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Chapter 5: The Reckoning
She sat cross legged on top of a desk in one of the many classrooms in the school. Elena, Tyler, Bonnie and Caroline we're there as well, the four of them setting up mouse traps throughout the whole room. Senior prank night was a night they'd been waiting for since starting high school but now Adele just wasn't that into it. She could tell that Elena and Bonnie weren't either but they we're there for Caroline who in fact was into it.
"You know…" Tyler says moving his way past her. "You could help." He says and she looks up from her phone sending him an overly bright smile.
"Can't." She says uncrossing her legs and holding them up. She wiggles her toes. "Open toed heels. Expensive heels at that." Tyler scoffs like it's the most ridiculous excuse he's ever heard and she laughs because it probably is.
"Where's Michael?" Caroline asks causing Adele to freeze. "He's usually the one doing everything you don't want to do. He should be here."
"He's in a bit of a jam at the moment with work and his sister's surprise visit."
"And Jasmine." Tyler sings. Adele grins at him.
"Jasmine and Michael?" Bonnie speaks up from the back of the room, looking up from the mouse trap she's setting up. "Since when?"
All at once the mouse traps go off causing Adele to shirk in surprise, drawing her legs up to her chest and hugging them tightly as everyone else jumps up forgetting all about Michael. The light flicks on causing everyone to look over, seeing Matt standing there looking like he just came from the workout room.
"Oh come on!" Caroline exclaims as Adele starts to laugh. "Do you know how long it took for us to set all this up?"
"Forgot about senior prank night?" Tyler asks.
"Clearly." Matt answers gazing around at all the mouse traps he was now responsible for setting off. He wouldn't be surprised if Caroline makes him reset them all.
"How could you forget? We've only been waiting for this since like freshman year." Caroline sounds deeply hurt as she gazes between the four of them.
"Yeah Matt," Elena speaks up from now sitting on a desk a row over from her sister. "If I'm doing this, you're doing this."
"I'm kind of surprised any of you are doing this." Matt tells them causing Tyler to throw up his arms and Adele to scoff.
"You're not the only one." She tells him.
"Caroline's making us." Bonnie says and Caroline huffs.
"We're about to be seniors. These are the memories that will stay with us forever, and if we don't..." Adele quickly cuts her off.
"And if we don't create these memories now, then what's the point of it all?" Caroline glares playfully at her crossing her arms across her chest.
"Go ahead and make fun. I don't care."
"You're all lame." Tyler bends to pick up a duffle bag. He swings it onto his shoulder. "And I've got ten more classrooms to prank." He leaves and Adele pushes herself from the desk making her way towards the door now that the threat of ruining her heels on some mouse traps was out of the way.
"Hey." Bonnie calls and she stops turning back. "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to go superglue Alaric's desk shut." She smirks. "I'm making memories." She leaves grinning as she hears Caroline call out to her that she loves her.
Once she makes it to Alaric's class room she quickly flips on the light and closes and locks the door, wanting just one god damn moment of peace to get her thoughts together. She takes a seat in Alaric's desk chair spinning around a few times. She picks the lock on the first drawer in his desk not surprised to find it was where he hid his bourbon stash. She takes the bottle out examining it with a slight smile before it slowly falls and she's reaching for her phone.
She dials his number slowly only to stare at it for a minute. Why would he answer now if he hadn't been answering before? He just completely up and left with no warning, she'd been trying to get a hold of him since she found out he's left with no such luck. When she'd finally cooled off enough to have a civil conversion with him without them screaming at each other, she returned to the boarding house only to find him not there. His Camaro was there but he wasn't. She thought maybe he was in town but that been exactly where she came from. She ran into Liz so he obviously wasn't with her and she checked the grill and he wasn't there either. She stayed at the house that night but he never showed up.
She starts the call pulling the phone up to her ear with a silent plea for him to answer. All she needed was to know he was okay. She was worried and hurt, hurt that he didn't care enough to at least leave her a voicemail telling her where he was going. No instead he wants to make her sick with worry.
Part of her is worried that he's not coming back.
But that's just ridicules.
He wouldn't just leave her because of a small fight because that's exactly what it was. Small especially compared to the fight they had about James. That fight had been explosive and violent. He'd gotten so mad that he punched a hole through the T.V in there room and she'd gotten so mad at him that she threw a vase at his head all before he stormed off, leaving her crying in the middle of the bedroom.
Of course even then he returned apologizing and offering her comfort in an obvious dark time in which she needed him and then of course the painful all day shopping trip that went along with buying a new TV the next day and that took forever, she still doesn't understand why it takes so long for men to buy a TV but that is completely beside the point. She obviously wanted to work this out but yet he was nowhere to be found.
The call hits voicemail and she considers hanging up but maybe it's time she said something. She'd called so many times only to hang up without at least leaving a voicemail.
*VD*
Damon was annoyed.
He didn't realize at the time how much of a bad idea this actually was. He could barely stand to look at Katherine how could he expect to be stuck in car with her for hours on end especially when she never stops talking.
"Are you hungry?" She abruptly changes the subject once more. "Let's stop for a bite. A truck stop or a trucker."
"Stop being cute." He finally snaps but she lets it roll right off her only so few can.
"It's not possible." She grins.
"We've been driving around aimlessly for hours. Where are we going?" He asks the same question for the fifth time and this time he gets an actually answer, not a change of subject but an answer of course not the one he wants but still.
"Far enough away so that you can't go running back." Damon's phone buzzes in his pocket but he makes no move to look at it. He knows who it is and he can't bring himself to answer it. What was he supposed to tell her? He ran off with Katherine on a spontaneous road trip for god knows what reason because he was mad? She's be pissed. She'd go all black eyed demon on him, quite possibly throw another vase at him or better yet she might stab him again and this time the knife would be made of wood and it would hurt like a bitch and she wouldn't do it because he decided to take a road trip, she'd do it because he decided to take a road trip with Katherine. That was the sin of all sins when it came to his little vixen. She'll have his head on a stake when she finds out.
There was absolutely no love lost between the two of them, they hate each other with a deep burning passion. You would think Katherine's hatred would fall more heavily on Elena but that wasn't the case and Damon thinks it might just be because nothing she's done, making Jenna stab herself, killing Caroline, none of it had made her scared of Katherine. It just pissed her off, just made her hate her that much more to the point where if she had the opening, Adele would kill her and Katherine knows despite being over 500 hundred years old, given the right opening her doppelgänger sister would do it without battening an eyelash or breaking a nail. She'd do it with a certain grace that even Katherine Pierce can't match.
"Not to worry." He says, wanting to distract himself from his thoughts. "Mystic Falls and I are on a bit of a break."
"You and Mystic Falls or you and Blondie and her friends and family?" Katherine asks her voice dropping drastically as she shifts in her seat to look at him more fully. She couldn't deny that the guy was good looking, hell who was she kidding? He was downright sexy.
"Let's just say a few people and I are having a bit of difference of opinion on how I should behave." He's sticking to telling her as little as possible. He doesn't want to give her anything that could be used against them in the future and knowing Katherine the way that he does, anything he says could be used to mess with them.
"Ooh. Let me guess..."A few people" meaning of course Blondie's sister wants you to be the hero, and you don't like playing pretend while Blondie is telling you she just wants you to be you." Her fingers are running across his jaw and he wonders exactly what her motive here is.
"Something like that." He mummers turning to finally look at her finding her very, very close. His gaze falling to her mischievous deep brown eyes, the same eyes that used to make him tremble in want now all he could think about was a pair of deep blue eyes that did far more then make him want the girl they belonged to. Truth be told nothing about Katherine screamed out at him anymore, nothing about her turned him on even in the slightest.
"There loss." She whispers before kissing him which only surprises him for a second before he's kissing her back only to push her off of him a second later and to say she looked pissed would be an understatement.
"What are you doing?" She demands those brown eyes sparkling in anger.
"I thought I'd give it a shot. Truth is you just don't do it for me anymore." He sends her a filthy smirk that has her wanting to punch something. This was the second time he's done this but yet if she was a certain blonde haired and blue eyed little whore he'd be all over her.
*VD*
Finally leaving the little bit of comfort she was able to find in Alaric's class room, she's nearing the gym ready to help out in there or maybe find an excuse to go home, it still wasn't too to crawl into bed with a bowl of Ice Cream and watch The Notebook because that was every girls go to movie when they had relationship problems. She could even try to drag Caroline with her, maybe Elena too and Bonnie. They could suffer from her poor mood as well, it's not like Damon's bed isn't big enough.
Her cell phone buzzes and for a flitting moment Adele thinks it might be Damon but with a small ping of disappointment she realizes it's only Jasmine sending her yet another picture, this one of Jackie, Michael and some weird Anime looking stuffed panda that was really adorable because almost everyone knew that her favorite animal was a in fact a panda. It was good to see him becoming much more comfortable around her.
She pushes through the double doors of the gym, her eyes fixed on her phone when she hears her name being called. She glances up for half a second only to have to do a double take when she realizes who it was calling to her and why.
"Well what a pleasant surprise." Klaus's thick accented voice calls across the gym to her and standing next to him is Elena with Dana Weather and some guy named Chad is there as well, Dana is balancing her foot up in the air. "I see you've healed nicely. It's good to see Love." Despite her growing fear Elena's curiosity gets the better of her and she sends Adele a confused look to which she only shakes her head coming closer to them.
"What is," She trails off glancing around them. She glances over Dana and Chad before her eyes land back on Klaus and Elena. "What is going on?"
"Well as it would turn out someone has been hiding a very big secret from me. How I didn't realize it sooner is just foolish on my part considering the way I found you almost being mauled by a werewolf in the Smokey Mountains. I barely even stopped to question what was really going on there, but I guess that was my fault, blinded by beauty and all."
Elena is staring at her again, with a confused and baffled expression. Adele realizes that if they make it out of here, she had a lot of explaining to do.
*VD*
Damon pulls the car into the parking lot of a park the first chance he gets. He was sick of driving around aimlessly with no clear direction a head. He was sick of being stuck in a car with Katherine. He's never been one for patients and at the moment they were running very thin.
He quickly turns the car off and gets out slamming the door shut. Katherine quickly follows. "Why are we stopping?" She demands.
"I thought we might want to stretch our legs. Take a break from the sexual tension." He mocks and rolls his eyes at the flat look she gives him in return. "I'm tired of driving. It's your turn." He holds the keys up to her and she shrugs moving around the car to grab them only for him to throw them when she's in reach. "We're not going anywhere until you spill your guts." He says crossing his arms and leaning back against the car in a show of getting comfortable.
"Fine." She huffs in frustration as she reaches into her pocket pulling out Elena's necklace where she dangles it in front of her. "Do you recognize this, hmm?" He doesn't say anything because it's obvious that he does. "A little birdy told me that Klaus wants to get his hands on it."
"What would Klaus want with Elena's necklace?" That just didn't make sense. Who really cares about an old as crap silver ball from god knows where?
"Does it matter?" Yes. Damon thinks automatically. It does matter, if Klaus wants it so bad he could've very well been tracking it down, he could very well find out that Elena is still alive thus leading him to Mystic Falls to find and also finding Adele who he's left in Mystic Falls, alone and unprotected. What the fuck? Why is he always such an idiot? "He wants it, and I have it. It's leverage, Damon. Always stay one step ahead of your enemy."
"I'll keep that in mind." He mummers. His mind is running in all different directions because part of him is telling him to go running back but another part of him says there's something else she's about to tell him, something he needs to hear.
"But more importantly, when I stole the necklace from Bonnie, I found out something else...Something better." She tells him perking his curiosity because he knew that there had to be more. She moves towards the trunk of the car.
"Oh yeah?" He makes a point to make himself sound non-interested. "What's that?"
"Are you willing to do whatever it takes to stop Klaus? No turning back?"
"I'm not turning back." He was already here. Adele was already going to be pissed at him; he might as well finish what he's started in the hopes that it could help keep them safe.
"Good because this isn't going to win you any points at home." She says opening the truck and he moves towards her peering into it with a sense of irritation and annoyance.
"Jeremy?" He looks away from the unconscious boy to look at Katherine. "Really?" Because he really needed to give Adele anymore reason to dump him.
*VD*
She's standing in-between Klaus and Elena, Elena's hand gripping hers tight enough that she's starting to lose feeling in it. They're watching Dana, Adele willing her to just hold on a little longer and when she almost loses her balance Adele's heart rate spikes as Klaus mutters a 'keep it up.'
"Where's Stefan?" Elena asks trying hard to keep the tremble out of her voice. "What did you do to him?"
"Stefan's on a time out." Klaus remarks as the gym doors open. They turn and Elena's eyes widen because she doesn't need any more people she cares about wondering into this unknown danger to them.
"Bonnie, get out of here!" She yells and Bonnie looks up in surprise slowing to a stop as she takes in the scene before her. Klaus is behind her in an instant causing her to whirl around and she thought she was scared of Damon in that past but that was nothing compared to this feeling. The fear was almost consuming, making her knees feel weak as she looks up at the hybrid nightmare they've all been trying to avoid.
"Ah, I was wondering when you'd show up. Now we can get started." He looks back towards Dana and Chad. "Dana, why don't you relax? You and Chad sit tight." Dana falls with a cry of relief Chad catching her effortlessly and easing her to the ground. Adele turns away from them to look back at Klaus who has his full attention on Bonnie. Matt has moved around, standing close to Elena and her as if by some miracle he'd be able to protect her. "I assume you're the reason Elena's still walking around alive?"
"That's right." She says tilting her chin up trying to console the fear swirling in her chest. "If you want to blame someone, blame me."
"Oh, there's no need for blame, love. Just your witchy interference seems to have caused some undesirable side effects. And since you caused the problem, I'm going to have you find the fix." The gym doors slam open and they all turn watching as some random blonde they don't know comes barreling in pushing Tyler along with her.
"Get off me!" He snaps trying to fight her off but she's stronger then him, a lot stronger then him.
"Hush now." She tells him and Adele realizes with a start that this has to be another original. Elijah said there were more of them.
"I'd like you all to meet my sister Rebekah." The blonde sends them all a secret smile. "Word of warning... She can be quite mean."
"Don't be an ass." She pushes Tyler to Klaus who catches him easily. Adele's heart rate is once again spiking as Elena tells Klaus to leave him alone only for him to ignore her and pull him along with him as he moves to stand in front of them all.
"I'm going to make this very simple... Every time I attempt to turn a werewolf into a vampire hybrid, they die during the transition. It's quite horrible, actually." He brings his wrist to his mouth where he bites at it before pressing the bleeding wound to Tyler's mouth forcing him to drink.
"I need you to find a way to save my hybrids, Bonnie." Adele meets Tyler's terrified gaze feeling more helpless then she has in a while. "And for Tyler's sake... You better hurry." In one swift movement Klaus breaks his neck causing gasps and a scream from the group and Adele realizes that it's her who screamed as she drops to her knees moving to him quickly. She grabs his shirt.
"No." She cries baring her face into his chest crying harder when she can't hear his heartbeat. He's dead. Tyler's dead and while of course he was going to come back, there was that whole dying during transition. There was that big, huge possibility that Tyler was just dead.
*VD*
Adele's not sure how long they've sat there. Her tears have stopped and she picked herself up enough to drag Tyler into her lap and Matt was kneeling next to them while Bonnie stood behind them and Elena paced. Dana and Chad we're still there as well and Adele wonders briefly where the hell Caroline is.
"He killed him." Matt says breaking the silence that had fallen. He still couldn't believe it.
"He's not dead. Klaus's blood will turn him into a vampire." Elena reminds them causing Adele to glare back at her. That was if Bonnie could do what Klaus was saying and that was a big if.
"And if Bonnie's successful, he'll live through his transition. Go on, then. Go and fetch your grimoire and enchantments and what-not. I'll hold on to Elena...For safe-keeping." Bonnie looks down to Adele and Klaus noticed right away. "She stays to." She doesn't want to leave them there but with no idea on how to help them besides doing what Klaus is telling her to do she leads Matt out of the gym.
Leaving them alone with Klaus and Rebekah and Rebekah comes up behind Elena circling around her as if studying her. "So this is the latest doppelgänger." She says tilting her head before shrugging. "The original one was much prettier."
"Doppelgänger means double of one's self." Adele says causing the two originals and her sister to look over at her. "There's no such thing as being 'much prettier'."
"And who exactly are you?" Adele pushes herself up sending one last glance down at Tyler before looking back to Rebekah who is studying her much like she had Elena.
"I'm the Doppelgängers twin."
"Twin?" Rebekah glances between the two before letting out a small laugh. "Well…" She looks back at Elena. "It looks like someone got the short end of the stick yes?" Elena glares hatefully at her as Adele raises an eyebrow. Klaus wipes the grin from his face.
"Enough Rebekah, take the wolf boy elsewhere, would you?" Rebekah rolls her eyes moving over to grab Tyler by the arm.
"Cute outfit by the way." She calls as she's dragging him out. "Killer shoes." Adele looks over to Klaus with a confused and baffled expression much like the one Elena had given her earlier. He merely shrugs his grin back in place.
*VD*
Damon lets Jeremy drop onto the picnic table, there are times in life when having to play bad guy royally sucks ass and this was one of those times. "I'm listening."
"What if I told you there was a way to kill Klaus?" Damon narrows his eyes into silts. She couldn't be serious right? "And not Dagger dead. Dead, dead."
"I'd say you were desperate and lying, or drunk, or desperate, lying and drunk." He tells her turning around. She's sitting on the other picnic table, her feet swinging back and forth carelessly.
"Do you remember my friend Pearl?"
"Vividly." Damon says in a tone that suggests the name brought nothing but unpleasant memories to him. Pearl had been the leader so to say of the tomb vampires when they we're freed, by complete accident of course. Anna had used Adele's blood to bring her dear mother back from mummification which was one reason for him to hate her. Pearl had gauged his eyes out which was another thing he could hate her for and she had lost all control over a few of her vampires leading to them kidnapping Stefan and almost killing Adele which was just another reason for him to hate her. She was dead now though.
"Centuries ago, she told me about a vampire who knew how to kill Klaus. Then she wouldn't tell me anymore."
"Well why not?"
"Because it was her leverage." Katherine explains. "She knew it was valuable information, and wouldn't share it with me."
Damon was feeling like this conversion was completely pointless. "Well, this is all great... But she's dead."
"Which is why I never brought it up because she only ever told one other person."
"Who?"
"Her daughter, Anna."
Damon almost groans. "Also dead."
"Which brings us back around to…"
"To me." Katherine and Damon glance over in surprise, how long as the Gilbert boy been awake? "Back around to me."
*VD*
Elena is kneeling down beside Dana while Adele stands behind her, her arms crossed over her chest as if daring Klaus to make a move not that she could really stop him because she couldn't. This is one situation in which she can say that she can't do anything.
The gym is silent.
Klaus is obviously waiting on something.
The gym door opens and they look over in time to see Stefan and Adele realizes he is probably what Klaus has been waiting for. "Stefan." Elena mutters standing up but Stefan barely spares them a glance, his focus completely on Klaus. The sight of him leaves Elena feeling winded as it had every time she'd been able to see even a 2 second glance at him this summer.
"Klaus." He calls.
"Come to safe your damsel Mate?" He calls in a surprisingly soft voice. He seemed…slightly betrayed, hurt, Adele was surprised to notice.
"I came to ask for your forgiveness. And pledge my loyalty." Adele's eyebrows rise as Elena glances back at her surprise flicking in her brown orbs.
"Well, you broke that pledge once already." More betrayal and hurt seeping into his expression and Adele wonders if she's the only one noticing. Probably, Elena was too focused on Stefan and Stefan was too focused on not getting killed that they weren't actually paying any attention to the hybrid but as a complete fourth party with absolutely nothing to do with the situation besides to sit there and look pretty, she was able to focus on these things. The evil vampire hybrid had thought he actually had a friend in Stefan but Stefan had been lying to him the whole time. Interesting.
"Elena means nothing to me anymore." Adele uncrosses her arms watching her sister take a small step back as if she'd been punched. "And whatever you ask of me... I will do."
"Fair enough." He's perked up immediately, bouncing up from his seat on the bleachers and down to the gym floor. "Let's drink on it. Kill them." He points over to Dana and Chad moving closer to them as well. Stefan doesn't move. "What are you waiting for? Kill them."
"No! Stefan, don't." Elena calls. "He's not going to hurt me. He already said," Adele jumps with a gasps as Klaus back hands Elena sending her spiraling to the Gym floor. She quickly moves over to her to see if she's okay as Stefan roars out a no rushing forward as if to attack Klaus but he catches him by the throat making them realizes that whole scene was just a test and Stefan failed.
"She means nothing to you? Your lies just keep piling up." Klaus remarks.
"Let them go! I'll do whatever you want, you have my word!" Stefan chokes his hands wrapped around Klaus's wrist but his iron tight grip doesn't loosen.
"Your word doesn't mean much. I lived by your word all summer, during which time I never had to resort to this..." Klaus's pupils dilate and for a split second Stefan's expression becomes blank. "Stop fighting," But he is fighting, though his hands have dropped and he's completely still.
"Don't do this, don't do this." He begs.
"I didn't want to. All I wanted was your allegiance. Now I'm going to have to take it." His pupils dilate once more as Stefan is muttering at him not to. "You will do exactly as I say when I say it. You will not run, you will not hide, you will simply just obey."
"No." Elena whimpers as Klaus lets him go and he stands there looking dazed. "Stefan."
"Now kill them." He swings in arm out to Dana and Chad. "Ripper."
He goes after Dana first, ripping into her neck and Adele has to turn away closing her eyes. For god sakes, she was not supposed to witness one her friends be ripped apart. Who was ever supposed to witness that? A few tears manage to escape as she listens to the impact of Dana's body hitting the gym floor.
*VD*
"This isn't going to work." Jeremy tells them. He could hardly believe that when he woke up he found Katherine and Damon. Together, somewhere that was not Mystic Falls and they kidnapped him. He didn't want to be around when Adele found out about this. He'd lived with her for 16 years to know something like that wasn't just going to fly in her book. She was going to get mad, pissed and she was going to go after Damon. He may not want to be around to see it but that doesn't mean he's not going to tell her that is if she doesn't find out on her own.
Jeremy's cell phone buzzes in Katherine's hand and she opens the incoming text from Bonnie. Where are u? She scoffs looking up towards Jeremy with a taunting smirk. "I think your witchy girlfriends worried you've run off with your ghostly lover." She holds out his phone to him only to pull it back when he makes a move for it.
"Stop with the teeny bopper drama." Seriously he was one step away from being so annoyed he would start snapping necks. "Focus." He tells Jeremy who sighs and closes his eyes. His eyes open and he turns around.
"No it's okay to help." He says softly and Katherine and Damon glance at each other. This was totally weird. Damon wonders if Adele knows about her brother's weird ability which just brings him back to the pressing issues of what he's done. Even if she doesn't know, he sure isn't going to be the one telling her, hopefully this little road trip is one thing he can keep her in the dark about. "They're looking for a way to stop Klaus."
"What is she saying?" Damon demands.
"She doesn't want to help you."
Damon tilts his head up as Katherine leans against the table next to him. "My advice? If you want to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs." Damon sighs hopping off the table.
"Jeremy, I just want you to know, it's nothing personal." Because saying that was going to make doing this so much better. Jeremy sends him a confused look just before Damon hits him in the back of the head hard enough to cause him to hit his forehead against the picnic table leaving an angry gash.
"Ow! What the hell?" Jeremy exclaims as Damon grabs him by the back of the neck. Oh yeah, he's so telling Adele. You know what they say, payback's a bitch.
"Anna, I know you can hear me. Tell us what you know. The sooner the better for your little boyfriend here."
"Mikael!" Jeremy sudden yells and Damon lets him go.
"Mikael. Is that his name?" Katherine sounds very much eager as she comes forward to stand with Damon.
"Who's Mikael?" Damon asks and when Jeremy doesn't say anything at first he grows impatient. "What is she saying?" He slaps him upside the head lightly compared to the hit he took before.
"He's a vampire and a Hunter, and you guys would be idiots to wake him." He looks back to Anna with a confused expression. "What do you mean wake him?"
"It's time to go find the keys." Damon says turning as Katherine hums her agreement.
*VD*
"It's always nice to see a vampire in his true element. The species has become such a broody lot." Klaus is saying to them standing next to Adele who is standing behind Elena who is sitting on the floor. There watching Stefan just devour Chad, because it was all they could do.
"No." Elena shakes her head. "You did this to him."
"I invited him to the party, love. He's the one dancing on the table."
The gym door smashes open and Adele has the urge to scream, she swears that is officially the worst noise she's ever heard –the opening of a door. They turn watching as Rebekah is barreling towards them.
"Where is it?! Where's my necklace?" She demands to a confused Elena who is now standing, baffled by the raging original and terrified at the same time. This just didn't look like it could end well for her.
"What are you talking about?" Klaus takes it upon himself to ask.
"She has my necklace. Look." She shoves her phone at him as she's passing not bothering to stop.
"Well, well. More lies." He sings looking towards Stefan.
"Where is it?" She demands to Elena.
"I don't have it anymore." Elena tells her but Rebekah refuses to believe her.
"You're lying!" She vamps out with the whole veiny eyed look and attacks Elena, biting into her neck but Klaus rips her off causing Elena to once again spiral to the floor.
"Knock it off!" He snaps at his sister.
"Make her tell me where it is, Nik!" Klaus rolls his eyes, like dealing with his sister's fits was an everyday thing which it could very well be. Her high pitched whine was enough to have Adele's skin crawling but knowing her temper, that wasn't surprising. He turns to Elena bending down in front of her and she cowers back holding her hand to the bleeding wound on her neck.
"Where's the necklace, sweetheart? Be honest." Before his doppelgänger can answer him her blonde twin is stepping between them slowly causing him to back up and stand. She's glaring at the two originals and Klaus is impressed.
"She's telling the truth." She says, her back straight and her chin tilted up and it wasn't just a show to make her look brave and fearless, no. She was in fact not in the least bit afraid of them in that moment. He realizes that attacking her sister has wiped all fear from the blonde and now she's left pissed. "Katherine stole it." She looks towards Rebekah. "If you want to throw a bitch fit at someone, throw it at her."
"Katerina. Of course. Well, that's unfortunate." He sends her a dazzling smile that has absolutely no effect. "If we had the necklace it would make things a whole lot easier for your witch, but since we're doing this the hard way, let's put a clock on it, shall we?" He points to the game clock before moving towards the table to set it and as he pushes a button, 20 minutes appears with a buzz. "20 minutes. If Bonnie hasn't found a solution by then, I want you to feed again." He's moved towards Stefan a smirk gracing his lips. "Only this time, I want you to feed on Elena. You know you want to."
Adele closes her eyes, fist clinching tightly. She looks back at Elena who is staring up at her in horror. "Klaus!" She calls turning back to the hybrid. "Don't do that to him."
"You two don't leave." He points to Elena. "If she tries to run, fracture her spine." As he's walking past he grabs a hold of her arm and she's whipped around, Elena yelling her name. "You my little Fireball are coming with me." Adele turns her head back to Elena with wide eyes as Klaus drags her from the gym with Rebekah following close behind them.
*VD*
"Don't fall asleep Jer. You might have a concussion." Damon remarks returning from finding the keys and seeing Jeremy falling sleep against his hand.
"Thanks for the concern Dick." Jeremy snaps because seriously, he can't see why his sister is dating this guy.
"Oh, stop pouting." Katherine sings. "You took one for the team. Everyone back home will thank you once Klaus is dead."
"Where's my phone Katherine?" He'd taken it out of his pocket after Adele's call, saw she left a voicemail and planned on listening to it when he had a chance, now he had a chance and he wanted to listen to it and his phone is nowhere to be seen. Katherine had snatched it when he wasn't paying attention.
"Do you need to check in with Adele? Make sure it's okay you pummeled her little baby bro?" She remarks but Damon gives her a flat stare not in the least bit humored.
"You know you have it."
"What can I say? I needed you present here and now."
"Katherine," He all but snaps sick and tired off all her games. "Phone, now."
She sighs taking the device out of her pocket and handing it over, he takes it seeing the voicemail was still the present thing on his screen but he sees that he now has a few texts as well. "Just remember what we're focused on Damon." Katherine says but he barely hears her as he calls his voicemail, just wanting to hear her voice even if she was yelling at him.
"Damon." She lets out an audible sigh and he closes his eyes, he can see her perfectly sitting in the middle of his bed in her tank top and boy shorts with her hair with her hair thrown up into a messy bun, blonde curls falling into her face no matter how many times she swipes at them with the phone pressed between her ear and her shoulder as she paints her toenails even though he's sure that's not what she's doing. "I was really hoping you'd answer but I guess I should have been expecting you weren't going to. I just…I just want to know where you are. I'm worried. You didn't tell me you we're leaving. I feel like you didn't care enough to let me know some way that you we're leaving town, to let me know when you'd be back. I know I'm supposed to be mad at you Damon, but I just…I'm worried about you and I miss you. So please just call me or something. I love you."
He opens his eyes pulling the phone away as the message ends, feeling the sudden guilt eating away at him. How could she think he doesn't care? This was a mistake even if it was widely successful and informational because now they knew of a way to kill Klaus but still he should be home, with her. He wants to go home. He wants to explain everything to her.
"How sweet." Katherine sends him a sarcastic smirk and he glares before turning his attention to the text his brows furrowing when he sees who there from.
"Bonnie's been texting me." He says out loud more for Jeremy then Katherine and Jeremy knows that something is wrong if Bonnie is texting Damon. Bonnie would never text Damon unless it was life or death.
"What is it?" He asks.
"It's Klaus." Damon's tone holds dread, worry, panic and a few other emotions that Katherine can't pin-point as he pockets the phone. A new determination has inched its way across his face and Katherine can see his intentions clearly.
"No turning back Damon." She reminds him.
"Shut up, Katherine." He snaps. How was he supposed to stay there when Klaus is in town and has figured out Elena is alive? That puts her in danger. That puts Adele in danger.
"Hey, look at the big picture. The best shot at taking out Klaus is by finding Mikael." She's trying hard to reason with him but he's not hearing her as he pushes the keys off to Jeremy.
"Stay here with her, so Anna can guide you. I'm going back." He pushes passed Katherine moving towards the highway.
"You're going to get yourself killed!" Katherine calls after him in one last attempt to stop him. "The Damon I remember wouldn't have been that stupid." Damon stops and for a second she thinks she has him but when he turns back with a half sided smirk, she knows she's wrong.
"I wouldn't have done it for you." She presses her lips together. Yes, because it all comes back down to her.
*VD*
She rips her arm from his grip moving ahead of him in an angry pace. He watches her. In all his years he's never seen someone stand up against him so blindly, never seen someone with such a wild attitude. He doesn't know the human, but there's a certain fondness there, a fondness that would grow if he didn't get a hold of it.
She's incredibly smart, having been the first one to figure out how he was making his moves against them when he took over the history teacher. She was brave by the way she stood up against him and Rebekah. She was sassy that was written in her walk, in the sway of her hips as she angrily storms down the hall way. She's loyal and loving that much he could tell by the way she protected her sister and cried for her fallen friend, he realized when he killed the wolf boy that she must have been the closest to him in the room for it hurt her far more than the rest. And she was beautiful. Insanely beautiful, even he couldn't go unaffected by how attractive she was.
Damon Salvatore had to be the luckiest son of a bitch to ever walk the plant and yet where was he?
"I don't think we've properly met…" He calls out and she comes to an abrupt halt spinning around to face him with her hands on her hips and her hip poked outward. He can't help but smirk.
"No your right, I don't think we have. You've been too busy torturing and killing my family and friends to be a proper evil hybrid now haven't you?" He laughs. He out right laughs and she looks baffled by it and she's hating herself for thinking that it was a nice sound. One that she actually found herself liking, she even has the urge to smile but fights it. He had a boyish laugh that matched his overall boyish grin. For an evil hybrid, he sure had a cute smile.
Still chuckling he ushers her forward. "Come now, love. Let's find your witch." She doesn't bother telling him that Bonnie isn't her witch. Why would she do that? That would be throwing Jasmine under the bus and she wasn't willing to do that. It was one thing dealing with vampire hunters; it was another dealing with the one vampire in the entire world that even James couldn't beat.
When they find Bonnie and Matt Adele frowns at their appearance though they haven't noticed them. They're sopping wet, towel wrapped around their shoulders. What the hell? Did they decide a late night swim was in order? Maybe help clear their minds while Elena life is on a timer? Adele could just picture the hour glass, the grains of sand dropping slowly, mocking them one by one.
"The hybrids can't transition because Elena's still alive." Matt is telling Bonnie when they reach them.
"Tyler…" Bonnie whispers.
"He's going to die isn't he?" Matt asks in a broken voice. Tyler was his best friend. He's lost his sister; he didn't want to lose his best friend to.
"I wouldn't be too sure about that." Klaus speaks up causing the two to whip around. Bonnie eyes him before spotting Adele and she openly frowns. "Given the choice, doppelgänger or a hybrid, I go hybrid every time."
*VD*
He's leading her back towards the gym. Has the timer run out? Adele's not sure but she sure as hell hopes not because he would be leading her into the bloody mess of her sister and she just didn't want to see that.
But as they turn a corner Adele sees with relief that that isn't going to be the scene she walks in on. Elena is standing behind a door peering out the small window obviously out of breath, like she'd been running. The timer must've ran out, Stefan must've gone after her. Klaus rushes up to her and Adele jogs to get to them as she turns around bumping into his chest.
"We've got to stop meeting like this." He grins before it falls and he grabs her arm much like he had done to her before and begins dragging her through the halls. She runs after them following them as he drags her sister into the cafeteria where Stefan has just shoved some broken piece of wood through his gut.
"Now this is fascinating." Stefan turns his expression full of pain. "I've never seen this before. The only thing stronger than your craving for blood is your love for this one girl. Why don't you turn it off?"
"No." He grunts out and Klaus moves towards a table taking a seat on top of it.
"Come on! Your humanity is killing you. All the guilt must be exhausting. Turn it off."
"No." Stefan repeats.
"You're strong." Klaus leaves the table, moving over to Stefan where he yanks the wooden piece out throwing it off to the side and rolls to Adele's feet. "But you're not that strong. Turn...it...Off."
Stefan stares at him making Elena hold her breath before she lets it out in relief as he roughly pushed the hybrid back. "No!" Klaus shoves him against a wall, a hand to his throat, his pupil's dilate and Stefan's expression turns blank once more.
"Turn it off!" And suddenly Stefan's not fighting. He sags against the wall, his body relaxing but his expression remaining blank.
"What did you do?" Elena demands.
"I fixed him." Klaus states staring at Stefan like he was his best piece of art. "But I think a test is in order, don't you?" He walks to Elena, placing his hands on her shoulders. "Ripper…" He calls. "Perhaps you'd like a drink…" He brushes the hair covering her open wound from her neck. "From the doppelgänger's neck?"
Stefan's face changes as he's looking at Elena and she's shaking her head, pleading with her eyes but he doesn't notice or doesn't care as he rushes forward tearing into her neck as she screams at the sheer mind numbing pain and Klaus is watching on smirking as Elena is slowly losing energy.
"Ripper! Here, Ripper!" Stefan rips away from Elena's neck turning his head to the sudden voice. It's Adele and she's holding the broken wooden piece that had rolled to her feet. Klaus frowns at her, having forgotten she was there. She grins widely as she uses it to cut open her palm, making a long gash that is instantly dripping blood. Stefan watches it, watches the blood hit the floor, watches it slide down her arm as she holds it up waving it at him. "Come get it." She sings.
"Stefan…" Klaus is calling but he's already in front of her grabbing her by the waist and ripping into her neck like he'd done to Elena but she doesn't scream, only gasps as she pushes against his shoulders. She can feel the very life being sucked out of her, it was excruciating. Her eyes fall closed as she stops fighting just as he's ripped away from her thrown across the cafeteria like a ragdoll. "Damn it Stefan!" Klaus snaps bending down to the fallen girl. She's not dead but without help she will be. What a stupid move. What had he been thinking early? Loyal? Blindly loyal it would seem.
*VD*
Where the hell we're all the nurses?
He understands that it's after hours and everything but aren't there supposed to be nurses on shift? He couldn't find a damn one as he's racing through the halls looking into every room. He'd already found Elena, she was having the blood sucked out of her but the blood bag was mysteriously gone along with Klaus who had tried to kill him in the parking a lot only to flee in a hurry when he's mentioned Mikael to him, which just means they're on to something.
But he couldn't worry about that, Adele was in here somewhere and he couldn't fucking find her. He was ready to tear his hair out. Klaus had obviously wanted her to be hard to find.
Finally, he sees a nurse and makes himself jog over to her. "Hey!" The nurse turns eyeing him. "Adele Gilbert. What room is she in?"
"Visiting hours are…"
Damon's pupils dilate and the woman cuts off. "What room is she in?" The nurse points to a closed door down the hall and he rushes away from her, towards the door. He flings it open and has to stop himself from sliding down the door frame with his head in his hands.
She's unconscious, the heart monitor beeping steadily. The usual IV's are hooked up to her but also blood. She's having blood transfusions. There's a bandage on her neck. She'd gotten attacked.
He moves into the room over to her bed. God, he should have never left. He bites his wrist pressing it to her lips and letting the crimson liquid flow into her mouth before he begins pulling the IV's from her.
"Damon…" She whimpers and he throws the covers from her hooking an arm under her legs and throwing her arm over his shoulders.
"Shh." He kisses her forehead. "We're going home."
*VD*
He'd refused to let her walk into the house and instead had carrying her up to the bedroom, dropping her onto the bed and demanding she get comfortable because she wasn't leaving, so she kicked off her shoes and stripped out of her jeans before crawling under the comforter, propping herself up against the pillows and pulling her legs up under her waiting for him to get back.
When he does return he's holding a glass of Bourbon, his cure for everything. "Drink this." He tells her and she peers into the glass blankly before taking a slow sip of it, it burns going down but that's okay, it was better than the memory of the bite. "What happened?" He asks taking a seat on the edge of the bed. "Did Klaus attack you?" Because that's what everyone besides Stefan, Klaus and herself thinks, they know the truth. That's she's just a very stupid girl. At least that's what Klaus had been muttering when he'd walked her into the hospital. She'd been in and out of consciousness, at first she thought it was a dream when she looked up at saw the hybrids face, his hard expression swimming before her.
"No." She shakes her head. "Klaus…didn't do anything to me. He probably saved me again." Damon frowns at her, confused. "Stefan attacked me Damon. Klaus compelled him to turn off his humanity and feed from Elena so to stop him I cut myself and taunted him. I can only guess that Klaus stopped him before he could kill me because he had every intention to. I could see it in his eyes when he looked at me."
"You did it again." Damon mutters pushing his hands through his hair.
"I did what again?" Adele downs the rest of the liquid in the glass.
"You left yourself for dead so Elena could survive." He runs one of his hands over his face and Adele realizes besides his clam tone that he's frustrated and angry. "I hate it when you do that."
"Well what was I supposed to do? Let him kill her?" She places the glass on the bedside table with a sigh before leaning back, her eyes swiping over Damon's face as her fingers begin to pick at a loose threat on the comfort. "Where were you, Damon?" She whispers almost brokenly and his blue eyes immediately light up with guilt.
"I shouldn't have left." He whispers back, his fingers reaching up to brush across her jaw. "I promise you. I will never leave you again." He draws her lips to his, kissing her so softly and she almost cries at the sheer delight it brings her. It had been two days. Two days since there fight, two days since they've even seen each other and two days since he's kissed her.
Two days wasn't that long but it felt like forever.
It made her realize that what she'd said to Jasmine, that she needed to be able to go on without him if need be was all talk. How could she possibly go on if something happened to him when he was everything that held her together? He was everything she wanted and everything she needed and if she lost him, she can't say she wouldn't lose herself as well.
Her arm slings around his neck as she pulls herself forward, easily molding her body into his. A sudden and slightly unwanted thought plunges her mind, a thought that has her pulling away. "Tyler…" She mummers completely breathless.
"Okay. He's okay. He's going to be okay." Damon assures her. He'd talked to Elena downstairs while he was fetching the glass of alcohol for her. He'd given one to the brunette as well and offered to make her forget everything she doesn't want to remember and while she looked like she wanted to consider it, she'd declined saying that she needed to remember.
She'd asked him where he was to.
He'd told her he'd tell her later when the aftermath of today was over but that he was sorry, that if he'd known he would've been there by their side. He would've protected them. Stefan had chosen that moment in time to walk in. He claimed that while Klaus was gone, he'd asked him to keep a watchful eye on Elena until he returns and after he'd left Elena quickly didn't want to think or talk about it and asked about Tyler.
He called Bonnie.
Tyler was saved by Elena's blood. As it would turn out Elena's blood was the key to making Hybrids. Those pesky witches that put the curse on Klaus we're doing everything to make sure he'd never make one but they could have never anticipated that the doppelgänger would survive the sacrifice making it actually possible for Klaus to create his hybrids. Basically in saving Elena, they insured that Klaus could build his army of ruthless hybrids and now…they are screwed. They are all royally, royally screwed, but he's not going to tell her that. All he's going to tell her for tonight is that Tyler is okay.
"He's okay." Adele laughs and she's kissing him again, his arms moving securely around her as she shifts into his lap. He knows he should probably stop her as she begins to unbutton his shirt because she needs to rest but…he's missed her to fucking much and how in the world was he supposed to deny her anything? How does one ever deny Adele Gilbert want she wants? That might actually be a problem they should address in the near future. When it comes to the blue eyed blonde, it was about time they all learned the word "No". Or maybe it was actually just a Damon problem.
Another Klaus and Adele interaction done. xD I happen to love writing those, though they are small I feel like there powerful. They pack a punch don't you think? Anyways, so what did you guys think? What about Rebekah finally coming into the story? I happen to love Rebekah, I think she's amazing. Damon's doomed, doomed to forever mess up, I swear. He better be glad Adele loves him. ;)
I would like a good amount of reviews for this chapter, to tell me what everyone thought, tell me if you guys like the direction in which this story is going. Tell me if you guys have anything you'd like to see happen. I happen to like the idea of Adele and Damon getting a pet. Seems like a fun advantage all on its own. xD
Previews for the next chapter:
Adele's "bitch mode" is activated with the arrival of Stefan and Rebekah at the boarding house. (Adele to Rebekah, "You aren't taking anything from me, sweetheart.")
Insecurities arise when Adele finds out exactly who it was that Damon took off with.
And
The gang comes up with a plan to "help" Stefan.