Sophia's POV

I woke up immediately feeling the cold bed beside me and lifted my head to see Nik's side of the bed empty which made me frown as I sat up holding the sheet to my naked body before I burst out laughing when I noticed the feathers covering the bed.

I threw my hands down making them all fly up before grabbing Nik's pillow and saw that it had a hole in it which is what's responsible for all the feathers and smiled as I recalled last night getting a bit wild and now that Nik couldn't bite me without the whole toxic bite he had bitten into the pillow instead.

"I heard your laughter, it's not funny" I looked up seeing him leaning against the doorway to our room with just his pants on.

"You know you can just bite me right, it's not as if I can't immediately cure myself with your blood" I smirked getting off the bed and walking towards him leaning up to wrap my arms around his shoulders but he didn't smile.

"I don't want to hurt you" he protested.

"We've blood shared during sex before Nik, it wouldn't be any different" I told him laying my head on his chest as he finally wrapped his arms around me. "I like it wild and even more now when your wolf side takes over, it's sexy" I smirked at him and he finally smiled so I lent up and kissed him chastely. "I'm gonna have a shower"

"Yes you should, you've got feathers in your hair" he chuckled and I reached up into my hair and noticed I did have a few feathers stuck in my hair.

"Those were brand new pillows by the way" I scolded him as I headed for the bathroom hesitating by the door to the adjoining bathroom attached to our room. "That was an invitation earlier" I smirked as I headed in and hopped into the shower hearing Nik follow like a puppy making me smirk as I repressed the urge for a dog joke.

An hour later we were dressed and downstairs where Nik had Rebekah placed in her coffin and I frowned once again saying goodbye to her since who knows when he'll pull the dagger out now.

"Sweet dreams Rebekah" he told her and I hoped they could still have dreams and that they were sort of at peace but given how Kol explained it, it never seemed like it was. "Show her to her room, would you love?" he informed one of his hybrids, Mindy.

"Sure" she nodded and wheeled the coffin out of the room.

"I'm surprised you're still in town" I looked up turning my head to see Stefan and glared at him. "I gave you your freedom you could go anywhere"

"I live here Klaus" Stefan spat back.

"Well if we're playing this game, then I was here first" I scoffed laughing a little at Nik's childish reply.

"You know, I don't like your hybrids friends they are everywhere, kind of like flies I want them gone"

"Yeah, well I kind of like having them around" Nik argued and I leant against the wall watching them go back and forth. "You know I'm hurt, I hoped that when I free you we pick where we left off but here you are guzzling vervain like the rest of them, I'm sure" Nik added pouring himself another drink. "So much for friendship"

"Friends don't strip friends of their free will" Stefan argued.

"Okay granted that was a little extreme but I get a little moody just ask your sister" I rolled my eyes at Nik.

"Or any of his siblings" I added with a smile since they always had the most colorful things to say about him and Nik turned to look back at me before he looked back to Stefan.

"Speaking of whom, isn't time you hand them over?" he asked Stefan.

"Klaus, get your hybrids out of Mystic falls or I will remove them myself"

"You see, if you continue to threaten me, I'm gonna be forced to retaliate, kill people and it will get messy again"

"Do whatever you want, I don't really care or you know what maybe I do, maybe I care so much that I'll drop Elijah in the Arctic" Stefan threatened and I glared at him standing upright since if so much even touched any of them he'll be dealing with me.

"Well maybe I'll be willing to lose one brother if it means killing yours" Nik bluffed or I hopped it was a bluff.

"Try me, let's find out" Stefan smirked knowing he had the upper hand and it honestly annoyed me that he knew that and was calling Nik's bluff.

"Is everything ok?" Mindy asked coming into the room.

"Everything is fine Mindy, Stefan was just leaving after failing to make his point" Nik told her but what happened next was surprising as Stefan wasted no time in proving his point by decapitating Mindy with a saw from the table nearby.

"Well one down you may want send the rest of them away before it gets messy, again" he smirks dropping the saw he'd used back onto the table before walking out and I went to follow him but Nik caught my arm.

"I'm gonna kick his ass" I glared at him ripping my arm out of his grasp and moved to leave but he sped in front of me.

"Leave Stefan to me" he told me and I frowned.

"He's off the rails Nik and he's not going to stop but we're not backing down because I refuse to be waiting around for him to get bored this useless revenge plot before we get the coffins back"

"Your going off the rails love, your not going after your brother alone" he replied and I huffed.

"I can handle my little brother"

"I don't care, I won't lose you if you walk tight into a trap" I frowned since it would be like my damn brothers considering they've locked me up before. "We still have a plan B before you go off love"

"Fine" I sighed rolling my eyes and moved to the bottle of alcohol he'd had and drank straight out of the bottle as the workers and hybrids start to arrive and they cleaned up the mess that my brother left us with.

"What do you want me to do with her head?" a hybrid asked holding up a bloody cloth with Mindy's head in it.

"Just get rid of it, burn it, I honestly don't care Daniel" Nik told him and the hybrid walked out with it.

"You called I'm here" Tyler announced as he walked into the room. "What happened?" he asked pointing to the pool of blood I was currently mopping up but really I think we ought to just replace the floor boards.

"What happened is Stefan had two paths in front of him and he chose the one that made me angry, I need you to help me to do something about that" Nik told him.

"Can't you just leave me out of it?" Tyler asked

"What would be the point of that?"

"Seriously man, can't you just ask another hybrid to do the work, I lost my friends, my girlfriend-"

"Right your girlfriend about her, I need you to bite her"

"What?" Tyler exclaimed.

"Don't make me repeat myself" Nik snapped impatiently, he was in a mood again.

"A hybrid bite would kill a vampire" Tyler argued and I scoffed since we weren't stupid.

"Yeah, I know exactly what it will do, Stefan pushed me too far so I'm pushing back.

"I'm not biting Caroline" Tyler insisted.

"Tyler, I've been supernaturally blessed for the good fortune of a sire bond to you, so one could consider me to putting your undying loyalty to a test"

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Tyler spat stepping up to get in Nik's face. "I'm not hurting Caroline" he insisted but he wouldn't have much of a choice, the sire bond will make him do it whether he wanted to or not.

"Alright I'm disappointed but you know it's your choice, free will and all that, I'll find another way to strike on Stefan, you can go now" Tyler frowned and left.

"Don't tell me that was plan B?" I questioned him and he frowned which pretty much answered my question. "Great, well plan C then, put something nice on" I told him before walking out not letting him say anything as I went upstairs and started going through the closet for something to wear finally settling on a black skirt, a red top that hung off my shoulders with thin straps to help hold it up before grabbing some boots and went into the bedroom to fix up my make-up adding a but of a darker red smokey eye and red lipstick.

"You want to tell me the plan love?" Nik asked as he walked into the room heading straight for the closet.

"There's a fundraiser event tonight, you're going to charm the hell out of the mayor and get the humans on our side" I smirked putting the final touches to my make-up before I turned and put on my heeled boots on as he came out in a new shirt and vest making me smile.

"You're a genius"

"So I've been told" I smirked at him as he walked up to me and leant down to kiss me but I held up my hand. "You'll ruin the make-up and we don't have time to get caught up in sex" I stood and smiled when I reached above his shoulder.

"You look beautiful"

"You look pretty handsome yourself" I smiled at him before pressing a quick kiss to his cheek smirking as I left a lipstick stain behind before I walked out of the room. "Come on Niklaus" I sang as I headed down the stairs and heard him quickly start following as we left getting into the car and headed for the fundraiser.

We walked right in with this being a town owned building and started walking around with my arm linked through Nik's smiling being the happy couple and Nik even made a donation pledging to match every dollar raised before he pulled me over to Mayor Lockwood sucking up majorly making me smile at him.

"You know when I think of a mayor I think of an old fuddy-duddy but you really have changed my perception" Mrs Lockwood smiled taking in all the attention and compliments straight to her ego.

"Oh…thank you"

"What color are your eyes?" Nik asked her still going.

"They're blue"

"Look at what the cat dragged in" I looked up my eyes falling on Damon coming towards us. "Nice vest" he commented looking at Nik before his eyes turned towards me. "Little short, don't you think?" I scoffed and rolled my eyes at me.

"I take that as a compliment Damon" I retaliated.

"Carol and I were discussing whether you would be tonight's other big benefactor" Nik cut in glaring a little behind a smirk towards Damon.

"What do you say Damon, Klaus and Sophia have made a generous pledge, you know how we're chomping at the bit to begin the renovation" Carol added.

"Hmm" Damon mumbled and I rolled my eyes seeing the look on his face before he turned to Carol. "Carol, don't take this the wrong way but do you realize you've been kissing the ass of an immortal hybrid and his mistress that ruined your son's life?" I glared at him for calling me a mistress and I felt Nik's hand tense around mine adding his own glare towards my twin brother.

"Oh come now, some might say I saved it what with that nasty full-moon business" Nik replied then turned to Carol. "I never had to go through it myself more than twice to be honest but still I'm very sympathetic" I scoffed seeing Nik's blue eyes trying to appear sympathetic.

"Klaus has promised to protect Tyler, Damon" Carol said looking at Damon. "And our town"

"From who, his hybrids are the ones this town needs protection from" Damon argued.

"Well I'd have no use for them if your brother would kindly return my family" Nik replied.

"Not gonna happen" Damon argued once again.

"Which is why we've come to an agreement with the mayor, you and the council stay out of our hair, we'll stay out of yours" I replied with a sadistic smile at him.

"Your town gets protected, my hybrids get left alone and everybody will be happy" Nik added taking a step towards Damon. "All you have to do is to get Stefan to stop decapitating my friends"

"Please Damon just get your brother under control or the council will be forced to take action against him" Carol said and I frowned a little since no bloody council was taking action against Stefan before we did.

"You've gotta be kidding me" Damon responded looking at her.

"Oh come on Damon, give peace a chance" I replied while giving Damon look before he walked off so I turned to Nik with a smile. "I could use a drink, I'll be back shortly" I told Nik before I walked off to the bar. "Champagne please" he nodded placing a flute on the bar then poured some champagne into it. "Thank you" I smiled taking it then started walking through the party sharing a few mindless greetings as I made my way back towards Nik but frowned when I saw Stefan heading up the stairs and the light reflected off a knife in his hand.

I immediately put the glass down on a table and rushed up the stairs as humanly possible without vampire speed just in time to see Damon pulling Stefan off Daniel, one of Nik's hybrids and I rushed over to him glaring up at them as the argued not even noticing me before Stefan stormed off angry at the thwarted attempt to kill another hybrid and Damon finally looked down seeing me crouching next to Daniel checking him over glad to see that he was okay.

"You need to control your brother Damon" I snapped glaring up at Damon.

"Do you really believe yourself, that you don't care about us?" he argued and I stood up pushing him against the wall.

"I don't care about you Damon" I bit at him.

"Keep telling yourself that Sophia but I saw your face down there when Carol mentioned the council taking action against Stefan-"

"Yeah because if anyone is going to kill him it's going to be me, he stole my best friend"

"Your best friend?" he questioned but I just glared at him before grabbing Daniel and flashed away out to Nik's SUV leaning him against it then gently tapped his face to get him to wake up and he finally did after a couple seconds.

"Stay out of sight…" I told him and slipped the keys into his hand before I stood upright and headed back into the party to look for Nik in order to tell him what just happened but frowned when I saw him and Damon heading into a room so I ran forward and pushed my way into the room ready to tell Nik.

"Stefan just grabbed Elena" Damon said before I could say anything and I raised an eyebrow towards him since that was a little surprising, although I guess he was off the rails.

"Well he's getting desperate" Nik replied smiling a little before he leaned down and breathed in some of the flowers in a vase on the table.

"He's gonna try and use her against you, do what he says get rid of your hybrids" Damon argued and I glared at him.

"Or what?" I spoke up crossing my arms over my chest.

"Stefan would never dream of killing her" Nik added.

"Sure about that, he tried to behead someone in the middle of the council party he's operating on crazy right now" Damon replied.

"Well crazy or not, that kind of love never dies" Nik said and I saw him smiling over at me making me smile back before we turned back to Damon seeing him roll his eyes at our interaction. "He's bluffing"

"Maybe he is, maybe he isn't but if you don't want to believe him believe me" Damon argued walking right up to Nik and got right into his face. "I know my brother better than anyone and right now I don't have a clue how far he's willing to take this so if he says 'blink' I suggest you blink" Nik glared at him before walking out and I followed him as we walked outside but his phone rang and he pulled it out answering it.

"Stefan how nice to hear your voice"

"Tell you hybrids to get out of town Klaus" Stefan spoke up straight away, no time for pleasantries.

"Well that's not gonna happen until I get my coffins back" Nik argued.

"Okay well then I'm gonna drive your blood source of Wickery Bridge" Stefan replied and I huffed since he wouldn't do that.

"I don't believe you Stefan, you won't kill her" Nik said and it was silent for a few seconds before we heard Elena scream and the sound of a small struggle before she started coughing.

"What are you doing?" we heard Elena ask him.

"What's going on?" Nik asked with a small amount of anger settling into his voice.

"I just fed her my blood, no more hybrids if she's a vampire" Stefan exclaimed and my eyes widened since I never thought he was the type to take away her choice like that, he was bluffing he had to be.

"You won't do it" Nik seethed.

"Really, try me?" Stefan argued and Nik met my eyes. "Because your coffins are next to go" he exclaimed and we heard the car speed up. "Say goodbye to your family Klaus"

"Stefan slow down…Stefan!" we heard Elena scream and even from here I could hear the fear in her voice which told me it wasn't a trick, Stefan was actually doing this. "Stefan stop it!"

"Fine I'll send them way, you win" Nik spat out and even my eyes widened in shock but it didn't sound like the car was slowing down.

"Stefan…Stefan stop!"

"Stop the car Stefan!" Nik exclaimed and finally heard the screeching of the tires coming to a stop and Elena's scream before Nik hung up.

"He's gone insane" I spoke as we walked towards the car. "If anyone had done that to me I'd have killed them" he turned to me and I realized how he took that. "The feeling was mutual for me, I drank your blood willingly remember, I chose to spend eternity with you" I grabbed his hand squeezing it before we got in the car and went back to the mansion but saw Tyler sitting on the front step and as soon as we got out of the car he shot up and started rambling about how he bit the Caroline just like Nik had ordered him to before Nik sent him home feeling guilt ridden.

"I'll be back love" Nik said and I frowned knowing exactly what he was about to do.

"No, I'll do it" I pulled out my necklace which still held the vial with his blood on it and he looked down at it.

"That's for you" he protested but I just smiled.

"I have the real thing" I argued and he smiled back stepping closer. "I'd rather go then have some blonde baby vamp sample what's mine straight from your veins, only I get to do that" I shot at him and he smirked.

"Jealousy's never looked so sexy"

"I am not jealous" I argued rolling my eyes at him.

"Alright then love" he suddenly agreed and I raised an eye since that was out of character. "Changing my mind in 5, 4, 3, 2..." I smirked leaning up kissing his cheek before I vamp sped away going to the Forbes residence since we had made it our business to know where all Elena's friends lived and knocked on the door watching as Elena's only human friend Matt Donovan answered the door.

"Tyler came to see us, poor boy seemed quite distressed he said Caroline had a terrible accident" I spoke up straight away.

"Klaus made him do this to her" he snapped back at me and I fought not to glare at the disrespect. "He would have never done something like this"

"I'm here to help Matt" I argued and held up the vial for him to see. "I have Klaus's blood, it will heal her just ask the Sherriff to invite me inside" I added seeing Caroline's mother come into the hallway.

"I know how this game works" she spoke up as she walked towards the door. "You want something in return"

"Just your support" I argued shaking my head since we had the mayor on our side, having her agree to back us instead of my twin would just be icing on the cake.

"Come in" she finally replied and I smiled a little at Matt before I entered the house heading straight for the room in which she'd come out of and saw Caroline lying in the bed looking pale and sickly as she looked up.

"Are you going to kill me?" she asked and I turned seeing all the birthday cards on her side table.

"On your birthday, you think I'm that heartless?" I asked trying to avoid smirking.

"Yes" she bit back immediately, I huffed before I moved closer to her and removed the towel which was covering the bite mark on her neck.

"That looks bad" I pointed out. "Klaus sends his apologies but you're what's known as collateral damage, it's nothing personal" I added then saw her charm bracelet, it was cheap and tasteless which made me smile remembering the diamond bracelet in which Nik had gotten me for my last birthday a few months ago, we were hunting werewolves at the time. "I used to love birthdays"

"Aren't you like 200 or something?" she asked and I smiled a little.

"You ought to adjust your perception of time when you become a vampire Caroline, celebrate the fact that you're no longer bound by trivial human conventions, you're free" I told her since that's my perspective on becoming a vampire since it had freed me from everything humanity was offering me, a loveless marriage, an abusive father and backstabbing brothers.

"No, I'm dying" she argued.

"And I could let you die..." I told her huffing a little since I'd like to let her die but standing here now I couldn't help see a tiny bit of myself in her and for that I would gladly give her the same choice to live just as Nik had given me. "...if that's what you want if you really believe your existence has no meaning but I'll let you in on a little secret Caroline, there's a whole world out there to be explored and you can have all of it, a thousand more birthdays, find the thing that consumes you completely...all you have to do is ask" I smirked holding up the vial of Nik's blood showing it to her.

"I don't wanna die" she cried and I smiled at her as I unscrewed the cap and lowered it to her lips tipping it into her mouth watching as she drank it down.

"Happy Birthday Caroline" I told her before I turned and walked out leaving the Forbes residence.

I headed back to the mansion walking in and headed for the kitchen where I grabbed a blood bag from the fridge and pulled the top off pouring it into a glass before I grabbed it and went upstairs into the bedroom freezing when I saw the bed and floor surrounding it covered in red roses with scented candles lit all around the room.

"Hello love" I smiled feeling him behind me and he wrapped his arms around my waist.

"What's all this?" I asked leaning back into him as he took the glass of blood from my hands and placed it down before he spun me around.

"This is me spoiling and reassuring my wife that I am hers" I smiled moving my arms around his shoulders.

"We both know you know how to spoil a woman" I crooned a hairs breath away from his lips smiling at him as he grabbed my hips and pulled me up wrapping them around his waist and he sped us towards the bed where he showed me exactly who I belonged to and I showed him who he belonged to.


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