this close to finding the cure for her family and friends. When she began to hear the bones cracking in his hand she looked up to see the pain-stricken look on his face as he moved back away from her, holding his hand as the agony spread up to his arm.
She could feel her powers slowly slipping from her control as the balloons that were scattered around the hallway began to pop and burst, the locker doors swung open violently and papers flying across the room fluttering to the floor. Eyes wide, the young witch looked around alarmed unsure how to stop so she just ran instead.
The small brunette was milling around in the kitchen, filling up a bottle of water resting it on the side as she filled up a vial with some of Damon's favourite blood type, she fixed the cap onto the vial as she pressed her hands to the kitchen counter top. She hated treating Damon like he was an inmate, she wanted him to hold her and kiss her and tell her everything was ok, but she couldn't, not until they had managed to get the compulsion to wear off.
"I can almost see the guilt radiating off of you, love." A British voice came from behind her, she suddenly turned absolutely surprised, she hadn't expected to see him there. "You did the right thing, you shouldn't question your decisions so much..." There was a hint of pride to his voice which she tried to deny hearing but the smile that crossed his lips made it hard for her to ignore it.
"I don't mean to be rude, but what are you doing here? It's hard enough for me to think about Damon locked away in there without you under my feet all day." She informed him and he couldn't help but smirk. "Seriously, Klaus." She tried to hold back the snappiness that was evident in her voice from where she hadn't had much sleep.
Klaus took a couple of steps towards her reaching out to stroke her arm tentatively trying to comfort her but the tenseness of her muscles made him almost nervous. "I'm here because Stefan is currently occupied trying to steal the dagger from my sister so that I can use it on my impulsive brother and uncompel your boyfriend to save our hunter." He explained simply and she sighed heavily.
"You were restless last night, I fell it." He announced and she restrained herself from rolling her chocolate-brown eyes as she leaned back against the counter sighing putting her head down. "I'm here to help you, if you want to catch up on your sleep then I will watch over Damon..." He offered kindly but she just scoffed a little.
"And leave you two to rip each others throats out, I'd really rather have you both alive." She informed him making another smirk pulled across the hybrid's face, she reached across and grabbed the bag of blood drinking from it half heartedly hoping she might be able to perk herself up but nothing seemed to be helping. "I should really get down there and see him, if you're planning on staying then... Then just don't cause any trouble." She warned before turning and walking from the kitchen.
Laying against the wall in the cellar of the Salvatore boarding house, the older Salvatore brother couldn't help but feel a stinging pain in his throat from where he hadn't fed in a long while. When he heard a set of footsteps walking towards the room he was being locked in he glanced up to see his little brunette looking in through the small bars at him before sliding the lock across and entering the room timidly.
She wasn't sure what she was expecting when she saw him, but she hadn't seen him this weak since Stefan had vervain him all those years ago when she was still human and Damon was an evil douche. Somehow it felt oddly nostalgic in a sickening way that made her stomach churn uneasily as she knelt down beside him, no words were said between them as she got comfortable on the dirty floor.
Finally he shuffled to be looking into her wide doe like orbs. "Are you planning on having Klaus snap my neck again? Because I woke up feeling surprisingly completely un-murderous, and I'm pretty sure that it's safe to set me free." He tried to convince her but she only shot him an unconvinced look.
"You may feel that way, Damon, but I'm not taking any chances until we can figure out a way to make sure you're uncompelled." She informed him as she handed him the vial of blood, she hated starving him but she had to make sure that he couldn't get his strength back up so that he could escape.
"Really? Your sire-master practically bled me dry. At least spring for a bag, or something more..." He trailed his fingers over her throat creating goosebumps in his trail down to her collar-bone as she saw his fangs protrude below his upper lip. "I'm thirsty, Gracie." He whispered moving towards her but against all of her inner emotions she moved away from his reach a frown on her face as she held out a bottle of water for him to satisfy his needs with. "So I can't even touch my girlfriend now?"
"Not when you could bleed her dry at the first bite." A voice came from behind them, the older vampire glanced up groaning as he saw the cocky hybrid standing in the doorway, arms crossed behind his back. "We both know how delicious Grace's blood is, so why even tempt yourself?"
A deep growl erupted from the back of the Salvatore's throat as he looked between Klaus and Grace. "What the hell are you doing here?" He questioned his voice rough yet holding a surprising amount of demand which made Grace gulp a little as she stood up brushing off her thighs moving over to sit on the cot in the middle of the room.
"I'm helping babysit." Klaus answered a sickening smile crossing his lips. "You've had your lovely girlfriend up all night, just so you know." He announced earning yet another feral growl as the youngest vampire shot the hybrid a warning look, he just chuckled and held his hands up innocently.
Sighing heavily Grace sat forward placing her elbows on her knees as she looked between the two. "Listen, we're all gonna have to spend the day together until Stefan can manage to steal the dagger from Rebekah so we can use it on Kol to stop your compulsion." She glanced over at her boyfriend whom just rolled his eyes leaning his head back against the brick wall. "So, just at least try to get along, or pretend because I'm too exhausted to deal with any fighting." She informed them both and solemnly they nodded. "Thank you." She muttered softly as she leaned back in the cot and rested there for a moment.
She knew she was going to have to take some kind of control today or else they would end up killing each other before the day was out and unfortunately Grace knew which one would win. Honestly the brunette didn't want to see them fighting and them fighting over her made her feel even worse, she hated being put in that position.
As the younger Salvatore brother was standing outside of Rebekah's house he glanced down to see that his phone was ringing, the name 'Elena' popped up on the caller ID so he answered it holding his phone against his ear greeting her with a loving hello.
"Kol just tried to kill Bonnie." Elena's voice came out rasped down the speaker, he was taken back, he honestly wasn't sure how far this impulsive original would go in order to keep them from finding the cure and possibly raising Silas.
"What?" Stefan blanked for a moment as he leant against his motorcycle. "Is she ok?" There was a high level of concern to the forest green-eyed vampire's voice.
"Yeah, she's just shaken up." The brunette answered as she ran her free hand through her long tresses. "She managed to hold him off, but Kol seems pretty intent on murdering everyone who's looking for that cure." She informed him, something which he probably already knew.
Stefan nodded his head as he looked up at the blonde's large house feeling almost guilty for what he was doing. "Yeah, Klaus has me trying to convince Rebekah to give up her dagger so he can take care of Kol."
"I don't want to just dagger Kol. I want Jeremy to kill him." Elena informed him bluntly, obviously no knowing where he was and what kind of danger she could be getting him into if the blonde heard them speaking, quickly he turned on his motorcycle and revved the engine to create noise over their conversation, telling her to repeat what she had just said. "Bonnie has all this crazy new power, she thinks she can hold him long enough for Jeremy to get a clean shot."
"And then what, huh?" Stefan quizzed creasing his eye brows, he could feel a lump of anger in his chest as his girlfriend proposed such an unorthodox and dangerous plan. "Klaus and Rebekah will kill every one of us out of spite. They may be dysfunctional ,bickering lunatics, but they stick together no matter what." He reminded her which made a small sigh fall from her lips.
"That's why you need to find the dagger and use it on Rebekah. She can't come looking for revenge if she's laying in a box." Elena had obviously already thought all of this through step-by-step in her head, but that didn't mean something couldn't go wrong at any moment.
"Yeah, I can't do that." He informed her, if he was to dagger her then he'd end up dead, that was what they had learnt a long time ago when Damon had attempted to dagger Elijah and Alaric stopped him before he got to the deed.
"I know you can't because vampires can't use the dagger, but Matt can. It's not like she doesn't deserve it. And Bonnie thinks that she can get Klaus out of the picture, too, at least temporarily. Once we get this cure, none of this will matter because we can use it against them."
Stefan sighed heavily, she had certainly planned everything out. "Alright fine, but how do you plan to lure Kol in?"
Walking down an empty street of Mystic Falls, Kol had his earphones in listening to loud music when suddenly his phone began to ring, he glanced down smirking when he saw the name 'Jeremy' pop up on the screen, hitting answer he spoke through the microphone attached to his earphones.
"Jeremy Gilbert. Nice to see I'm still on your speed dial, mate. Hey, you want to meet up at the batting cages in Denver?" He quizzed a smirk pulling over his lips, he didn't expect it when a female voice trailed down the speaker.
"Actually, it's Elena Gilbert."
The original laughed gently as he picked up his pace down the street. "What a treat. Yeah, I was just thinking of all the clever ways I could have your brother killed, but I'd settle for ripping off his illustrated arm instead." He announced making the brunette restrained from growling loudly and threateningly.
"I need to talk to you – in person." She informed him in a short voice watching as both Matt and Jeremy stand there preparing the weapons for the take down of Kol Mikaelson. "I wanna call a truce, in the name of Silas."
This made the original stop for a moment finally someone was listening to his warnings about the crazy first immortal. "You want to talk about Silas?"
"I'll meet you wherever you want. I'll come to you." She informed him not expecting when the doorbell ran behind them, they all turned in surprise and the hunter grabbed his gun off the table, cocking it back and pointing it at the door.
"If you want a truce, open the door and invite me in." Kol announced down the speaker as the three looked at each other not sure of what to do. "I'm waiting. Let me in and let's talk truce." He added as quickly the brunette walked across the kitchen and grabbed a small blackboard. "Hello?"
"Wouldn't it be kind of stupid to invite you in?" She quizzed nestling the phone between her ear and shoulder as she wrote frantically on the chalkboard.
"On the contrary, I can't kill your brother with my own two hands, or I'll suffer the hunters curse and spend the next 20 years trying to off myself in gruesome ways." He informed her his point as the newborn held the chalkboard up to Matt showing him her plan that she couldn't talk about without fear of Kol hearing.
Help Stefan find dagger. She wrote and he nodded his head as he snuck out of the back door leaving Jeremy looking over at his sister before the British voice tumbled down the speaker once again.
"And I've heard that vervain's back in town, so I can't compel you to kill him either. So I think it's fair to say you're semi-safe, for now." He announced, but Elena was hardly listening as she rubbed off the message to Matt that she had written on the chalkboard writing another message for her brother.
Get out. Get Bonnie. Turning the board he looked at it for a long moment, his dark eye brows knitting together in confusion before he shook his head whispering. "I'm the only one that can invite him inside." He told her but with the help of Kol's supernatural hearing he heard from the other side of the door.
"He's right, obviously." Kol's cocky voice came from the other side of the door, rolling her rich brown orbs the newborn walked over to the door and opened it looking up at him. "You'd think being alive for over a thousand years would teach me some manners, but I couldn't resist stopping by."
"If I let you in, my brother goes. You're not getting near him." She warned, a stern look on her face as she glanced over her shoulder at her brother who was still standing in the kitchen area a hard look on his face as he looked over at the original.
Kol nodded as he looked between both Gilbert's. "Fair enough."
Elena looked back at her brother once again who looked reluctant to inviting him in, but knew it was their only hope of taking him down and in turn getting Damon off of his back. "You can come in." He announced before he slipped through the back door.
"No gold medals for bravery, I see." Kol smirked as he began to unravel his head phones from his clothing tying them around his iPhone. "You know the thing I love about the modern age is... Music, anytime you like." He gushed as he slipped the device into his pocket giving Elena a good view of the white oak stake on the side of his jacket. "So... This is the part where you offer me a drink so we can have a proper chat."
Over in Rebekah's house the blonde was looking mindlessly through a rack of clothing as the younger Salvatore leaned against the door frame, arms crossed over his chest as she watched her feel the fabrics and admire the colours.
Sighing heavily the original glanced over her shoulder. "The colours, the fabrics – the eighties were just... tragic." She informed him in a harsh voice. "You know, I think shoulder pads rival 17th century puritan smocks for crimes against fashion." She badmouthed earning a smirk from the vampire behind her.
"Looking for something to wear to the dance?" He quizzed, obviously no one had told her that the entire thing had been cancelled by the town mayor and that curfews had been reinstated.
"Aye." She nodded her head as she continued to walk around her rather large clothes closet. "Are you asking me as your date?"
Stefan sighed a little as he walked further into the room. "Actually, it was cancelled." He informed her and he saw the way her body language changed at the news, she was disappointed to hear about that.
"So why are you here?" She turned around to look at him, trying to keep the look of disappointment off of her face, but she could feel herself failing. "Back for more dagger talk?"
The younger vampire chuckled a little as he looked down at her. "Somebody has some trust issues. Is it so surprising that I would just want to spend some time with you? We have gotten close after the last couple of days, even if you do treat Elena like she's dirt..."
"Don't give me that innocent look." She referred up to the puppy dog look on his face which cracked into a cheeky smile. "You've done plenty to me in the name of getting what you want..." She scolded him gently as she turned around to look at the racks of clothing once again. "Well, I guess I should pack up these racks. Just another failed attempt at getting to a high school dance."
"Why do you care so much about a high school dance?" The forest green-eyed vampire questioned curiously as he crossed his arms over his chest, he had never seen the appeal, but him and his supernatural family had an awful track record with school dances, so perhaps that was why.
"I don't." She lied shrugging her shoulders trying to put on a careless face. "I was just bored." She covered.
"Right..." Stefan nodded his head as they both stared at each other for a long moment before he suggested. "Well, we can still go if you want."
The blonde creased her eye brows gently looking up at the younger Salvatore. "Not if it's cancelled, we can't." She told him in a firm voice, but there was a glint of hope in her eyes that he wouldn't give up on them going.
"Since when do you care about the rules?"
Turning the corner into the cellar room that was holding both the hybrid and the raven black-haired vampire, Grace looked between them both. Klaus was wandering aimlessly around the room minding his own business and Damon seemed to be passing the time by throwing a small ball into the air and catching it in his hands repeatedly, it looked as if it was mind-numbingly boring and tedious but he figured it was better than having to watch the hybrid paced around the room.
Before, she had figured it was too quiet down there, when she had turned the corner she half expected to see a bloodbath or at least someones neck to be snapped. As she looked between them they both looked back at her with painfully bored looks on their faces. She had been trying to keep herself busy too by doing anything, at the moment she was cleaning out the unwanted clothes from her closet, it had really been too much on her nerves having them both in the same house at once.
Sensing the churn of slight panic in her stomach, Klaus finally announced. "Everything is fine, love. We're both still breathing... For the moment." He tried to joke but the stern look she threw him told him that she really wasn't in the mood for any teasing. Grace gave them both one final look, much like a mother would give misbehaving children before she dug into her pocket slipping out a vial of blood, handing it over to Klaus before vanishing from the doorway.
When they were both certain that the brunette was a good distance away not to hear them speaking, Klaus stated. "You know, none of this would be an issue if you'd have just done your job properly. I was perfectly willing to let you train Jeremy." He announced earning a wide-eyed look from the vampire sitting against the wall, squeezing the ball tight in his hand.
"No, you weren't." He growled loudly as he held back baring his teeth at the original. "Are you kidding? You got there day two. Do you know how hard it is to get these Xbox brains to focus?" He quizzed in a gruff voice, leaning his head back against the wall looking up at the high ceiling of the cellar. "Not to mention I had to deal with Grace, too. It's not like I could just ignore the fact that she's sired to you, or that she's having family trouble." He added.
The hybrid took a long moment to think about all of what the younger vampire had said before he mused. "Mmm, that's another thing, why on Earth would you leave Grace to deal with a bar full of newborn vampires?" He narrowed his eyes as he looked over at the older Salvatore brother who was just looking at the small ball in his hand. "Kol could have easily killed her if he had wanted to, but instead he tortured her so that he could play on your emotions and compel you to kill Jeremy."
"I'm sorry but none of us could have anticipated that your crazy brother would show up and kill all your newborns that were meant for Jer." He felt a rush of anger and impulse to kill when he even mentioned the hunters name, it was clear that the compulsion hadn't worn off. "I already told you that I only let Grace go with Jeremy so she wouldn't go off the deep end and turn off her emotions because she thinks that everyone she loves is going to eventually leave her or not want her. I had to make her feel like she had a purpose, that she was needed, that I needed her."
"Is... Is that really how she feels?" Klaus questioned and slowly the younger vampire nodded his head gently not making eye contact with him. The original hated that Grace was feeling that way, but it was no use hiding from the truth of the matter. Klaus decided it was time to change the subject back onto the hunter, that seemed to be their main point for arguing. "Well, you're the one who wants to keep her saddled with her humanity, so that she'll feel everything and still love you. Quite selfish actually, mate."
"Do you really want to talk about being selfish around Grace? Because, mate, I think you've racked up quite a few more points than I have." Damon growled over at him. "How about trying to kill her sister because you wanted to be a hybrid? Or how about stealing her away from me in exchange for my life? Or maybe to top it all off, not wanting her to have the cure so she'll still want to spend time with you and not hate you, because let's be honest after everything you've done to her you know she's gonna turn her back on you."
"And how is it that you've got Grace to forgive you for every unforgivable things you did to her?" Klaus cocked an eye brow earning a confused look from the younger vampire opposite him. "One of the advantages of having Stefan compelled to tell me everything and him turning off his emotions was that he told me every bad things that you, my friend, ever did to Grace. So how what was it?" He didn't answer, only sat there staring blankly at the wall. "What is it that you said to her?"
Smirking a little the icy blue-eyed vampire looked across at the original who for once didn't hold a deeply smug look on his face, rather it was intrigued and willing as he looked down at him. "You know what? I think for once in your tragic long life you're actually afraid." He nodded his head slowly. "I think that you're afraid that once we get the cure and I give it to Grace and she becomes human, making the bond you two share irrelevant and she isn't forced to like you anymore, she is going to turn her back on you and never want to see you again..."
The original was visibly angry now, the younger vampire could see a tinge of pink in his cheeks as the anger kept on rising, he knew he was really pissing Klaus off now. "I think she'll never forgive you for everything you've done. You killed her Gran, made her biological mother killed herself in front of her, beat her half to death! And you really think she loves you without the help of the sire-bond? I may have done some pretty bad things to Grace in the past but at least I know she loves me fully without a bond twisting her emotions."
From then on they both decided it would be a lot safer if they continued to ignore each other, so Damon went back to his mindless game of throwing a ball up into the air and Klaus stared blankly at the wall trying to forget about what the young vampire had said but the words kept repeating in his mind over and over again.
Over at the Gilbert house, the impulsive original was sitting on the couch, playing the same video game that both Matt and Jeremy had played earlier. The newborn walked into the room holding one of Alaric's bottle of bourbon that she hadn't had the heart to throw away, they were just sitting at the back of the cupboard collecting dust always reminding her.
"Sorry, I had to dig up the old people alcohol." She announced to him as she stood behind the couch, watching him play until he paused the game throwing the controller down and walking into the kitchen, she followed.
Smirking Kol informed her. "Yeah, that's the problem with people today. They have no drinking imagination. Turn-of-the-century New Orleans – now, they knew how to make a drink." He complimented nodding his head in remembrance.
Elena tilted her head, she had always thought of Kol as the original that had been boxed away for most of his life. "You lived in New Orleans?"
"We all did." He answered with a soft smile, thinking back to the memories of when his family was still whole and still talking to each other, all the fun they'd have together, drinking, draining humans, spending time with one another. "Till Niklaus shoved a dagger in my heart."
"Why? What did you do?" She quizzed curiously looking across at him.
"What makes you think I did anything?" A cruel smirk pulled across his lips as he watched her walk across the room to grab two glasses. "Has you alliance with my brother softened you to his horrors?" He narrowed his eyes at her.
"I don't have an alliance with Klaus." She made herself very clear, she wanted to be rid of every single original that had come into her town, now she just wanted the cure for herself and her family but she wasn't about to let the original know that. "We had a mutual interest in finding the cure; that's all." She told him in a firm voice and a set look on her face.
Kol tilted his head as he asked. "Had?"
"Yes. And I'm willing to give up looking for it if you promise to leave my brother alone." She replied to him as they both stared at each other for a long moment, the newborn picked up the tonic dispenser in front of her looking down at it confused. "Now, can you teach me how to make this?" She gave him a half-hearted smile, shrugging helplessly. "I'll get some ice." She announced as she walked over to the refrigerator.
As she opened it she heard the distinct noise of tonic water being sprayed into glasses, looking down at her phone she saw that she had a message from Jeremy, pressing open she read it in her head.
Trying to find her. KEEP KOL THERE.
Nodding her head a little she slid her phone back into her pocket as she grabbed a handful of ice from the freezer compartment, as she used her foot to swing the door close she didn't expect to see the original standing there with a stoic look on his face, it startled her so much that she almost dropped the ice cubes to the floor.
The young hunter was walking hastily down a pavement as he left the witch a voicemail, it had been a while since they heard from her after her run in with Kol and he was beginning to get a little worried, plus Elena was left in their house with the sociopath.
"Bonnie, where are you?" He asked in a breathless voice as he scanned the streets for any kind of danger. "I called like seventeen times. Kol is in our house. We need you. Ok, I'm heading to your house now." He informed her hoping that she'd get the message.
The newborn was holding a bowl of ice as she offered it forward to Kol. "Here you go." She informed him smiling gently as he took the bowl off of her, placing it on the kitchen island looking up at her for a split second.
"Would you like one?" Kol offered as he dunked some ice into his neck, she hesitated a little, looking between the drinks licking her lips, she had some time to kill she might as well make it go quicker with the use of alcohol.
"Sure, why not?" She nodded her head at him as he dunked some ice into her glass too. "You're really good at that game." She noted as the original looked up at her through skeptical eyes. "Definitely considering you've been locked up in a coffin for a hundred years." The brunette added.
Smiling the Brit answered. "I'm a quick learner. Speedy reflexes. It's not much like the real thing, though, is it?" He looked across at her to see the blank look on her face, she had never made a kill before. "You've killed, haven't you? Or are you one of those Mary-Sue vampires?" He smirked earning a look from her.
"I haven't killed." She shook her head and the original couldn't help but smirk looking down at the brunette. "But it's not like I haven't been around death-"
"It's not the same." Kol answered her in a short voice. "You never forget your first, but you do seem to lose track over the years." He added looking down for a moment before looking back up gazing into her eyes. "So are we going to talk about Silas or just jibber-jabber?" He announced as the brunette gesture them to walk back into the living room and he did giving her one final look.
She felt her phone vibrate once again, reaching into her pocket she dug out her phone looking down to see that this time she had a message from Matt. Sighing she glanced over at the original who seemed to involved with himself to notice that she was checking her phone.
No dagger yet. Need time.
In Rebekah's mansion, the blond human had found himself in the originals bedroom trying to find the dagger. He was rummaging through all of her draws frantically trying to find it before she got back or he got caught. He pulled the bed covers back, lifting the fluffy pillows but still unable to find anything, they were running out of time.
"Nobody else seems to think Silas exists, so why do you?" Elena quizzed in a light voice as she looked over a the youngest Mikaelson brother. Everyone had said that this first immortal was a myth and nothing to be worried about, but it seemed to strike fear in Kol's very being.
"I used to run with some witches." He announced and this earned a surprised look from the newborn, she had always though that witches had been slaves to originals because they all feared them but it seems that Kol held witches close. "Africa in the fourteenth century, Haiti in the seventeenth century, New Orleans in the nineteen hundreds. They all knew about Silas; that he needed to stay buried. I actually hold witches in high esteem."
The brunette nodded gently. "Yeah, but why Silas? Why are you so afraid of him?" She quizzed, all the originals she knew weren't afraid of anything so why did Kol feared this one man so much.
He took a moment as he swigged from his drink. "They said if Silas rises, he'll unleash Hell on Earth." He warned in a low tone, much like he would if he was telling a scary story. "I happen to like Earth just the way it is."
"That's pretty biblical."
"Well, that's the other problem with people today; they've lost faith." Another thing that Elena hadn't know about the impulsive original, he must have held religion close to him. "And in that loss, they no longer know who they should fear." A dark look crossed his perfect features.
Outside of the Salvatore house, Grace found herself sitting on the steps in the back yard, she had tried her hardest to catch up on some rest but found herself unable to sleep, especially with the bickering coming from the cellar below. Outside seemed to be the only place she could find herself relaxing, under the cold starry night she glanced upwards feeling a heavy feeling on her chest.
Smiling, she trailed her hand up to her neck fingering over her silver chain until she reached the two pendants: one was her day-walking deep blue Lapis Lazuli stone and the other one was the ring that Damon had given her. Unclipping her necklace she slipped off the ring and admired it for a long moment watching it sparkled under the sweet moonlight.
Slipping the ring onto her wedding finger she smiled down at it, Damon truly loved her so much, after everything they had been through together, all the promises kept and broken. Aching nights and loving mornings. He still wanted to spend his eternity with her. Licking her lips slowly she twirled the ring on her finger. Her heart hurt so much from the love she could feel filling it.
"That's a lovely ring." A British voice announced from behind her, she turned suddenly standing up to see Niklaus standing there his hands buried in his pockets. "Did Damon give it to you?" He quizzed and slowly she nodded her head, he walked towards her carefully as she clenched her fist almost to hide the shining object but he held his hand out, as if to inspect it. "May I?"
Timidly, she placed her small hand inside of his larger one, she didn't dare look at his face, instead her eyes fell down to their hands. The original used his thumb to twirl the jewellery looking at every inch of it. She knew that if her heart was to still beat it would be thudding so loud in her chest, but instead she just felt an uncomfortable lump in her throat that she just tried to swallow over.
"It... It's a promise ring." She didn't notice how small her voice was until she spoke, he nodded his head as he continued to look down at the ring, he could feel an undeniable sting of pain and anger racing through his body, starting at the top of his head and spreading to his finger tips and toes. "Damon... Erm, Damon gave it to me at Christmas."
"Have you been hiding it from only me, or everyone?" He quizzed looking down into her eyes, she shook her head gently.
"I haven't told anyone. It... It was supposed to be just between myself and Damon, but now you know, too." She announced in a soft voice looking up into his eyes. "Can you... Can you understand that we want to keep it a secret." She whispered, he bit the inside of his cheek as he nodded his head. "Nik, I'm-"
"Don't." He hissed out in a gruff voice, the hybrid could feel a burning anger inside of him that just wanted to lash out and hit something, swiftly he crushed his finger tips along her delicate cheek bones, gazing deeply into her eyes as his breathing grew shallow. She swallowed loudly, her breathing coming out in short rasps.
Hastily, he turned on his heels and strode back into the house, she could feel the upset and anger swelling in her stomach. Pulling the ring off of her finger she slipped it back onto her necklace before clasping it back around her neck. She stood there for a long minute, locking her fingers in her hair, a clench of guilt squeezed her throat tightly making it hard for her to breathe. Now she really just wanted a hug from Damon.
Over in Bonnie's home she was searching frantically for her phone, she hadn't been able to find it since she first arrived in her home and she had placed it down somewhere, the witch had spent most of her time trying to recover after her run in with Kol Mikaelson. Her heart was still racing.
The Bennett Witch heard a pair of footsteps entering the room as she was searching under the couch cushions. Looking awkwardly over her shoulder she saw her father standing in the door way his arms crossed over his chest, he had called a family meeting and now she was just going to take-off, the mayor definitely wasn't happy with his daughters behaviour.
"I have to get to Elena's, have you seen my phone?" Bonnie questioned, she really didn't have time to explain to her father the whole story and she most certainly didn't want it, he wouldn't let her help her friends if he knew that an impulsive original was involved and tried to kill her once already.
Rudy held up his hand to reveal her phone in it, her eyes went wide as she saw it there. "I've got your phone, and I've got your car keys. And I told you, we are having a family meeting." He demanded in a tough voice but she only rolled her eyes as she stood up straight opposite him.
"Is that something you read in a book? Because we have never had a family meeting." She informed him in a cold voice, and even the mayor knew it was true. Her mother had never been there for Bonnie has a child and he had been so busy with his job that her Grams had basically brought her up.
"I've let this go on far enough. Shane said you and your magic are like a ticking time bomb." He told her and the witch couldn't even believe that he was listening to a word that the murderous Professor was saying, after everything he had done.
"And I told you he's crazy." Bonnie tried to argue but she could see that her father wouldn't be in the mood for arguing tonight.
"I lost your mother to witchcraft. I don't intend to lose you." He told her in a firm voice as he took a step towards her a dark look in his eyes, in his mind he was doing this for her best interests, she may have wanted to help her friends but he wasn't about to let her be killed by her own magic to help them.
"It's not you life, it's mine." She reminded him when suddenly a loud banging came from the front door, her heart ran cold when she thought it might be Kol, the witch was about to stop her father but he was on the move before she got a chance.
Rudy rolled his eyes as he gave his daughter one final look before turning the corner and walking down the hall to see the teen hunter standing in the doorway looking frantic. "Yeah?" The mayor questioned, he wasn't in the mood for any interruptions tonight, he just wanted to have a family meeting with his daughter.
"Is Bonnie here?" He was almost breathless as he looked up at the incredibly tall, intimidating looking man, but he was willing to look past all of that because they needed the witches help so badly.
"She's busy." Rudy answered shortly as he tried to close the door, but agilely the hunter squeezed through the small space of the door standing in the hallway looking at the mayor with a pleading look in his eyes.
"It's important." He informed him and the older man was about to kick him out when his daughter suddenly came walking down the hall surprised to see Jeremy standing there in the hallway of her house.
"What's going on?"
"I've called you like a hundred times. Kol is in our house." The hunter informed her making the witch look over at him in surprised, she seemed terrified in that single moment before remembering to be strong for her friends. The witch knew she had to be there for Elena.
Turning swiftly she looked over at her father with a strong look on her face, yet fear brooding in her light brown eyes. "I have to go."
"I said 'no'." Rudy told her in a firm voice, he wasn't about to let her go out there and get killed but he saw a look of anger cross his daughters face as she stared back at him and he couldn't help but feel a little concerned for her.
Suddenly a light smashed above Bonnie and the mayor knew she was losing control of her magic again when she hissed. "Stop telling me what to do." Giving him one final look she stepped past him about to walk out the door with Jeremy in tow but a presence was in front of her, one that took her by surprise. Abby Bennett, her estranged vampire mother.
"No one's going anywhere." Abby commanded in a tough voice, but the witch was still taken back by her actually standing there, she hadn't seen her since they were trying to desiccate Alaric and they called her in to ask how she had done it to Mikeal, the daddy original.
Bonnie gulped. "Mom?"
"Abby, please come in." Rudy gave the vampire the invitation to her own house, obviously the mayor had been doing a little tracking down on his own and now he really did want a family meeting, hopefully they could find a way to help their daughter, even if they didn't see eye-to-eye with the magic and supernatural world.
"What are you doing here?" The witch questioned narrowing her eyes at her mother.
"Your father called." Abby answered as she nodded over to the new town mayor with a delicate smile on her lips before turning to face her daughter again. "Who's Professor Shane? What has he been teaching you?" She demanded to know.
As Jeremy stood in the corner of the room he couldn't help but feel a panicked stutter in his throat as he thought about how Elena had been left alone with the young impulsive original all that time. "Bonnie, we don't have time for this." He tried to convince her but the looks he got from both of her parents told him to pipe down.
Rudy gave him a hard look. "This is a family matter."
"My sister's in trouble. We need Bonnie's help." Jeremy informed him, trying to plead with him, but Abby wasn't having her daughter helping the Gilbert's anymore, they had already gotten her into enough trouble with the spirit world and the supernatural world.
"My daughter is done helping Elena Gilbert. Now, get out!" She ordered the hunter in a rough voice pointing towards the door, Bonnie was obviously mortified by her mother's behaviour and tried to argue with her but she wasn't having any of it. "Answer my question. What lies has this professor been telling you?"
Suddenly from no where the hunter whipped a stake out about to stab it into the vampire that had bad-mouthd his sister when suddenly the ex-witch turned and caught his arm before he could even get close, a slight smirk pulling over her lips.
"Don't! Jeremy! Hey, stop! Stop!" Bonnie ordered in a calm voice as she pulled the teen away from her mothers grip placing her hands on either side of his neck, she could feel his pulse thudding uncomfortably hard against the palm of her hand. "Don't hurt her. She's my mom." He wasn't looking at her, only giving a murderous stare to the vampire standing across from him. "Alright? Look at me."
He looked down into her beautiful, tranquil light brown orbs and suddenly felt safe and at home all at once. He could feel his body calming as the murderous feeling flooded from his body. Jeremy's grip on the stake loosened as Bonnie nodded gently at him, it had actually worked.
"Just go, ok? I'm right behind you." She assured him as he broke away from her hold and headed out the front door, slowly the witch closed it before turning back to face her parents a hard look on her face. "You wanna talk? Let's talk."
"A tacky piece of jewellery which means absolutely nothing." Klaus growled as he turned the corner into the cellar room where Damon was being held until they could get the dagger from Rebekah. The older Salvatore glanced up from where he had drunk from the bottle of water. "You think that some idiotic ring is going to win her over in the end?"
Damon scoffed, leaning his head back against the wall, throwing the small ball against the brick wall opposite him trying to keep himself amused. "As much as you think it's a ploy to get her to stay with me, it's not. I gave it to her because I wanted her to know that what we have is real and that nothing is ever going to change that."
A deep growl erupted from the hybrids throat. "What if what she feels for me is real? Hmm? What if by some miracle you get her the cure, give it to her and everything she feels for me doesn't disappear? What then? Would you really deny her anymore happiness by keeping her with you?" Damon knew he was just trying to get to him now so he continued to throw the ball at the wall, harder now as he continued to feel his anger rise.
"I believe that I asked you a question, Salvatore." He walked further into the room, the look on the hybrids face had darkened as he watched the younger vampire ignore him, holding back all the anger he had bottled up against him. "I expect you to answer me."
"Don't you think that if whatever feelings she had for you were actually true then she would've acted on them already?" Damon hissed as he looked over at him, the hybrid was taken back by his answers, he had expect a guarded response but it looked as if the raven-black haired vampire wasn't going to hold back.
Damon scoffed a little. "If she really, truly 'loved' you, which she has never said by the way." He reminded him coldly. "Why did she come back to me?" He let that statement hang in the air. "Even if she is sired to you, why doesn't she leave me to be with you? To please your every sick need?"
All these reasons finally seemed to hit the original like ten tonne of bricks, he stood there for a long moment watching as the vampire refused to look back at him only continued to throw the ball tediously against the wall repeatedly, that was the only noise that was echoing around the room, the small thud and that didn't seem to make the moment any less awkward.
The youngest Mikaelson brother was walking around the Gilbert living room looking at pictures of family when one photo caught his eye. Picking it up he inspected it deeper, it was of Jeremy and Elena laughing at the camera which was held above their heads. He gave it a hard look as footsteps entered the room.
"So we're out of gin, but I think this is a good year." Elena announced as she looked down at a bottle of wine completely clueless.
Kol took a moment,still looking down at the picture he was holding. "What if I said I don't believe you?"
Elena didn't really catch where he was going to go with the conversation. "Ok, you caught me. I don't know anything about wine." She snorted as she walked further into the room holding the wine by the neck of the bottle.
Kol rolled his eyes as he stated. "It just seems odd that you'd be so willing to give up something you want so much." He added, she was a vampire that had never killed before and from the looks of her she wasn't ever going to kill, being human was her only salvation.
"I would do anything for my brother." The newborn answered honestly giving him a look, Kol used to feel the same way for his family until they all began to betray each other and turn on one another. "And if what you're saying about Silas is true, why does it matter what I want if it puts everyone else in danger?" Her compassion was beginning to flare through again.
"Well, this has been enlightening. Thanks for the drinks." Kol nodded at her as he placed the picture back down on the side strutting towards the door, the brunette was walking after him a tinge of panic crawling up her throat, he was meant to be here for when Jeremy got back so he could end him. "I'll take your request for a truce under advisement."
"Is there any chance that you could be wrong about Silas?" Elena questioned licking her lips, she had to think of a way to keep him here.
"Trust me, Elena. Some things are better left buried." The original answered in a gruff voice as he walked from the house, closing the door behind him, she let out a heavy sigh as she stood there looking at the door.
Over at the high school, Stefan and Rebekah had only just arrived, he led her into the dark gym, she looked around waiting for her eyes to adjust whilst the younger vampire was trying to find the lights for them.
"I think I saw a horror movie that started just like this." She mused as she stood there crossing her arms over her chest. "Did you knew they play movies on TV all night long now?" She stated trivially tilting her head to the side hearing Stefan milling around behind her. "Hundreds of them. So much better than those silly black-and-white picture shows we used to go to."
Suddenly the lights flashed on above them, blinding them both momentarily before their eyes adjusted finally and they saw the beauty of the room in front of them. It really took Stefan back as he looked around at all the red balloons scattered around the floor.
"I dunno. I kinda miss the old ones." Stefan announced continuing their conversation about movies as he moved to be standing in the DJ booth looking at all the records displayed in front of him smiling in reminiscence of the 80s. "You got any requests for the DJ?" He quizzed with a smirk just as he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket, he saw that he had a text from the human who was still trying to find the dagger in all of Rebekah's girly things.
Still looking.
"I'll let you pick. Nothing cheesy." She commanded which earned a scoff from the young vampire who was still standing up in the DJ booth trying to put a couple of things together. She hadn't been around for the 80s, she was locked away in a box at that point by her own ass of a brother.
"Oh, that leaves out about half the decade." He announced as he plugged his phone into the speakers clicking on a song waiting for it to start. "Hope you like The Cure." He smirked as she threw him a look.
"Funny." She muttered as she looked around the beautifully decorated room. "So is everything about the 80s so... excessive?" She chose her words carefully.
"It had its charm." Stefan answered with a chuckle as he looked over at her. "'Say Anything' – Lloyd Dobler standing outside of a bedroom window with a boom-box over his head, desperately trying to get back the girl of his dreams; 'Princess Bridge' – Wesley slays giant rats for love; 'The Breakfast Club' – one detention turns a bunch of outcasts into allies." He listed popular movies from the time.
"So it was a decade of sentimental drivel, as well?" She scoffed as she continued inspecting the rooms, mindlessly kicking the balloons as she walked.
"Well, I was going to say love, friendship, the possibility of anything happening. You would have loved it." He informed her knowing the exact type of person that she was, she loved all of that sentimental drivel too, that was why she wanted the cure. He could see through the tough façade she put up.
She was smiling lightly as she asked. "And why is that?"
"Because as much as we both hate to admit it, we care about those things." He announced as he joined her in the middle of the dance floor, pulling a small box out of his pocket, she looked at it for a long moment.
"That better not be a corsage. I loathe corsages." She told him in a tough girly voice, but the sweet, innocent girl inside of her was begging for it to be a beautiful corsage.
"These were all the rage in the 80s." Smirking a little the younger vampire opened the box to reveal a koala corsage, she couldn't help but laugh a little as he clipped it to her dress, she admired it for a long moment. "Let's dance." He suggested holding out his hand and she didn't hesitate placing her hand in his own.
Cautiously Jeremy was approaching the Gilbert house, he was holding his pistol tight in hand knowing it was loaded with wooden bullets so it was going to pack a little punch at least if Kol was the other side of the door. Opening the door he walked inside startled when he heard a noise, he quickly pin-pointed where the noise had come from and turned aiming his gun to see his sister standing at the barrel of the gun/
"I'm sorry." Elena whispered shaking her head. "He left. I mean, I-I tried to stall him as long as I could." She announced regretfully when suddenly the door bell ran.
Jeremy turned quickly. "That's Bonnie. She was right behind me." He announced as his sister walked past him opening the door hoping to see her witch friend but instead saw the young impulsive original standing there.
"I've considered your request for a truce. Request denied." He told her with a smirk playing on his lips when she suddenly slammed the door shut in his face. "I'm sorry! I've already been invited in!" He hollered loudly as he slammed his foot against the door making it fly open breaking the lock and almost knocking it off its hinges, but as the door swung open the two Gilberts were no longer standing there. "Hide and seek? Fine by me."
"Dad needs to mind his own business." Bonnie scolded as she stood opposite her parents in the living room of his house. "He had no right to call you here."
"It's not just your father, Bonnie." The ex-witch answered shaking her head, almost a look of disappointment in her eyes as she added. "Witches talk. Word gets around." This made the teens throat closed in panic before she shook her head, remembering what Shane had said to her: Expression was neither right nor wrong.
Sighing heavily the witch replied. "I found a new way to practice. It's unconventional, but I can handle myself, I promise." She tried to reason with them, but she knew that they weren't going to be taking that and being done with the conversation.
Rudy scoffed a little. "That's not what Shane said."
"Shane is sitting in a jail cell right now." Bonnie argued reasonably making both of her parents exchange looks. "You're going to take his word over mine?" She gawked at them, she was their daughter.
"I have warned you about dark magic before." Abby shook her head thinking back to the time when she explained that in order to take down Alaric she would have to stop a human heart, which left her daughter no choice.
"It's not dark magic, it's Expression and I need it!" She growled at them both before becoming calmer and more collect as she exchanged a guilt look with her mother. "We found a cure, mom. There's a cure for vampirism. And I can do the spell to access it. I can save you, but I have to go. Now." She tried to play on her mothers emotions but this time it wasn't going to work.
Abby knew that her daughter was too important to lose to dark magic, no matter how much Bonnie was arguing against that, it was still wrong and she was losing control of it every second she practiced it.
"I'm not the one that needs to be saved. You are." The vampire argued as she zipped across the room standing behind the teen, placing her hand over her mouth obviously having some kind of drug to knock Bonnie unconscious because the teen fell limp in her arms.
Down in the Salvatore boarding house cellar, the hybrid had resorted to getting his phone out and trying to call the younger Salvatore brother, but he didn't seem to be answering which only seemed to anger the original even more. "Your brother's lack of communication is infuriating."
"It's one of his trademarks, like his brooding and his hair." Damon smirked a little as he continued to throw the small ball against the wall, honestly he was surprised that Klaus hadn't tried to take it from him yet.
"I don't understand what's taking so long. I mean, how hard is it to steal a dagger?" He shook his head but this only earned a scoff from the raven-black haired vampire sitting on the floor across from him.
"From a vampire who's been stabbed as many times as your sister, I'd say difficult." He retorted, rolling his eyes when suddenly a vial of blood fell on the floor next to him, he picked it up looking at it. "Sweet."
"You disappoint me, Damon. You're not trying very hard to get out of here. I expected more the daring escape artist, less the cell potato." Klaus snubbed as he crossed his arms over his chest, looking down at the younger vampire.
"Well, I am compelled to kill Jeremy, so I figured it's probably smarter to sit here and chit-chat with you than bust out of here like the Hulk." He answered leaning his head back against the wall as he played with the vail of blood.
"How do you think Grace felt about that, by the way?" Klaus changed the subject back onto the youngest vampire, Damon let out a frustrated sigh, he didn't want to talk about Grace with the hybrid anymore. "Your inability to overcome Kol's compulsion for a single moment even though it meant saving one of the only people she has left in her family?"
Shaking his head Damon replied. "She's met me. She knows impulse control's not my strong suit."
"Still, must be hard trying to live up to Stefan. I remember when I compelled him to feed off Elena. He fought it so hard, he actually managed to resist. Now, that's love." Klaus mused nodding his head as he began to pace back and forth.
"What do you know about love?"
"I know that you're in love with Grace. And considering we're being deep with each other and telling some home-truths I think I should tell you what you're most afraid of. I think that deep down you're afraid to give her that cure because when you do she'll be sweet, innocent little Grace again and you won't be able to resist compelling her and corrupting her like you do."
Damon didn't reply, he just stared at the wall intently for a few short minutes until suddenly the hybrids phone began to vibrate in his pocket, he smirked as he pulled it out and answered it, holding the device to his ear. "Well, if it isn't the happy homicidal maniac."
"Did you know that your darling former blood bag and her brother are trying to kill me?" Kol told him in a deep growl, this certainly took the hybrid by surprise.
"What?"
Rolling his eyes Kol replied. "Don't pretend like you're not in on it. Your obsession to find the cure clearly trumps any sibling loyalty you once felt." He snarled back at him obviously in deep disgust for his older brother.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"I'm going to rip off Jeremy's arm and kill Elena just for sport. Then I'm going to go after your precious Grace and rip her heart out just so you can feel something so painful before I kill you!" He growled before hanging up leaving the original standing there completely taken back by the revelation of the Gilberts trying to kill his younger brother.
The young impulsive original began walking around when suddenly an arrow was fired into his leg, he groaned as he looked up to see Elena standing at the top of the stairs, holding the heavy crossbow before she zipped away at vampire speed.
Gritting his teeth Kol gripped the wooden arrow, pulling it out of his leg with a great deal of force before throwing the bloody weapon to the floor growling as he began to go after the newborn.
It was very clear that Klaus was angry at the thought of his younger brother being killed, despite all the trouble Kol had put him through over the years, he was still family to him and that was important even if they were at each others throats all the time. The older Salvatore brother was taken by surprised when he was suddenly held against the wall by his throat.
"What the hell is going on?" Klaus demanded in a gruff voice looking down into the vampires eyes.
Damon was choking for air as he stared back at the original, he had been locked away all day arguing with the hybrid, he didn't have a clue what was going on outside that little bubble. "I don't know."
"What are Stefan and Elena planning?"
"I don't know." Damon reiterated in a firm voice as he continued to choke for air. "I've been stuck in the penalty box with you since yesterday. Stefan won't talk to me and I don't give a damn about Elena. So how the hell would I know what they are planning?"
"Tell me what you know." Klaus demanded as he began to compel the younger vampire, he was done with everyone lying to him and losing family.
"I don't know anything about a plan." Damon answered honestly glaring up at the hybrid in front of him.
Damon's eyes caught a shadow in the corner of the room, his small brunette vampire was standing in the door way watching with a fearful look on his young face, she wanted so much to help him but he knew it was too dangerous to get her involved. The raven-black haired vampire gave her a look which told her to run before the original turn on her and within moments she had disappeared from the doorway.
"Stay here till I return." Klaus ordered as he released the vampire from his hold before he walked from the room slamming the door shut behind him.
"I will stay here until you return..." Damon repeated as he glanced down at the bottle of water his girlfriend had given him earlier. "Or not." He added before exiting the room straight to their bedroom to see Grace sitting in the middle of the bed.
As soon as he entered the room she zipped over to him and wrapped her arms around his neck hugging him tight to her, he stroked her hair slowly telling her everything was ok and that they were fine. She was shaking in fear as he kissed her head repeatedly, clutching her tight to him never wanting to let her go.
"I-I'm so sorry that I locked you away in there and... And involved Klaus in snapping your neck. I'm sorry Damon." She whispered and he just held her close, shushing her as he leaned his head down and connected their lips.
"I know you were just protecting Jeremy. I know." He answered as he reconnected their lips only harder. "I understand why you did it and I forgive you." The older vampire zipped her against the wall hard so that she was looking at him through lust filled chocolate-brown orbs. "God, I love you." He whispered.
Damon kissed his girlfriend hard snaking his slick tongue into her mouth, knotting his long fingers in her hair and tugging, earning a soft hiss from her as she wrapped her thin legs around his waist, pulling him closer making them both sigh gently.
At the high school the blonde original was on her own kicking balloons, twirling on her heels and actually having fun with listening to the music of the 80s. She suddenly heard a pair of footsteps enter the room and spun around quickly to see the younger Salvatore brother standing there holding a bottle of alcohol.
"It's amazing what you find stashed away in the teacher's lounge." Stefan announced as he walked further into the room.
"This song is not as terrible as the other ones." Rebekah stated as she stood there, dancing to 'Wanted Dead or Alive' by Bon Jovi.
Stefan nodded, he had an affinity for Bon Jovi because it felt as if it connected him to his friend Lexi, it was one of their mutual loves when he was off the Ripper bandwagon. "This song is the God Father of all rock anthems, ok?" He told her in a jokingly firm voice which made her smirk a little.
"What's going on with you? You're... Fun tonight."
"I can't listen to this music without thinking about my best friend, Lexi." He smirked at her with a small smile crossing his lips as he thought back to the blonde, she had been so good to him, helping him out in his time of need, sticking with him through thick and thin. "We spent most of the 80s together." He announced.
The younger Salvatore brother was thinking back to good times him and Lexi spent together at that time. "I remember this one time, she snuck us backstage and compelled half the band to do tequila shots with us before the show." He laughed in remembrance and the original couldn't help but smile. "She was fearless, kinda like you." He gazed over to her.
"So you slept with her, too?" The blonde quizzed as she thought back to their time together in the 20s.
Stefan couldn't help but laugh a little as he shook his head, thinking about Lexi as anything but his best friend seemed wrong. "No, it wasn't like that. I was just a better person when I was with her. And I thought I'd never feel that way again."
"Until Elena?"
Stefan nodded his head, a stupid grin crossing his face. "Until Elena." He confirmed.
"That look right there." She pointed teasingly at his face. "That is why I don't let myself care." She announced trying to be the big tough original again but he saw right past her act.
"Well, you can say that, but we both know it's not true." The younger vampire answered her when suddenly a balloon burst behind them, both turned suddenly, half expecting to see Kol there but only saw the emptiness of the gym.
"Don't worry." Rebekah uttered in a small voice giving him a small smile. "I'll protect you if Kol tracks his way to this abandoned dance." She bent over reaching into her leg warmer to reveal the dagger for a short second before covering it back up. "Huh, I think I'll choose the next song." She announced.
Stefan was quick to stand in front of her with a playful look on his face, snatching the drink from her hands. "No, you know what? I have a better idea." He placed the bottle down on the side. "That way." He nodded over to the hallway and she began strutting that way, walking with such a sassy purpose.
The younger Salvatore brother was quick to move behind the DJ booth and unplugged his phone, sending a text to Matt who was probably still searching every inch of her house for the dagger she was keeping on her body, in hindsight it seemed like a sensible thing for the original to do. If she had it then no one else would be able to get it without a fight.
R has dagger. Get here now.
"Are you coming?" The Brit called and he slid his phone back into his pocket as he walked over to where she was standing waiting for him.
Back to the Gilbert house, Elena was in her bedroom frantically trying to get away from Kol, she pushed her dresser to be in front of the door, but before she could completely shut it,it resisted as Kol pushed against the other side of the door trying to get in. Desperately she used her new-found vampire strength to shove the door again but Kol was an original and she didn't really stand a chance.
He shoved the door with all he had and the newborn fell to the ground looking up at him as he entered the room, she scrambled to her feet and zipped into the bathroom locking the door behind her, but before she knew it the door came flying open, Kol was standing in the doorway looking murderous.
The brunette moved quickly to be standing in Jeremy's room, shutting the door to the bathroom again but this only made Kol angry with the obstacle getting in the way of the vampire he was supposed to be murdering the hunter, he was supposed to be maiming him. He punched through the flimsy wooden door to see both Jeremy and Elena standing there wielded with weapons.
The hunter fired the first stake but he caught it in his right hand smirking. "Missed." Quickly the teen fired the other stake but Kol caught that one too in his left hand, his sister was quick to act firing the pistol to lodge a few wooden bullets into his chest, he groaned as he was knocked back.
"Go!" She ordered and the hunter took off from the room, quickly leaving the newborn to be firing several rounds into the original who was quick to turn on her, throwing one of the stakes meant for him into her leg, she called out as she looked down to see the stake sticking out of her thigh, when she glanced back up she saw that Kol wasn't standing in the doorway to the bathroom anymore, she panicked and began to frantically try to pull the wooden weapon from her leg.
Jeremy was trying to run through the hallway when suddenly he was faced with the impulsive vampire, when a rock hard fist collided with his face he was thrown backwards down the stairs, laying there for a long moment feeling dizzy and out-of-it. As Kol went to descend down the stairs to reach the youngest Gilbert he felt a weight on his back.
Knocking Elena from his back she was tossed roughly against the wall hitting the back of her head hard, she didn't expect it when the original snapped one of the posts from the railing and stacked it straight through her abdomen and through the wall behind her, leaving her panting in pain, eyes wide not able to move.
Kol took this as his chance to take down the hunter, smirking at her as he walked down the stairs, he jumped over the teens body to grab his ankle and began to drag him down the stairs. "Now, about that arm."
Back at the high school both Rebekah and Stefan were having fun, sliding down the hallway like from the movie 'The Breakfast Club' She couldn't believe how fun and spontaneous the younger vampire could be when he really tried. He took a run up and slid halfway down the hall turning back around to smile at her. "Like that."
The blonde laughed out. "This is ridiculous."
"Well, that's the whole point of The Breakfast Club Slide. It's supposed to be ridiculous." He informed her with a cheeky smile, rolling her eyes she stepped back and slid using vampire speed but he just chuckled and told her. "No, that's... That's cheating."
"What is fun about hurdling down the hallway like a teenage imbecile?" She gave him a look and honestly he didn't have a very good answer, it just seemed like it would be fun and it was something he enjoyed doing.
"You just have to do it to find out." He answered, shrugging his shoulders and that was a good enough reason for the original, she was always interested in trying something new. She tried it again but failed at it almost falling over, but her knight in shining armor was there to catch her if she did fall. "Alright, it's the shoes. Take off your shoes. You'll be fine." He confirmed.
Stefan's eyes glanced over at the end of the hall to see that Matt had finally arrived and was in hiding until he was ready to start the plan to get the dagger. Sighing heavily the original bent over and reached into her leg warmer to pull the dagger out, showing it to the younger vampire once again.
"This is what you want, right?" She passed it over to him with an almost sad look on her face, she had figured him out and now she was just giving him what he really wanted. "Go ahead, take it. You're right. I do care. I want stupid koala corsages and a prom. I want to have kids with someone who loves me enough to stand outside my window with a stupid boom-box. I want to be human. So let Klaus put down my brother. Let's go find the cure." She announced in a sure voice.
Stefan began to feel guilty about their original plan about taking down Rebekah, she was one of them, young and foolish and falling in love too easy with the wrong people who didn't want her for the right reasons. She was a normal girl who was put into an awful situation. Just like all of them. None of them asked to be vampires, then just ended up that way.
"Come on." Stefan finally decided as he held out his arm for her. "Let's go home."
Rudy was watching as his daughter slept soundlessly on the couch, he stroked her hair carefully trying not to wake her before he stood back up and walked over to his ex-wife who seemed to be making something as she crushed herbs in a bowl, obviously everything she learnt with herbs as a witch wasn't gone since she was a vampire, only her witch powers.
"You're drugging her?"
"Just enough to keep her down until I can get some witches here to clean her mind from that poison that professor been teaching her." Abby had never met Shane but she didn't like how he was making her daughter use Expression.
"That's not happening." Bonnie's suddenly voice startled them both, they figured she was out for the count, but apparently she was perfectly ready to defend herself and her newly found magic.
"Bonnie, please." The vampire begged as she went to walk towards her daughter, bowl of crushed herbs in hand but suddenly the witch held her hand out making Abby stop in her tracks.
The vampire felt a mind-numbing pain in her torso which made her call out in pain giving her daughter a pleading look, it spread through her arms twisting and bending the bones making her grip on the bowl tighten until it shattered in her hands as the pain surged through her legs making her drop to the floor, Rudy was quick to support his ex-wife.
"I don't belong to the spirits anymore. I belong to myself." She told them both in a firm voice as she walked over and grabbed her coat giving them both a hard look. "Sorry." She muttered before she walked from the house, leaving both of her parents in shock.
Over in the Gilbert house Elena was still trapped against the wall by the stake, she took a deep breath leaning her head back to push herself against the wall so that the wooden object would go right through her, but every slight move was like she was being staked again. Finally she managed to push herself off the wall releasing herself from the pain, feeling the wound began to close slowly.
Downstairs in the kitchen Kol had found himself some rope and he had hog tied the hunter to the island in the middle. When he finally found a suitable knife for cutting, which turned out to be a rather sharp looking butchers knife, he approached the teen looking down at him with a sickening smile pulling across his lips.
"Now, like I said, I don't fancy the hunter's curse, so I'm just going to chop off your arm. But don't worry, I'll heal you right up with a bit of blood after." He announced as he held the hunter's head, trying to keep him from moving. "Sorry about the sting..." He mused as he looked between both arms with a little confusion on his face, the tattoo was invisible to him so he didn't know which arm he needed to hack off. "Now, which arm is it? Is it left or right?" He questioned but the teen didn't answer. "I'll just chop off both to be safe."
As he swiped the butchers knife down it was about to collide with the hunters arm but he was jolted by the newborn vampire that had made her way down the stairs with all the strength she had left. He missed and caught the ropes instead freeing one of his arms.
Elena acted on all the anger and protectiveness she had for her family and slammed the original back against the wall shoving the blade of the knife into his arm making him call out, she had noticed that her brother had made his way over to the sick using the extendable faucet spot to spray Kol with the vervain water, she was quick to move out-of-the-way of the burning liquid.
The hunter kept the water aimed as Kol as Elena reached into his pocket and pulled out the white oak stake, throwing it over to her baby brother. "Jeremy, now!" She commanded and he caught the stake and quickly stabbed it directly into Kol's chest.
A heart wrenching scream erupted from the originals lips as he caught fire, this really was the last time they would see him and he wouldn't be able to interfere with their search for the cure anymore. He toppled over to be laying on his back as he let out his last breath, the pain was finally over and he was gone.
"What did you do?" A broken voice came from the doorway, both Gilberts looked over to see Klaus standing there looking down at his little brother with watery eyes as he licked his lips slowly.
"We... We didn't have a choice. He was trying to cut off Jeremy's arm!" Elena tried to argue but from the torn and angry look on the hybrid's face it looked as if he didn't want to hear anymore excuses, Kol was his brother and they overstepped the line.
"Lies!" Klaus growled making them both jolt back at the furiousness of his voice. "He never would have gotten inside if you didn't set a trap for him!"
"You said you were going to put him down too-"
"I was going to make him suffer on my terms!" He yelled back at her, never would he kill a sibling, he may dagger them but at least he could have them back again. This was another sibling he had lost to the Gilbert family and this time he was vengeful. "I'm going to burn this house to the ground. And then, when you try to flee for your lives, I'll kill you both without blinking."
"You kill us, you'll never get the cure." Jeremy reminded him but at this point the hybrid couldn't give a damn about the cure, not if it came at the lives of his family. "You'll never be able to make anymore hybrids."
"You really think I care for an instant about my bloody hybrids?! I want it so I can destroy it. I would have killed you all the second we dug it up. But now, I'm just going to watch you burn instead..." He told them in a deep threatening voice when suddenly he fell to his knees screaming in pain, the young witch walked past him.
"Invite him in." Bonnie ordered earning a confused look from the two Gilberts. "Do it!" She added in a rough voice as the hybrid pushed himself to his feet.
Jeremy gave the witch one final look of concern before announcing. "Come in." The witch moved his body so he was standing in the Gilbert house but unable to move.
"Living room. Now!" She commanded as they both run through the living room straight into the kitchen, they could almost feel the hybrid on their heels before he hit an invisible barrier stopping him from leaving. Trapped inside of the Gilbert's house. Pulling the stake out of the impulsive original Jeremy took off out of the door with Elena close behind.
"Witch, you can't do this to me!"
Bonnie narrowed her eyes, she was so sick of people underestimating her. "You have no idea what I can do now." She sneered as she began to walk from the Gilbert's house.
"I will hunt all of you to your end! Do you hear me!? Do you?!" He launched himself to the other end of the living room but still he was unable to escape this trap, he could feel a burning rage inside of him.
Over at Rebekah's house the blonde had taken the news of her brother's demise a little more tearfully than her older brother. She looked up at the younger Salvatore brother with a look of disbelief on her face. "I don't believe you. Kol's not dead, he can't be!" She refused to lose yet another brother.
"Listen, Rebekah, they didn't have a choice. Kol started this when he went after Jeremy. He went after you too, remember? I mean, he was never going to let us find the cure." He tried to reason with her but she was so upset by the revelation that nothing was going to help.
"So you knew? The whole night, you knew?"
"I'm not going to let the people I care about get hurt. Not Jeremy, not Elena, not Grace, not even Damon. And you can hate me for it, but now, he can't hurt you either." He reminded her in a soft voice and she looked away trying to stop her quivering lower lip. "And I want us to find this cure together, you and me. Not just for Elena, but for you." She looked up at him through puffy eyes. "So you can have what you want, be what you want. Be human again. Everyone deserves a second chance, right?"
"Why would I trust you?"
"I don't know..." He admitted truthfully, everything he had ever done to her with the help of his supernatural family would probably just send her running the opposite direction, but now he knew what she truly wanted and he wanted that for her too. "I could give you my word, but at the end of the day, you just need to take a leap."
As Grace stood in the living room, watching the youngest Gilbert paced up and down looking at his arm, she could feel a burning anger inside of her, obviously Klaus's emotions were pushing through her own and overtaking her as he looked over at Elena with almost a murderous look on her face, Damon stood at the opposite end of the room just watching his brunette carefully.
"It didn't work."
"It took time for Finn's line to die off. Remember? It'll work." Bonnie assured him with a sweet smile on her lips.
"What if it doesn't?" He quizzed when suddenly the door opened behind Grace, she turned and looked at Stefan, her eyes must have had anger written all over them because he gave her a confused look as he placed his hand on her shoulder before walking past her into the room.
"Looks like I didn't miss much." He announced as his girlfriend crossed the room to hug him tightly, she snuggled into his chest and he rubbed her back softly feeling the dried blood at the bottom of her shirt. "Got the Silas's headstone." He informed them all proudly.
"We're just waiting for Jeremy's mark to grow." Elena informed her boyfriend as he placed the large rock down on the table in front of them. "Klaus is trapped in our living room."
"Temporarily." Bonnie added in a soft voice as she glanced over to the older brunette who was standing away from them all. "I drew on the new moon to bind the spell. We have three days to find the cure. Four max."
"If we don't, we might as well look up 'Katherine and Fayth Pierce' and see if they want some company in hiding 'cause he will come after us."
"We'll find it." There was a high level of optimism in her voice. "Now that we got Rebekah taken care of, all we need is Professor Shane, and then, we'll have everything we need." She announced with a smile but the look on her boyfriend's face told her differently.
Stefan took a breath before telling her. "Yeah, I didn't... I didn't dagger her."
"What?! Why not?"
"I didn't need to. She's on our side." He referred to how she gave them Silas's headstone.
"On our side?" Elena scoffed a little, she figured she could trust her boyfriend to get rid of the original, but obviously he had caved. "Did you – did you really just say that?"
Nodding his head the younger Salvatore brother answered. "Yeah, she handed me the headstone. I mean, she wants to find this cure more than any of us." It was true, she had been miserable for 1000 years, she really did deserve that cure more than any of them.
"Why would you possibly think that we could trust her?"
"I'm not so sure, Elena. I mean, we can always count on Rebekah when we need to know what we're truly thinking of each other, right?" Grace's snide sarcastic voice came from behind them, the raven-black haired vampire cursed himself for not moving sooner, he knew all of his girlfriend's pent-up aggression was going to come out soon and it was going to be directed at Elena. "And I mean , it's not like Rebekah has ever killed one of our family members or committed genocide."
The entire room went silent, apart from the delicate footsteps of Grace's heels touching the floor as she took painfully slow steps towards her twin sister, who just stood there with a stoic look on her face, almost not wanting to make eye contact with her. The Salvatore brothers were looking at each other, Stefan wanted to stop this before it got out of hand but Damon thought they should just get whatever they wanted to say out of their systems.
"I know you're still angry at me for what I said to you and I can't take back any of that, but we shouldn't be fighting like this. It isn't right-"
The smaller brunette let out a frustrated sigh. "You don't know for a second how I'm feeling, Elena. That is something that even you can't control." She turned around shaking her head. "I remember when I killed Connor to protect you, to stop him from killing you, Elena. You kicked me out of our family, telling me I wasn't the same person and that I was a Ripper." Bonnie and Jeremy looked surprised by this, they had really been out of the loop. "And now you kill hundreds, probably thousands of innocent vampires and you get praise..." She shook her head letting out a heavy sigh.
"That's not how it is and you know it-" Suddenly a loud slap filled the room, Grace was standing in front of Elena who had a large red hand print across her cheek, all of them were taken back. Damon zipped across the room in seconds and took his girlfriend by her arms moving her away from the fight. "Ok. You got that out of your system. Are you happy now?" She questioned, her voice shaking, that slap had really knocked a couple of breaths out of her.
The older Gilbert sister was breathing hard in her boyfriend's arm, looking over at her sister whilst he whispered sweet nothings in her ear trying to calm her down but suddenly from across the room Jeremy began to scream in agony. His hands ripped his v-neck off of his body in a fit of hurt to reveal the hunter's mark spreading up his arm.
"It's happening." Jeremy announced making everyone surprised to see the black ink trailing up his arm over his chest, they all watched as it moved across his body. "You can see it?" He quizzed and slowly they all nodded.
Damon's lips were pressed against his girlfriends ear as he muttered. "Here we go."
A/N
Hi :) So this is another chapter done, I hope you enjoyed it and there was a lot of happening in this chapter and I really didn't want to kill of Kol but I didn't see another way around it so I'm sorry if you liked him but he had to go, but I liked him too! I hated it when they freaking killed him off and then I had to go into detail about the killing :( Poor Kol.
So Klaus finally found out about the promise ring, eh? He took it a lot better than I originally thought it would and the only way I could explain that is through in inner insecurities; I don't believe with them all this close to the cure (ever if he was just planning on destroying it all along) that he'd risk her hating him anymore. I think what Damon said to him really hit him hard.
Grace and Elena finally came to a boiling point also and it was little Grace that came out on top this time, which has been a long time coming really. I know all of you were hating Elena for what she did and has been doing for a while now I was building it all up to this moment where Grace finally got her own back, girl finally stood up for herself ;)
A little while ago someone mentioned or asked in a review something about me making a youtube video trailer for Twisted Love and I'd really love to, but I'm so bad at editing and making things in general, but thank you for the suggestion maybe I'll have a mess around on iMovie and see what I can come up with but I doubt it would be any good.
Also I really want to thank my new BETA missss supernatural for putting up with my work :)
Anyway enough of my babbling, thank you to EVERYONE who has reviewed, alerting, favourting. I really do appreciate every one of you and I love you all :D
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Answers and responses below :)
Nymartian – Yes, Grace was rather angry and unforgiving in this chapter, but I think that was only mild Grace compared to this chapter and to be fair I think she had the right to be ;) Finally they came together to help Grace and then it kinda got torn apart in this chapter haha.
kaj – Thanks for reviews, I'm sorry that I couldn't not kill Kol off, but there was really no other way around it, he was too angry at Jeremy he had to go and they had to get their vampires for the hunters tattoo, but if there had been another way I'd have used it because I love Kol.
smilin steph – If I just let my stories flow they'd become a mess, I need to know what I'm doing and stuff haha :')
Damon's girl – I'm not a violent person either and I'd also was to punch her pretty little face, but apart Grace already did that for us so we don't have to be violent people anymore ;) I think Damon regretted what he said about Stefan and Elena's love being more epic and he wasn't pissed at her for too long, I mean they made up pretty quick ;)
xxxRena – Glad you liked it :) Yeah, poor Damon but it had to happen so that he wouldn't hurt Jeremy and Elena finally got what was coming to her so maybe the girls will calm down for a little while now.
Katie – Well we dealt with Jeremy finding out about Grace/Elena problems the first part of the chapter, I know it seemed a little weak of a response, but you're not meant to choose between one of the other with family even if one of them was in the wrong.
susl – Thanks and no there was no romance between Klace, but there was some comforting at the start of this chapter which is always cute. Haha, I don't think Damon would ever end up with Elena in my story :')
Kayla - I know right, poor Grace has been through a lot but she is strong and she does have Damon to support her through it. I love your little part about Elena :') Amazing and so true but she Grace finally got a little revenge. I'm glad you like Drace, I really enjoy writing them so thank you.
grapejuice101 – Glad you liked it :)
SomebodyWhoCares – Poor Gracie, she really did need a hug and her loving boyfriend was there to give her a lot more ;)
Annaelle – Oh trust me, I know that stressed out feeling you get at the end of TVD and wanting to know what happens next. I know. I'm glad I can make other people feel that way, too. Kinda makes me feel good :') Don't worry, girl. You're totally making sense, I got you completely :) xx
Thenchick – Elena can be rather hypocritical and I think even dear Gracie pointed that out this chapter which really hurt her, along with the slap ;)
David Fishwick – Professor Shane is definitely something... Whether that be hurt, crazy, insane, all of this above ;) Kol does seem really scared about Silas or rather he did, maybe they all should have took that as a warning, but you know their never going to listen to an original. Katherine and Fayth will be showing their pretty little faces very soon, I'm glad someone wants them back because a lot of people seem to have forgotten about them ;)
Jordan Lynn 7 – I know, Elena clearly doesn't care she's killing all of those innocent people...
winxgirl1997 – Here's the update :)
Vampirefan10 – Thank you very much, I work very hard on writing the chapters now so I'm glad you like them :) Sometimes I wish they had someone like Grace on the TV show, too. But we have people like her, you know like Caroline and Bonnie, both strong girls :) The love triangle is very tricky but Drace does seem to be the 'fan-favourite' if you will :) I also think it is really sad that Grace/Elena's relationship has just crumbled. Well, I'm getting very close to those chapters now so I guess we're in for a fun ride ;)
Tvdlover87654 – Team Grace! ;) She stood up for herself again in this chapter which I was very proud of :) Definitely she's gone from being insecure and needing someone and being weak to being able to stand up for herself, she just needs to build up a little more confidence and she'll be fine :)
Graciiee xx