Sophia's POV
Nik actually did what Stefan had demanded and told his hybrids to leave Mystic Falls but I doubted any of them went very far but now that meant that we were now at a stalemate since it's been days and Stefan hasn't made any notion to return the coffins and Nik was getting antsy wanting to strike and get them back, I was also feeling the longing to have them back which lead us to the Salvatore Boarding House letting ourselves in since well...the place was mine just as much as it was Stefan and Damon's.
I immediately knew that we were alone with the fact that neither of my brothers came down so I made myself at home going through Damon's liquor recoiling since they were all laced with vervain which Nik had mentioned that they'd all been drinking it to build a tolerance and to protect against Nik's compulsion which honestly wasn't a bad idea so I poured myself some of the most expensive smelling bourbon and drank it while flipping on the music as loud as it would go before I went over to Nik and took a seat on his lap.
"You know your brother laces that with vervain right" he pointed out and I scoffed.
"My nose told me that" I smirked and hesitantly raised it to my lips taking a sip feeling it burn my throat immediately making me cough. "God that's horrible" I sucked in a deep breath before I turned to Nik seeing him staring down at the floor and knew what he must be thinking. "I've forgiven you Nik but I just...I should start drinking it to protect myself"
"I understand, luv" he smiled at me wrapping his arm around my waist as I placed the glass on the table and turned in his lap leaning my head on his shoulder before I kissed his neck but before we could go even further the front door opened and I didn't even need to look up to know it was Stefan while Nik picked up my glass and drank the rest of it and I frowned at Stefan as he turned down my music.
"What are you doing here Klaus?" Stefan asked and I glared at him for practically pretending I wasn't here.
"Enjoying our stalemate" Nik replied gulping down the last of the liquor in his glass.
"What do you want?" Stefan asked smirking at us.
"Question is, what do you want?" Nik argued glaring up at him. "My hybrids left town as you demanded so please tell me what I need to do to get my family back?"
"Well…ahem see Klaus um…I'm not negotiating" Stefan argued sitting down on one of the chairs across from us.
"And you understand that holding them indefinitely is the same as dropping them in the ocean" I spat back at him with a glare for good measure.
"No, no you two leave Mystic Falls and then give me a call in a few years and we'll talk" he replied and I scoffed.
"I'm going to give you another chance, just one more let's make a reasonable deal" Nik argued before I could say anything to wipe that smirk off Stefan's face.
"Or what?" Stefan goaded leaning towards us in his seat. "You make one move and I will drop-" he cut off when Nik started laughing.
"That's right, crazy Stefan hmm…how's that working out for you?" Nik asked and the smirk slowly started slipping from Stefan's face. "Any friends left?" he added and Stefan backed off sitting back in his seat once more.
"Good to see it's working out for you, we'll see ourselves out" I smirked loving the reaction Nik had gotten from him before I stood with Nik getting up as well and we walked out getting back into the car and decided to stop by the Grill for a drink and Nik called Daniel who was busy out of town dealing with another one of Nik's diabolical plans.
"How's life on the road?" I overhead him ask Daniel as I sat beside him sipping away at my bourbon.
"Scenic, how's life in Mystic Falls without any hybrids?" Daniel asked back.
"Boring…for now" Nik replied and I looked up seeing him smiling down at me and I rolled my eyes having a guess on what he was actually insinuating with those words.
"If you want any of us back just have to say the word"
"There's no need I've been making friends with the town's civil servants, there's a deputy who's awfully chatty but useful nonetheless, you clear on what you need to do?"
"I've got it covered" Daniel replied before the call disconnected.
"Nice to see you cope well without hybrids…or should I say don't cope" I spoke up with a smile. "Hopefully it pays off, I'm getting antsy for my vampire in crime" I smirked and Nik huffed grabbing his own drink. "I know what your thinking, it won't change things between us" I smiled watching as he rolled his eyes but before he say anything his phone went off and he looked down at it with a smile coming to his face.
"Daniel actually came through" I frowned confused but he showed me the text and I realized what had him excited, he'd managed to get the coffins location from the Bennet witches.
We set out to the abandoned witch house walking in heading down into the basement since that's where the coffins were supposed to be but they weren't here despite a lot of candles lit up meaning someone had been here so we continued to search the entire house but they were nowhere to be seen and just as I was about to suggest that we got played we heard someone else come in and when we walked out we saw Damon who was giving us a surprised look seeing us here.
"What took you so long?" Nik smirked at him as we walked further into the room the coffins were supposed to be in again. "Hiding behind your witchy friends and in squalor no less" he added motioning around the filthy room but he suddenly screamed out grabbing the side of his head as the candles flames grew larger.
"Nik!" I ran to his side kneeling beside him and he fought of the god awful witch migraine and given how many dead witches were supposedly haunting this house I was guessing it would be excruciating even for a hybrid as he continued to scream trying to fight it. "Stop it!" I yelled to the room at the witches.
"Insulting a bunch of dead witches, not smart, I made the exact same mistake the first time I came in here" Damon said clearly enjoying this as he laughed and I glared back at him.
"Well you know the funny thing about witches is that living or dead they care about their own" Nik replied and got hit with another force of magic as he grunted pushing the pain back. "A hundred dead witches have thousands of living descendants-" he cut himself off with a scream grabbing the side of his head again.
"Nik knock it off!" I yelled at him.
"And I have no problem killing every last one of them…" he said ignoring me and started to stand despite the pain he was in. "…if I don't get my coffins back, as we speak my hybrid friend is prepared to end the Bennett line" he finished grunting one last time before everything stopped and the candles flames reduced as Damon looked around surprised and disappointed since he so clearly enjoyed that. "Now, please show me the coffins" Nik said after a few seconds looking up towards the ceiling speaking to the witches.
And just like that three coffins suddenly appeared on the ground in front of us and I smiled looking them over as I looked at the subtle differences that told me who was in them, Elijah…Finn…Kol but I looked up at Nik when I noticed one was missing.
"Here we are" Nik smiled counting them and realized the fourth was missing too, the one I didn't know what was in it as it's been sealed by magic for as long as I've known him. "Where's the fourth?" he asked turning back to Damon but he didn't reply so he looked back up. "Show me!" he shouted at the witches.
"Well uh…here's the thing, they can't it's not here" Damon finally spoke up walking past us towards where I guessed the fourth coffin had sat.
"What did you do?" Nik asked walking threateningly towards him.
"Well Bonnie gave me the heads up, I mean I didn't have time to get all four but I did have time to get one" he replied backing up as Nik continued to stalk him and he was moving to avoid Nik.
"I will tear you limb from limb and only then when you're a writhing mass of blood and flesh will I rip your heart from your chest" Nik told him and I frowned moving to my twins back and he sensed me because he turned to face the both of us.
"Sorry, same rules apply…you know leverage and all, I know you want your family back but something tells me you want what's in that coffin a lot more" Damon replied and I bawled my fists because my brothers were really starting to piss me off.
Damon left us with the three coffins so we took them back to the mansion and Daniel returned to Mystic Falls just in time to help bring them into the house lining them up along next to Rebekah's and I smiled moving towards the one I was most looking forward to open.
"You've got your family back finally" Daniel spoke up wheeling in the last coffin…Elijah's coffin. "You gonna open them?" he asked looking at Nik.
"Not quite yet" Nik replied and I looked up with furrowed eyes since I thought that was what he wanted, to reunite the family now that Mikael was no longer hunting us down and he promised me that I'd get to un-dagger Kol. "I still have some unfinished business to take care of" he added walking towards where I was standing and grabbed my hand pulling me to leave the room.
"What business?" Daniel asked him and Nik turned but Daniel suddenly yelled out before dropping to the ground revealing Elijah standing behind him with Daniel's heart in his hand and my eyes widened in shock since neither of us had removed his dagger and for the fact he just killed Daniel for no reason and I kind of liked Daniel, he was one of Nik's only likeable hybrids.
"So Niklaus" Elijah said looking straight at Nik whose eyes had widened in shock and if I didn't know better I would have said held a tiny amount of fear as he stared at Elijah. "What did I miss?" he asked dropping the heart and I frowned as it squished on the ground slowly forming a bloody puddle while we stared at him in shock.
A/N: Apologies for the short chapter but this was mostly just a filler episode.
