Twisted Love
Season Four
American Gothic
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the vampire diaries characters or story lines, I only own Grace.
Willoughby, Pennsylvania
The girls had been searching for a while for the whereabouts of the Petrova's when it started out they were actually enjoying each other's company, drinking from humans and questioning people but the longer the search had gone on the more the girls had began to play on each others nerves. The brunette pulled dangerously across the road into an empty parking space as the Original looked over at her asking. "Why are we stopping?"
"We've searched three cities in the last 24 hours, I'm sick of Top 40 Radio, and I smell like leather." She informed her as she looked down at her shirt scrunching her nose before looking back up at the blonde who had a deeply annoyed look on her face. "I'm hungry, I'm bored and all this is leading us nowhere." She added
A loud scoff fell from the blondes lips as she climbed from their new car. "And that's my fault?" She asked as the brunette shrugged her shoulders lightly. "You were the one who stole the list of the Petrova's whereabouts, did you ever think that Damon had bad information?" She quizzed as the brunette took a minute to think it over, she had a point, maybe even Damon was going to be leading to a dead-end, the Petrova's were sneaky.
"My brother was never able to track those little tarts down, what really made you think that you or your boyfriend – or whatever he is to you now – would be able to find them?" She questioned as the brunette narrowed her eyes trying to ignore the screaming in the back of her mind which was telling her to snap the blondes neck, not like she'd be able to. "Now get that stupid scowl off of your pretty little face and get back in the car."
Rolling her chocolate-browns orbs the younger girl replied. "Like I said before, Bekah. I'm hungry." She growled out before spotting a young woman across the road who was standing by her car stuffing something into the passenger seat. "And I think I just found myself a delicious looking meal." She began to walk across the road not bothering to look for oncoming traffic.
Rebekah was following her telling her firmly. "We're not here for a pub crawl, Grace! I want the cure, those two bitches have it for whatever reason. We don't stop until we find them." She reminded her but the brunette was already standing next to the woman who hadn't even noticed her presence yet, Grace could be really sneaky when she wanted to be.
As the woman turned back around surprised to see the brunette standing there looking emotionless and with a hungry desire in her eyes. "Oh, my God, you startled me." She told her with a breathless laugh fell from her lips, Grace pouted feigning an apology before her fangs pushed through her gums and about to take a chunk from her neck, but stopped when the girl very calmly asked. "Fayth, what are you doing?"
Clearing her throat awkwardly the brunette pulled away before asking. "You know me?" Her fangs were still pushed through her gums as she looked the woman in front of her up and down, she was surprisingly calm for having a vampire attempt to rip her jugular vein out.
"Of course." She laughed giving her a knowing nod. "And I know most people around here prefer you and your sister to feed from their necks, but I asked for you both to drink from my wrists, remember?" She pulled up her sleeves to show the puncher wounds in her wrist which would indeed have been made by vampire fangs, the brunette glanced back at her blonde friend who stood there in almost shock.
"Well, aren't you glad we stopped here, Bekah." The brunette looked over her shoulder flashing the girl travelling with her a knowing smile as she just glared back at her. "I think we just found those bitches." She smirked looking down for a couple of seconds before looking back up at the kind human. "What's my full name?" She quizzed just trying to make sure that it really was the Petrova.
Creasing her thin eye brows the human replied. "Fayth Pierce." She answered giving her a sure smile before adding. "Wait, where is your sister?" She asked as the brunette only shrugged her shoulders.
"So how do you know Fayth?" Rebekah asked from where she stood beside the Gilbert, but the woman who stood in front of them creased her eye brows clearly confused by the question from the blonde.
"How do I know who?"
"Me." Grace pointed to herself looking the woman up and down trying to figure out how she had forgotten about her so quickly. "How do you know me?"
The woman smiled again nodding her head before saying. "Small town, everybody knows everybody." She answered simply, this only confused the two vampires even more, when Grace spoke to the woman about Fayth the girl answered, but when Rebekah did the woman was clueless.
"So everybody knows Fayth and Katherine?"
The woman creased her eye brows again. "I'm sorry, I don't know who you're talking about." Rebekah finally pieced all the pieces together, the Petrova's had compelled people to know them when they spoke to them, but not know them when someone else asked, it was a very clever protection scheme.
"They've compelled people to forget all about them unless their talking to them themselves." The blonde explained as the younger vampire from beside her laughed gently folding her arms over her chest. "Clever girls." She muttered shaking her head.
Grace asked the woman. "How long have we know each other." The woman only gave her a vague answer, she assumed the days must all mix into one when they were compelled. "Where do I live? Where do I work?" The woman answered that she didn't know. "Who do I spend time with other than Katherine? Do I actually have any other friends?" She asked placing her hands on her hips.
"Well, you said how you didn't really want to be friends with any of us." Classic Fayth. "But Katherine said as long as we keep your secret we could all be friends." She explained as both the girls look at each other.
"What secret?"
"I... I don't know." The girl shook her head, this woman was very confused Katherine and Fayth had certainly done a number on them.
Stefan and Damon had got a tip from Sheriff Forbes about where his car might be, they were hoping if they had found the car then they would be able to find the two girls that had stolen it, but when they did they saw that it had been abandoned and the tank was empty. The older brother was carrying two containers filled with fuel towards his car as he muttered begrudgingly. "If they so much as even scratched the paint on my car..."
Sighing Stefan replied. "Well, just be grateful that Sheriff Forbes was about to track down the car after you let them, ah, you know – steal it from you." He was almost teasing his brother, but Damon really wasn't in the mood to be poked fun at.
"Remind me to send her some mini-muffins." The raven-black haired vampire deadpanned before adding. "Do we really need 10 gallons of gas, or are you making me lug this around for punishment?" He quizzed looking over at him.
Rolling his eyes the younger brother retorted sharply. "Well, they ditched your car after it ran out of fuel. You gotta fill it up." He informed him as if the vampire didn't already know. "Got a hundred miles before we get to Willoughby."
Damon creased his eye brows, he remembered some of the names that were on the list that he had gotten on the whereabouts of the Petrova's and he didn't remember Willoughby being on there at all. "Yeah, well I don't remember that name from the list of places I got from New York."
This actually made Stefan amused for a couple of seconds before answering back. "Oh, the list? The list they stole from right under your nose, after you let your guard down? They'll be there." He was sure of it, the Salvatore had done his research and planned before going out. "Sheriff Forbes tracked down the car they stole after yours."
Kneeling down on the floor the vampire began to fill his tank up as he said. "Screw the muffins. I'll get her champagne – If Grace is wherever it may be." He added shaking his head, he knew that she was reckless but he never thought she would go that far.
Stefan was thinking of where the two vampires were heading on going. "Willoughby. Creamed corn capital of Pennsylvania. They'll be there. Let's just hope we get to them before they get to the cure."
"Oh, silver lining: If Rebekah takes the cure, then she's mortal and we can just kill her right then and there." He smirked before looking over to see the look that his younger brother was giving him.
"Oh, dark cloud: Grace stays an emotionless vampire forever. Look, why don't you just table the revenge fantasies for now, and just keep your eye on the prize. Listen, I gave you your shot on taking care of this and you screwed it up, now unless you want Klaus to be getting involved in all of this then I recommend that we find Fayth and/or Katherine, get the cure, get out before you get your neck snapped – again."
"Believe me, I learned my lesson. Grace without humanity is a stone-cold bitch, and I won't trust her until we get the old, sweet emotional Grace back." He answered him surely nodding his head, the raven-black haired vampire took a couple of seconds to think before saying. "Change of subject: How's Elena coping?"
"She's, uh, she's dealing." Stefan answered nodding his head. "I mean, I think she's beginning to process her emotions a lot better now because she's finally able to see how she hurt Grace by saying what she said." He informed him as the older brother nodded his head as he continued to fill his tank. "We just need to get Grace back so the two of them can hash it out and be sisters again."
"I think we actually agree on something for once."
Over in Niklaus mansion he was still freaking out over his encounter with the mysterious Silas, he could feel the tip of the white oak stake scrapping uncomfortable against his heart, he had tried to remove the problem, but Silas had struck from behind and that was an awkward place for the hybrid to get to, there was a large wound where he had ripped and gouging the flesh trying to reach the problem but to no avail.
"I felt you." A soft voice came from across the room, the hybrid looked up through torn, broken mixed coloured orbs to see her standing there with a concerned look on her young face. "I could feel your pain through our bond, Nik." She whimpered as she crossed the room to be standing there in front of his kneeling form as he looked up at her sweating and breathing hard. "I knew I had to come and help you." She told him.
Falling to her knees in front of him, pressing her small palm of her hand to where his heart would have beaten, trailing her finger tips over the tattoo on his chest making him lean his head back at her cool touch of her. He heard her shuffle forward from where she had been knelt, the first thing he felt was the soft tips of her long hair brush against his hip before her plump lips pressed against the inky tattoo.
She nibbled delicately with blunt teeth on his collar-bone expertly before whispering. "Let me look after you." Her lips trailed down his throat to his rough chin sucking and kissing tenderly before he tilted his head up to look into her lust filled chocolate-brown orbs, his were filled with such a burning need as she collided her lips with his own but when his lips didn't move against hers she pulled away stroking his cheek lovingly. "Let me in, Niklaus. I want to help you."
He was overcome with an overwhelming sense of lust and love as he crushed his lips against hers with such deep desire, he kissed her soft lips like a man who had been starved of pleasure for far too long. He lifted her with ease, fighting through the mind-numbing pain his shoulder and placing her on top of the piano keys making them clang and hiss under her weight, this only made her giggle which made him chuckle before moving her once again to be sat on top of the piano.
Gazing into her liquid chocolate-brown orbs for a long couple of moments he crashed his lips against hers again almost knocking the wind out of her, their tongues tangled for dominance which he surely won as he gripped at any part of her he could, the brunette shifted away placing a line of subtle kisses along his jaw-line up to his ear and sucking seductively on the lobe for a second.
"As much as I would love to watch you die, you still haven't found me that cure." Her voice was darker, it didn't sound like his vampire at all he pulled away slowly looking as the cruel smile pulled over her lips.
"Silas."
Jumping down off of the piano she ran her fingers through her hair before looking over her shoulder at Niklaus who looked overly betrayed and annoyed at himself for not figuring it out sooner. "That's right. Last night I looked like Shane, today I look like Grace, and tomorrow – who knows?" He smirked.
Through gritted teeth he couldn't stand to look at this man as he stood there in front of him in Grace's petite form. "Show me your real face." He demanded in a rough tone as the brunette turned around her hair flipping over her shoulder and a sickening smirk pulling across her face, if he was being honesty Silas being in Grace's body reminded him much of the vampire without her humanity.
"Now why would I do that when I can look like whomever I want you to see?" She approached him slowly making the hybrid actually shudder in fear as Silas looked down at him. "Resist me all you want, Klaus, but until you bring me the cure I will bring you nothing by misery." Suddenly the brunette disappeared from view which only made the hybrid more nervous.
Both Rebekah and Grace stuttered towards the local post office, perhaps they might be able to give them to known address of the Petrova's especially if they had a place in town and thought they were so safe. Walking over to a worker the younger vampire put on her best Fayth impression. "Hey, excuse me, um... Do I have any mail today?"
"Why yes you do and I just gave to your sister two minutes ago." He nodded as her as she nodded her head looking around to see if she could spot the Petrova anywhere. "Are you feeling okay, Ms. Pierce? Ms. Katherine said that you were busy dealing with some things today."
"Yeah, I'm feeling fine. Thanks." Grace answered as she turned around to be looking at the blonde whom was waiting for an explanation. "Katherine was here two minutes ago. That means she can't be that far. Erm – how about you check inside. I'll look in the parking lot." She offered as the blonde nodded and walked inside the building to check it out.
The petite girl was looking around when she spotted a dark curly-haired girl in a jet black car, a smirk pulled across her face as she moved to be hiding by a van trying to get a better view to see if it could be Katherine, but as the woman climbed from her car she saw that it wasn't her. The brunette sighed heavily relaxing for a moment before someone grabbed her and forced her violently against the van she had been hiding behind, it was Katherine.
Pinning the girl by her neck she was lifting her off of the ground watching her carefully as she said. "I'm impressed, Kitten. I never thought you'd find me here, maybe I should start giving you more credit..." She began to choke the girl as she crawled at her hand. "Oh, well. It's a beautiful place to die." She shrugged her shoulders about to finish her off.
"I couldn't agree more." A thick British voice came from behind her. "You've chosen a beautiful place to die." She added as she shoved the Petrova to the ground, the younger doppelgänger pulled herself together before smiling cruelly looking down at a very shocked looking Katherine.
The girls soon made their way to a nice little diner, it was unusually quiet, but it was only a small town. The girls were sat in a booth with the blonde sat beside the Petrova as security for keeping the girl in check as the doppelgänger sat opposite her asking. "Where's the cure?"
"What? No 'I'm here to avenge my annoying little brother' speech or pay back for treating you like our little dog over on that dreadful Island, or maybe any plans for looking for Fayth after she stole your identity – again." She smirked which only made the brunette across from her smirk as she drank from her coffee mug.
"Shit happens." She shrugged her shoulder carelessly. "We move on."
Katherine took a couple of seconds to get her head around what the Gilbert had said, the dead look in her eyes, the way she just stared back at her with an emotionless look waiting for an answer to her original question. "After we turn off our humanity switch." She commented but still the younger vampire made no move to defend herself. "So sad for poor Damon, though and how is Klaus dealing with it? Their special snowflake of vampire frailty... gone." She muttered as the brunette in front of her smirked. "Well, if we're gonna be a while, I'm gonna go grab some menus."
The Petrova went to push up from where she was sat but suddenly a sharp stabbing pain ran through her hair, moaning in pain she looked down to see a fork stabbing through her hair and a very pleased looking Original. "You're not going anywhere." The Brit muttered surely folding her arms over her chest.
"I forgot how charming you were." Katherine hissed through her teeth trying to hide the pain that was shooting up her arm.
Scoffing the Original answered. "I'm surprised you remember me at all, seeing as though you were so busy under Elijah's bed sheets." She sneered at her just as a waitress walked past the table surprised to see to see the fork sticking out of the Petrova's hand, she gasped asking what happened.
"I'm fine, Jolene," She answered a painful smile pulling across her lips before compelling her. "You didn't see anything." She told her firmly as the waitress nodded before walking away to tend to the other customers.
All the waiting around was really beginning to piss Grace off, she just wanted to find the cure before the Salvatore's turned up and made her deal with everything. "Every minute you two waste with your yapping is another minute we give Stefan and Damon to find us." She informed Rebekah in a hard voice.
Rolling her eyes the Original moved at super-speed to grab the Petrova by her chin looking deeply into her eyes and began to compel her. "Where's the cure?" The girl only smiled as she told her that she was on vervain which only made Rebekah smile wider as she told her. "Oh, I get to torture it out of you. Fun." She released the younger vampire from her grip, narrowing her eyes Katherine asked why they wanted it and the blonde answered. "The question is, why do you want it? Let me guess, to kill Niklaus?"
"My sister and I have spent the last 500 years running from your big brother." Katherine reminded them both in a venomous voice. "I have no intention of being within sniffing distance of him. But, since it can be used against him, I'm sure he's just itching to get his hands on it. I will give him the cure, he gives Fayth and I our freedom." She explained.
The brunette sitting opposite from her was obviously very bored as she sighed out. "Oh, you poor victim. Where's the part in your plan where you screw us over and somebody dies?" She questioned cocking an eye brow.
"I have no reason to screw you over." Katherine answered surely as both of them just scoffed a little. "I know you don't believe me, but it is the truth. People change. I'm not the girl you think I am." The blonde beside her laughed again as the Gilbert sighed heavily giving the Original a look and without a second thought she began to search down the Petrova. "I don't have it on me." She made herself clear.
The blonde through Katherine's mobile over to her giving her a chance to search through her texts. "I didn't think you did. But I'm sure there's something in that, that can help us find it, or your sister..." She shrugged not failing to notice the slightly worried looking on the older doppelgänger's face.
Grace was scrolling through the woman's phone skipping over petty texts and unimportant dates until she found a suspicious one. It only read: 'meet em' it was an appointment made for 2pm. Looking up the youngest vampire asked. "Who's 'em'?"
Struggling to finds the words the Petrova answered. "... A friend." She shrugged her shoulders trying to play off the date for nothing.
"It says here you're meeting at 2." Grace noted aloud glancing over at the blonde who sat there looking intrigued. "I guess you're gonna have to miss that, but don't worry, I'll make sure that Fayth gets there for you." She smirked, Rebekah liked the way the brunette was thinking, she was very devious as an emotionless vampire.
Over at the Salvatore boarding house Elena and Caroline were both sitting in the parlour room talking over their last couple of days, it had been hard loosing Jeremy, Elena was actually thankful for what her blonde friend had done she wasn't sure if she could even bear loosing Bonnie too, no more of her family could leave her, it wasn't fair.
Caroline's phone began to vibrate on the side of the table, glancing over she creased her eye brows when she saw that it was from an unknown number, rolling her eyes she decided to let it go to voice mail. "Aren't you gonna get that?" Elena asked from where she was pouring herself a drink but the blonde only shook her head. "What if it's Tyler?"
Quickly the vampire dove to answer the phone holding the phone to her ear to hear a soft groaning coming from the other side of the phone. "Hello? Hello? Tyler is that you?" She asked but a soft scoff came from the other side. "Look whoever this is don't bother calling me again-"
"Caroline. It's me." A heavy British accent came down the line as her eyes went slightly wider. "D-don't hang up. I need you help. Or Stefan's. Just please someone come." He whispered huskily before the line went dead, she stared at her phone in shock before looking up at the brunette who also looked shocked, obviously with her new supernatural hearing she was about to hear the conversation.
"That... That was Klaus." Caroline told her as she nodded her head. "Do you think we should go?" She asked as the brunette stood up, obviously she wanted to know what was going on. "Ugh, I can't believe that we're gonna actually do this." She huffed as the Gilbert standing across from her gave her a look. "I know, I know. He's the creator of our bloodline. Blah. Blah. Blah." She rolled her eyes as she grabbed her coat.
As both of the girls walked into the house they saw it was eerily quiet, they stepped through to the parlour room to see the hybrid knelt on the floor, he glanced up at them sweat beading down his face as they both stared back at him in shock. "What happened to you?" Elena asked tilting her head to the side.
"I need more time." Klaus huffed out his nails digging into the floor. "I don't know how you're doing this, but I need more time. Stop hounding me!" He demanded in a gruff voice looking up at them both angrily.
Caroline scoffed. "We're hounding you?! I'm supposed to be running three prom committees right now and life keeps getting in the freaking way! We've got female vampire Dexter out there somewhere with your crazy ass sister and now I have to deal with this, too?" She growled loudly as the hybrid looked up at her confused. "Don't ask."
"Silas. He stabbed me with the white oak stake." He informed them both as they looked at him in even more shock them before, if he was telling the truth, which it looked like it was due to the blood running down his back then this could be back for his entire bloodline which included all of their loved ones.
"Why would Silas attack you?"
Scoffing gently the Brit answered. "Well, I was in no position to ask questions. Suffice to say, I'm hurt. So you can understand why I called you." He informed her as both of the girls looked at each other with almost an amused look on their faces.
"You made my sister turn off her emotions, you ran Tyler out-of-town, you killed his mother, the list of things you've done to this town is endless and you can the nerve to call us and ask us for help?" Elena spat at him as he looked up at her, he needed help so he wasn't exactly about to argue logic over what happened with her, he just needed their help to get the tip of the stake out.
"If I die, you, Tyler, Grace, Stefan, Caroline, all your friends dies with me." He reminded them making them both look at each other once more knowing they needed to help, begrudgingly the blonde asked what they needed to do. "Well, it's quite simple, really. I need you to cut the stake out of me." He glanced down at a bloody pair of pliers he had butchered into his skin trying to reach but unable to.
On a pleasant-looking street in Willoughby, the Salvatore brothers were walking down looking around almost perplexed that the two sisters were staying in a town like this, it all seemed too sweet and innocent for them to be spending their time there. "Something's not right." The raven haired vampire muttered darkly looking around. "The Pierce sisters do not hole up in Hickstown, PA."
"Well, this is definitely the car they stole." Stefan nodded towards the car that was parked crudely, obviously the brunette had not cared how she had parked the car at all. "We're in the right place." Damon made a comment about the type of car they had chosen which the younger brother chose to ignore. "So let me ask you something." The forest green vampire began. "What happens when we find Grace? How do we get her back to Mystic Falls? I mean, she's not exactly gonna go quietly, and she has an Original vampire playing her BFF/bodyguard at the moment."
"We do whatever we have to do. I love Grace so much, but I don't care if we have to throw Rebekah under a school bus and wrap the 5'2" bitch in a burlap sack. We do whatever we have to do." He answered firmly with a hard look on his face, but the younger brother rolled his eyes asking his brother to be serious for a second. "I am. I don't care what Grace wants right now. I know what's right for her. She's this close to going off the rails for good and that ain't happening. She's a pain enough as it is."
"So what happened to the guy who thought Grace should embrace being a vampire, let the chips fall where they may?" Stefan was almost teasing him, it was all he could do at a time like this where tension was so high and humour was a good way to get through to his brother.
Scoffing the raven haired vampire answered. "That guy got his neck snapped in New York and this guy is royally pissed off." He answered him.
Over the other side of town in the small welcoming diner, Grace wandered out of the restroom with her dead straight hair now curled to look like lovely Fayth, she closed the make-up compact which she was using to check out her lip gloss and sat back in the booth opposite Katherine and Rebekah. "What do you think?" She asked.
"Hmm, it's close." Rebekah mused tilting her head to the side as she checked out the brunette that sat opposite her. "Not quite slutty enough." She noted as the Petrova from beside her made a noise in the back of her throat. "I think you need more eye-liner." She informed her as the younger vampire across from her laughed.
"There is still something missing." Grace muttered looking down at herself before looking back up at the woman sat in front of her. "I bet you and Fayth swap clothes all the time, right?" She smirked as the Petrova rolled her eyes shrugging her shoulders. "I'm gonna need your clothes."
Katherine laughed. "What just because one time in the forest Fayth stole your clothes you think that you have the right to take mine? Keep dreaming, Kitten." She told her with a smirk as the brunettes mouth twisted as she looked at the clothes she was wearing with a rather impressed look on her face.
"Yeah. You're right." Grace answered nodding her head gently. "Those clothes look a little... Cheap too." She remarked as the vampire growled from where she sat across from her. "No, it's okay. I'll just take your bracelet, watch and earrings. Hand them over, Pumpkin." She answered a cruel smile pulling over her lips as she reached over and yanked the fork out of her hand to let her move.
Painfully clenching and unclenching her hand she got to work taking the jewellery off placing them loudly on the table in front of her as she took them and began to put them on. The older doppelgänger took off all the items except for the beautiful band around her wrist, the brunette looked at it and nodded before the vampire answered. "That's my daylight bracelet, Kitten. It's daytime outside. I'm gonna need it. Besides, it's not gonna work on you."
Rolling her eyes the younger brunette answered. "Fine." Another smirk pulled across her lips. "I really am gonna need that jacket, though." She informed her as the Petrova stared at her for a long couple of seconds before the girl looked across at Rebekah who was going to make the woman comply, she grabbed her before the brunette quick said. "Alright. Fine. Fine. Fine." She hissed taking it off throwing it across at the girl who happily took it. "This will never work, you know. The cheap curls, the doe eyes. You'll never pass for her."
"Let me see, how does Fayth sound..." Grace cleared her throat make her voice lower and more sultry sounding. "I'm Fayth Petrova and I'm a back stabbing bitch." She tried out as the blonde cackled across from her. "Katherine, why don't you run along like the puppy you are and make me a coffee. I'm sure that's all your good for."
"Perfect." Rebekah informed her nodding her head. "It's just the right amount of bossiness that's hiding her hidden insecurities."
Katherine sneered as she told them. "You two are pathetic."
Grace laughed once more before glancing down at her feet, another smirk crossed her lips before she told her. "Almost there. Something's missing. Your shoes." She told her as the Petrova raised her eye brows in surprise, there was no way. "I want your shoes."
After the trading of clothes in the diner Grace made her way to the meeting place across town, she was standing in a small wooden gazebo which looked out over the beautiful town. Looking down at her phone she frowned heavily before muttering. "Come on, Em."
Back at the diner the blonde Original was daintily eating the food that she had ordered as she was talking to the Petrova. "Mm. You know, it's funny. I've always been a little envious of the legends that were Katherine and Fayth Pierce. The way you could both wrap men around your little fingers, the way Elijah betrayed Klaus for you, the way the Salvatore brothers stumbled head over heels for you both. And yet, here we are, all these years later, in a town that you had to compel into liking you." She cackled out her laugh shaking her head. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't laugh. It's really more sad than funny."
Frowning heavily the brunette glanced over at her and told her. "You know you can't split the cure with Grace, right? Or Elena. Or anyone else in that hopeless little town that actually wants the cure." She informed her as the blonde answered how the Gilbert didn't want it. "Oh, no? But you do, you want to take it? Are you really that dumb or just naturally blonde?"
"I want a normal life again."
Scoffing the brunette corrected her. "You mean you want a do-over. Well, guess what. You can't have it. The cure will only take away your immortality. Everything else you hate about yourself, you still wake up with that in the morning. And you won't even be able to compel yourself a friend." She smirked as she reached across to grab something across the table but the blonde lashed out and grabbed her hand and tightened the grip beginning to crunch the bones.
"Ladies, playing nice?" A voice came from beside them, they both looked up disappointed to see Stefan and Damon both standing there watching them, Damon slid into the both opposite them with a smirk on his face, just getting pleasure from making them so irritated by his presence.
"There goes the neighbourhood."
"I see you got Katherine alright." Damon nodded at Rebekah as he glanced over to the doppelgänger. "You're losing your touch, evil one." They all stare at each other for a long couple of seconds before Damon demanded. "Where's Grace?"
Grace was still standing there waiting for 'Em' to arrive, she sighed heavily looking down at her phone about to give up when she heard a voice coming from behind her, one she remembered very well. "Fay." Turning suddenly she saw Elijah standing there, she tried desperately to hide the surprise on her face. "I wasn't expecting to see you here. Where is Katerina?"
Clearing her throat the girl lowered her voice to the silky sounding one that matched her doppelgänger and replied. "Katerina was a little tied up, she sent me instead." A frown crossed the Originals face as he looked her up and down. "You're a little late, aren't you?" She tried to change the subject.
"Katerina told you about us?" He questioned and she just continued to stare at him. "You're taking this better than we anticipated, Fay." He informed her and the girl just nodded her head this wasn't at all what she was expecting. "Where is Katerina really. What have you done with her?" He pressed moving towards her.
"I haven't done nothing. She is safe. Why would I hurt my own sister?" She asked rolling her eyes turning around looking over the town with a sigh on her lips, she wasn't sure what she was supposed to do, this obviously wasn't something she was supposed to be getting involved with.
Taking a couple of steps towards her Elijah stopped by her side and noted. "This is an interesting little town you've chosen to settle down in. I know Katerina is fond of it." He informed her as she nodded her head. "I suppose we should just get down to business then. I assume she told you why we are here. Do you have it?"
Creasing her eye brows the brunette answered back. "Do I have what?"
"The cure."
Grace was taken back for a couple of seconds trying to think of where she might have the cure stashed. Clearing her throat awkward she answered. "It's in a safe place. Why don't I go and get it and I'll bring it back?" She offered, but Elijah noticed the tattoo on her wrist, the daylight necklace around her throat and the hesitation in her voice, it most certainly wasn't Fayth so it only lead one other option.
Grace strutted across the gazebo about to walk down the steps when her wrist was caught and she was pulled into his firmly body looking up at him. "I see you've become a good liar, is that my brothers doing, Grace?" He pressed looking down at her as her face went a pale white.
Back at the lovely diner across town Rebekah was summing up the outcome of what would happen if the Salvatore's got the cure. "So, let me get this straight. I tell you were Grace is, you shove the cure down her throat, and then I end up in a box, right?" Both the brothers just looked at her. "I don't think so."
"What about you over there, smiley." Damon referred to Katherine who sat there in utter silence. "Do you know where she is?" He questioned just trying to get an answer from them, he needed to know that she was safe, sure she had escaped him in New York, but that didn't change the way he felt about her, of course he still loved her.
"I can give you a hint." Katherine began looking at them both. "Start by looking at the town morgue. She's probably dead." No one spoke for a couple of seconds waiting for her to continue, but Damon could feel a creeping of anger rising in his throat. "She went to meet up with a friend of mine. You may know him – an Original brother, impeccable taste."
"Elijah." Rebekah stated horrified, she hadn't seen her brother since the night that Niklaus had died and beyond that he had been too ashamed to even look at his family after what they had become.
Damon looked at her "Elijah's here?"
Well, you sort of have to question Elijah's impeccable taste if he's friends with you." Stefan looked at her with a hard look on his face as a smirk pulled up over his lips looking at the three of them, they were obviously so blind to the real charm that she had.
"Oh, when I say friend, I mean friend." Katherine explained cockily as the rest of the table all around her seemed to outwardly groan in disgust looking away from her. "It probably took him about 10 seconds to realise that it wasn't actually Fayth, at which point he probably yanked her heart right out of her chest."
"Alright. Where are they?" Stefan pressed once again, but both of the girls remained silent. "Rebekah, you do realise if something should happen to Elena, you have no change of finding the cure, right?" He reminded her as the blonde sighed, obviously that was her weakness not being able to have the cure once they procured it.
"Fine." The Original breathed out rolling her eyes. "They were supposed to meet at the gazebo by the park." She informed them as both of the brothers looked at one another, Damon immediately stood up, but his younger brother was quick to follow him stopping him from storming off into a death trap.
The raven-black haired vampire gave him a hard look as he said. "I don't think it's a good idea you going after Grace whilst Elijah is with her, you're not exactly on good terms with him as it is and who knows what he could do if you went storming in there, he could kill you, he could kill Grace." Stefan tried to reason with him as he sighed lightly. "Go with Katherine and Rebekah, find the cure, I'll deal with Elijah."
"The cure is mine and my sisters one chance to win back our freedom and not have to keep running from Klaus." The Petrova tried to reason with them but they all stared at each other blankly.
Damon creased his eye brows. "You're gonna broker a deal with Klaus?"
"No." Stefan scoffed as he looked down at the woman he once loved. "She's gonna get Elijah to broker a deal for her. That's why you need your little friend, isn't it? Good plan. Who's was it? I mean, you never really were the brains of the duo, were you?" He smirked as the older vampire growled over to him.
"Fine." She hissed looking at the blonde who was sitting in her way. "Move. You have to follow me."
Over at the Mikaelson mansion the hybrid was bracing himself against the piano as the blonde stood behind him using a pair of pilers to dig around around and try and get the white oak stake out. "Oh, my God." She muttered as the Original listened for bad news. "You do have a heart." She added as the vampire across the room snickered. Caroline continued to dig around before adding. "Oh, my bad. It's just a bloody rib." The brunette laughed again.
"Well, I'm glad the two of you are finding my misery so amusing." Klaus hissed out glaring the two of them down, as they both looked at each other. "You killed 12 witches for you friend Bonnie. You can't even get your hands a little dirty for me. Here I thought we were becoming friends."
"Well, you thought wrong." She answered sourly as she spitefully dug the pliers a little deeper into his back, he yelled out in pain slamming his hands on the piano top. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry. I'm sorry." She told him quickly. "You know what?" She yanked the pliers out making him yelp in pain once more. "I'm not sorry. You deserve to suffer for everything that you've done. So today, we're gonna go things my way. You want my help? You let Tyler come back to town, and give me your word that you will not hurt him."
Over at the gazebo Grace was looking out over the park taking in her surroundings for the moment when she heard a phone beginning to ring, glancing over her shoulder she saw Elijah reach into the inner pocket of his blazer and pull out his phone, glancing at the caller ID for a moment he answered it saying. "Katerina?"
"Hello, Elijah." Stefan's voice came down the speaker which made the Original suspicious for the whereabouts of his secret lover.
A snarl almost fell from his lips as he asked calmly. "Where is Katherine?"
"Where's Grace?" Stefan countered leaning against the wall casually, he knew that the Gilbert would be safe as long as they had Rebekah on their side and Katherine in their hold, it seemed that Elijah wasn't about to put her life in danger, another man had fallen for the Petrova charm.
"Safe." Elijah answered as he glanced over to the brunette whom stood there in silence. "How long she remains so depends on you." This didn't even scare the vampire, her emotions were off, she found it had to care about any kind of threat that came her way. Stefan made a comment about it being the same in the case of Katherine which only made the Original shortly laugh. "Oh, Katherine can take care of herself against the two of you."
"Oh you mean the three of us." Stefan answered surely as the Original went silent for a moment waiting for the Salvatore to explain. "Cause your little sister decided to join Team Good Guys for the time being." He explained as Elijah felt an overwhelming sense of anger surge through him as he demanded to speak to Rebekah. "Well, she's not here right now. I left her with Damon and Katherine."
"Tell me where they are."
Scoffing the Salvatore answered. "Relax. No one's gonna get hurt as long as Katherine hands over the cure." He informed him, Elijah wasn't sure whether that was supposed to be a threat or not, but he knew his sister and he knew how she would end Katherine the first chance she got.
"Do you understand how much my sister despises Katherine? I assure you, Rebekah will end her the moment she ceases to be of use." The Original answered firmly a hard tone to his voice.
"Well, just tell me where you are, and we can talk this through." Stefan offered waiting for the proud man to answer, but there was no sign of him on the other end of the line, obviously he was contemplating something, or just trying to keep his anger down and remain the 'calm' Original.
"You listen to me very carefully, Stefan. If anything whatsoever happens to Katherine, I will descend upon Grace." He told him firmly before hanging up and shoving his phone back in his pocket glancing over to the vampire who stood there in silence leaning against a wall.
She smirked before noting. "Descend upon. Kinky." He glanced over to her before shaking his head taking a couple of steps towards her crossing his arms over his chest.
"I can assure you, Grace. I did not mean it in that way." He informed her firmly as she rolled her eyes glancing over to him looking him up and down for a minute before scoffing. "What?"
"I'm just wondering what happened to the Elijah that I knew. The one that was a man of honour and now I find out you've been hooking up with Katherine the whole time? Classy." She muttered a smirk on her lips as he glared her down, he was seconds away from descending upon her, but he thought better off it, plus he would have his brother breathing down his neck if he did.
"Well, I suppose this man of honour always shared a connection with Katherine. She contacted me when she learned about the cure. We thought we could be of mutual use to one another." He explained as she looked over at him for a few seconds before a spiteful laugh fell from her lips.
"Of mutual use? Please. You fell for her trap just like every other one of those idiot." She informed him and he was quick to tell her that he knew who Katherine was and that still wasn't going to send him away. "And you think she's changed?" She asked looking at him. "She's still Fayth's sister. They're probably in on this together. She lied to you, Elijah."
"She didn't lie to me about what has been happening in Mystic Falls. She didn't lie to me about Elena's transformation. She didn't lie to me about you and Niklaus." He told her firmly as she clenched her jaw looking up at him. "But there is something different about you, Grace. You... You're not yourself. You've abandoned your emotions. Why?"
"Jeremy's dead. Elena hates me. I was sired to your brother. I was dragged around an Island by your girlfriend and her bitch of a sister. Trust me, Elijah, the list goes on and on." Elijah seemed shocked by this news. "You didn't know? Of course you didn't." She added as the Original muttered something about how Katherine lying. "I hate to say I told you so, but... Duh."
"I heard a rumour about you being in town. I wasn't sure whether to believe it or not." A snide voice came from behind them as they both looked over to see Fayth standing there, arms crossed over her chest looking very pissed off. "Care to explain, Elijah?" The Original went silent.
Katherine and Fayth's house was a quaint little place which didn't match their personalities at all, they all walked through the front door, but Katherine was a little slow to move so Damon pushed her to move a little faster before adding. "No sudden moves. No tricks either. No calling in your sister for back-up. No Katherine-ing." He told her firmly as she rolled her eyes. "Wow." He glanced around "A quilt and a fish aquarium." He looked around the room taking it in. "Who the hell are you two?"
"Two very old women with dreadful taste." Rebekah answered for her as they all continued to look around, the Petrova moved across the room to a bookcase that was chocked full of books, she pulled out several before sticking her hand into the whole and moving it around for a couple of seconds a look of fear crossing her face.
"It's gone. The cure, it was in the safe, but it's not there." Katherine lied as she looked at them both, but they didn't look like they were buying it. "M-Maybe Fayth took it." She added, she wasn't throwing her sister into the line of fire, but it was better than her being trapped with the two of them.
Damon made a buzzer sound before answering back. "Not falling for it. Where is it, Auntie Katherine?" He questioned referring to the way the house was made it, it just wasn't her at all.
"I swear it was in the safe."
Rebekah scoffed from where she stood. "What, just like Elijah's really your boyfriend and this is really your life?" She rose her eye brows as the brunette stayed completely quiet. "And for all we know, this isn't even your house." She told her as the Salvatore beside her made a note about how it didn't look like this place belonged to them, not like the Katherine they knew.
"Maybe you don't know Katherine at all." She answered firmly a hard look on her face, she hated when people presumed things about her, underestimated her. "Did it ever occur to you that you have no idea who I really am?" She asked placing her hands on her hips.
"Did it ever occur to you that you're not that deep?" Damon retorted rolling his eyes. "This whole small-town girl thing, we all know it's an act." The blonde beside her demanded to know where the cure was and when Katherine didn't answer she went to attack, but the Salvatore was quick to step into her way. "Whoa, whoa. Hang on. We need her alive. The cure's not here. You check upstairs. I'll check down. I got this." He informed her firmly
Rebekah shot one more look over to the brunette standing opposite her before taking off towards the stairs. "So if I was a paranoid, distrustful, sociopath, where would I keep my most prized possession?" He quipped looking around the room as Katherine made some snide comment which he chose to ignore. "Because I'd want it to be close, but not on me. Accessible but not obvious. I'd want to keep it safe, but not safe that it's be too difficult to grab and run." He stopped in front of the large fish tank. "Well, that is a fancy little treasure chest – in a tank with no fish." She said nothing. "I think I'm gonna have to check that out."
Pulling up his sleeve he sticks his hand into the water but immediately pulled it out to see his flesh burning. "Ah! Gah! Vervain water." He smirked looking over to the Petrova who had a very sullen look on her pretty face. "Looks like we have a winner." He reached over and picked up a net to scoop the chest out, but Katherine zipped over to him and grabbed the back of his hair pushing his face into the water holding him there for a couple of seconds before throwing him to the floor leaving him shuddering in pain.
Shoving her hand into the water grabbing the chest herself she went to zip out of the house, but the blonde was standing in front of her before she could even blink. "Give it to me or you're dead." She threatened darkly.
Katherine though on her think as she opened the chest to retrieve a small vial before saying. "You're gonna kill me anyway. So what's more important, huh? Killing me or getting the cure?" She questioned before throwing the vial before her, Rebekah ran to catch it and whilst she was preoccupied with that the younger vampire took off from the house.
Finally Damon's face was healing and he could see again, he looked up to see Rebekah admiring the small vial. Rasping out he told her. "Look, Rebekah... Don't even think about it." He hissed but she scoffed still looking at the cure. "Don't do anything stupid."
"Let me explain something to you, Damon. Me taking this cure is the best thing for you. You have a chance here, bring back Grace to who she was before and she will be eternally grateful, trust me." Rebekah told him as he remained silent. "That's what I thought." She popped open the vial and drank the liquid just as Stefan ran into the house.
"No!"
The blonde starred blankly at the both for a couple of seconds before she gasped and fell backwards onto the couch, Damon sighed heavily and rested his head onto the floor trying to get his head around what had just happened.
The three vampires across town had made their way to a more quiet location away from prying eyes, they were in an quiet alley way just a few minutes away from the gazebo they had just been standing under. Fayth stood opposite the Original with her hands on her hips whilst the youngest vampire sat on a step watching the two.
"Did you think that I didn't know? Do you think that I'm some kind of idiot?" Fayth questioned in a harsh voice as she stared Elijah down. "All the secrets, her sneaking off without word and when she comes back come elaborate story about where she's been. I've been following you two for weeks."
"I'm sure that Katerina was planning to tell you." Elijah tried to explain but the girl opposite her scoffed loudly, he narrowed his eyes as he added. "I'm trying to help you both, you should really stop being so stubborn and accept it."
"We don't need you're help. We've survived just fine for 500 years without you and your help." She answered him scornfully narrowing her eyes, he frowned a little this was the way he was expecting the Petrova to react. "I just can't believe she's been lying to me this entire time. She said she had a plan and all she did was go running to you."
"She came to me because she knew it was a smart thing to do. She knew that I could offer more help than you could ever." He told her firmly as the girl standing opposite him went completely silent. "I know how much you care for Katerina, she's your sister after all, but I also care for her, I only want her safe from Niklaus and I suppose that you will be in with that package deal."
Grace scoffed as the older vampire hissed out. "Gee, thanks." Over to him before turning her anger on the emotionless girl that sat there watching them. "And what the hell are you doing in town?" She demanded in a rough voice as the brunette rose her eye brows. "And why are you wearing my sisters clothes? Didn't think I'd notice?" She scoffed. "Trust me, I did. They aren't the cheap ones you usually wear."
"Ouch." Grace feigned hurt as she pressed her hand to her chest before smirking.
"I am surprised to see you again though, little telepath. I mean the last time I saw you you were unconscious on the floor, in the middle of a forest, on your own tied to a tree with a vampire hunter roaming around. Honestly, I'm surprised you pulled through. How about your brother?" She smirked as Elijah glared over to her, he knew that it was uncalled for.
"He's dead, you killed him. Are you that old that you're forgetting things now?" Grace answered simply shrugging her shoulders, the vampire glanced over at her before it all clicked. "Yes, yes, I've turned off my emotions, do you want to point out anything else that's painfully obvious?" She asked firmly as Fayth's eye brows rose. "But go back to you two arguing over Katherine, it's quite amusing." She smiled.
Caroline and Elena were both sitting on the couch looking down at her phone laughing whilst watching something as Klaus slumped against the back of the other couch leaning heavily against it to be able to stand. "I can feel the splinters moving towards my heart. Help me!"
The blonde glanced up at him. "Your word first." She crossed her arms over her chest giving him a hard look.
"And what makes you think I won't simply break my word?" He questioned breathing hard as sweat dripped down his face rolling down his neck onto his chest as his hands gripped the leather of the couch almost ripping it with his steel grip.
The blonde grimaced over to him. "You wanna be friends? Friendship – Stage one. Show me that I can trust you." She ordered as the brunette beside her looked over surprised that she was actually going through with this, after everything he had done to them and their family she was willing to do this.
"I saved your life – twice. I saved Grace's life – twice. What more do I need to do for everyone?!"
Elena growled as she stood up. "You want to talk about the kind of hero you are, Klaus? You saved Caroline's life twice, because you put her life in danger twice. The first time you saved Grace's life it was for good, but it was what you wanted because you're in love with her! The second time it was you putting her life in danger! You sacrificed me, because you wanted to be a hybrid. You took Stefan and Grace from me. Slept with my sister, then when she turned her back on you, you tried to kill her! You're threatening to kill one of your only living hybrids because he turned on you, and he had ever reason to, you killed his mom! You're not good, Klaus." She told him firmly before taking off from the house.
"Well, I'm glad someone said it." Caroline muttered as Klaus looked over at her. "You know, we've all tried to kill you and you've tried to kill most of us. How do you think that you deserve my friendship when you've done nothing to deserve it?" She hissed as he approached her shakily with a hard look on his face.
Klaus was getting angry now, he hated all of his actions being thrown back in his face. "I will not have my hand forced by you, or her, or anyone else!" He yelled but this only made the blonde more angry.
What is wrong with you?!" She hissed her voice raising in anger. "I'm reaching out to you despite everything that Elena's just reminded me of and you still can't get out of your own way. God! I feel sorry for you." She scoffed as she turned around, he didn't need her pity or anyone else's.
Zipping across the room he was stood there in front of her as he yelled. "Don't turn your back on me!"
"I turned my back on you ages ago! And I should have been there to steer Grace way from you too!" She yelled before they both went completely silent, the look of pain had vanished from his face.
"It's gone." He informed her as she questioned what, she was very confused. "The pain." He reached behind his hand to feel his newly healed flesh. "The – The pain is gone." He realised something then and there, it was Silas that had put him through all of this. "It was... It was never there. He got in my head. Silas... Got inside my head." He looks across at the blonde. "You took my mind off it. You brought me back, Caroline."
Caroline slowly brought her hand up to her hair running them through trying to contemplate what was happening, if Silas could resolve Klaus to a pain-ridden mess then she wondered what this mysterious Silas could do to the others in Mystic Falls. Looking back over to him she asked. "If Silas can make you, of all people, believe that you're dying... What can he do to the rest of us."
The Original was still unconscious on the couch whilst the Salvatore's were milling around the room, the younger brother was looking into the fish tank whilst talking to his older brother who had finally recovered from his vervain incident. "Did you even try to stop her?"
"You forgot the part where I was bobbing for boxes in vervain water." He answered his brother who looked over to him as he replied that all he had to do was stall him. "Sorry. It's Rebekah. I didn't have a pony to distract her, Stefan."
"What are we going to do now?" Stefan questioned as he wandered around the room. "Did you just let her take it? Is this what you wanted? Grace to be be emotionless for the next 20 years? You think you can deal with that?" Before the raven-black haired vampire had a chance to answer the blonde gasped awake on the couch.
Back in the alley way Elijah was standing opposite the younger doppelgänger who was still sat down on the step. "I know what it feels like to lose a brother. And I'm sorry for your pain." He told her solemnly as she glanced up at him. "I... I only hope that you can find your way back to yourself someday."
"Just like you hope Katherine will find her way back? You still think that innocent girl you saved from Klaus ages ago is in there somewhere?" Grace questioned spitefully and he replied that he liked to think so. "She's not. She's a monster now, Elijah. Just like her sister." She glared over to Fayth who growled back at her. "The sweet peasant girl you fell in love with way back when is dead. And she's not coming back."
"I'm not a fool, Grace." He answered quickly. "Of course this has occurred to me, but what kind of man would I be if I didn't try to find my Katerina beneath what her sister has turned her into." This time Elijah glared over to the doppelgänger who stood there with her, arms crossed over her chest. "And I'm sure my brother and Damon are the same..."
"Oh, right. So you think that they think that the girl they still love is still in here somewhere, too." She motioned to her own body as he nodded his head, it was simple for him to believe that someone could have, but the brunette had become so cynical.
Giving her a look the Original replied. "You can't blame them for having hope, Grace. It's be a shame if the world lost a soul as compassionate as yours." He told her as she rolled her eyes standing up about to walk away from him before she turned back around.
"You know, Klaus told me about the time he saved me from my parents house, when it was on fire." Elijah nodded his head remembering. "He told me that you were the one that told him about it and after that he came to save me..." She paused for a second. "Maybe you should have just not told him, things would have been a lot simpler." She turned around to face him when suddenly a loud crack filled the air and the brunette fell to the ground, Katherine standing there over her.
Fayth looked over surprised as Elijah smiled gently at the woman. "Sorry. I hot held up." She informed them both.
Over the other side of town at Katherine's house, Rebekah was sat upright on the couch eyes wide in wonderment and looking more refreshed than ever as the younger Salvatore sat opposite her on the coffee table and Damon stood across the room next to the bookshelf with a hard look on his face. "How do you feel?" Stefan questioned the Original.
A genuine smile pulled across her face as she answered. "I... I feel good. I... I feel great." She smiled wider. "I feel alive." She informed him her eyes lighting up in amazement, hoping for once her dreams had come true and she was allowed a do-over.
"Slight problem with being alive – I can kill you know." Damon muttered ruefully from across the room before a sharp looking letter open came flying from where he was stood going straight for Rebekah, but before it hit her she caught it in her hand, the cure hadn't worked, she she still vampire.
Holding the letter opener in her hand she saw the bloody gash in the middle of her hand heal over almost instantly, the smile was whipped off of her face as she whispered. "I'm still a vampire. The cure didn't work." She whispered placing the knife down beside her.
Stefan growled as he replied. "It worked just like she wanted it to." Of course he was referring to Katherine. "The cure was a fake. It must've been a concentrated shot of vervain or something." The Original sat there in shock with her mouth hung open.
Elijah was walking around Grace's unconscious form looking between both of the sisters who remained silent. "So, which should we deal with first? The fact that you were the ones that killed Jeremy Gilbert-"
"Or that you didn't tell me that you were staring a bed with an Original." Fayth glared over to her sister who remained quiet keeping her head down. "Either you're some evil genius and I underestimated you all these years, or you really are the Katherine I know that thinks she's in love and throws herself into things too quickly, and when all this goes back, who is gonna be there to pick up the pieces? Huh? Me. That's who." She hissed at them both before turning around and walking away.
After a couple of seconds silence as the Petrova watched her sister walk away in a huff she turned back to the handsome Original who had his arms crossed over his chest. "You killed Jeremy Gilbert." She sighed heavily running her fingers through her hair.
"If we're being technical here Fayth killed Jeremy." She informed him as he gave her a look. "But that's not what you mean... Yes, Elijah, Jeremy Gilbert is dead, a bombshell I'm sure she couldn't wait to drop on you. Ironic, since she supposedly doesn't care about anything." She shrugged her shoulders.
"Well, I care." He answered her firmly. "Do you honestly feel nothing for this girl, a girl fated to live the same life that you and your sister endured? And now you're just taking away her family one-by-one, just as yours was taken from you." He reminded her as she tried to block out the pain building in her stomach.
A defensive smile pulled across her face. "Uh, why are you looking at me like I enjoyed it?" She asked firmly. "Jeremy was collateral damage. Fayth was doing what she needed to do for us to survive." She tried to defend herself and her sisters choice of killing the youngest Gilbert.
"Is that what I am to you? A means of survival?"
Katherine blinked a couple of times before replying. "Don't let sweet little Grace get to you. She hates me. She hates Fayth. She wants you to turn against me and convince you that you can't trust me." She informed him as he told her that he asked her a question, obviously he wanted a real answer rather than a diversion. "No. Of course you're not a means of survival. Why do you think I never told Fayth? Because she would have turned it into something that's it's not. You chose to look out for us. You're giving me a second chance when probably no one else would. I love you." She placed her hand delicately on his cheek. "Elijah." But he moved his face away from her hand. "You don't believe me."
"I want to." Elijah whispered shaking his head. "It's my disease. I just keep wanting to believe you, but how can I when at every turn, you give me a reason to doubt you? I don't know you." He told her as a soft chuckle fell from his lips. "I don't know that I ever will." He turned and began to walk away but the Petrova wasn't going to let him go that easily, she caught his arm.
"Wait. You gave me your word that you would talk to Klaus. I... I can't make a deal with out." He looked at her for a moment, he felt like he was finally seeing her for the first time and beginning to believe what everyone was saying about her.
"Goodbye, Katherine." He turned around and walked away, it seemed like him calling her Katherine was supposed to offend her, he knew Katerina and this person standing in front of him was just another manipulative vampire.
The sun had faded away and Fayth was standing outside of a house waiting patiently when finally she saw her sister walking down the road with her head down. "I don't want to hear it." Was the first words to come out of her mouth. "Let's just get what we need and move on." She added as Fayth just nodded.
Walking up to the porch Fayth reached out and knocked the front door waiting for the owner to answer. It was the blonde that both Grace and Rebekah had ran into earlier to find out that the Petrova's were in town. "Katherine, Fayth." She announced happily. "Hey, what brings you by at this hour?"
"We came to retrieve our package." Katherine answered her voice was very sullen which made her sister concerned, of course she had to be there to pick up the pieces like she always did. The girl answered that she would just go and get it before wandering into the house.
"Just, you know, for the record, I'm sorry." Fayth told her looking over as her sister creased her eye brows looking back at her. "You may fall in love too easily, Katerina, but I know that Elijah was special to you. I mean, you've known him for a long time..." She struggled around her words as her sister just stared back at her. "Look, I may be me, but I do care about you, Kat."
"Thanks, Fay."
Just then the girl came back to the door with a small box holding it out for them, Katherine reached out and took the box from her opening it to reveal a delicate looking vial filled with a red liquid. The girl rubbed the back of her neck as she asked. "Hey, uh... All the secrecy. Can I ask, what is it?"
Both of the Petrova's looked at one another as they replied. "It's our freedom." Fayth looked at her sister before adding. "Do what you need to do, I'll still be here..." She told her as a genuine smile pulled across the doppelgänger's face. "Even if it is to pick up the pieces."
A little later that night Elijah was wandering down the street wondering about what had happened been himself and his Petrova when suddenly he saw her standing in front of him, on a matter of principal he went to walk past her but he heard her sat. "Wait." Turning back to her begrudgingly he asked her what she wanted. "To tell you that you're right. I've spent so much time running and lying to survive that I don't – I'm startling to believe my own lies. I don't even remember who I was when we first met. And I want to find out."
Reaching into her purse she pulled out the small box that was containing the cure. "You have the cure." He muttered looking at it before looking up into her smouldering chocolate-brown orbs.
"Yeah." She replied nodding her head moving her hair from her face before looking back up at him. "And I can shove it down Klaus' throat and try to kill him, but even if I manage to do it... I'd lose you. And I don't want that to happen." She told him surely trying to keep her voice level.
Elijah could feel a sense of admiration for her as he replied. "How do I know this isn't another lie? Katherine Pierce deceiving another man." Reaching out and taking his hand she placed the box in his palm for him to have and decided what to do with.
"Because I meant what I said earlier about my feelings for you." Katherine answered nodding her head. "And I'd like to think that you feel something for me, too. I need you to trust me. I want you to trust me... Just like I'm trusting you." She looked up at him as he just stared back at her. "You don't owe me anything. I'm gonna let you decide where we go from here." She walked past him to go meet up with her sister who was standing under a lamp-post with her arms crossed over her chest. "It's up to him now."
"I sincerely hope this turns out how you want it to, Katerina." Fayth answered as she reached out and linked her arms into her sisters. "Let's go."
Elijah pried open the box to look at the cure that was sitting inside before closing it and walking across the street, he had spotted his baby sister sitting on the hood of a car seemingly waiting for someone. "You and Katherine?" Was the first thing she said to him as he rose an eye brow. "And I thought you were the smart brother."
"You don't have a smart brother." Elijah replied shaking his head. "It turns out I'm just as stupid as the rest of you." He flew an insult right back at her as her lips turned up in amusement, she had actually missed the back and forth banter between the two.
"Why don't you just give me the cure so I can judge you silently elsewhere?" Rebekah quizzed holding out her hand, her older brother became curious to why the blonde wanted the cure so he asked her and she replied simply. "I want to be human again." She informed him which took him by surprise.
"How do you know being human is the answer you're looking for?" He quizzed as she just stared back at him. "I mean, it's nothing but romantic notion. The grass won't necessarily be greener, Rebekah." He told her firmly as she shrugged her shoulders slightly, she was certainly being his sister wanting to get her own way all the time.
"Your probably right." She replied quietly. "But I don't care." She added simply. "I want to live a simple life as a normal person. And when it ends, it ends. We've had 20 lifetimes, Elijah. Isn't that enough?" She looked at him searching for an answer.
The older brother sighed heavily as he replied. "I just don't understand. I mean, why must you always consider our family a burden? Always and forever." He reminded her as she gulped back the lump in her throat. "I mean, those words are as important to me today as they – as they ever were."
"You will always be my brother." She answered nodding her head. "And I will never stop loving you. But now it's time for me to live and die the way that I choose." He always admired that about his sister, when she wanted something she was so certain and passionate about it. "Not the way you and Nik want me to. Please. Please just give me the cure." Her phone began to ring her in her pocket, digging it out she held it to her ear. "What do you want, Nik?"
"An update on our search for the elusive cure and an update on Grace, if you wouldn't mind."
Rebekah shook her head. "Let's just say that things have gotten complicated. In fact, why don't you speak to one of those complications? Here." She handed the phone over to Elijah as she slid off the hood of the car and both walked around to be sitting in the car.
"Complication speaking." Elijah greeted his brother who was very surprised to be hearing from him finally.
An actually smile pulled over Klaus' face for the first time that day as he announced. "Big brother. At least you join the fray." Elijah couldn't help but smirk as he looked across at his sister and nodded his head.
"Somebody had to take charge." Being the big brother that he was he was finally taking his place at the head of their little family. "And now that I have, I've got the cure and I'm bringing it back to Mystic Falls." He informed him as Klaus made some snide comment about it being in high demand. "Not that long." He replied smirking.
"Come home, brother. We'll settle this like family." The line went dead after that as Elijah passed the phone back over to his sister as he started the car and they drove away down the road leaving the Salvatore's alone in the town to deal with their little Grace problem.
As Caroline walked back into the Salvatore boarding house to see her friend sitting there with a glass of bourbon in her hand and sitting in front of the fire place. "Elena." She announced as the brunette glanced over at her friend nodding gently. "You have every right to say that to Klaus, you know that, right? But if he died-"
"We'd die. I get it." Elena nodded her head as her blonde friend took a seat beside her pouring herself a glass of bourbon. "How'd it go? I take it he didn't die, because we're still here." She concluded logically as the blonde nodded her head taking a sip of her bourbon.
Sighing the older vampire replied. "I really don't want to worry you, but it was Silas. He got into Klaus's head and convinced him he was dying." She informed her friend as she looked up suddenly. "I'm scared what this guy can do, Elena. Klaus is the strongest thing we know, what does that make Silas?" She asked as they both stared at each other for a long couple of seconds.
Not much later that night the Salvatore's were both walking down the street speaking about the cure and what happened earlier. "Alright, you're right. I let Rebekah take the cure." He stopped so that he could face his brother. "I thought for a second – I mean, literally just a second – If Rebekah takes this, then Grace gets what she wants. I want what she wants, I can't help that. I love her. And then Rebekah took it. And I realised how badly I screwed up."
"So what's your point, Damon?" The younger brother quizzed creasing his eye brows.
"My point is, I'm sorry, okay? I don't why I should be, but I am. I had a moment of weakness, Stefan. It's my thing. I want Grace to want to turn it back on. I want her to turn it back on for me, or for Elena, or for someone because I want her to choose to feel something, not force her to feel something. But I can't let her do that, I want her to be her with me, now. The longer I let her go on like this, the more she'll regret when she finally turns it back on"
"I get it. I'm the same. It's our thing." He chuckled gently shaking his head. "I don't have to force Elena to do anything, I think it'd be better if she made the choice herself, that's why I never forced her to speak with Grace, and I regret that." He looked over his at his raven-black haired brother. "We've been making the same mistakes for 150 years. We can judge Katherine and Fayth all we want, but we keep repeating our own history just like they do. Nothing ever changes. It has to stop, Damon."
"I know it does. It's either the girls want to be sisters or they don't and if they don't... Then that's it. I'll take her from Mystic Falls, give you and Elena a shot at being happy and normal and do the same thing for Grace and I." He told his brother surely as he nodded his head. They both walked into the diner they had been in earlier seeing the Gilbert sitting in her own booth just stewing.
Both of them stalked across the room and sat opposite her as she remained silent. "You alright?" Stefan quizzed looking at her as she still didn't say a word.
Frowning the icy-blue eyed vampire narrowed his eyes as he asked. "What's up with the silent treatment? You're the one that texted us and wanted to meet up." He reminded her as she folding her hands on the table in front of her before looking up at them both, she was going to plead her case to them.
"You both know I don't want the cure." She looked between them as they both listened to her. "You need to know that I never will and I'm done talking about it. So... Will you accept that and let me be who I am, or not?"
Both of the brothers exchanged looks as her boyfriend replied. "Yeah... No."
"Grace, this isn't who you are. It isn't you." Stefan tried to reason with her as she continued to stare at him with an emotionless look on her face.
"I know who you both want me to be, and I don't want to be her and you two really need to accept that. Be like Klaus and give up. Because if you don't, there will be consequences." They weren't sure if it was a threat, but they were sure taking it that way, reaching in front of her she sipped from her mug of tea.
"Listen, I was in the exact same situation that you're in right now." Stefan informed her solemnly as she just stared back at him not really caring for his stories. "My emotions were off. I wasn't me. And I refuse to accept that."
Damon took her hand across the table and she didn't flinch back or pull away from him she just stared at him. "If the situation was reversed and we were here right now, I know that you wouldn't give up on me, Grace. So I am not giving up on you, whatever you do, whatever you say. I will be here for you and I will be until you're you." He told her firmly as she just stared back at him blinking a couple of times.
Just then the waitress Jolene wandered back over, she was just pleased that she would be getting off of her shift soon and able to get back home, she was holding a lukewarm pitcher or coffee as she leaned over the table to fill up the boys' mugs when the vampire zipped behind her and snapped her neck letting her fall to the floor. "Oh!" Damon whispered watching as the human dropped shattering the glass pitcher she was holding.
"Like I said, consequences." Grace answered sharply as the veins faded away from her eyes. "That's one body you're responsible for. Go ahead, keep going. I dare you." She whispered looking between them. "If you keep trying to fix me, they'll be a second, a 20th, and a 100th. It's your choice." She hissed at them before spinning around and walking from the diner on her own.
"I guess I'm not riding off into the sunset with her for a while."
A/N
Here we are here's another chapter, I hope that you enjoyed it, I actually liked writing this one it was a lot of fun writing emotionless Grace, although I do miss regular Grace, she'll be fun too once we get her back. I also couldn't resisted Kalijah so I needed to add that in their too and Fayth actually has a human side, but only around her sister.
I hope you're enjoying the story and I'm sorry about the late updates, but I've had my birthday and I have other things as well, plus my new story, but I will always try and update Twisted Love
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Answers and responses below
Nicole: Gotta love a bit of Grebekah, they are the perfect girl team because they get each other and Rebekah can tolerate Grace, I think they're my favourite after Katherine/Fayth (Faytherine?). I agree everyone should just assuming what is best for Grace, but they do know what happens after a time as an emotionless vampire, the guilt and the rage comes. Aww, I'm glad you like the love triangle, I don't have a shipname for that yet, maybe you can think of one.
Mia Salvatore: I know, Klaus said 'my Grace' super cute, I think emotionless Grace is pretty cool too, I like her either way.
Whitttyyy76: I want Grace and Rebekah to become real friends too, outside of working together to get the cure, I think they kind of are, I mean they can tolerate each other and ask each other for stuff, which is a start.
Nymartian: Totally agree, she is a bitch, but you gotta love her, haha. There is a lot of sexual tension and even in this chapter it proves that Grace is the one that Klaus thinks about most.
David Fishwick: Damon was really cruel to Lexi in New York, I didn't like how he treated her either, but that's just him all over. She couldn't remember Jeremy was dead because Silas probably wanted her to, it's sad for her having to go through all that grief all over again, at least Grace got the chance to turn it off.
MissWhatEver207: I hope that was a good thing, I think Grace acts enough like herself to not get mistaken for Elena, I mean, Elena didn't flirt with Klaus in the show or get a tattoo, they're two different people, haha.
Tvdlover87654: Totally, she is a real tease and a lot of fun to write, haha. I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
Ghostwriter: I'm glad you enjoyed this chapter and Grace getting a tattoo, I thought it would be a nice twist, Elena got a new hairdo and Grace got her tattoo done, I figured I'd better change it up.
susl: The chapter was okay, or...
xxxRena: Glad you enjoyed the chapter and that you liked the idea of her getting a tattoo, I didn't just want her changing her hair, I wanted her to do something she probably wouldn't have done if she had her emotions on.
RippahGoneWild: I know, I'm sorry, I'm trying but I have other things to do outside of Fanfiction and I get a little caught up in them sometimes, I do try and write as much as I can.
winxgirl1997: It wasn't really a fast update, but anyway, here you go.
SomebodyWhoCares: Haha, well I guess Damon should have seen it coming, with Rebekah being with them and wanting the cure and Grace being emotionless and not wanting the cure.
grapejuice101: Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter
Chloe: Yeah, I'm probably do season five when it comes out and I'm glad you liked the last chapter, writing emotionless Grace makes me a little nervous.
ddluzelle: Aww, I'm glad you liked the chapter and Grace, thanks.
Graciiee xx