EDITED OCT22
Tyler, Caroline, Elena, Bonnie and Brea were all crouched on the floor in a classroom setting up mouse traps when the door to the classroom slowly opened. All 5 of them froze, trying not to disturb the traps, when all the traps suddenly started going off and the light to the classroom switched on, to show Matt standing in the doorway shocked.
"Oh come on!" Caroline groaned. "Do you know how long it took all of us to set this up?"
"You absolute moron!" Brea yelled at him. "Right, that's it. I'm closest. I'll beat him up," she said rolling up her sleeves and taking a step toward Matt, only to put a foot on one of the traps and slip and land on the ground. "Ow," she whimpered.
"Forgot about senior prank night huh?" Tyler asked.
"Clearly," Matt said as he stepped over the traps and leaned down to pick Brea up off the ground. She thanked him by punching him in the arm. "Dude," he complained.
"How could you forget?" Caroline asked. "We've only been waiting for this since like freshman year?"
"Yeah Matt," Elena said. "If I'm doing this, you're doing this?"
"Excuse me," Brea said turning to her sister. "It's not like anyone dragged you here."
"You did," Elena replied.
"Oh, yeah that's right," Brea mumbled.
"I'm kind of surprised any of you are doing this," Matt said.
"Caroline and Brea are making us," Bonnie said and Brea wiggled her eyebrows at Matt.
"Tyler is just as into this as we are. You ignored my calls today, if you answered you'd know what was going on," she shoved his shoulder.
"I thought you wanted help putting contact paper on all your books like you did last year."
"Oh no, I got Jeremy to help me last week," Brea said and Matt looked at her confused. "He lost a bet."
"Right."
"We're about to be seniors," Caroline interrupted. "These are the memories that will stay with us forever, and…"
"If we don't create these memories, then what's the point of it all?" Elena finished.
"Hey," Brea smiled. "You've got Caroline's speech memorised!"
"Go ahead and make fun. We don't care," Caroline said.
"You're all lame. And I've got 10 more classrooms to prank," Tyler said.
"Whoop! That's the spirit. Favourite group member," she said excitedly. "Take me with you, I've got the whipped cream for covering the blackboards," she danced waving the canister in the air.
"Prank time. Let's go," Tyler nodded.
"Yes!" she cheered. "Let's go!" she sprayed some cream in the air before she and Tyler ran out of the room.
"Hang on, got to give out some instructions," Tyler said, walking up to a group of guys. "Get the faculty toilet seats. And Dana needs bodies in the gym. Let's go," Tyler said giving the guys a roll of cling wrap.
"Hey, hey, hey, where do you think you're going?" Brea asked as she saw Elena walk past.
"To superglue Ric's desk shut," Elena said as she kept walking.
"Yes!" Brea fist-pumped. "That's my twin. I'm finally proud of you," she said, causing Elena to stop and turn around, smiling at her sister. "I mean I love you," Brea covered quickly and Elena shook her head with a laugh and kept walking. "Ty, wait for me," she said running after her friend.
"Go help Dana in the gym," he said.
"I don't want to help Dana."
"Why?"
"I got the whipped cream," she said holding up the can. "All I want is to cover blackboards, Dana's not doing that."
"Fine. Go to Ric's."
"Yay!" Brea cheered jumping up and down. "This is so fun!" She then ran off to Ric's classroom and covered his blackboard in whipped cream. She then turned to his desk and opened it. "Seriously? ELENA! You are useless!" she yelled storming out of the classroom and headed towards the gym. "Dana!" she called as she walked through the gym. "Have you seen my useless sister? I am ready to kill her. She can't bloody super glue a bloody desk shut."
"Brea run!" Elena screamed as Brea stepped into the gym. Brea frowned and her eyes went wide as she saw Klaus standing in the gym. She froze for a moment, unable to breathe.
"No," Brea said, her voice shaking and tears automatically began streaming down her face. "No!" she screamed and ran to her sister and positioned her body in front of her, shielding her from Klaus.
"Found out your little secret, love," he said placing his hand on her cheek. "Don't worry, I'm not mad at you."
Brea responded by lifting the can of whipped cream and spraying it in his face with a yelp.
He immediately snatched it from her. "Seriously," he growled as he wiped his face.
Dana then let out a moan and she nearly lost balance as she was standing on one leg,
"Keep it up," Klaus instructed.
"Why is she on one leg?" Brea asked.
"Klaus compelled her to, if she falls Chad has to beat her to death," Elena whispered and Brea's eyes went wide.
She quickly moved to grab Dana to help her, but Klaus stood in front of her. "Uh uh," he tutted.
"Get out of my way Klaus," she growled and his smirk dropped. He stepped aside, allowing her to grab onto Dana's arm to keep her balanced.
"Where's Stefan?" Elena asked. "What'd you do to him?"
"Stefan's on a time-out," Klaus smirked.
The door to the gym then opened and Bonnie and Matt walked through. "Bonnie, get out of here!" Elena yelled.
Klaus ran to stand behind Bonnie. "I was wondering when you'd show up. Now we can get started. Uh, Dana, why don't you relax? Give Brenna a break. You and Chad sit tight," he said and Dana collapsed into Brea and Chad caught them and lowered them to the ground.
"Are you ok?" Brea asked him quietly grabbing his arm.
Chad nodded nervously. "Who is that guy?"
Brea didn't know how to answer. "Stay here, I'll be back," she tried to move but he grabbed her arm.
"Brea no, he's dangerous."
"Not to me, trust me. I'll be back," she said gently prying his arm off her and running off.
Brea ran up to Klaus, Bonnie and Matt and she grabbed onto Matt's arm tightly while Klaus was talking. "There's no need for blame love. Just your witchy interference seemed to have caused some undesirable side effects and since you caused the problem, I'm going to have you find the fix."
Just as he finished saying that the gym door swung open and Tyler was being dragged in by Rebekah. "Urgh, get off of me," he growled. Brea's eyes widened and she maneuvered Matt's body to hide her from Rebekah's sight. He stuck his arm back to hold her and slowly stepped back, closer to Elena.
"Hush now," Rebekah instructed Tyler.
"I'd like you all to meet my sister," Klaus said. "Rebekah. A word of warning, she can be quite mean."
"Don't be an ass," Rebekah responded before throwing Tyler toward Klaus.
"Leave him alone," Elena ordered.
"I'm going to make this very simple," Klaus yelled stepping through the group, Matt grabbed Brea and maneuvered her so she was still out of Rebekah's sight. "Every time I attempt to turn a werewolf into a vampire hybrid, they die during the transition. It's quite horrible actually," he said. Brea let out a silent whimper and Matt grabbed her arms to stop her from running to help Tyler. Klaus then bit into his wrist and fed Tyler his blood. "I need you to find a way to save my hybrids, Bonnie. And for Tyler's sake," he said wrapping his hand around Tyler's head and Matt had to wrap his arms all the way around Brea to keep her in place. "You'd better hurry," he said before snapping Tyler's neck and Brea let out an earsplitting scream of pain.
It was at that moment that Rebekah's head whipped towards Brea. "Oh my god," she whispered before stepping over to Klaus. "You said she wasn't going to be here! She wasn't meant to see this!"
"Well I found Elena first, so I didn't have time," he said, unable to take his eyes off of Brea.
"Let me go! Let me go!" Brea screamed, and Matt let her go, no longer having the will to hold her. She sprinted and slid on the floor towards Tyler and shook his body. "No, no, no, no, no," she cried. Matt slowly made his way over to her and knelt down next to her placing his hands on her shoulder.
"He killed him," Matt said as Brea collapsed into him.
"He's not dead. Klaus' blood will turn him into a vampire," Elena said pacing back and forward.
"And if Bonnie's successful he'll live through his transition," Klaus said hopping down from the bleachers he and Rebekah had moved to sit on. "Go on then, go fetch your grimoires and enchantments and whatnot. I'll hold onto Elena for safekeeping," he said grabbing Elena's arm roughly.
"Go, help Bonnie," Brea said to Matt. "Help Tyler," she said and Matt nodded and ran out of the gym with Bonnie.
"So this is the latest doppelganger," Rebekah said, circling Elena. "The original one was much prettier," Rebekah smirked and Elena glared.
"Enough, Rebekah. Take the wolf-boy elsewhere, would you?" Klaus ordered and Brea's eyes widened and she grabbed onto Tyler.
"I want to stay here," Rebekah whined.
"Take Brenna also," Klaus said, barely able to look at Brea now.
"Alright," Rebekah sang walking over to Tyler and grabbing his arm, dragging him out of Brea's arm and towards the door of the gym. "Come on Brenna," she said stopping and turning back around.
"Elena," Brea whimpered.
"Go, go," Elena nodded. Rebekah groaned from the back of the gym and came back and grabbed Brea's hand, lifting her off the floor and dragging her along with her, but Brea couldn't look away from her sister. When they left the gym Rebekah dragged them down a few more corridors before Brea saw Caroline lying unconscious on the ground.
"Caroline!" Brea yelled and ran at her friend.
"She's fine," Rebekah said. "I just snapped her neck. She should be awake at any moment now." Rebekah then plonked herself down against the lockers. "Now what's with the hostility?"
Brea slowly turned her head to look at Rebekah incredulously. "Are you serious? The last time I saw you, you had just betrayed my husband and got him daggered! And now you've helped kill my best friend and I have no idea what going to happen to my sister," Brea said, silent tears streaming down her face. "That's what the hostility is for."
"You cannot blame me for what happened to Kol, Brenna."
"I had him under control," Brea snapped. "I was so close to convincing him to give up on his revenge fantasy. We were going to leave. Go to New York for a while. You ruined that by selling him out. You knew what would happen. You went to Niklaus instead of me. We're done talking," she said before Caroline let out a groan as she began waking up.
"Brea?" Caroline groaned.
"Hey Care," Brea muttered.
"We didn't have mobile telephones in my day," Rebekah mused. "Would have made life a whole lot easier, I suppose," she said, taking a picture of herself on Caroline's phone.
"Where's Tyler?" Caroline asked groggily.
"He's dead," Rebekah said. "Ish."
Caroline rolled over to see Tyler's body, "what did you do to him?"
"Think of it as, he's having a nap," Rebekah said.
"Klaus is here," Brea said sadly to Caroline. "He turned him."
"When he wakes up he'll be a hybrid," Rebekah said and Caroline pressed her head to Tyler's chest. "Ugh, vomit," Rebekah groaned at something on Caroline's phone. "Is that my necklace?" Brea heard Rebekah whisper.
"Oh no," Brea said stiffening.
"What?" Caroline asked.
Rebekah stood up in front of the two girls. "Why is that doppelgänger bitch wearing my necklace?" she snapped.
"Crap," Brea said.
"What's happening?" Caroline said looking at Brea.
"I'll find out myself," Rebekah said storming off.
"She might kill Elena, just stay with Tyler," Brea panicked to Caroline before standing up and running after Rebekah. "Rebekah please!" Brea called after her as she ran.
"Where is it?" she heard Rebekah's voice bellow and she ran harder into the gym, entering a moment after Rebekah. "Where's my necklace?"
"What are you talking about?" Klaus asked Rebekah. "You're going to give Brenna a heart attack," he growled as he looked at the puffing girl. "Here love," he moved to Brea's side and gently grabbed her arm to stop her from falling out of exhaustion.
"Man I'm out of shape," she wheezed.
"She has my necklace," Rebekah said. "Look," she handed him Caroline's phone.
"Well, well. More lies," Klaus said looking at Stefan.
"Oh. Hey Stefan," Brea waved.
"Sit down, love," Klaus muttered lowering her down onto one of the bleachers.
"Where is it?" Rebekah growled at Elena.
"I don't have it anymore," Elena said quickly.
"You're lying!" Rebekah yelled throwing herself at Elena and biting her neck.
Klaus sped away from Brea and shoved Rebekah away. "Knock it off!" he yelled.
Brea ran towards her sister and bent down beside her. "Oh my god, Elena, are you ok?" she asked, moving her sister's hand away so she could inspect the bite mark.
"Make her tell me where it is Nik," Rebekah ordered.
Klaus sighed in annoyance before squatting next to the twins. "Where's the necklace, sweetheart? Be honest," he asked.
"I'm telling the truth. Katherine stole it," Elena said.
Klaus looked at Brea for confirmation. "She did," Brea rolled her eyes. "I saw her with it."
"What?" Elena asked.
"Sorry," Brea whispered.
"Katerina," he hummed. "Of course. Well, that's unfortunate. If we had the necklace it'd make things easier for your witch. But since we're doing this the hard way, let's put a clock on it, shall we?" he stormed across the gym and turned on the gym timer. "If Bonnie hasn't found a solution by then, I want you to feed again," he said to Stefan. "Only this time, I want you to feed on Elena. You know you want to."
"Again?" Brea asked and looked behind Stefan to see two bodies she recognized. She choked on air as a sob wracked her chest. "Oh my god. Oh my god!" she screamed and ran across the gym only to come to a stop in front of the bodies of Chad and Dana. "Chad," she whimpered, falling to the ground, oblivious to what was going on behind her. "Chad, no, no, no," she pleaded. "Wake up, wake up!" she yelled and she heard everyone behind her go silent.
"Time to go," she heard Klaus mutter from behind her, but she didn't move. "Love?" he asked but she gave him nothing. He leaned down and picked her up gently off the ground so she was standing. "Let's get you out of here," he whispered, picking her up as she cried, before carrying her out of the gym.
"Who was that boy?" she heard Rebekah ask.
"An ex," Klaus answered.
"Brenna had a boyfriend?" Rebekah asked shocked.
"Before her memories came back," Klaus answered quietly. After a minute of being carried in silence, the three of them walked into a classroom.
"Oh my god, Brea, what did you do to her?" she heard Caroline demand.
"Nothing sweetheart," Klaus said dismissively as he gently placed Brea down to sit on a desk. "She's just had a bit of a shock," he said as he lowered himself down to her eye line and he began stroking her hair comfortingly.
"Don't touch her," Caroline said from across the room. At this Brea, snapped out of her shock and recoiled from Klaus' touch.
His face darkened in response, but his eyes were heartbroken. She glared up at him before slapping him across the face.
"Stay with her," Klaus growled at Rebekah before storming out of the room.
As soon as Klaus left, Caroline immediately appeared by her side. "What happened?" she asked.
"Chad and Dana… they're… they're dead. Stefan killed them. He killed Chad," she whispered. Caroline froze before wrapping Brea in a hug. "Elena, he's going to hurt Elena too," she whimpered. "Tyler?" Brea asked, peering over her friend's shoulder.
"Still dead," Caroline whispered.
The three girls hadn't moved from their positions in 15 minutes when Tyler suddenly shot up with a gasp.
"Shh," Caroline comforted as she ran to him.
"Ty?" Brea asked, standing up. She couldn't get closer as Rebekah stood there, blocking her way.
"Where am I? What happened?" he asked.
"Tyler…" Caroline said, unsure how to answer.
"Don't be shy about it," Rebekah smirked causing Tyler to spin around to face her.
"What's going on?" he asked again.
"Klaus is turning you into a vampire. A hybrid. You're in transition," Caroline explained.
"Don't leave out the hard parts, sweets," Rebekah said condescendingly. "You'll only survive if your witch is successful. If not, you're pretty much dead."
"It's Bonnie," Brea said, distracting Tyler from Rebekah. "She'll save you, Ty."
"You're going to be okay," Caroline said. "Okay, it's going to be okay."
"I wonder how she's doing," Rebekah said. "Tick-tock goes the gym clock," she said holding up Caroline's phone to show two minutes left on a timer. Brea's eyes widened, only two minutes until Stefan would attack her.
"Elena," Brea whispered before making a break for the door, but she was cut off by Rebekah.
"Not so fast love," Rebekah said. "Sorry, but you don't want to be out there."
"Actually Rebekah, I do," Brea growled but Rebekah just shook her head. Brea then ran with all her might, a fruitless task against an Original. Rebekah merely sighed and grabbed onto Brea's arm, and she found herself unable to get anywhere. "Alright. Alright!" Brea yelled, shaking her arm out of Rebekah's hold and slumping into a seat.
"Brea," Caroline said gently walking up to her friend.
"Give her space," Rebekah snapped.
"Well, the verdict's in. The Original Witch says the doppelgänger should be dead," Klaus ranted as he came through the doorway of the classroom. "What happened to her?" he asked as he looked over at Brea's teary face.
"You happened!" Rebekah snapped. "You just couldn't leave her friends alone. When will you learn Nik? How many times do you need to beg her forgiveness before she leaves us forever?" she asked before taking a deep breath. Brea looked up at Rebekah. It was very rare that she'd disagree with Nik, and she'd done it in her defence. "Does that mean you're going to kill her?" she asked Klaus.
"No," Klaus said, before walking around to stand in front of Tyler, keeping his eyes on Brea, who didn't react at all. "I'm fairly certain it means the opposite."
Rebekah quickly stood up and grabbed Caroline, pulling her away from Tyler. "What?" she asked.
"Call it a hunch," Klaus said. "Elena's blood," he said holding a vial of blood out to Tyler. "Drink it."
"No. No, no, no, Tyler, don't," Caroline begged.
"If he doesn't feed, he'll die anyway, love," Klaus said. "Consider this an experiment." Tyler turned his head around to look at Brea.
Brea stood up and walked in front of Klaus and studied his eyes. She let out an exhale before she turned to look at Tyler. "Drink it," she nodded.
Tyler nodded and took the vial. "There we go," Klaus smiled. Tyler lifted the vial of blood to his mouth and downed it. He then let out an agonising scream. Jenna. John. Chad. Elena. Tyler. Kol. All gone because of Klaus. It was too much for Brea when Tyler screamed again and she passed out, falling into Klaus' arms.
"Urgh," Brea groaned as she started to wake up. She could feel movement as she was being carried. "Where am I?" she mumbled.
"The hospital sweetheart," Rebekah responded from beside her. Brea opened her eyes to see she was being carried into the hospital parking lot by Klaus and she relaxed her head into his chest, not two moments later, her eyes widened and she started frantically squirming in his arms, trying to get away from him. "Put her down, put her down," Rebekah said, reaching out for Brea, to try to keep her still.
"Fine," Klaus mumbled before gently placing her down on the hood of a car, keeping his hands on her shoulders to keep her balanced until Rebekah hopped up on the hood also, allowing Brea to lean up against her and Klaus slowly slid his hands off her shoulders and took a step back.
"Tyler?" Brea asked quietly.
"A successful hybrid, don't worry," Rebekah said, wrapping her arm around Brea's shoulder.
"Elena?" Brea asked, struggling to keep her eyes open.
"Alive," Klaus answered.
"So the doppelgänger isn't the problem, her blood is the solution?" Rebekah asked Klaus.
"Seems so," he responded.
"How did you know?"
"You both know how much the Original Witch hated me. Do you honestly think I would do anything other than the opposite of what she says? Plus…" he said and Brea saw him look at her before quickly looking away.
"A thousand years in the grave and she's still screwing with you," Rebekah mused.
"It makes sense if you think about it from her perspective. It was her fail-safe in case I ever broke the hybrid curse. The doppelgänger has to die in order for me to become a hybrid, but if she was dead…"
"Then you couldn't use her blood to sire yourself a new species."
"Leaving me alone for all time," Klaus said and Brea frowned, turning her head away from him.
"Is that what this is about?" Rebekah asked. "Your obsession with hybrids. You just don't want to be alone?"
"What I want is to take my girl, take my doppelganger, take my hybrid, get the hell out of this one pony town. Why don't, uh, why don't you get the truck?" he said subtly gesturing in Brea's direction and Rebekah sighed in understanding. "We'll get Elena."
"Kol's girl," Rebekah hissed at her brother quietly. "You going to be okay?" Rebekah asked Brea and she nodded, removing herself from Rebekah's side and lying down on the hood of the car as Rebekah slid off and walked away.
"Brenna…"
"Don't," she mumbled. "Just don't talk to me please."
"I saved them," Klaus said.
"You killed Chad and Dana," Brea said eyes filling with tears.
"I'm sorry," he said and she lifted her head to look at him. She saw a face of genuine sorrow he only ever showed her, no one else, but she rolled her eyes and dropped her head back down.
"My uncle John's death was your fault. You sent Jenna away," Brea said, her voice cracking. "Aunt Jenna," she said as her tears flowed. "She's out there all alone now. Everyone thinks she's dead, no one knows she's ok. I couldn't even live in my house this summer without her in it. I only moved back in a few weeks ago. You took her from me."
"Get away from her," a voice Brea recognized as Damon's growled.
Klaus straightened up. "Well, look who finally decided to show up to the party," he smirked.
"Where is Elena?" Damon asked.
"Elena? Uh, she's making a donation to a greater cause," Klaus taunted and Brea simply pointed towards the hospital. Damon nodded at Brea and walked forward, but Klaus stuck out a hand, stopping him in his path. "Can't let you interfere, mate."
"Then you'll have to kill me," Damon snarled.
"Oh I would love to, but, uh, I made a pledge to your brother and unlike him, I keep my word. Although, you know what, thinking about it now, he probably doesn't care that much anymore," Klaus said before slamming Damon against a car. Brea didn't flinch, she knew Klaus wouldn't hurt him in front of her, she knew he wanted forgiveness from her and this would just be the straw that broke the camel's back.
"Don't you want to know about your friend Mikael?" Damon asked. At this Brea suddenly felt wide awake and she threw herself off the car and ran to stand next to Klaus, eyes wide.
Klaus looked at Brea, his eyes full of fear. "What do you know about Mikael?"
"Just that he knows you're here," Damon taunted.
"You're bluffing."
"Katherine and I found him. Consider it our leverage," Damon said.
Klaus looked at Brea. "Go!" she urged. He needed to run. Klaus pursed his lips, clearly not wanting to leave Brea but resolved to throw Damon to the ground before running off.
Damon groaned before lifting himself up off the ground. "Hey, hey, you ok?" he asked.
"No," Brea said shaking her head.
"What can I do?" he asked.
"Get my sister," Brea said quietly and he nodded, but not before picking her up and carrying her to his car.
"Get in, get warm. I'll get Elena then we'll go back to mine."
"Just drop me home instead please," she said getting in the car and he nodded before running off to get Elena, as soon as he left she fell asleep.
England, 1492
Katerina and Brenna were giggling in their chambers as they got ready for the day. "Last night was so fun," Katerina squealed. "The Lord's Niklaus and Elijah are so dreamy. I think the Lord Niklaus has eyes for you, he was staring at you all night."
"Rubbish," Brenna scoffed.
"It's true! He and his other brother that you did not meet. They both just stared at you all night. I cannot believe you did not say hello to him, all he did was stare at you."
"Well, his brother got on my nerves. He was there with two other women, trust me he did not need a third," Brenna scowled.
"He arrived with two, but he left with none," Katerina said, taking Brenna's hairbrush and began brushing her sister's hair. "As soon as he saw you he left them."
"Perhaps, but I have no time for men like that sister."
"Well I think you should give him a chance," Katerina smiled. "If a man abandoned his partners for the evening to stare at me all night I would take it as the highest compliment."
"The fact he came in with not one woman, but two, doesn't exactly speak to his character," she rolled her eyes. "Why are you pushing this so much?" Brenna asked frowning.
"Okay," Katerina smiled cheekily. "Do not hate me, but whilst you and the Lord Niklaus were getting a drink, Lord Kol, who is the brother who was staring at you, approached me and asked if he may take you out today. I said he'd have to ask Trevor, but Trevor said yes," Katerina squeaked.
"Katerina," Brenna scolded. "You cannot be organizing courtships for me. We were supposed to go riding with the Lord Niklaus today."
"You want to smile. You do! Look at that! You want to smile," Katerina laughed. "You can go with Lord Kol, I'll go riding with Lord Niklaus and Lord Elijah!"
"Stop it!"
"You're smiling! I knew you liked him! You're blushing! I knew I could set you up with a high-class man!"
"Katerina!" Brenna scolded, laughing as she took her sister's hand. "I mean it would have happened eventually, so it wasn't entirely you."
"You're very confident in your ability to draw the attention of noblemen," Katerina smiled.
"Just this one," Brenna said rolling her eyes.
"You may just save us yet, sister," Katerina smiled. "Now let's get you ready!"