"You're okay Rachel? You've been awfully quiet for the past hour..." Rebekah asked Rachel while they were shopping with Santana and Caroline.

"Yeah, Bekah is right. You didn't even complain when they started playing this ridiculous version of Barbara's song I know you absolutely hate..." Santana added.

Santana really enjoyed this day at the mall with her friends. It allowed her to stay strong in Tyler's punishment... She wanted nothing more but to have sew with him again but she knew that she needed to mark this punishment, she couldn't let it pass... She knew that Rachel wanted to talk to her about Tyler and to apologize but she refused to hear it, it wasn't Rachel's fault and she didn't want to let her sister feel guilty for it. Rachel had never done anything to bring this attention from Tyler and Santana hoped that it wasn't what was bothering her sister because she didn't want to talk about it right now.

"It's just... Don't you get this bad feeling that something big is coming?" Rachel asked them.

They were now in the food court, getting their lunch.

"What do you mean?" Caroline asked her.

"I can't help but feel like everything has been too quiet for the past few weeks..." Rachel tried to explain.

"Well, of course everything has been very quiet for the past few weeks but the past few weeks before that it was hell for all of us..." Rebekah replied.

"Yeah, I think we just deserve the quiet we're getting." Santana replied.

"I think the quiet we're getting is the calm before the storm... I feel it in the pit of my stomach...and when it hit us, it'll be very bad... Some of us dying bad..." Rachel replied, unable to drink the coffee she had gotten or to eat anything.

"Well then, I guess we just need to get ready in case you're right while praying that you're wrong." Santana declared.

"Has Stefan told you anything at all?" Rebekah asked Caroline.

She had been secretly seeing Stefan for the past few weeks and it wasn't easy to hide it from Elena. They always had to hide, or see each other in the woods or out of town after making sure that Elena was busy some place else. Thankfully, Jenna and Jeremy were on their side and helped them.

"No, he just said that Elena still believes that he loves her and stayed away just to get closer to his brother. We don't really talk about Elena that much... We already get so little time together..." Caroline replied.

"I understand completely. Plus, if he had heard anything, he would have told daddy. I think we just have to keep our eyes and our ears open." Rachel replied.

"Well, until then, let's go back to shopping and try to keep your mood up girl. Worrying won't make Katherine surrender herself and give up her evil bitch plans." Santana said as they all got up to go back to their shopping spree.

"Next time we really should take at least one of the boys with us to carry our bags. I don't care how strong we are, we shouldn't have to carry them ourselves, it's barbaric." Rebekah complained, making Rachel chuckle.

"It's called feminism now Rebekah." Rachel replied.

"Well, I want women to be equal to men and I want a man to act like a gentleman and to carry my bags and open my doors, is that so bad?" The original sister asked her friends.

"Not at all, I think it's how it should be." Caroline nodded.

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Bonnie was pissed at Rachel for taking her powers away and even madder at her grandmother and her mother for not even trying to give them back to her. They acted as if Rachel had been right, as if she deserved what she got. It was completely crazy and the youngest Bennett witch was even more motivated to destroy Klaus, knowing how much it would hurt Rachel to see him dead.

"Did you ask your mother yet?" Elena asked Bonnie as they pretended to work together on their Math homework.

"No, I'm making my way up to it. Right now I'm pretending that I forgave Grandma and her for taking Rachel's defense. I'm pretending to see things their way. I'll be able to find out how she desiccated Mickeal in a couple of days. Then we'll be able to tell Katherine, who'll get her witch friend to do it and we'll be rid of Klaus for good." Bonnie explained, in a whispered voice.

"Katherine is working on siring vampires to help her. She found out that if she turns a human that's in love with her, then he'll be sired to her as a vampire. We both know that us Petrova Doppelgangers don't have any problems with making men fall for us..." Elena explained smugly.

"Good, we'll need people to help us without asking questions..." Bonnie replied.

"Do you think you'll be able to get your powers back some day?" Elena asked her.

"Yes, I think so. If I can convince my mother and my grandmother that I mean it, that I'm really sorry, then I'll be able to foul Rachel too and she'll give me my powers back. We both know that she wants to be good so bad that she'll forgive anyone to look like the nice one." Bonnie chuckled.

"It's a nice feeling you know... Knowing that we'll actually win this thing...be rid of Klaus...make Rachel suffer and get Stefan back..." Elena replied.

"I know, we're almost at the end of this thing and soon, Klaus will be no more. They'll never see it coming." Bonnie nodded before they heard someone coming up the stairs and they opened their school books and notebooks to start what they were supposed to do before anyone spotted them and got suspicious.

Here we are with another chapter done. This thing is growing so big... I still have a hard time believing it!

What do you think will happen? Will their plan work?

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Lorelei Candice Black