While the girls were having their night in at the Salvatore Boarding house, the boys were playing poker and enjoying some man time at the Mickealson's estate. It was new to them all, hanging out together, but it felt nice, human.
None of them really knew how they got to that point, but they were now talking about life's mottoes.
"Well, Klaus's motto has always been Si vis pacem, para bellum." Elijah announced, knowing his little brother so well.
"That would explain the hybrid army you wanted to make so badly." Alaric nodded.
"So what? I just want to be prepared!" Klaus exclaimed in a defensive tone.
"Yeah, if you want peace, prepare for war... I get that actually." Damon replied pensively.
"Well, Damon's isn't better." Stefan chuckled.
"What? My motto in life is Nunc est bibendum...Nothing better than this." Damon protested.
"Now let's drink? Now that doesn't surprise me either." Alaric chuckled.
After that, they went back to playing poker, drinking and eating unhealthy food that wouldn't affect their metabolisms.
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The next day, life went back to normal and everybody went back to their everyday routine. Sage and Finn left town once more, planning on travelling the continent some more to be alone for a while and Rachel was working hard on practicing for her coming NYADA audition. She was singing as soon as she had 5 minutes and tried out different songs, trying her best to find the one who would woo everybody.
This particular afternoon, she had been practicing several Barbra Streisand and a few Celine Dion songs and her friends had been there to tell her what they thought about it. Mostly, it had been ballads that showed very well her strong and powerful voice.
"Don't worry Santana, I can practice alone for a while, you go ahead and spend some time with Tyler." Rachel reassured her.
Santana and Tyler had been, along with Rebekah and Caroline, supporting Rachel for the past 2 hours and just like the two blonds, they were getting tired of hearing the same songs all over again. They wanted to leave for a while and be alone and Rachel didn't mind at all. In fact, she, too, was planning on taking a break and joining Klaus for a while.
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Santana and Tyler rushed to his house and to his bedroom where they quickly got naked and started having what could be called hot and passionate hybrid sex. It was just as great as it always was but, suddenly, Santana heard what she thought she would never hear from him in a moment like this.
"Oh Rachel I love you so much..." Tyler moaned.
"What did you just say?" Santana yelled as she pulled away and moved away from him.
"I... I don't... I didn't..." Tyler didn't know what to say, he was lost.
He didn't even know where it had come from. Well, okay, so he had been thinking of Rachel naked a lot lately, but it wasn't cheating right?
"Don't bother." Santana glared at him.
She snapped his neck, got dressed and walked down the stairs.
"Leaving already Santana dear? I thought you were staying for dinner tonight." Carole asked her.
"Your son is a pig, just like any other man. I snapped his neck. Tell him we're over when he wakes up." Santana replied before heading to her car and driving back home.
She knew that Rachel hadn't done anything to deserve this kind of attention from Tyler. She loved Klaus and was completely faithful to the man. The truth was that Tyler probably got reminded of his feelings for Rachel when he heard her sing all those love songs. Part of Santana knew from the beginning that Tyler had never forgotten completely his feelings for Rachel, just like she never completely forgot her feelings for Brittany. But Santana wasn't sure if she could forgive what he had done. How could she be sure that he loved her and that he didn't plan to try and win back Rachel at some point? Could she ask Klaus to compel him to tell the truth? Would it be right or not? Should she even tell her hybrid boss about this?
"Home already Santana? Did you get into an argument with Tyler or something?" Damon asked her when she got home.
She liked living here. Damon was more of a father to her than her real father ever was. It probably had to do with the fact that her father was always working and that Damon was very present for her and Rachel. She knew that if she told him the truth it would create tensions and worries. Rachel would worry about her, Damon would worry about both her and Rachel and everyone would be tensed around her and Tyler. She didn't want that.
"It's nothing, it will sort itself out eventually..." She replied, dismissing it.
He was obviously in the middle of a tender moment with Rebekah and she didn't want to interrupt him. She went to the stairs, planning on going to her room.
"Are you sure you're okay?" He asked her, seeing that something was wrong.
"Don't worry, it will be fine. I just need some rest." She did her best to smile.
Damon seemed to buy it and she went to her bedroom, planning on chatting with Brittany for a while and forget about Tyler for a few hours. To make sure that Damon or Rebekah didn't hear her at all, she put some music on.
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When he woke up, Tyler found himself naked, under a blanket on his bed, with his mother by his side.
"What happened?" He asked as he covered himself up.
"That's what I would like to know. What did you do that got Santana so mad at you that she snapped your neck?" Carole asked her son.
She really like her son's girlfriend and she wanted things to work between them.
"Oh Shit! I've got to go do some damage control!" Tyler exclaimed as he rushed out of his house.
"Yes, you better because I actually like Santana and I want her to enter our family." Carole replied in a hard tone.
If his mother thought that he was going to see Santana and apologise, she was greatly mistaken. Tyler was rushing to the Mickealson's house. He was so sure that in her rage, Santana had gone to speak with Klaus that Tyler didn't think twice. he really needed to tell his side of things and try to smooth things over.
As soon as he arrived, he rushed inside and planted himself in front of Klaus and Rachel who where snuggled up in an armchair, reading the same book. Before they could say anything he said:
"Before you say anything I don't know what Santana told you but it's not what it looked like. So okay, yes, I did say that I loved Rachel while having sex with Santana but I didn't mean it. I mean, yes of course I meant it but... It was just in the heat of the moment because I still had Rachel's incessant, but super great, love songs in my head when Santana moaned in a way I once dreamt Rachel doing a while back... well, last week really...but I'm not in love with her, I swear! Well, okay, so maybe I am a bit in love with Rachel, I still didn't mean for you to find out about this..." Tyler explained himself while speaking very quickly and the expression on Klaus and Rachel's faces was of surprise.
Tyler wasn't planing on admitting to still loving Rachel but since he was speaking to his sire, the sire bond forced him to speak the truth.
"By the expression on your face I guess that she didn't tell you anything and that I just made an idiot out of myself..." Tyler added, blushing and ashamed he added:
"It's funny how the Earth never opens up and swallows you whole when you want it to..."
"You said what while with Santana?" Rachel asked in a very high voice he had learnt to recognise as a sign of coming troubles for him.
"You're having sex dreams of Rachel?" Klaus asked in a dangerously quiet voice.
"Well, it was one time really...well okay, so I had a couple more since then but... So yeah, okay, I've been having dirty dreams with Rachel in it for quite some time now but...Well, they're not really sex dreams... More like threesomes with Santana and Rachel...Actually this was just one time... But it was great... Anyway, I think I should shut up now." Tyler replied.
"What you need to do is get a reality check Tyler. Santana loves you and you probably broke her heart tonight. We've been over for a long time and there is no chance in hell for us to ever go back together. Now you're going to go buy the biggest flower bouquet you find and beg her to forgive you. You'll stand outside her window holding those flowers the entire night if you have to but you will get her to forgive you. Also the next time you dare have this kind of dream about me I will magically castrate you." Rachel replied before she slapped him hard.
He had been slapped by Rachel before but it was back when she was human. Now that she was half witch and half vampire, he could feel just how much stronger she was.
Tyler nodded quickly and before Klaus could threaten him or do anything definite to his anatomy, he ran out of the house and rushed to do as Rachel told him.
When he arrived in front of Santana's window, standing in her balcony, Tyler realised that she was chatting on her computer but that she had tears in her eyes. He could see them clearly through the window and it hurt him to know that he had put those tears there, in the eyes of this girl who usually was so strong and stood so tall. He rose his fist and knocked on the window.
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Santana raised her head and erased her tears when she noticed Tyler standing outside her window with the biggest bouquet of roses she had ever seen in her life.
"What do you want?" She barked him, her eyes flashing yellow with the anger she directed at him.
"I wanted to apologise... I'm sorry Santana... You know I love you. I'll admit that I've fantasised about you, Rachel and me having a threesome and that hearing her sing all those songs reminded me of when I used to date her but you know I love only you... Please forgive me..." He begged her.
He didn't think that telling her that sometimes he still wished Rachel would break up with Klaus and run in his arms would be a good idea. He couldn't let Santana know that he was never able to forget her and that he was in love with the two of them.
"It's going to cost you a lot more than flowers." Santana replied.
"Anything you want." He agreed.
"No sex for a month at least." She warned him.
"It will be hard but I will manage." He nodded.
It was better than the magical castration Rachel had threatened him with...or the real anatomical one that Klaus was planing in his head.
"It means no masturbating either. I'll ask Klaus to compel you to make sure you don't do anything." She added.
Tyler paled but nodded, handing her the flowers. She took them and smiled softly.
"You'll have to sing me an apology song tomorrow in Glee club too. No, forget that, not in Glee club, in the cafeteria, in front of everybody." She added.
"Okay... I better go now and work on it then..." He agreed before kissing her quickly and leaving, happy that the situation got resolved so easily and hoping that his little confession to Klaus and Rachel wouldn't make things too weird.
Now that's a big one... I hope you liked it. I've spent the day writing and I've just finished writing chapter 116 to 121 today! That will give me some time to work on other stories.
Please don't forget to review and tell me what you thought of Tyler's little slip up.
Lorelei Candice Black