Sophia's POV
I woke up coughing as I felt the dryness of my throat and immediately looked around noticing I was in some kind of cellar and my mind flashed back to last night remembering everything that happened before it all went black and I stood up with a growl.
"Stefan I'm going to kill you!" I yelled hitting against steel door looking out of the small window with bars and I watched as my brothers strolled into the room both with their arms crossed and I scoffed. "Look at you two, that supposed to scare me?" I laughed.
"What happened to you?" Damon asked and I smirked.
"That's the big question of the day isn't it?" I backed away from the door and started looking around the jail cell they had me in.
"You're pretty smart mouthed" Stefan smirked clearly thinking he had the upper hand with me locked away but I knew Nik would be back for me.
"She always was Stef" Damon smirked over at him before he looked at me. "What are you so happy about, your locked up"
"Not for long brother"
"You think Klaus is coming back for you?" Stefan asked and I turned to face them. "He got want he wanted, what makes you think he'll come back for you"
"He will" I just replied and watched as they shared a look making me roll my eyes since god they were slow and dumb now. "Let's just say were more than friends"
"Wait, wait, wait your saying Klaus...and you?"
"Yep" I smirked pretending to examine my nails, I still really needed that manicure.
"Well than the jokes been on you for however long you've been shaking up with him cause clearly he's not coming back for you when you've been here for 4 hours already" Stefan replied and I looked up frowning a little at that before I shook off the feeling of worry wondering where Nik was turning back the fact that Stefan just said that.
"Wow little bros finally got a backbone now that daddy's not around to dote on him"
"Ouch Soph-"
"Please it's no more than you used to say Damon, we were the disappointments and Stefan was the prodigal son, it had always been me and you Damon against father but then that bitch showed up and...well we all know what happened"
"Actually we don't considering we thought you were dead, father told me you were dead" Stefan argued and I huffed.
"The man killed the two of you, he didn't kill me" I spat at them.
"So who did?" Damon asked actually sounding like the protective big brother.
"Do you really need to ask that question?"
"Klaus?" they both asked and I rolled my eyes while they were technically right given I died with his blood in my system it wasn't him.
"Katherine" I spat glaring at them and they instantly shared a look causing me to roll my eyes.
"How?"
"You don't deserve the details, now unless you guys are here to let me out of this damn cell than I have nothing else to say to either of you" I spat moving over to the cot and laid down , I might be thirsty but I doubted they'd bring me something to drink and I wasn't going to beg.
I listened to them both leave and I sat there like that for what I could only assume was a few hours and clearly a new day since when I heard footsteps I looked up but didn't move and saw Damon appear in the small window to the cell and I noticed he was dressed in a suit and knew it was clearly his funeral suit.
"Who died?" I smirked and he glared at me as he took a sip of blood out of a glass and my already parched mouth burned even more. "If you here to torture your dear little sister I'm afraid you'll have to do better than wave blood underneath my nose"
"Actually I'm here to talk to a threat because the girl in front of me isn't my little sister" I turned onto my side and used my arm to support my head.
"For once you actually say something that's true" I smirked at him. "Your sister died the day her brothers chose a doppelganger slut over her and she was forced to take care of herself" I spat annoyed and rolled back onto my back staring up at the ceiling.
"How did you meet Klaus?" Damon asked and I smiled a little but didn't answer him. "How can you be with someone like him?"
"Because believe it or not Damon he's been more of a family to me than you ever were" I finally decided to say something just to get him out of my hair.
"You think big bad wolf-vamp Klaus actually cares about you?"
"More than you apparently did and I don't think it, I know it" I shot back rolling my eyes. "Goodbye Damon" I added and he huffed leaving the Salvatore boarding house given that's no doubt where they were keeping me prisoner.
I once again returned to the tortuous silence slowly getting even more bored if that was even possible and I sighed getting up walking around the room but there was seriously no way out since the only way to the outside world was the door and I'd already attempted to pry that open but it was reinforced steel but finally some entertainment happened a couple hours later when the door suddenly opened and I watched as Damon was tossed inside and Stefan was relocking the door instantly.
"Whoa baby bros on a roll" I smirked towards Stefan who glared at me before he looked back at Damon.
"You're not dying today" he spat towards Damon and I raised an eye since why was Damon dying and from what, if anything killed him it was gonna be me.
"What's the plan, superman?" Damon asked him.
"I'm gonna find a way out of this" Stefan told him and I frowned confused on what the hell was going on.
"Oh right a miracle cure, good luck with that one" Damon scoffed and my frown grew since what the hell did he need a cure for.
"I got Bonnie looking for something, anything" Stefan replied and I raised an eye on who Bonnie was.
"Always the hero Stefan" Damon replied and I scoffed rolling my eyes as I laid my head back down on the cot. "Just tell me goodbye and get it over with" he added before falling into a coughing fit and when I looked over and saw the blood I sat up abruptly.
"Lie still, conserve your strength" Stefan told him before he left and I frowned turning towards Damon.
"I didn't ask for a cell mate" I spat instead of voicing my thoughts as I pondered what the hell had happened to him.
"Believe me I didn't ask for this intervention either" Damon responded.
"So what did Stefan mean by a cure, what's wrong with you?" I finally decided to ask.
"I thought you didn't care"
"I don't but if it's infectious I don't want whatever the hell you've gotten yourself into" I replied and his response was to lift up his sleeve and my eyes widened at the bite wound recognizing it as a werewolf bite before it fell into a grimace.
"I take it by your face that you haven't heard of a cure either?" he asked and I shook my head since I've never actually seen a werewolf bite in real life and never heard about a cure, just that it's fatal to any vampire that is bitten.
"No" I replied than laid back down turning my back towards him.
Third Person's POV
Klaus wakes up, naked and he immediately looks up at the sun and smiles before someone suddenly throws some clothes in his direction and he turns his head seeing that it was Elijah who's been following him.
"You've been busy" Elijah spoke towards his brother.
"That was amazing" Klaus stated before he got to his feet. "How long has it been?"
"Almost 2 days, the full moon came and went yet you remained a wolf" Elijah informed him as Klaus pulled on the pants Elijah had given him to put on.
"I can change at will then, it's good to know" Klaus smirked over at Elijah. "I remember every single kill"
"Yes, I've been cleaning up your little mess along the way"
"Just like old times, brother"
"You've had your fun" Elijah told him handing him some boots. "I believe we have a bargain"
"That's right, now what was it again...oh yeah wait I remember that's it, you wish to be reunited with our family"
"You gave me your word, Niklaus"
"What kind of brother would break his bond even though you did try to kill me" Klaus replied pulling his shirt over his head.
"I could have but I didn't" Elijah replied as he helps Klaus puts his jacket on.
"And now no one can, not even you" Klaus remarked turning to face Elijah, the two sharing a look. "Relax, Elijah all is forgiven"
"Where are they?"
"You need to lighten up I'll bring you to them soon enough then I have to rescue my girl that you left behind" Klaus spat glaring towards Elijah before the two headed off.
Sophia's POV
I sat bouncing my knee as I watched Damon slowly fading and getting even worse, the wound on his arm spreading further and further up his arm and my dwindling humanity was making me feel sorry for him, I thought being hungry was torture enough by being locked up in here but I was being forced to watch my twin brother slowly die and judging by his mumblings his mind seemed to be hallucinating and he was definitely weak as I was able to get into his mind.
"Really, you hallucinate that bitch" I scoffed whispering to myself but he must have heard me because he looked up.
"Sophie..." he breathed out raspy and I frowned meeting his eyes. "I'm sorry we left you, that we didn't make sure you were dead before giving up on you" I glared at him since I was not doing this, he didn't get to atone for his misdeeds since he wouldn't be saying any of it if he wasn't hallucinating and on his death bed.
"Don't do that Damon, I'm not here to re-bond with my brothers, I didn't even know you were alive since I watched you die, I actually saw your dead bodies and you have no idea what pain feels like until you've watched your twin brother die!" I yelled standing up. "We were always connected Damon and when you felt pain I felt pain, it felt as if I had died alongside you that night and you have no idea what that pain feels like because you never even confirmed that I was dead"
"I didn't know-"
"You should have known" I yelled stomping my foot like I used to do as a child, a pathetic quirk I had retained my entire life.
"I'm sorry Sophie"
"Don't call me that" I spat turning and sat back on the coat, the two of us falling back into silence for at least a couple of minutes given Damon started coughing again but I was turned towards the wall so that I didn't have to look at Damon for the time being.
"Well that looks bad" I turned seeing the human meatsuit that Klaus had occupied standing in view of the window to our cell.
"It feels worse" Damon groaned and I frowned over at him. "My subconscious is haunting me Ric, please tell me you have something for that?" he asked and I finally had a name for the human meatsuit looking up as he placed a glass on the edge of the window and a ring which I recognized as a daylight ring by the large stone.
"Double shot" Ric said holding up a bottle of bourbon and added to the glass.
"That's good" Damon sighed struggling to his feet and stumbled towards the door grabbing the ring first putting it back on his left middle finger before he grabbed the glass.
"Hello" I smiled towards Ric hoping he'd share some of that alcohol to curb my craving but he glared at me before he turned back to Damon ignoring me.
"So my brother sent you for suicide watch?"
"He's just trying to help" Ric argued with Damon.
"He's doing what he always does, trying to write the wrongs of the past" I scoffed at Damon's words since he can't just write the wrongs of the past "Ah!" Damon suddenly exclaimed and hunched over coughing. "You should want me dead, I'm the reason Jenna got killed" I looked up raising my eyes since for a minute he actually sounded like the selfless twin brother I once knew but I wasn't stupid to believe it.
"I don't blame you f/or Jenna" Ric replied and I turned to him seeing his eyes on me so I glared back at him.
"Oh sure you do, let's not forget I turned your wife into a vampire" I rolled my eyes since Damon was clearly just trying to piss Ric off so that he'd kill him. "You must really hate me for that one"
"Okay give me your glass" Ric told him not buying into any of it. "Neither one of us is drunk enough for this conversation" Damon stood taking his glass back over to the window but instead of giving it to him he reached through grabbing Ric's throat.
"Kill me" Damon begged him.
"Screw you" Ric shot back and I saw him inject a needle into Damon's shoulder which was no doubt vervain as Damon dropped.
"Elena" Damon breathed out and I rolled my eyes.
"Elena's not here, Damon" Ric spat back at him
"Well any chance I can grab that drink now?" I asked him but once again all I got was a glare and he ignored me.
"I need blood" Damon spoke and I walked towards him. "I need blood" he repeated and Ric raced off to get some which I was surprised at.
"Where's Damon?" I heard a woman's voice ask and moved quickly to hide out of sight of the door.
"You know now's not a good time Sheriff, trust me" Ric warned her.
"Sheriff, over here" I heard a man's voice right outside the door call to her.
"I wouldn't go in there" Ric warned her again.
"I just want to talk to him" the woman Sheriff argued and I heard a door slam shut before footsteps approaching this prison cell and stupidly they opened the door solely focused on Damon but he used the distraction of the door opening to get up and speed nearly crashing into me where I was hiding behind the door.
"Liz" Damon spoke making the Sheriff scream and turn seeing us before Damon threw her into the wall behind us and I used this to flee from the house using my vamp speed to get myself to the apartment having to slow as I noticed a gathering in the town square but I found my way to the apartment Nik and I had stolen from the meatsuit Ric and I walked up the stairs.
"I haven't been that way in a very long time" I heard my little brothers voice and frowned.
"Well that's the vampire I can make a deal with, that is the kind of talent I could use when I leave this town" I stopped just outside the door to hear more about what the hell was going on between my lover and my little brother. "Katerina, come here" I heard footsteps before a biting sound and Katherine's scream.
"No" Katherine breathed out clearly in shock and I knew that Nik had just bit her but before I could even think about what it was he was up to there was another biting sound before a muffled screaming coming from Katherine.
"You want your cure...there it is" I frowned since did he mean a cure for a werewolf bite, that's what Stefan was after from Nik even after he killed that doppelganger, he was trying to save Damon's life and had actually found a cure.
"Your blood is the cure" I heard Stefan say confirming my thoughts, Nik's blood could save my twin.
"Gotta love mother nature" I heard Nik say and could hear the smirk in his voice. "Now let's talk you and I" I frowned and huffed making my way to the door practically throwing it open and three sets of eyes turned to me. "Sophia!" Nik smiled at me. "Welcome back luv"
"No thanks to you" I spat.
"I was about to come for you sweetheart when your brother broke in for a chat"
"I noticed" I spat once again turning to look at Stefan before flitting towards him and punched him in the face sending him to the ground. "That was locking me up and starving me for two days!"
"How did you get out?" Stefan demanded as he got back up to his feet.
"Some Sheriff arrived looking for Damon, she stupidly opened the door letting us out" I replied walking to the fridge and pulled out a blood bag ripping the top off and squeezed it so the blood flowed into my mouth and down my throat soothing the scorching burn of my thirst while Nik ran a knife along his hand cutting open his hand and letting his blood drain into a glass bottle.
"There it is" he spoke holding it up. "You want to save your brother, how about a decade long bender?" I raised my eye towards Nik. "You know I have big plans for you when we leave this town" he went on not noticing my look.
"I'm not like that anymore" Stefan argued and I turned my look towards him since when was he ever on a bender, from what I'd seen so far he was just as much as a stick in the mud as he'd been when we were kids...more importantly how did Nik know that, he kept talking like he knew my brothers were alive a lot longer than I'd originally thought.
"Well that's too bad, you would have made one hell of a wingman" Nik stated and tipped the bottle pouring his blood into the sink.
"Wait" Stefan quickly said stopping him and Nik stopped.
"Now that's more like it" Nik smirked at him. "I want you to join me for a drink" I pulled a blood bag out placing it on the counter and Nik throws him a blood bag sliding it across the bench towards Stefan, he picked it up and drinks barely a sip. "Finish it, all of it...you do everything I say and I save your brother that's the deal" Nik told him and Stefan finally drinks all of it before Nik throws him another blood bag as I placed all the ones we had in the fridge onto the bench. "Again" he stated and Stefan picked it up and began to drink it.
The two bags soon became seven and Stefan was on knelt on the ground surrounded by the empty bags growling animalistically that I felt myself actually growing concerned since this didn't seem like Stefan, this felt wrong.
"You're very cooperative, it's almost as if you're enjoying it" Nik smiles and he gives him another blood bag.
"No more, not until you give me the cure" Stefan argued.
"Not until we make a deal, it's your choice Stefan you can either remain here living your life in Mystic Falls or you can embrace what you truly are, leave town with us and save your brother's life" he adds and Stefan takes the blood bag and drinks it. "That's the spirit" he smiles then takes the vial with his blood and looks at Katherine. "Sweetheart..." he forces her to look at him and compels her even though we both knew she had gotten her hands on vervain. "Take this over to Damon and come right back"
"You want me to leave?" she asks him.
"No!" Stefan protests pretty much confirming our theory.
"Yes and if I were you..." she takes the vial and disappears. "I'd hurry" he finished his sentence and I frowned staring at the door with a frown not trusting Katherine to do it while Nik sits down on a chair.
"She'll never take it to him, she'll never take it to him" I sighed hoping that Katherine actually did follow through because I hoped somewhere deep in her stone cold heart that she actually did care about my twin.
We finally left the apartment with our belongings and Nik drove us to a storage warehouse where he placed Elijah who he had daggered is in a coffin and I frowned a little since I didn't like the fact that Nik daggered his siblings since I missed them but I would never go against him and un-dagger one since he never did it without a reason, it was always to protect the family.
"I suppose brother, you've been reunited with our family" Nik stated before he closed the coffin and looks at the two men he'd compelled to load our belongings into the truck. "Put him with the others, we're leaving town tonight" he instructs him and they wheel him into the truck. "So...did Katerina make it in time?" Nik asks and I turn towards Stefan seeing him looking down at his phone but he looked up and met my eyes before nodding and I felt myself let out a breathless sigh of relief.
"You won't be seeing her again, you know"
"Because she's on vervain?" Nik asked him and he seemed surprised we knew. "I've been around a long time, Stefan I rarely get played for a fool besides, she won't get far, you'll help us see to that" I nodded my agreeance since no way was Katherine getting away.
"What is it you really want from me?" Stefan suddenly asked looking at Nik.
"All will be explained in time once we leave this tragic little town"
"Then are we done here, can we go?" Stefan asked impatiently.
"Not quite, you see I have a gift for you" Nik replies and turns gesturing towards a girl. "Come here, sweetheart don't be afraid" the girl walks towards us compelled forward "See, I wanna make sure you honor our deal...that you'll be of use to me" he bites the girl's neck and drinks her blood. "I could have compelled her to behave but a real ripper enjoys the hunt" he let her go and she starts to run screaming but Stefan stops her, bites her and begins to drink from her.
"Why are you really bringing him along Nik, I don't want to be anywhere near my brothers"
"Do you trust me luv?" he asked and I frowned but nodded my head. "Then trust that this is what we need right now"
"Fine but he better not try and reconcile or I swear I'll never lay with you again" I shot at him using the old fashioned term he always like to use to explain our lovemaking.
"We both know that won't happen, I'm too irresistible for you"
"Niklaus you're not cute" I argued shaking my head at him but he just smirked wrapping his arms around my waist and pulled me against his chest. "No, I'm still mad at you" I fought against him but very poorly as my heart wasn't in it really to actually want to escape his arms.
"You're not mad at me" he spoke in the voice that he used when compelling someone but he wasn't looking in my eyes as he swore never to compel me.
"I know you're not actually compelling me and I am mad at you but I love you enough to forgive you" I shot back before I grabbed the back of his neck and leaned up pressing my lips against his.
"Ready to go my love?" he asked after we pulled apart.
"With you, always but he gets his own quarters" I smiled at him before we turned our heads just in time to watch as the girl Stefan had now drained drop to the ground as he looked up, eyes red and veins bubbling while a drop of blood dripped from his mouth.
"Now we can go" Nik smirked satisfied that Stefan was off the rails clearly and we finally left putting Mystic Falls in our rearview mirror and this time I never wanted to set foot there ever again.
