The Murder Of One.
Bonnie & I were in no hurry to get out of bed. It was mostly for me, Bonnie was the one smart enough to keep her guard up with Abby while I let her in.
I just wanted to know my Mother so badly that I didn't think she'd abandon us again.
We watched our favorite movies and ate ice cream while cuddling in my bed with Rudy between us.
"At the end of the day, we always have each other." Bonnie gave me a small smile, I couldn't even fake one back for her.
"Is it us?" I asked frustratedly."She raised Jamie until we came along and now he's shit out of luck too. Is it my fault? Maybe I shouldn't have hugged her."
"What child wouldn't hug their mom? We had a group hug and everything was fine. It's none of our faults she just isn't Mother material." Bonnie scoffed."You did nothing wrong, I did nothing wrong and neither did Jamie. Abby Wilson is a deadbeat and we don't need her."
"I just wanted one parent to love me." I frowned and my eyes watered up in the process. I took a deep breath trying to hide the melt down I was itching to have.
"Dad loves you. You always had Gramm's, I was so jealous growing up with how close you two were." Bonnie sat up and pulled me into a hug, Rudy let out a yelp as he jumped onto the floor from in between us.
"Dad pretended I didn't exist until recently." I replied grabbing the remote and pausing the movie. It was one of my picks and I refused to let the moment ruin one of the greatest movies to ever exist.
"That's not true, when we got older you'd already distanced yourself and he had no idea what to do. He thinks you hate him."
"I do?" I shrugged, Bonnie sighed and grabbed the remote unpausing the movie. With the exception of my laughter we didn't even speak anymore. I got a text from Klaus and wordlessly got up and showered. When I came back Bonnie was staring at me quizzically.
"Where are you going? Meeting your mystery guy?" Bonnie asked, picking Rudy up from the floor. I threw on a pair of yoga pants and a tank top, and grabbed an oversized hoodie from my closet.
"No, I wish but no." I shrugged, putting on my shoes. Bonnie still stared at me as if she was waiting for a better answer."I'm gonna go take Rudy for a walk, you don't have to babysit me. I'm not gonna do anything crazy."
"Okay, if you're okay. I'm gonna text Elena and go meet up with them."
"Alright." I scooped up Rudy and headed downstairs, I put his leash onto him, scooped up my car keys and headed out the door. I started the car up and called Klaus.
"Little witch, you're on your way?"
"Yeah, just a heads up I told Bonnie I was walking the dog. So Rudy's with me." I smiled cheekily, I knew Klaus wasn't Rudy's biggest fan and he absolutely hated when I would carry him around before.
"It's still alive?"
"Yes, Rudy's alive." I rolled my eyes."And we'll be there soon."
"Fine." Klaus groaned and hung up, I spent the rest of the car ride cackling. Klaus was waiting in front when I pulled up. He whistled at my car as I stepped out of it."Nice car."
"Yeah, it kind of showed up in my driveway one day." I shrugged nonchalantly as I pulled Rudy out from the passenger seat and sat him down on the ground beside me. He took one look at Klaus and ran up to him jumping all over his legs.
"Get your fleabag away from me." He held his arms up,I think he really wanted to snuggle Rudy but he had this facade up that he hated him.
"Rudy!" I called out, he stopped hopping all over Klaus and came back to me, flopping on the ground beside my feet."But I thought the car was a gift from you guys?"
"I may have played a part in it but it's not from me, come along. I've got the spell ready for you & everything you'll need." Klaus said turning on his heel, I scoffed and scooped up Rudy jogging to catch up to him.
As we were walking to the study I heard what sounded like a whimper, I tilted my head and peaked into the room. I saw Damon chained up with bear traps, I started to say something but decided against it and kept on following Klaus.
"So Damon?"
"That's between him & Rebekah." Klaus dismissed pushing the door open. I walked inside and took a seat there were vials of blood, the spell and candles already lit and laid out for me. I just needed to cast the spell.
Klaus pulls out a glass and bites into his wrist dribbling some of his blood into it. I read over the spell and start pouring the siblings blood together. I started to cast the spell as I went I pour the blood from the cup onto the table, as I went along the blood slowly separated it went from one puddle to five individual puddles on top of the table.
The candles got stronger before they slowly went out and Rudy barked, I took that as a job well done and stood up. I grabbed Rudy and walked out the study, Rebekah was standing out in the hallway wiping her hands off, she took one look at Rudy and scrunched her nose up.
"My dog has done nothing to you people." I pouted, I peaked around Rebekah to Damon who was in an even worse state than he was when I came in. I walked up to him, I wanted to help him but it was still fresh in my mind what he did to Abby. It was his fault she abandoned us again.
"Alicia, please." Damon begged, I reached for one of the chains and a wicked smile crossed my face.
"Incendia." I mumbled heating the chain up, Damon let out a screech as I put out the fire and walked away. I walked back to the main hall where Klaus & Rebekah were waiting.
"Are you okay?" Rebekah asked, I shifted Rudy from my right arm to my left and nodded."Good because I was told to give you this, and you can't be moody."
"When am I moody?" I frowned as Rebekah held an envelope out to me, I took it and opened it up confused about the random plane ticket."Denver? What's in Denver?"
"Kol. Go, get out of this town for a while." Klaus smirked, I blushed and put the ticket into my back pocket.
"Better get home and pack your flight leaves in 3 hours." Rebekah teased pushing me out the door, I scoffed and headed out the door. The second I felt like I was out of their hearing range I called Kol.
"Darling, did you see Bex?" He asked almost immediately, I smiled because it sounded like he was actually excited to see me.
"I did, I'm on my way home right now to pack." I replied, stopping at a red light. I reached over to pet Rudy my phone started to vibrate so I checked the name."I'll call you right back, my sister is calling me."
"Okay, see you soon."
"Bon." I answered, I parked the car in front of the house and grabbed Rudy.
"They killed Finn. And when Finn died Sage died too." She explained, I raised an eyebrow. I just spoke to Kol and left Klaus & Rebekah who were very much alive so they're definitely unlinked."We think when an original dies every vampire they turned dies too, but Stefan & Caroline are fine."
"When I took Rudy out earlier, I was actually going to Klaus'. I unlinked them." I replied it wasn't any point to lie since it was obvious they weren't linked anymore.
"Alicia what the hell."
"It's a good thing I did since everybody turned would have died, that includes Damon, Caroline, Stefan, Abby & Tyler." I replied, Bonnie went silent she hadn't thought of what would've happened if I hadn't unlinked them.
"You're right."
"I know, but look I'm packing to leave town. I need you to look after Rudy for a bit?" I asked, I knew Bonnie would have a barrage of questions. It was literally best for me that I didn't answer any of them.
"Yeah, I'll look after him."
We both hung up and I went inside the house, I set Rudy down in the kitchen and filled his food and water up. I headed upstairs and grabbed my duffle bag, I frowned while I sorted through my clothes carefully.
I hadn't used this duffle bag since I ran away to New Orleans, I shoved the clothes I picked out into the bag and grabbed my wallet along with toiletries making sure to put those directly on top. I texted Rebekah to come pick me up so I didn't have to worry about something stupid happening to my car while I was gone.
I went out on the porch and waited, it was weird to be alone with my thoughts right now. If I would've been any later everybody would be dead. It was bittersweet, my duty as a witch meant I shouldn't have did the spell but me being who I am. I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if I knew my refusal wouldve led to so many people's death.
"Alicia!" Rebekah called out, I blinked hard the blonde was standing directly in front of me. I somehow didnt see or hear her come up. I ran my hands across my face and stood up grabbing my duffle bag as I did it.
"Sorry, I'm just thinking about how a band of idiots almost eradicated the entire vampire species." I forced a smile, regardless of if they were close or not. Losing family sucked and I knew Rebekah wasn't okay. But the Blonde would never tell a soul outside of her family that.
"They were able to be one step ahead of me." She sighed, she blamed herself and it was eating her up inside." Now they have bloody stakes that can kill the rest of my family."
"Back up how many do they have?" I asked this was my first time hearing about the stakes, and since I did not help Damon back there I probably wouldn't hear anything else about it either.
"There's two left unaccounted for but they made 11 in total." Rebekah replied motioning for me to follow her down the steps. I whistled definitely impressed. They managed to get 11 stakes not impressed, however that they ruined their own plan and the stakes are in the opposing sides hands but its not my problem.
"On the bright side two stakes left and there's four of you, and Klaus is definitely a higher priority than you are." I said as we climbed inside her car, Rebekah scoffed at me." Yeah, you're definitely second on that list though. Kol's gone & Elijah is just so awesome. Until he kills them all for revenge. I don't think they thought this plan out."
"Do they ever?" Rebekah huffed putting her car into drive."No matter, its better you get as far away as you can because it will get ugly."
"Leave my sister alone." I warned, sure I was friends with them but I knew if it came down to it being Elena or Bonnie everybody including Bonnie would choose Elena. And I'll be damned if something happens to my sister that didnt need to happen.
"Fine." Rebekah agreed, she looked like her mind was all over the place.
"We've got some time before we get to the airport, did you want to talk about it?" I asked. Rebekah put on this mean girl facade but I felt like on the inside the girl hated her life, she had everything on this earth that most people could only dream of beauty, wealth, & power but it didn't seem like it mattered to her.
"What's there to discuss? My brother is dead and its all my fault. Nik blames me, Elijah probably blames me. I had one job and I couldn't even do that right."
"You know you can just come with me? You need some fun." I replied, I'm sure Kol would be pissed if I arrived with his baby sister but staying here is probably the last thing she needed to do. Honestly if I knew people who hated me had the only thing in the world that can kill me, I'd just leave.
"And hear you two humping like dogs?" Rebekah said in disdain. I put my hand on my chest completely taken aback by the fact she already knew that's what I was about to get into." I appreciate that you care though, I'll be fine. I'm always fine."
"And that is not healthy. I'm just a phone call away." I replied pulling out my plane ticket and checking the dates on it."And I'll also be back in a few days, we're going clubbing when I do get back."
"Deal."