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CHAPTER 15 – THE HYBRID

The rest of the week went by without any major drama, except for the fact, that Damon and Elena were arguing more than usual. It had something with Elena trying to change him, "keep him in check" and honestly, Rhiannon tried her best to stay out of it. She didn't need to get her head bitten off trying to fix things.

Before she knew it, it was a night before the start of their senior year and they were crouching in one of the classrooms, setting up fifty mouse traps when Matt barged in setting off all of the traps scaring the hell out of them and himself.

"Oh c'mon! Seriously?!" Caroline cried out. "Do you know how long this took us to set up?!"

"Well I don't know about you, but I'm not setting this up again," Rhiannon mumbled sitting on top of one of the chairs.

"Forgot about senior prank night huh?" Tyler chimed in.

"Clearly," Matt retorted.

"How could you forget? We've only been waiting for this since like a freshman year!" Caroline said incredulously.

"Yea Matt, if I'm doing this, you're doing this," Elena joined in.

"I'm kinda surprised any of you are doing this," Matt countered.

"Caroline's making us," Bonnie chimed in.

"We're about to be seniors," Caroline started in a serious tone of voice. "These are the memories that will stay with us forever and—"

"If we don't create these memories now then what's the point of it all," Elena and Rhiannon toned together.

"Go ahead, make fun, I don't care," Caroline laughed.

"You're all lame," Tyler jumped in heading for the door. "And I've got ten more classrooms to prank."

"Where are you going?" Bonnie asked as Elena followed behind him.

"To superglue Alaric's desk chair," Elena answered matter-of-factedly making Caroline beam at her. "Making memories."

"I love you," she toned after her.

"Well, Bonnie and Matt are gonna TP the swimming pool and I better get on with setting these up," Rhiannon said.

"I thought you said you're not doing it again," Caroline toned appreciatively.

"Well I changed my mind after your inspiring speech," Rhiannon joked.

After she was done setting up the mouse traps she tiptoed out of the classroom and decided to find others to see what else needed to be done but there seemed to be nobody left. The whole school was vacant which was weird to say the least. She decided to try the gym and as she pushed open the gym door she was stopped dead in her tracks by the sight of Klaus standing over Tyler's unconscious body and Elena, Bonnie and Matt looking shocked and helpless. There was another blonde girl who she'd never seen before. Before she could react in any way she was grabbed by Klaus.

"Well tonight just keeps getting better and better," he muttered, having her in a choke-hold and walking right back to the middle of the gym. "I was hoping you'd show up tonight love. Saves me the trouble of hunting you down."

"What the hell do you want from me?" she rasped out.

"Well as I was explaining to your friends earlier, every time I try to turn a werewolf into a hybrid, they die in a horribly gruesome way during the transition," Klaus started. "And since it is Bonnie's witchy interfering that caused the problem, she's gonna be the one to fix it. Now, I think Tyler's life might be a motivation enough, I think we can up the ante, don't you think?"

None of it made sense until Klaus bit into his wrist and force-fed her his blood. Then he placed his hands on either side of her head and snap. Everything turned black.

When she finally woke up, she was laying on a lab table in a chemistry classroom and she felt like she was dying. Her head was pounding, her neck hurt like bitch and if she had anything in her stomach she was sure it would not stay there for long. It felt like the first time she turned into a wolf, only thousand time worse.

"What the hell happened?" she groaned, trying to sit up.

"You're in transition love," she heard Klaus mutter from the corner of the room making her jump up.

"You turned me into a hybrid?!" she cried out.

"Not quite yet love," he retorted. "There's one crucial step missing in the process of transition and if your friend Bonnie doesn't figure it out, you and Tyler will die."

"What?!" she cried out again. "Why are you doing this?!"

"Why, I'm angry and when I'm angry I lash out at people who are responsible," Klaus retorted as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Elijah forgot to mention that?"

"How—" she started but she realized he must know about them. "What was that about hunting me down? Why would you do that?"

"As I say, I like to punish people who disappoint me and Elijah did just that when he tried to kill me, so consider this my way of retaliating," he explained. "If Bonnie is unsuccessful and you die, Elijah will suffer. If you don't die and become a hybrid, well… he will suffer either way. I'll make sure of that."

"And you wonder why your siblings hate you," she muttered grabbing her head in her hands, wincing in pain.

"Oh they hate me for thousand more reasons none of which concern you," Klaus said standing up and grabbing her arm, dragging her out of the room, then opening door to another classroom with Caroline, Tyler and the unknown blonde.

"Rebekah love, keep any eye on this one and make sure she doesn't cause any problems," he said shoving her into the room.

"As you wish brother," she said and walked Rhiannon to one of the chairs. "Sit down love, you look awful."

"Well thanks for your concern," Rhiannon bit back, her words dripping with sarcasm.

"You really look and sound like her," Rebekah muttered fascinated.

"You knew my ancestor?" Rhiannon asked, trying to find out as much as possible in spite the fact she felt like she was gonna have a heart attack.

"She was my best friend back in the time," the Original sister started. "I don't know how much you know about our history."

"Not much, Elijah was going to tell me more, but then he ended up daggered by your lunatic of a brother and in the box," Rhiannon retorted.

"Ah yes, so I'm correct to assume he fancies you?" Rebekah asked.

"I guess you could say that," Rhiannon muttered looking down on the ground. "Not that it matter anymore since I'm most likely dead.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that love," Klaus said walking in with two vials of blood.

"This is Elena's blood," he said handing it to her. "Drink it. Or else you truly will be dead."

"What?"

"There's no time for explaining love, just drink it if you want to live," Klaus urged. "Same goes for you Tyler."

She looked at the vial hesitantly, then on Tyler who looked about as freaked out as she felt at that moment. She nodded at him and they both drank the dark sticky liquid. It was disgusting and she felt like throwing up and then her heart started beating even faster. She started screaming as she felt as if her head as gonna split in half and then she felt the fangs extend in her mouth and her vision come blurry, then really sharp. Then she collapsed on the ground and suddenly she felt the rush, the bloodlust and she felt that weird feeling of invincibility. Then all her emotions came crushing down on her and she felt like laughing and weeping at the same time. And then Klaus and Rebekah were gone and she was left with Tyler and Caroline.

She made her way out of the school. Everybody was gone so she tried to call Damon. He wasn't picking up. She dialed him about thousand more times and then headed for the boarding house to try and figure out where the hell he was. Well he sure was nowhere to be found. She was about to freak out when he finally called her back and said he found Elena in the hospital and he's bringing her home. Knowing Elena's safe and Klaus gone, she finally let herself go and cried out everything she'd been trying to hold back ever since she got out of that school. She decided to wait for them in the study and couple minutes and couple glasses of bourbon later, she saw Damon walk in with Elena in his arms. She was pale as a ghost. He sat her down and covered her with a blanket, pouring her some bourbon too.

"Are you alright?" Elena asked Rhiannon.

"Yea, well all things considered. I made it out alive, I guess that's that," Rhiannon muttered. "Are you alright?"

"Not really," Elena whispered with tears in her eyes. "Stefan's really gone this time. I watched it happen. After everything we went through to get him back, to help him. He's just gone. Where were you Damon?"

"I shouldn't have left," he muttered apologetically. "I promise to you, I will never leave you again."

"Well isn't this cozy," Stefan called out leaning against the pillar, making everybody jump up.

"What're you doing here brother?" Damon asked.

"Well last I checked I lived here," Stefan retorted pouring himself a drink. "Klaus is gone but he's asked me to keep watch on you until he returns," he said pointing towards Elena. "From now on you're under my protection. By all means carry on."

"Well that was awkward," Rhiannon muttered.

"Thanks for stating the obvious," Damon bit back.

"Anytime hon," she smiled at him sweetly and headed out. "Wait, where do you keep the bloodbags? I guess I'm gonna need them from now on…"

"Wait what?" Damon asked.

"She's a hybrid now," Elena elaborated. "Klaus fed her and Tyler his blood, then snapped their necks. After Bonnie found out the solution, he's given them my blood, completing the transition."

"Well I'm glad you're okay," Damon said. "Even though it means we're never gonna get rid of Klaus now."

"Yea, thanks," she quipped back. "I'm gonna head for the bed now. It's been one hell of a night.

After she showered she climbed into her bed with a bloodbag in her hand not sure how she felt about it all. She felt like she was about to freak out so she decided to call Caroline for help. She knew the basics of what it meant to be a vampire, but she didn't feel like she could do it by herself. All this made her miss Elijah even more. If he were here, he would have helped her through all of this. Furthermore he wouldn't have let this happen to her.

"Here we are," Caroline chirped. "Senior year."

"Did anyone else think that this should feel slightly more empowering?" Bonnie asked making Rhiannon snicker.

"Okay so prank night was a bust," Caroline objected. "But we are accepting it and we are moving on."

"You're right," Bonnie agreed. "I mean why should I let the fact that my boyfriend is seeing ghost of his dead girlfriends hinder this experience?"

"Yes!" Caroline agreed. "And why should I let the fact that my boyfriend was turned into a hybrid put a damper on otherwise fabulous day?!"

"Exactly," Rhiannon joined in. "And why should I let the fact that my boyfriend, or whatever he was is laying daggered in the box and his lunatic brother turned me into a freaky hybrid stop me from enjoying the hell out of our last year in high school?"

"That's the spirit!" Caroline toned.

"Today is our anniversary," Elena muttered from behind them. "Technically, Stefan and I met on the first day of school last year."

"Yea, you win," Caroline said solemnly.

"Are you sure you wanna be here?" Bonnie added.

"Yea, we could ditch the first day, go to your house, order take-out and watch a bunch of movies," Rhiannon offered. Quite frankly, that's all she's been thinking about that morning.

"No I have to be here," Elena objected. "I have to put it behind me. New year, new life."

"Yea, sorry if I was too pushy with inviting myself over to your house but get this, Rebekah, or Barbie-Klaus as Damon likes to call her is living in the boarding house," Rhiannon informed them.

"What?!" all three cried out.

"Yea, apparently Klaus ditched her and she's got a thing for Stefan from the past or something so she waltzed right through the door and almost took my room," she elaborated further.

"So what about Stefan?" Elena asked. So much for putting it behind her, Rhiannon thought.

"Well he's still at the boarding house and he's still being a emotionless dick, that's all I'm gonna tell you," Rhiannon said.

As the day went by, Stefan showed up at school to watch over Elena and make everybody else miserable in the process. Elena decided it'd be best to lock him up until they figure out a way to undo the compulsion. They were all gathered in Alaric's classroom talking about the plan.

"I'll lure Stefan away from the bonfire," Elena started. "Then when he's distracted—"

"I'll shoot him," Alaric chimed in.

"Can't Bonnie just joo-joo him or something?" Damon asked.

"We're trying to keep Bonnie out of this," Rhiannon jumped it. "There's no guarantee that Stefan won't hurt her now that his humanity is off."

"Caroline are you covered?" Elena continued.

"Yes, I'll make sure the old Forbes jail cell is prepped and ready," she said.

"You're forgetting a key player here," Damon cut in. "Rebekah? Wherever Stefan goes the blond pony-tail tends to follow."

"Which is why it's your job to keep her away," Elena instructed.

"How?" Damon asked. "She's an Original. Last time I checked we're out of daggers."

"So then preoccupy her with your charm," Elena countered. "Might have better luck finding the dagger."

"Are you ever not gonna be mad at me Rick?" Damon bit back.

"Doubtful," the history teacher retorted.

"Sorry I'm late," Tyler said walking in. "What's going on?"

"We need you to raid you'r mom's vervain supply, enough to keep Stefan down for a while," Rhiannon instructed.

"You can't do that to Stefan," Tyler protested.

"Trust me Tyler, it's in his best interest," Elena insisted.

"But it's not in Klaus'," Tyler objected.

"But Klaus is the bad guy Tyler," Caroline explained as if Tyler had a stroke and forgot everything up to that point. "And why are you acting like some freaky hybrid slave minion."

"Uh-oh," Damon muttered standing up and walking slowly towards the fighting couple.

"Klaus made me who I am Caroline," Tyler continued. "I owe him everything."

"Oh boy," Damon muttered grabbing one of the vervain syringes.

"Okay can we cool it on the commentaries please?" Caroline asked irritated.

"What's going on?" Rhiannon whispered.

"I'm just gonna go," Tyler muttered and turned around as Damon vamped towards him and got him with the syringe.

"What are you doing?!" Caroline cried out.

"He's been sired," Damon said.

"He's been what?" Rhiannon asked.

"Sired," Damon repeated. "He feels loyal to Klaus because it was Klaus' blood that created him.

"Loyal how?" Rhiannon asked on the edge. If this was going to happen to her too she was gonna rip her own heart out.

"He'll seek acceptance from his master. It's truly rare," Damon elaborated. "Maybe not so much in hybrids."

"Well I don't feel any of the things you described," Rhiannon said. "I wonder why is that."

"So how so I fix him?" Caroline asked.

"Get a new boyfriend," Damon bit back.

"Don't be a dick," Rhiannon chided him. "C'mon Caroline, I'm gonna help you get Tyler home."

"Alright, thanks," she said gratefully grabbing Tyler's arm.

After she was leaving the Lockwoods she decided to head home. It seemed like they had the plan all figured out and nobody was counting on her being there. Plus she could feel they didn't trust her and she thought she was lucky she didn't end up vervained/wolfsbained like Tyler.

I guess this is what Klaus had in mind when he said he'll make sure Elijah will suffer even if I survive the transition, Rhiannon thought to herself. She felt normal however and the idea of being Klauses little minion made her sick.