Sophia's POV

After the night past we wasted no time heading for the Smokey Mountains and began hiking into the trees looking for Ray's back and after Nik and I finally got some alone time I was in better spirits even if I was hiking in heels.

"Are you okay, is Ray getting heavy?" Nik spoke up looking at Stefan who was carrying Ray over his shoulders making me smile just happy to see him going the grunt work since there was no way I was carrying the corpse since he was taking his damn time to wake up.

"I'm fine" Stefan spat.

"You sure about that, you know we've been walking for quite some time now, do you need some water or a little sit-down?"

"You know I get that were stuck together but if we could maybe just skip the chitchat, it'd be great" Stefan argued.

"Finally something we agree on" I seconded since the bromance Nik was trying to force between him and Stefan was annoying as hell for me, these two weren't supposed to be friends...like ever, I was determined to keep the two parts of my life apart.

"So much brooding, your self-loathing is suffocating you my friend" Nik replied and I chuckled under my breath.

"Maybe it's because I'm a little tired of hunting werewolves, we've been at it all summer"

"Well thanks to your sister and our pal Ray, we found ourselves a pack" Nik replied making me smile smugly at Stefan as he looked at me before we noticed that we'd found the pack seeing all the tents and people moving about. "There" Stefan sighed and walked forward making the chatter from the wolves cease as they saw him and he dropped Ray in the middle of their camp.

"Ray, oh my god!" a girl yelled and rushed to fall to her knees besides Ray. "What's going on?" she asked herself before looking up at Stefan. "Who are you?"

"The important question is who am I?" Nik cut in as we walked over making ourselves known. "Please forgive the intrusion, my name is Klaus" he added and the girl stood up as a hush murmur went through the pack.

"You're the hybrid" she said and I huffed since the news was spreading already.

"You've heard of me, fantastic" Nik smirked and we took a seat on a nearby rock as he started on his pitch. "It's fascinating actually, a werewolf who isn't beholden to the moon, a vampire who doesn't burn in the sun, a true hybrid" just as he finished Ray finally woke up gasping for air and I scoffed since he had good timing.

"Excellent timing Ray, very dramatic" I called out to him.

"What's happening to me?" Ray asked looking around.

"Stefan?" Nik said turning to Stefan who understood and stood up.

"Are any of you human?" Stefan asked looking around. "Your friend here needs human blood to complete his transition to vampire, if he doesn't get it he will die"

"Doesn't take much" Nik added and I looked up at one guy that seemed particularly nervous and I smirked since I think I found the human amongst wolves. "Just a sample" I stood up pretending to look around.

"Anyone, a boyfriend, a girlfriend along for the ride?" I cut in before looking straight at the guy. "You" I stated and sped forward grabbing the guys arm sinking my fangs into the flesh getting a little bit of food before tossing him towards Stefan who tackled the guy down and held his arm near Ray while Nik stopped the girl as she tried to intervene.

"You don't drink it Ray, I will" Stefan said and I saw Ray looking at the blood with hunger evident on his face. "Problem is, I don't know how to stop"

"It's the new order, sweetheart, you join us or you die" Nik warned the girl currently in his grasp.

"I'd rather die than be a vampire" she growled out.

"Wrong choice" he replied showing his hybrid face then bit his arm and forced her to drink his blood as Ray finally drank from the human. "She'll thank me for that later" he added once the girl had drank enough before he snapped her neck dropping her to the floor. "Okay, who's next?"

Nik quickly went through the entire pack feeding each one his blood before snapping their necks and once Ray had successfully drank enough that it would complete his transition he fed the human his blood to heal him given we'd need him later.

"There, good as new now you relax okay mate?" Nik compelled the guy. "We're gonna need you when the rest of them wake up"

"They're dead, they're all dead" Ray said staring down at the human.

"He's through his transition he should be feeling better soon" Nik replied but I frowned down at Ray since he didn't seem to be flooding with new life which came from becoming a vampire, at least that had been my experience.

"So is this your master plan?" Stefan asked looking at Nik. "Build an army of hybrid slaves?"

"No not slaves, soldiers…comrades" Nik argued.

"For what war, might I ask?" Stefan asked.

"Well you don't arm yourself after war has been declared Stefan, you build your army so big that no one ever dares pick the fight" Nik argued and I smiled a little.

"What makes you so sure they'll be loyal?" Stefan argued back.

"Oh it's not difficult to be loyal when you're on the winning team" Nik replied but I was barely paying attention as I looked down at Ray. "That's something you'll learn once you shake that horribly depressive chip off your shoulder" I lent down closer to Ray as he sounded like he was choking.

"So that's why you're keeping me around?" Stefan asked but I was focused on Ray seeing blood coming out of Ray's eyes. "To witness my attitude adjustment?" Stefan went on as I sat beside Ray and grabbed his face turning it to me.

"You'll know why I'm keeping you around when I've decided that I want you to know" Nik replied as I frowned at Ray.

"Nik, somethings not right" I spoke up and he looked down before leaning down and grabbed Ray's face out of my hands inspecting him for himself and Stefan soon joined us.

"You said it was going to feel better" Ray spoke up still shaking clearly his body was rejecting the transition. "Why doesn't it feel better?" he looked up at Nik who'd stood and had crossed his arms in thought.

"Some master race" Stefan remarked.

"Lose the attitude" Nik snapped back right as the first girl he killed woke up with a gasp looking around confused. "Derek, come feed your girlfriend" the compelled human stood and just as Nik was about to reopen his wound Ray growled and took off. "Go get him" he nodded to Stefan who did as he was told and I followed not trusting him.

Stefan charged at Ray knocking him over and just as I reached him to help hold Ray down I heard the crutch of fangs through flesh and my eyes widened as Stefan grunted out an ow and let Ray go and I saw the bite wound on his arm before Ray started running again, I frowned at Stefan before I began to chase after Ray.

"We'll he seems fine now" I remarked as I followed him through the trees and rammed myself into him knocking him over but didn't tackle him. "Come on Ray, you really don't want to do this do you?" I asked him as he got up and began circling me with a murderous look on his face. "You're not holding a grudge over the whole torture thing are you?" I sniggered and he charged at me but I cartwheeled past him. "I guess you do" I stated as he took off again and I was on his tail.


Third Person's POV

Stefan stood on the hill watching in shock at what he'd just seen and heard from down the hill, he couldn't believe that Damon hadn't listened to him and that he'd brought Elena this close to Klaus.

"Where did he go?" Klaus asked from behind him.

"He uh, he got away" Stefan quickly replied and walked away from the hill so that Klaus didn't come any closer and see what he had. "Forget him, let's go" he walked past Klaus but he caught his arm and the two stared down at the already worsening bite on Stefan's forearm.

"A fatal werewolf bite, ouch" Klaus smirked up at Stefan.

"Yeah, I'm gonna need your blood to heal me" Stefan replied.

"Well I'll tell you what, you find Ray and then I'll heal you" Klaus argued with him.

"You can't be serious" Stefan scoffed.

"You better hurry, cause that bite looks nasty" Klaus confirmed than started walking off but quickly stopped. "Where's Sophia?"

"She followed him"

"Well send her my way once you take over, we wouldn't want her bitten now would we" he replied then returned to the camp to see the rest of the werewolves were beginning to wake up.


Sophia's POV

"I love a good chase but I'm growing tired of his wolf chase, Ray" I called out into the woods as I stopped and looked around, he couldn't have moved that fast with the way he looked. "Come on Ray, you're a werewolf, I'm a big-bad vampire...come out and we'll make it quick" I smirked to myself goading him but before I could enjoy the snide remark I felt something hit me from behind and knock me to the ground, I growled flipping our positions instantly seeing Ray. "About time Raymond, let's get you back-" before I knew it I was thrown off and I felt fangs digging into my shoulder. "NO!" I screamed pushing him off and he flew backwards into a tree before taking off and I sat up lifting a hand to my neck pulling it away blood coating my fingers.

"Sophia!" I heard Stefan call out as he ran into view and I stood up as he finally reached me and put his hand on my shoulder seeing the bite wound. "Get back to Klaus, he'll heal you and I'll find Ray" he told me and went to leave but I stopped him seeing the bite on his arm was already getting worse.

"You need to get back too, he'll heal you"

"I have to find Ray, I'll be okay just go" he told me then disappeared and I sighed before speeding back to the campsite.

"Nik!" I exclaimed as I made it back and he turned towards me.

"Luv, what's wrong?" he asked as I walked towards him, already my vision was evading me and going blurry, the bite on my neck burning as it festered and worsened the more I exerted myself...this is how Damon felt. "Sophia-" I practically threw myself into his arms. "Your bit"

"I tried Nik, I tried to bring him back for you" I told him as he sat down on the rock with me laid across his lap.

"Drink my love" he told me as he lifted up his wrist and held it near my face and I wasted no time grabbing his arm and bit down letting his blood drain into my mouth as he stroked my hair with his other hand. "That's it" I closed my eyes relishing in the emotions flowing through us from this act, blood sharing between vampires was extremely personal and never done lightly, Nik and I have only done it a handful of times and this time it was to save my life but that didn't change how sensual it was. "Atta girl" he pulled his arm away and I let my eyes open staring up at him and he stared down at me before he leaned in and kissed me.

It wasn't a fast, deep or passionate kiss, it was slow and sloppy but it was emotion filled, neither one of us was kissing in lust, this was a love kiss and I felt that coming from Nik as deeply as I felt my love for him myself both of us letting every bit of the love we felt for each other be felt.

I sighed deeply as we pulled apart and I smiled up at him before my eyes finally turned away and finally noticed all the corpses surrounding us, all of them covered in blood and my eyes widened.

"What happened?" I asked sitting up feeling my strength coming back to me, I was a little concerned how Stefan was feeling right now since he'd been bitten longer than I had been.

"It didn't work" Nik replied and I turned to him seeing he'd picked up one of the discarded beer bottles and had begun to drink from it, thank god we couldn't catch diseases since that wasn't sanity and I frowned getting up and kicked over one of the werewolves, the girl that had been first turned after Ray and she had also bled from her eyes and I noticed the lack of heart in her chest as it sat not far away from her...Nik must have had to kill her since it was clear they weren't stable.

I heard a heavy grunt and turned seeing Stefan walking back into camp and he dropped Ray's motionless body to the ground and frowned already gathering that he hadn't been able to bring him back alive which left none of them, the entire pack was dead and Nik had failed in creating more hybrids.

"They went rabid" Nik spoke up and I turned seeing him looking at Stefan who was holding his hand over his bite wound. "Some of them I killed, the others just...bled out" I turned and looked at the carnage again. "In the end...they're all dead" he added before he turned and threw the beer bottle at a tree screaming and I flinched as it shattered and as he yelled out again. "I did everything I was told!" he screamed turning to face us again and I frowned hating seeing him like this. "I should be able to turn them, I broke the curse, I killed a werewolf, I killed a vampire, I killed the doppelganger" he stated before he looked up at Stefan. "You look like hell"

"Last I checked I'm dying and you don't want to heal me" Stefan replied and I frowned turning to Nik since why the hell didn't he want to heal him but he looked down at Ray. "I had to take him out, I didn't have a choice, I failed you I'm sorry" Stefan added before he walked to stand in front of Nik. "Do what you have to do?" my head snapped up to look at him before my eyes found Nik's and my frown deepened at the look he was giving me, he was testing me...looking in my eyes to see what I wanted to do and I looked down since I didn't want Stefan to die.

"It should have worked" Nik said before he turned and for a moment I thought he was leaving and wasn't going to heal Stefan but he stopped picking up one of the empty beer bottles and turned back to Stefan staring at him before I let out a soft sigh of relief when he bit his hand and drained his blood into it. "Bottoms up" he told Stefan as he held out the bottle for him and I sighed starting to walk since I shouldn't have cared but I did and I hated myself for it, my humanity was haunting me letting my brothers back in despite my best efforts not to care. "We're leaving" Nik said before I heard his footsteps begin to follow me but he stopped. "It appears you're the only comrade I have left" I looked over my shoulder seeing him looking at Stefan before I kept walking wanting to get away for just a minute to get a hold of my damn thoughts and emotions but I couldn't and I turned to Nik when he fell into step with me.

"Thank you" I told him and he turned to me. "I still hate my brothers but thank you for saving them, I never thanked you for Damon so I'm thanking you now"

"No problem my love" he smiled and wrapped his arm over my shoulders. "We both know how hard it is to deal with family" I smiled back up at him since he did know how I felt and it's why Nik and I were perfect for each other, we were so alike.