[4x22; The Walking Dead]
Lucy paced in her kitchen, her eyes darting to the clock on the oven every now and then as she waited for Klaus and Elijah to arrive. They were supposed to be there any moment but she was becoming impatient. Their visit was very important.
The night before, once Katherine had left, Lucy traveled to Klaus' house—yes, she was still in her pajamas—and had a very important conversation with her two older brothers. She told them where she and Bonnie were planning to do with Silas and how she was going to bring Kol back to life. To say that Klaus and Elijah had mixed emotions was an understatement. Of course, both of them were glad that Kol was going to be back, but they were apprehensive about the fact that she was not only plotting against Silas, the man that had killed her, but she was teaming up with Bonnie, who had betrayed them before.
Lucy told them that she actually believed that Bonnie was being honest when she said she would help her. Bonnie was too sincere to be lying and she wasn't the greatest actor, anyway. If she didn't want to help you, you would know. When Lucy finally calmed Klaus and Elijah down, she informed them that they needed to get out of town before the veil was dropped so there wouldn't be anyone out for revenge—It was mainly Klaus she was warning.
They both agreed with her and now she was waiting for them to drop by with the ingredients she needed to bring back Kol before they left town; Esther's grimoire and Kol's ashes. Luckily, Klaus had went through with his promise to copy Esther's spells for her and she was now going to be able to add the Mikaelson grimoire to her collection.
When there was a polite knock on the door, she sped over and opened it, allowing her brothers to come inside.
"Little sister," Klaus greeted her with a smile, placing a chaste kiss on her forehead as he moved along, allowing Elijah to enter behind him.
"Hello, Luciana," Elijah added, wrapping her up into a casual hug.
Lucy happily reciprocated Elijah's hug and then smiled at the both of them. "I'm glad you guys are here," she told them. "Where are you guys gonna go while we do this?"
"We're not going anywhere," Elijah stated firmly; Lucy gave him a shocked look and glanced at Klaus, who nodded in agreement with his brother.
"You won't be safe—"
"We're original vampires, love," Klaus rolled his blue eyes. "As I am in possession of the white oak stake, currently nothing can kill us or Rebekah."
"But—"
"Besides, we can't miss both of our little sister graduating from high school," he smirked at her. "Did you finish your speech yet?"
Lucy nodded as she grinned at the both of them, her heart bursting with appreciation and love. She loved her siblings so much and was so glad that she was able to meet them in this lifetime. They held a special place in her heart that, despite already having siblings, made her feel whole. Elijah, Klaus, Kol, and Rebekah were there for her and they loved her unconditionally.
It would be very hard to leave them in order to go to Duke. Then again, they had the rest of eternity to spend together. They'd make it through.
Just outside of town, in the Salvatore Boarding House, Stefan stood in his bedroom, bored out of his mind as he watched Elena go at the dusty old punching bag he dug out of storage. Why she had to use it in his room, he had no idea. It was already bad enough that he was the one instructing her how to get all of her frustration for Katherine out on the bag, but Joel just had to be at the school to set up for the graduation ceremony the next day and Damon wasn't up for it—which was just annoying; after all, Elena was his girlfriend.
Frankly, Stefan didn't want to be around Elena. Sure, he was glad she turned her humanity back on but now that it was, he was just relieved that he didn't have to help Damon and Joel scramble around to fix her. He should have been with Lucy the past few months, helping her adjust to being a vampire with magic. His stomach felt heavy with guilt just thinking about it.
The conversation they had the night before weighed heavily on his mind. Lucy didn't want to be around Damon—and, he suspected, Elena—anymore and he didn't blame her one bit. He didn't care about not seeing Elena again, not after all she had done to Lucy, but Damon was another story. Yes, he knew everything that Damon had done to him and yes, he held a resentment for him, but he was still his big brother. Of course, they had been separated for the better half of their vampire lives but he still remembered their human lives with clarity and he and Damon had been good then.
But just because Lucy didn't want to be around Damon, didn't mean that he had to stay away. Even Lucy had told him that—and God, he was so appreciative about the fact that she told him that he didn't have to choose (his girl was the best in the world). He loved Lucy so, so much and he'd do anything for her.
His eyes darted to the top drawer of his dresser, where he had hidden his recent purchases. It was only a matter of time now.
Seeing the punching bag swing toward him out of the corner of his eye, he held up his hand and stopped it from hitting him in the face. He raised an impatient eyebrow toward Elena. "And?"
"That did nothing for me," Elena said smartly. "How was it for you?"
Stefan fought the urge to roll his eyes. "Again," he picked up one of the cement blocks Joel thought might be of use and held it out so she could kick through it. It crumbled in his hands as soon as she made contact. "All right, focus on letting it go."
"Or we could skip the sublimating part and you can tell me where she is so that I can rip her head off," Elena countered.
"I don't know where Katherine is and even if I did, I wouldn't tell you," Stefan repeated these specific words for what felt like the million time. Elena just wouldn't understand that Stefan wasn't going to stand by and let her kill yet another of Lucy's siblings. She'd already lost enough because of her.
Elena scoffed, rolling her eyes. "Stefan, you were the one who told me to channel all of my emotions into one single feeling—"
"Uh, I'm pretty sure I wasn't," Stefan corrected. "and I think Joel thought that you would focus on compassion or guilt, not unwavering hatred for a ruthless vampire that's five hundred years older than you."
"You wanted to kill Klaus when you got your emotions back."
"No, I gave that up when I realized how much that would hurt Lucy," he said pointedly; God, was she delusional or was she just having memory problems? "Even if I did want to kill him, I couldn't have."
Elena gave him a hurt look. "You don't think I can kill Katherine?"
"No, I don't," Stefan's blunt words made Elena scowl. "and I don't Lucy will let you, either."
"I doubt she'd be able to stop me," Elena scoffed as she went to punch the bag again.
Stefan quickly stopped her, unable to keep his frustration to himself. "What the hell is wrong with you, Elena? You already ruined your relationship with your sister. She doesn't want anything to do with you. Is that what you want? To spend the rest of your life estranged from your little sister?"
He studied her face, watching as her eyes darted to the floor guiltily. Good; he didn't want to sugarcoat anything. After the way that Elena has treated Lucy for the past year, she deserved to feel guilty. She deserved to be confronted with all the grief, hurt, anger, and suffering Lucy went through because of her.
"Katherine killed Jeremy," she weakly tried to protest.
He could see that he was getting somewhere with her and he was glad. Before he and Damon came to Mystic Falls, it seemed like Lucy and Elena had a good relationship, despite all of the squabbling that siblings do. That probably get back there again, but maybe if Elena apologized and changed her ways, they could get some of it back.
"And think about how much that hurts you," he urged; Elena grimaced. "Do you really want to put Lucy through losing another sibling?"
He hoped that she would see reason because if she didn't, he was going to have to stop her himself.
Carebear: Where are you? You're supposed to help me with thank you cards!
Lucy-Goosey: I can't right now. Can I come over tonight? We can spend the last night of high school together!
Carebear: Deal!
Lucy slipped her phone back into her pocket and glanced over at Bonnie, hoping that she hadn't disturbed her concentration. While they waited for Katherine to show up at the site where Caroline had killed the twelve witches. Bonnie had wanted to meditate in order to get herself ready to bring down the veil.
Lucy, herself, was ready to go. She drank her daily dose of blood and packed some more in her bag in case she needed to replenish her strength. She was fired up and ready to see her brothers again; by the end of the night, they would both be alive and safe.
That was pretty much what she was focusing on, instead of the many supernatural creatures that would probably hunt them all down for revenge.
"Could you be any creepier?" Katherine's voice came from behind her and Bonnie; Lucy turned to her. "Why are we here
An annoyed look crossed Bonnie's face as she opened her eyes and stood up, facing Katherine. "You want me to make you truly immortal so that nothing can kill you. To do that, I need to talk to Qetsiyah, which means Lucy and I need to lower the veil to the Other Side."
"That still doesn't explain why you made me trudge through mud in five hundred-dollar boots," Katherine grumped.
Lucy rolled her eyes. "You could have worn cheaper shoes, Kit," she chided and pointed to her right. "A few miles that way, twelve hybrids were killed at the Lockwood cellar. And a few miles that way," she pointed in the opposite direction. "twelve humans died at the Young farm."
"And this is the site where twelve witches were killed," Bonnie finished for her.
"Thirteen if you don't get to the point," Katherine snarked.
"It's the expression triangle," Bonnie informed her. "We need to charge all three points and channel the mystical energy from Silas' tombstone. Once that happens, Lucy and I can drop the veil inside the three points. Just long enough to get what we need."
"And what exactly do you need?" the oldest doppelganger raised an eyebrow at them.
Lucy and Bonnie exchanged vengeful looks.
"Silas has done nothing but torment my friends—"
"He killed me," Lucy added, pointing to herself.
Bonnie nodded at her and continued, "Now, he wants to unleash hell on earth. He's evil. In two thousand years, only one person has been able to put him down."
Katherine sighed, like the whole conversation bored her. "Let me guess, Qetsiyah."
Lucy gave her a sarcastic thumb's up, which earned her an eyeroll from her older sister.
"If I can contact her, I can ask her how to do it," Bonnie got to the point. "Now, give us the rock."
"You're gonna flood Mystic Falls with dead, supernatural creatures so that you can ask a two-thousand-year-old witch not one but two favors?" Katherine laughed mockingly. "I think I'll take my business elsewhere."
She went to leave but was abruptly stopped by the spell that Lucy put on her, keeping her linked to Bonnie.
Katherine scowled at them. "What the fuck?"
"I linked you and Bonnie," Lucy said matter-of-factly. "Which means you're stuck with us for the day."
"Silas can be anyone," Bonnie smirked at her. "If he gets in your head and figures out that I don't need a full moon to do the spell, it's over."
Lucy grinned. "So, how about that tombstone, Kit?"
Lucy ignored another call that Stefan had given her and completely shut off her phone. This was his fourth call and she had sent them all to voicemail. She wasn't mad at him or anything but she and Bonnie had to have complete focus if they were going to bring down the veil within the expression triangle. Katherine was already distraction enough.
The sun had set while she, Bonnie, and Katherine made their way to the Lockwood cellar. It was the first time Lucy had been there while a vampire and before, she hadn't understood the discomfort that Stefan and Caroline had shown. She did now; the smell of wet dog had never smelt more horrendous in her life. It was sweaty and earthy and oh-so gross. It actually made her kind of nauseous, which she had thought wasn't possible as a vampire.
Katherine felt the same way. "Ugh, that old Lockwood cellar reeks of wet dog," she crossed her arms and stood her ground as Lucy and Bonnie started climbing down the stairs. "I'll be staying up here."
"You obviously don't know how this works," Bonnie stepped off the stairs and into the cellar; Katherine was forcefully pulled onto the stairs, where she was dragged down behind Bonnie.
Lucy laughed and continued on ahead of them, lighting the various candles laying around with her magic. She and Katherine could see in the dark but Bonnie didn't have that privilege.
"You realize that I'm not just some wandering child in a supermarket, right?" Katherine grumped. "I'm a vampire that can kill you."
"Play nice, Katerina," Lucy choked down a laugh at the scowl her sister gave her. "And whatever happens to Bonnie, happens to you."
Bonnie glared at Katherine. "Do you really think I want you here?"
"And what is here?" Katherine sassed her. "Oh, right. Twelve dead hybrids. This should be good."
Lucy sighed and went to Bonnie's side, both of them joining hands in order to link the cellar to the site where the witches had died.
Both of them closing their eyes, they squeezed each other's hands and started chanting in their minds. Though Bonnie had taught Lucy the spell and she had to recite it, really, she was just there to give Bonnie more power. Bonnie was already powerful with her expression magic with Lucy's strength and endless supply of magic, they were a force to be reckoned with.
The wind started picking up above them, sweeping into the cellar until dead leaves were blowing all around them. The metal gates that kept werewolves locked away started swinging, hitting their frames loudly. Eventually, the wind picked up even more, sounding like a tornado, and the candles that Lucy had lit flared up until the flames were licking the cellar's ceiling.
A large swell of power settled itself over Lucy's body and from the way that Bonnie's hands tightened around her own, she had felt it too. They had successfully linked the cellar to the witch site. Now, they had to go to the Young farm and then go to the center of the expression triangle to bring down the veil.
Fifteen minutes later, after leaving the woods and driving through Mystic Falls, which had been blacked out due to Lucy and Bonnie's spell, they arrived at the Young farm. No one was there, which was a given considering its unsafe status, but April Young had left Mystic Falls after the school year ended, anyway.
Lucy and Bonnie set up some emergency lights that Lucy had in her car while Katherine pouted in the corner, unhappy to be in the run-down house.
"This is the Young farm?" she asked in disbelief as Lucy and Bonnie joined hands again.
"Twelve humans burned to death here," Bonnie informed her. "They died in vain for Silas."
They started the spell and much like before, the wind picked up. This time, though, rain had started to fall in heavy sheets that were horribly loud against the roof as the lanterns flashed off. Even more power fell over the two witches (a witch-vampire, in Lucy's case) as they completed the link.
Katherine looked around unsurely. "What did you do?"
"We linked the final hot spot," Lucy locked eyes with Bonnie; they were really doing this, they were almost done, they'd see Jeremy and Kol soon. "It's time to drop the veil."
"The power outages originated at three different places in town," Liz informed Stefan and Damon as the three of them looked down at an aerial map of Mystic Falls. "the Young farm," she circled the location, along with two others, with a red market. "the Lockwood estate, and a blown transformer off Old Miller road."
Stefan's mind raced as he tried to connect the three sites together. He'd been to all three, he knew that. The Young farm, where twelve of the council members died, Klaus had killed twelve hybrids at the cellar, and Caroline had saved Bonnie from twelve witches in the woods off of Old Miller Road.
Shit, shit, shit. Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Bonnie was completing the expression triangle. She was dropping the veil.
"These are the locations of the Silas massacres," he told Damon and Liz as he took the marker and completed the triangle. "It's the expression triangle. Bonnie must be doing the spell."
Damon furrowed his eyebrows. "So much for needing a full moon."
"Something else," Liz added, a scared look in her eyes. "One of the power company guys has a daughter who goes to school with Bonnie and Lucy. He saw them leaving the Young farm an hour ago with Elena."
What was Lucy doing with Bonnie? Was she trying to help her bring down the veil or was she trying to stop her? Was she working with Silas? Maybe that was why she was ignoring his calls…
Everything was so fucked up right now.
"Caroline's with Elena," he managed to say, looking over at Damon.
Damon pursed his lips. "Looks like Lucy and Katherine are having girl time with Bonnie."
"So, how do we find them?" Liz wondered.
"Well, they must be somewhere in the triangle," Stefan said. "My guess is right in the middle."
"And where exactly might that be?"
Liz was able to figure out that Mystic Falls High School was smack dab in the middle of the expression triangle. Stefan and Damon had called in all their reinforcements (Elena, Caroline, and Joel) so they could search the school for Lucy, Bonnie, and Katherine. Stefan had even called Klaus in order to tell him about the mess that Lucy had gotten herself into.
"I already know all of this, Stefan," Klaus replied, bored with the conversation. "Luciana has already explained herself to Elijah and I."
Stefan couldn't believe he could be so blaze about this. "And you think this is safe for her? Klaus, Silas killed her. Who knows how he got her to do this for him?"
There were a few seconds of silence on Klaus' end before he spoke again, "She's more than capable taking care of herself."
Stefan sighed and admitted, "I know that."
He was worried about her, though. He wished that she would have confided in him and told him what was going on. He would have been more than willing to help her do whatever she needed to do.
"She knows what she's doing, Stefan," Klaus assured him.
They ended the call after that, though Stefan was still worried about the love of his life, despite her older brother trying to calm him down—it was so odd that Klaus was the one to do that, of all people—and went to meet up with Caroline, Elena, and Joel at the school. When they got there, only Joel and Elena were waiting for them.
"Where's Caroline?" Stefan asked loudly so the siblings could hear him over the roar of the wind.
At least the rain had stopped for now.
"Inside looking for Bonnie," Joel answered him.
"I think we should split up," Elena suggested. "Damon, Joel, and I can look outside while you and Caroline look inside."
"All right," Stefan agreed easily. "Let me know if you find anything."
Stefan made his way into the high school and started looking for Caroline on the first floor. He searched though the English and history hallways—each classroom was empty—before heading to the office—which was also empty. It was when he entered the cafeteria that he found Caroline, standing in the middle of the room with her hands on her hips.
"Hey, there you are," he greeted her as she turned to face him. "Any luck?"
"I searched the whole school," she sighed in frustration. "They should be here."
Behind Caroline, there was a suspicious sound. They both turned to it, flashing their lights toward it to see if it was Lucy, Bonnie, or Katherine.
"What was that?"
Stefan walked forward, gesturing for Caroline to follow him, and entered the kitchen. There were more sounds and they followed them to the walk-in refrigerated room. Once inside, they located the source of the noise; in one of the freezers, the ice was melting down without electricity and some of the cubes had fallen from their shelves.
"Hmm," Stefan was unimpressed. "the ice is melting."
Where the fuck was Lucy?
Caroline slammed the freezer shut. "It just doesn't make any sense," she huffed. "This is the center of the triangle. If Bonnie's gonna do the spell, she has to do it here. This is where they should be."
Stefan half-listened to her, his eyes following the trail that the melted ice was leaving on the floor. The water was heading straight to the drain in the middle of the floor, which gave him an idea. If Bonnie wanted to the spell in the right spot and remain undetected, the tunnels under the town and in extension, the school, would be the perfect spot.
"Actually, I think we're in the right place," Stefan told her. "Just the wrong elevation."
"Okay, this is the center of the triangle," Bonnie informed Katherine as they all stood however many stories under the school. Lucy stood by her side, rubbing her hands nervously, while Katherine held Silas' headstone. "We're ready. Now, give me the tombstone."
"The fact that this spell hinges on some shitting hunk of blood-rock does little to inspire my confidence," Katherine commented as she handed the headstone over to Bonnie.
Bonnie narrowed her eyes at her. "It's filled with the calcified blood of Qetsiyah, one of the strongest witches in the world."
"Which means that you should probably show some respect, Kit," Lucy gave her sister a pointed look. "It'll work."
Lucy and Bonnie held onto Silas' headstone, each of them grabbing a side. Closing their eyes once again, they started the spell to drop the veil. With the power of the expression triangle, it was fairly easy to do so. The more magic they worked, the more the spell went along.
And then Silas' headstone was leaking Qetsiyah's blood, dripping all over Lucy and Bonnie's hands and the stone beneath their feet.
"What's happening?" Katherine asked, a hint of nervousness in her voice.
"We're channeling the expression triangle," Bonnie answered, hardly breaking her concentration.
Random rocks all around them started lighting up with tall flames, towering over all of their heads. As soon as almost all of the expression triangle's power was loaded into the Other Side, the veil was dropped and the spell was finished.
"It's done," Bonnie declared. "The veil is down."
A small smile came upon Lucy's face. She'd would be able to see her loved ones; she would be able to see Jeremy and Kol and Finn and Alaric. God, she had missed Alaric so damn much. Would he come to her, though? Or would he be disappointed in her for being a vampire?
No, no, he wouldn't. She knew that. He loved her so much, an unconditional kind of love that she's felt before with her parents.
"Here," she took the headstone from Bonnie and set it on a rock nearby. "You should try to contact Qetsiyah before it's too late."
Bonnie nodded in agreement and lowered herself onto her knees. She began to reach out to the Other Side while Lucy went to stand by Katherine, both of them waiting for Qetsiyah to contact her descendent.
After a couple of minutes, Katherine began to get impatient. "Tick, tock, Bonnie."
Bonnie opened her eyes and glared at her. "Stop talking. I can't reach out to Qetsiyah with you breaking my concentration every five seconds."
Katherine rolled her eyes and sighed before quieting down. It was then that Lucy heard footsteps coming from the tunnels that they had walked through to get to their current spot.
"Hey, did you hear that?" she asked Katherine, knowing that her sister had five hundred more years on her when it came to their sensitive vampiric senses. "I think someone's coming."
Bonnie glared at Lucy now, exasperated. "Will you be quiet?"
"We have vampire hearing, Bonnie," Katherine said firmly, her eyes going toward the tunnel where the sound of footsteps were coming closer and closer. "There's someone here. Lucia," she turned to her sister now. "you should unlink me so that you and I can go stall them while we wait for Qetsiyah to show up."
Lucy glanced at Bonnie to see what she thought about that.
Bonnie shook her head. "We're not letting you go."
"I can link her to me," Lucy stated. "We'll go stop whoever it is."
"Fine. Go."
It only took two seconds in total for Lucy to unlink Katherine from Bonnie and link her to herself. Then they took off, running through the tunnels in order to lead whoever it was away from Bonnie. They made their way into the boiler room and then stopped in order to taunt the person out of hiding.
"Silas," Katherine sang mockingly. "Come and get me."
It wasn't Silas who was following them, though. It was Elena. She ignored Lucy as she slammed Katherine into the concrete wall. Lucy gasped, feeling only a little pain from the bricks digging into Katherine's back.
"Hello, Katherine," she smirked before shoving her hand into Katherine's stomach
Lucy let out a pained grunt as her hand went to her stomach, a gaping hole in the exact same place where Elena had her hand in Katherine's stomach. "Elena, don't."
"I'm sorry Lucy, but she's taken too much from us," Elena pulled her hand from Katherine's stomach and threw her to the floor.
Katherine glowered at her. "I let you out of your cage and this is how you thank me?"
"No, this is how I thank you," Elena snarked back, using her vampire speed to go to Katherine and push her into one of the steaming pipes connecting to the furnace.
Both Lucy and Katherine cried out as burns started growing on their faces.
"You have done nothing but suck the happiness out of my life," Elena yelled at Katherine, pulling her away from the pipe to face her. "And now, I get to kill you."
"No, Elena, don't!"
"Stop, please, please!"
Elena held up a wooden stake, raising it to the level of Katherine's heart. "Goodbye Katherine."
It was obvious that Elena wasn't going to stop. She hadn't with Finn and Kol and she certainly wasn't going to with Katherine. Quickly, Lucy unlinked Katherine from herself and held her hand out in Elena's direction, ready to throw her off of Katherine.
She didn't get to; Stefan had sped into the room and launched himself at Elena, getting her away from Katherine.
"Stefan!" Elena complained loudly, furious
"Go, Kit, get out of here!" Lucy urged her sister.
Katherine nodded and gave her a thankful look before speeding out of the boiler room.
Elena forcefully pushed Stefan off of her but he didn't seem bothered. He went to Lucy and cupped her face in order to make sure you're okay.
"Are you hurt?" he asked frantically, one of his hands leaving her face in order to search her stomach for any remaining wound. Sometimes he forgot that she healed as fast as him now. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, Stefan," Lucy kissed the inside of his wrist and buried her head in his chest.
She was glad to see him. The uncertainty of Elena almost killing Katherine, and her in the process, weighed heavily on her. If she had died with Katherine, she wouldn't get to see Stefan again. She wouldn't get to talk to him, or touch him, or kiss him, or laugh with him after the veil went back up. She'd be on the Other Side, stuck for all of eternity.
"How could you save her?" Elena's voice broke them out of their hold on each other. They turned to her, both equally annoyed with the youngest doppelganger. "She was as good as dead."
"Yeah and if you would have paid attention, so was Lucy," Stefan snapped back at her. "They were linked together, so if you killed her, Lucy would be dead too."
Elena blinked and cast her eyes on Lucy. "Is that true?"
Lucy nodded and pressed her lips together. "Yes."
Elena paused for a moment. "I don't believe you," she said finally. "Neither of you want me to kill Katherine. Why are you protecting her? What hold does she have on you two?"
"Do you hear yourself, Elena?" Lucy was fed up with her dramatics. "Your rage is making your absolutely bonkers. You're mad at her because she killed Jeremy and I get it, but he wasn't just your brother. Joel and I lost him too and we're dealing. And you're not."
"I'll deal by killing Katherine."
"No, you won't," Lucy shook her head in disgust; she just wished that Elena would listen to her for once. "Elena, this endless cycle of violence and revenge? It doesn't help anything."
"Yes, it does," Elena insisted.
"No, it doesn't and I know that personally," Lucy stood her ground. "After all that you've done to me, I didn't plan any revenge. You know why? Because I'm smart enough to realize that it won't help me with the pain. It only gets worse."
Elena looked insulted that she was Lucy's example. "I didn't kill you."
"No, but you made me feed, you tried to kill Caroline, you've killed two of my brothers, and you plotted to kill not only me but my whole family."
"I wasn't trying to kill you."
"It doesn't matter," Lucy said firmly. "You tried to get all of this revenge and it has never worked out for you. You've never stopped feeling that pain, have you?"
Elena didn't answer her verbally but her silence was answer enough.
"You have to deal with your grief and anger, Elena," Stefan spoke up. "You're a vampire. Loss is part of the deal."
Lucy hoped that Elena would listen to what they were saying. It didn't matter if Lucy was emotionally finished with their relationship, Elena was still her sister and she still loved her. And even though every part of her wanted her to just walk away, she couldn't. She wanted to help Elena because, at the end of the day, that was who Lucy was. She was no longer a pushover who let anyone walk all over her, but she was still compassionate. Elena was hurting but enacting revenge would just make everything worse.
Finally, Elena spoke. It wasn't an agreement to stay away from Katherine, but it was something. "I'm going to see Jeremy."
That sounded like a good idea. Lucy, herself, hadn't gone to Jeremy's grave but Joel had made sure he had a nice tombstone and space just outside the Gilbert plots. Plus, Jeremy should be showing up anytime now—as would Kol—and she wanted to see him so bad it hurt.
"I'll go with you."
"Brother and friend?" Elena read the engraving on Jeremy's tombstone, her eyebrows raising. She turned to Lucy. "What genius came up with that one?"
"That would be Joel," Lucy answered, trying her hardest to keep her spite out of her tone. It wasn't like Elena was there to help with anything after Jeremy died and Lucy was too busy trying to learn control over her bloodlust and magic.
Elena's lips quirked only slightly before she turned back to Jeremy's grave. "I give up, Jere," she sighed heavily and sat on the ground. "I really wanted to kill her for you but there's no point. Lucy's right," she glanced at her sister, who nodded back at her. "Killing her is only going to make me feel worse."
Lucy's eyes started to sting as Elena's voice broke. She could hear the raw grief in her voice and she had been there herself. Hell, she hadn't really gotten over it. She was just distracting herself from it. Losing Kol and Jeremy in the span of a week had taken a huge toll on her and like Elena, she had a hard time.
"I can't do this," Elena sniffed, tears streaming down her face. "I can't move on and I don't want to. If that makes me weak, then fine, I'm weak. But I can't handle you being gone and the rest of us being broken. I can't handle feeling like this anymore."
"Hello, old friend," Kol's familiar voice came from behind Lucy and Elena; they both turned to face him. "Sister. Pity about your brother," he addressed Elena again. "Guess it's just me against you now."
He lunged toward Elena but Lucy got in front of her, taking the blow. She and her brother fell to the ground, both of them scrambling to get up again. There was a little struggle as the fought for dominance—neither of them really going full strength—until Lucy used some magic to pin Kol on his back.
"Kol, Kol!" she exclaimed as he fought against her. "Stop, stop, stop! Listen to me."
"How can you defend her?" Kol hissed at her.
"I'm not, you know I'm not," Lucy insisted. "You need to listen to me, okay?"
If she didn't stop Kol from getting his revenge on Elena, then she was a hypocrite. She stopped Elena from killing Katherine, so she couldn't just stand to the side and watched as Kol overpowered Elena. Sure, she deserved, just like Katherine did, but she couldn't handle anymore deaths. That was sure to break her for good.
The squishing of damp grass made the three of them aware to another presence. Lucy looked up and grinned when she saw her younger brother's figure walking toward them with Joel by his side. Unfortunately, he was holding a crossbow. Where he even got that, she didn't know. She wondered if they broke into her apartment and stole it from her closet.
"How many times do I need to kill you?" Jeremy asked angrily, glaring down at Kol as he aimed the bow at him.
"Jeremy, don't," Lucy said warningly before looking down at Kol. "Meet me outside Nik's house. He and Elijah are waiting for you."
Kol gave her a surprised look, probably because he was shocked that Klaus and Elijah even cared to greet him, and nodded. Lucy let go of him, both physically and with her magic, and he sped off, leaving her, Elena, Joel, and Jeremy by themselves.
Within a second, the four of them were squashed into a group hug, Jeremy in the middle.