Sophia's POV

Nik and I spent majority of the day re-snapping Stefan's neck and to say I enjoyed it was an understatement while we scoped our way through town, I kept thinking I was gonna run into Damon but he was nowhere to be seen which was a relief but I did see his drinking buddy at The Grill and I thought about terrorizing him just for the sake of it but we discovered my little brothers secret with the thankful trick of vamp hearing to I couldn't help feel ticked off since how many times did we have to take care of this doppelganger problem.

We waited until nightfall since all over town we've been hearing the teenage population mention a senior prank night which Nik figured was the best time to do this which I didn't complain since I got to keep snapping my brothers neck.

"Split up and whoever finds the doppelganger, gets to kill her when we get our answer" I smirked at Nik.

"Who put you in charge?" he smirked as we headed into the school.

"I did, my plans always work better anyway" I told him before I headed off in a different direction and I began to search the halls watching out for any pranks these stupid teenagers had already rigged as well as the useless mindless halfwit teens moving about looking and listening out for any sign of the doppelganger but suddenly my phone buzzed and I pulled it out seeing a text from Nik.

I win!. Meet me in the gym love – My Lover, I glared at my phone screen since I wasn't gonna hear the end of this one for a while and headed for the gym walking in to see it filled with teenagers all laying out cups which covered nearly the entire floor and some were filling them up with a liquid and I raised my eyes since if this was a prank it made no sense.

Damon and I used to pull pranks on each other all the time growing up and a lot of the time it got so out of hand that Stefan, the maids and accidently our father had been collateral damage but god they were fun...at least until they got out of hand and father found out and punished us for the childness of it but it was a yearly tradition between us...until Katherine.

"Attention seniors, you have officially been busted prank night is over head on home" Nik called out finally entering the gym and I scoffed laughing a little as once again he pulled an American accent but at least this time it was semi-decent. "You two, I remember you" he said stopping two teens.

"I'm sorry, who are you?" the girl asks him.

"Oh, don't worry I wasn't in my right head last time we met" he replied then made eye contact with her. "Lift your foot up please, Dana" he compelled her then turned to the boy. "If she drops her foot Chad, I want you to beat her to death, understood?" he compelled him.

"Don't Klaus, you don't have to hurt anybody"

"Oh come on love of course I do" Nik argued and I smirked.

"At least you pulled off a half-decent American accent this time" I spoke up as I made my way towards him and he looked up.

"There you are my love" he smirked smugly as he held Elena close to him. "Seems I won"

"Yeah well I still get to kill Katherine since you lost that bet" I smirked back at him and Elena's eyes widened as if she couldn't believe we had actually bet on their lives. "Hello again Elena" I smiled wickedly at her and she frowned as the girl stumbled behind me struggling to keep her foot up.

"Keep it up" Nik warned her.

"Where's Stefan, what did you do to him?" Elena asked.

"Stefan's on a time out" I told her with a smirk right as the doors open and I watched as the teen witch Bonnie and some guy enters.

"Bonnie, get out of here!" Elena yells out a warning but Nik speeds into her way stopping her and I move closer to Elena to make sure she doesn't get any ideas about running.

"Ah, I was wondering when you'd show up now we can get started" Nik smiles at her before he looks at Dana. "Ah Dana, why don't you relax, you and Chad sit tight" he told them before he looks back at Bonnie. "I assume you're the reason Elena's still walking around alive?"

"That's right, if you want to blame someone blame me"

"Oh there's no need for blame love, just your witchy interference seems to have caused some undesirable side effects and since you caused the problem, I'm going to have you find the fix" Nik told the witch right before Rebekah enters with the werewolf Nik was originally using for the sacrifice.

"Get off of me!" he growled out fighting against her hold even if it was pointless.

"Hush now" Bekah told him making me smile.

"I'd like you all to meet my sister Rebekah, word of warning she can be quite mean" Nik told the others and I rolled my eyes at him.

"Don't be an ass" Bekah glared at him before she throws the werewolf towards Nik.

"Leave him alone!" Elena called out and I scoffed since didn't she learn from the last time that we don't take orders from her...or anyone for that matter.

"I'm going to make this very simple, every time I attempt to turn a werewolf into a vampire hybrid they die during the transition, it's quite horrible actually" he bites his wrist and makes the werewolf drink his blood. "I need you to find a way to save my hybrids Bonnie and for Tyler's sake...you better hurry" he adds before he snaps the werewolf's neck and Elena, Bonnie and the human all stand there shocked while Nik, Bekah and I smile as we walked away and let them stare at their friends body.

"He killed him" the human boy said, his eyes brimming with tears.

"He's not dead, Klaus's blood will turn him into a vampire" Elena argued.

"And if Bonnie's successful, he'll live through his transition, go on then, go and fetch your grimoires and enchantments and what-not" Nik stated walking back up and grabbed hold of Elena's arm again. "I'll hold on to Elena, for safe-keeping" Elena nods to Bonnie and she leaves with human.

"So this is the latest doppelganger, the original one was much prettier" Rebekah said looking at Elena and I laughed seeing Elena glare at her.

"Enough Rebekah, take the wolf boy elsewhere, would you?" Nik tells her and Rebekah takes the werewolf's arm dragging him behind her as she leaves the gym with him. "Just ignore her, petty little thing" he adds leaning into Elena.

"Nik" I warned him and he looked up at me before he lets Elena go again and walks to me as we leave her to console the humans he'd compelled and I rolled my eyes at her while Nik and I walked and sat on the bleachers and watched in amusement. "I cannot wait until that whiny little bitch is dead"

"Don't forget who gets to kill her" Nik reminded me and I rolled my eyes.

"Don't rub it in or I'll start with the dog jokes again" I smirked up at him and he glared at me.

"Don't even think about it" he warned me and I laughed shaking my head a little before we both turned when the doors opened and this time I raised an eye watching as my little brother walked in this time.

"Stefan" Elena breathed out when she saw him

"Klaus" Stefan called looking up at us not even looking at her.

"Come to save your damsel, mate?" Nik asked him with a small glare, I knew he was sore over the fact that the whole summer Stefan had been lying to him and with my memories back I knew how much Nik had hoped that it could've been like the 20's where they were close despite the strain Stefan and I had back then as well.

"I came to ask for your forgiveness and pledge my loyalty" Stefan argued and I huffed since little too late.

"Well, you broke that pledge once already"

"Elena means nothing to me anymore and whatever you ask of me...I will do"

"Fair enough" Nik spoke up and I turned to him surprised. "Let's drink on it" he added and hopped up walking down off the bleachers and pointed towards Dana and Chad. "Kill them" he told Stefan but he hesitated. "What are you waiting for, kill them"

"No Stefan don't, he's not going to hurt me he already said-" Nik backhanded her making me frown as he hit her so hard that she falls on the floor and Stefan rushes over towards Nik, his fangs out but Nik stops him fighting him off and grabbed his throat.

"She means nothing to you, your lies just keep piling up"

"Let her go, I'll do whatever you want you have my word!" Stefan begged.

"Your word doesn't mean much, I lived by your word all summer during which time I never had to resort to this..." Nik argued and I moved forward.

"Nik!" I exclaimed but he ignored me.

"Stop fighting" Nik started to compel Stefan.

"Don't do this, don't do this" Stefan begged him.

"I didn't want to, all I wanted was your allegiance. now I'm going to have to take it"

"Don't...don't..."

"You will do exactly as I say when I say it, you will not run, you will not hide, you will simply just obey" Nik compelled him and I frowned watching it happen, I couldn't believe he just did that and I didn't know how I felt.

"No" I heard Elena breathe out. "Stefan!"

"Now kill them, Ripper" Nik instructed him and Stefan vamps out, rushing over to Dana and kills her ripping open her neck and drinking her dry before he goes on to feed on Chad. "It's always nice to see a vampire in his true element, the species has become such a broody lot" Nik smirked leaning down beside Elena.

"No, you did this to him and Sophia's a diluted bloodline" I glared at her as did Nik.

"I invited him to the party love, he's the one dancing on the table" Nik shot back at her. "And Sophia's one step from pure given I turned her directly from my blood" he added and I smiled at him before Rebekah suddenly enters and rushes toward us.

"Where is it, where's my necklace?" she asks glaring towards Elena.

"What are you talking about?" Nik asks her.

"She has my necklace, look" she gives him a phone and I lean over his shoulder seeing a picture of Stefan and Elena and he zooms it onto her neck where Bekah's necklace is sitting around her neck.

"Well, well more lies" Nik says looking at Stefan as he stands looking at us with blood all over his mouth.

"Where...is it?" Rebekah demands glaring at Elena.

"I don't have it anymore" she replies.

"You're lying!" Bekah yells and she vamps out rushing towards Elena and bites her neck but Nik quickly pulls her off.

"Knock it off!" he yells at her.

"Make her tell me where it is, Nik!" Bekah yells and Nik turns to look at Elena whose holding her hand on over her neck.

"Where's the necklace, sweetheart?" he asks her. "Be honest"

"I'm telling the truth, Katherine stole it"

"Katerina" Nik smirked while I rolled my eyes since doesn't that bitch ever get tired of ruining thing. "Of course, well that's unfortunate if we had the necklace it would make things a whole lot easier for your witch but since we're doing this the hard way, let's put a clock on it, shall we?" he stated then walks over to the gym clock controls and presses something before there's a buzzer sound a 20 minutes timer appears on the board. "20 minutes, if Bonnie hasn't found a solution by then I want you to feed again only this time, I want you to feed on Elena" Nik tells Stefan before smirking at him. "You know you want to"

"No Klaus, don't do this to him!"

"No one leaves, if she tries to run fracture her spine" he points at Elena while instructing Stefan as he grabs my hand and we leave the gym. "Rebekah go back and check up on the wolf will you" she glared at him but did as she was told and left us.

"You compelled Stefan for what purpose?" I asked once she was gone turning to Nik and he turned towards me, eyes narrowing. "I usually wouldn't care but-"

"Don't turn your back on me now love" he warned me and I frowned not sure I liked that since I'd never turn my back on him.

"I wouldn't ever turn my back on you Nik, your everything to me" I reminded him as I followed him since he was walking like he was on a mission. "He's just...stupid when he loves someone and unfortunately he does love Elena, more than he ever loved Katherine I can tell" I sighed since I'd noticed the difference in the way my brother looks at the human doppelganger. "He'll do anything to save the people he cares about, it's his ultimate flaw and clearly it's been heightened with vampirism" he turned to me to say something but we both suddenly heard voices down the halls.

"...It worked, I saw her I saw Vicki"

"You did?" it was the little teen witch.

"She said she had a message for you" that was the human boy.

"For me?" Bonnie asked him.

"From the witch that put the hybrid curse on Klaus, she said that Elena shouldn't have survived Klaus' ritual, the hybrids can't transition because Elena's still alive" the human informed the witch.

"Tyler" Bonnie said coming to the realization that he was going to die.

"He's gonna die, isn't he?"

"I wouldn't be too sure about that" Nik spoke up getting their attention to the fact we'd been listening in on their conversation and they turned seeing us. "Given the choice, doppelganger or hybrid...I go hybrid every time" he smirked at them. "Sophia be a dear and go make sure my werewolf is awake, I have a doppelganger to find" Nik told me and I frowned but he didn't leave me any time to argue as he left and I huffed shaking my head before I went in search of Rebekah knowing she was with the werewolf, Tyler as I now knew his name.

I finally found them in a classroom and he definitely didn't look too good already and I noticed some blonde barbie baby vampire standing behind him trying to soothe his pain but she looked up when I entered.

"Who are you?" she asked and I quirked an eye at her before I looked up at Rebekah.

"The timer go off?" I asked her and she nodded holding up the phone showing the 4 zeros on the screen.

"Excuse me, who are you?" the blonde asked again and I turned back to her.

"Well now that's rude" I spat at her before I started walking towards them and looked at Tyler closely, at least he wasn't bleeding for his eyeballs yet which meant we still had time and Nik clearly figured something out.

"Well the verdict's in, the original witch says the doppelganger should be dead" Nik suddenly says walking into the room and Rebekah gets up seemingly happy with this news.

"Does that mean we can kill her?" she asks him.

"No, I'm fairly certain it means the opposite" he argues and I raise an eye since how did he gather that.

"What?!" Bekah and I both asked him.

"Call it a hunch..." he told us before he held up a test tube containing blood towards Tyler and Rebekah quickly grabs the barbie vampire holding her back "Elena's blood, drink it" Nik told Tyler.

"No, no, no, no Tyler don't!" blondie protested.

"If he doesn't feed he'll die anyway love, consider this an experiment" Nik insists and Tyler stares at the test tube for a short couple of seconds before he finally drinks it. "There we go, good boy" I rolled my eyes since he has a go at me for the dog jokes but my eyes quickly drop as Tyler suddenly falls to the ground screaming as he groans and writhes before he suddenly looks up and I immediately notice his eyes are yellow, he has fangs and veins under his eyes and smile since that was promising. "Now, that's a good sign" Nik smiles pleased with the sight.

With the success we grabbed Elena and left the high school where Nik took her into the hospital and compelled a nurse to take her blood for him while we waited outside, Rebekah was sitting atop a car hood and I leaned against the side ankles crossed and arms over my chest as I stared at the hospital waiting for the blood to be ready so that we could leave this town but I doubt it'd be the last time since now that Nik needed the doppelgangers blood to create hybrid I knew we'd be coming back.

"So the doppelganger isn't the problem, her blood is the solution" Rebekah speaks up.

"Seems so" Nik replied turning back towards us as he'd been staring at the hospital.

"How did you know?" Bekah asked him.

"Well you know how much the original witch hated me, do you honestly think I would do anything other than the opposite of what she says" Nik replied and I frowned since they never told me anything about this original witch other than that she died 1000 years ago and was the one to put the curse on Nik.

"A thousand years in the grave and she's still screwing with you" Rebekah remarked almost seeming to enjoy that.

"Well, it makes sense if you think about it from her perspective, it was her failsafe in case I ever broke the hybrid curse, the doppelganger had 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" I nodded since I got where he was heading with it.

"Leaving me alone for all time" Nik replied and I frowned looking up at him since he wasn't alone, at least not in the last 150 years I'd like to think.

"Is that what this is about, your obsession with hybrids you just don't want to be alone?" Bekah asked him while I just stayed quiet, I wasn't in the mood to get into it right now.

"What I want is to take my girl, take my hybrid, get the hell out of this one pony town" Nik replied and I looked up since for some reason I could tell I was not the 'my girl' that he was talking about, he was taking Elena with him...but then why are we draining her blood and where the hell was I in all that. "You know, why don't you uh...why don't you get the truck?" he quickly said looking at Rebekah. "I'll get Elena" he added and Rebekah slid of the car hood leaving to do as he'd ask before I saw him turn to me. "Why are you so quiet?" he asked me.

"No reason, just I'd like to know where I fit into all this since you didn't mention me once in revealing your grand plan" I snapped at him but before he could answer I felt a familiar feeling, like...something was drawing me to turn around.

"Well, look who finally decided to show up to the party" Nik said and I turned at the same time seeing Damon.

"Where is she?" he immediately asked not even sparing me a glance.

"Elena, ah she's making a donation to a greater cause" Nik replied and Damon goes toward the hospital but Nik stops him.

"I'm afraid I can't let you interfere, mate"

"You'll have to kill me" Damon spat glaring at him.

"Oh, I would love to kill you but 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 car that much anymore" I turned to Nik with a frown confused with what that meant but he suddenly pushes Damon against a car and is about to kill him.

"Nik!" I screamed before I could stop myself and moved towards him.

"Don't want to know about your friend Mikael?" Damon suddenly yelled out and I froze staring at him with wide eyes since how did he know about Mikael.

"What do you know about Mikael?" Nik asked him seemingly to read my mind as he too had frozen at the sound of that name.

"Just that he knows you're here" Damon sang smugly and my eyes widened even further in fear as my hands began to shake and I met Damon's eyes as he seemed to notice my reaction to those words.

"You're bluffing" Nik argued.

"Katherine and I found him, consider it our leverage" Damon replied and I watched and Nik threw him to the ground before he grabbed my arms and sped away with me into the hospital where he grabbed the blood that had already drained out of Elena then sped us away again and when he finally stopped all I could do was sink to the ground and cover my ears as I tried not to sink into panic, he can't find us...not again.

"Sophia love" I heard Nik's voice but I didn't look up.

"He can't be coming, he can't find us again...he can't find you again" I rocked myself back and forth before I felt Nik's hands on the sides of my face removing my hands and forcing me to look up at him.

"He's after me love and I promised you that he'd never get his hands on you again"

"What if my brothers right and he knows where we are, I can't...I can't go through that again"

"You won't my love, you're not leaving my side" he stroked my hair until I was able to calm down as he pulled me into his chest and picked me up with his arms under my legs and around my back carrying me the rest of the way as we made it back to where the truck was parked finding Stefan waiting and I watched on from the car where Nik had placed me as he ordered Stefan to keep an eye on Elena and not let anything happen to her making me frown but one look at my brother and the way he was acting I knew he had his humanity off again.

Nik then came over and got into the car and he started driving with a human driving the truck behind us and I turned watching it but couldn't see Rebekah anywhere and my frown grew as I turned to face Nik.

"Where's Rebekah?" I asked him and he frowned.

"Were hunting werewolves love, I don't want to hear Rebekah's whining so she'll be staying behind and watching my hybrid for me"

I narrowed my eyes a little at him but I couldn't see Rebekah hiking through the wilderness tracking werewolves as she did tend to complain a lot back in the day whenever she got a speck of dirt on her shoes or dress so I didn't argue and just leant my head against the window and watched as Mystic Falls disappeared.

I closed my eyes since I could do with a rest and felt Nik's reassuring hand on my thigh over my own hand so I moved mine to entwine our fingers and smiled just comforted that he hadn't left me behind and let myself actually attempt to get a peaceful rest which was never easy for me especially with the foreboding feeling that Mikael possibly knew where we were once again and could be very well hunting us down.

My eyes snapped open as that thought entered my head and frowned checking all around me quickly before my eyes found Nik's as he looked over at me from the road and frowned since he knew the signs of my paranoia and squeezed my hand a little.

"We're alright love, your brother was bluffing" he tried to reassure me but I frowned since I knew when Damon was bluffing and I couldn't see a single sign of to back up Nik's claim.

"I hope so, I don't ever want to see Mikael's face again" I sighed moving over in my seat so that I could lay my head on Nik's shoulder feeling more comfortable to be in contact with him so I could reassure myself that we were okay and that he was safe...at least for now anyway.