The next morning, Rachel was feeling a lot better but still shaken up so she stayed close to her father and her aunt Sage the entire time. She felt like a little girl again, very vulnerable and felt better close to her father and Sage, where she knew that she was safe.

"So, how are you planning to deal with your brother exactly? I mean, you were ready to take Elena so you must have an idea of what you want to do." Damon asked Elijah.

"During the ritual he has to go through in order to break his curse, there is a moment when Niklaus will be vulnerable. Right after he kills the three sacrifices and just before he shifts into his wolf form, if we can find a witch who can channel enough power to immobilise him, I will be able to rip his heart out." Elijah stated.

"But that would kill him" Rachel shouted.

"So?" Elijah asked her, like it was no big deal.

"That's the point Rachel." Stefan added.

"That's not right! You can't possibly speak of killing your brother!" Rachel argued.

"Klaus is evil Rachel, he deserves to die." Elijah argued back, talking to her as if she was a toddler.

"Nobody deserves to be killed like this for no reasons! You're not even going to wait and see if there is a possibility of making some sort of peaceful deal with him?" Rachel glared at him.

"Why would I give him this opportunity? He killed all of my siblings…it's his fault if your aunt Sage has to go through each day on her own." Elijah snapped.

"They're not dead they are daggered! You could simply make a deal with him, asking for your siblings in exchange for not trying to ruin the ritual or for your help in it." Rachel suggested.

Right now, Rachel and Elijah looked like two kid arguing and it was very entertaining to Damon and Sage.

"You seriously think you can make a deal with my brother?" Elijah asked, looking at her like she was dreaming.

"Yes, I really do."

"You're dreaming kid."

"Kid? Just wait until my birthday this summer, as soon as I come to my powers I'll show you who the kid is!" Rachel yelled at him.

"How about you try and make your deal with Niklaus the way you foolishly think you can and I make my own plans. We'll see who the fool is afterward." Elijah growled back before he left the house, claiming he would find a room somewhere in town.

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Katherine was finding the time very long in the tomb, especially since the only visit she had gotten had been from Elijah and it was only because Damon wanted to prove that they had her.

Fortunately, she had been prepared for the eventuality she would get locked in this tomb and had another witch that would come in town any day now and knew the few places to look for her. This witch was completely under her control and would do anything she could to help her.

Katherine had no idea how long she had been locked in this tomb when she heard a human heart coming closer.

"Katherine, are you here?" A feminine voice she recognised said.

"Yes…Now get me out of here quickly…The pain is unbearable." Katherine managed to say over the pain of thirst.

"Sure…"

The young witch started chanting and even though she was channelling the power of an entire coven, she was still getting weaker. When she finally managed to free Katherine, the vampire blurred to the witch and drained her dry, gaining some of the strengths she had lost.

She knew that if Elijah was in town, Klaus wouldn't be far so instead of planning some kind of revenge, she ran away quickly. There would be time for revenge later.

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Klaus had just arrived in the small town of Mystic Fall's. He initially planed to take over someone's body but Isobel, the vampire he had compelled to do it for him had been killed so he had to come in his own body.

He settled in an empty house he found and asked his witches to find as much as possible about everything. He didn't want to be seen or found until the very last moment. He had to put every chance on his side for this to work, which was why he had a female werewolf drugged and locked in a room.

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"We have a problem." Sage said as she entered the Boarding house.

"What is it?" Damon asked her.

"I went by the tomb to check if Katherine was still there and to tempt her a little but the tomb was empty and a girl was dead in front of the door." Sage explained.

"The little bitch must have found a witch to die for her." Damon spat.

"It will be hard to negotiate with Klaus if we don't have Katherine to give him in exchange." Rachel sighted, looking down.

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Frederick quickly found himself face to face with one of Klaus' witch who simply knocked him unconscious, using magic. He woke up some time later tied up in a chair in front of Klaus.

The original vampire didn't want to waste any time so he compelled the vampire to tell him everything he knew. Unable to resist, Frederick told him all he had found out since getting out of the tomb, including about Sage being in town and caring for a human girl and about Katherine's recent escape from the tomb. He also informed the original of his own plan to gain his favor and how it had backfired.

"Well, I think it's time for me to seek a meeting with Sage." Klaus said before he ordered one of his witches to lock Frederick and keep him down for the ritual while he told the other to find Sage and tell her to meet him at the Mystic Grill the next day.

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