Sophia's POV
I woke up early and left with Rebekah since I was helping her clean up the school from the dance feeling like I owed it to her for not realizing that Esther had body snatched her and because I had ignored all the feelings I'd had that something was wrong.
I left Nik to pack up the house since we were really leaving and moving on from this town which I knew Rebekah wouldn't so I was spending the last day with her but we had arrived dead on 8am and no one was here so Beks grabbed a recycle bin and started picking up glasses while I started taking down the decorations and 2 minutes later was when Caroline finally arrived.
"Where's Matt?" she asked us.
"He bailed, got called into work at the last minute" Rebekah replied moving to another table to pick up some cups and bottles.
"Are you kidding me, so it's just us?" Caroline exclaimed, I rolled my eyes and ripped down another banner since this was gonna be a long day.
"Yes and your late" Rebekah snapped back at her. "Clean-up committee started at 8 o' clock"
"It's like 8:02" she argued glancing down at her phone for the time.
"Exactly, we managed to turn up on time and I didn't even get to attend the dance that I organized" Rebekah complained walking to the larger bin to empty out the one in her hand.
"I'm sorry about your Mom" Caroline stated looking at her. "I mean, I know you like hated her and everything but still I'm sorry"
"I'm sorry about your teacher, he seemed like a nice guy" Rebekah replied and I frowned since that was the tragic ending to last night, Esther was killed by Alaric and Alaric's evil alter ego was turned into a vampire weapon but good Alaric chose not to go through with the transition and died last night meaning my twin lost his friend/drinking buddy and I actually felt sorry for him.
"Yeah, he was" Caroline nodded, there was a moment of silence.
"I'm gonna get started on the gym" Rebekah stated before she walked out leaving Caroline and I alone but I suddenly looked up when we we heard something smash out in the hall and I didn't hesitate to speed out at vampire speed seeing Alaric was alive and about to stake Rebekah so I vamped over grabbing him and pulled him off which allowed Rebekah to grab the stake and stab him through the heart but our eyes widened when it didn't kill him, didn't even look like it had any effect.
"Shit" I cursed and we fled in different directions with Caroline following having seen it all, I caught up with Rebekah letting out a sigh when we were both okay but we frowned when we saw Alaric had gotten to Caroline and was currently dragging her back into the school burning up from the sun but he managed to get inside before too much damage. "We are screwed" I pointed out before we hightailed it out of there back to the mansion.
"Alaric Saltzman just tried to kill me!" Rebekah said as soon as we went inside and found Nik packing away his paintings.
"Alaric Saltzman is supposed to be dead" Nik argued.
"Well he's not and he's a vampire thanks to mothers spell with a white-oak stake that can't kill him, he's stronger Nik…too strong" I nodded my head when he turned to get my opinion.
"Where is he now?" he asked us.
"Stuck at the school without a daylight ring" I replied playing with my daylight bracelet.
"But as soon as night falls he'll come after you us, we need to leave now" Rebekah added and I sighed since it was bloody Mikael all over again.
"Fine, I'll collect Elena and we'll be on our way" Nik said and I glared down at my feet biting my tongue since we didn't have time to get the frigging doppelganger.
"Forget Elena, you don't need any more stupid hybrids!" Rebekah spoke up instead and I wished I could say I was thankful but I knew she wouldn't change Nik's mind any more than I could which is why I didn't even try.
"What I need is protection from Esther's continued assaults against us"
"We'll protect each other like we always have" Rebekah shot back at him then walked over to him. "Always and Forever Nik"
"I'm not leaving without her" he persisted and I frowned since he was not just gambling with his own life by staying here, he was gambling with both our lives because I refused to leave him with a stake out there that could take him from me.
"I'm leaving now, you can either walk out that door with me or you are on your own" Bekah said and I frowned looking at her as Nik looked up with a stubborn look on his face. "Fine" Bekah spat then turned to me asking what I was doing with her eyes but I turned back to Nik and she got the picture. "Trust your hybrids over your own family, let your spite be the death of you, see if I care" she added before rushing out of the room pushing Tyler aside in the process.
"What's her deal?" Tyler asked looking at us and I glared at him.
"Go get more boxes" I told him and he frowned but did as I said and left the room before I turned towards Nik. "You know I trust you more than anyone in the world but honestly can you just explain to me why we aren't running"
"I already told you, I need protection and Elena's blood ensures that I can create more hybrids"
"But at what cost Nik, you know my brothers aren't just gonna let you take her and Alaric will be free to roam around by nightfall and knowing our luck you're the first one he'll come after and I can't lose you"
"They don't have a choice" he argued then walked out and I huffed in annoyance before I followed since I didn't really have much choice since I wasn't letting him out of my sight since his death caused mine.
We arrived at the Gilbert residence and he immediately got out and headed for the door ringing the doorbell and we waited until the door opened with Elena's little brother standing behind the door and he glared straight at us.
"What the hell do you want?" he demanded.
"Now is that any way to treat a guest?" Nik shot back just as Stefan comes up behind Jeremy.
"What are you doing here, Klaus?"
"Well for starters, young Jeremy here could show some manners and invite us inside" Nik replied looking towards him.
"Why don't you go up to your room?" Stefan said towards Jeremy just as Damon comes up behind them
"Now" Damon adds and Jeremy scoffs before walking away upstairs.
"Hmm, poor lad loses one questionable father figure only to be replaced by the likes of the two of you"
"Yeah, about that something happened"
"Oh, I know all about my mother's invulnerable little creation, that's why I'm here" Nik cut Damon off before he could tell us that Alaric was alive. "I'm leaving town, just need to pick up a few road trip necessities, spare tire, flashlight, doppelganger" he smirks at them.
"Can't help you there" Damon replies and closes the door on us.
"Bad time for an I told you so" I spoke up but he didn't say anything instead he bends down and picks up the newspaper lying on the front porch before he walks off the porch and I let out a sigh knowing this wasn't going to end well.
I only stood and watched from the porch leaning against the banister near the stairs as Nik paces on the lawn with the newspaper in his hands before he throws the newspaper through the window and I follow it with my eyes to see Damon duck just in time before it goes through shattering the glass and shutters.
"I think you're probably gonna want to let me in" Nik calls out but no sound comes from the house.
"You done yet, can we go?" I ask impatiently but again he refuses to reply and starts walking across the street to a house with a white picket fence around it and I let out a sigh. "Course not" I huffed walking down the stairs going to the lawn and flopped down on the grass staring up at the blue sky and white clouds hearing him come back over and notice the soccer ball and two fence panels in his hand. "Oh this is gonna be messy" I lift my head up to see him kick it towards the front door which sent the door to fly open with splinters and I hopped up as he approached the now open door and threw one of the fence panels in and saw it stick in the wall narrowly missing Damon who ducked.
"Missed me!" Damon called out like a child making me roll my eyes before he broke a piece off the fence panel and threw it back but I was out of it's way and Nik easily dodged it before splitting the one he had left in his hand and threw a piece of it inside. "Missed me again!" I heard Damon yell making me scoff since he calls me immature.
"God Nik, if your gonna do this shit then go all in" I rolled my eyes heading off the porch going over to a neighbors front yard seeing a barbeque and took the gas tank off before I grabbed the newspaper off the porch and held them up. "We can't get in, get them to come out" I smirked as he pulled out a lighter igniting the newspaper and we walked towards the Gilbert house but Stefan came to the door.
"Put it out" he told us and I glared at him for ruining my fun.
"Come outside and make her" Nik smirked but Stefan stepped outside which we hadn't counted on.
"Elena is not here, Alaric has her and Caroline he's gonna kill them both unless you turn yourself over to him"
"God damnit" I huffed since I liked Caroline so I threw away the newspaper and put down the propane tank.
"Now I know you're not asking me to walk into a certain death" Nik protested.
"I really wish we could but unfortunately if Alaric kills you there's a 1 in 4 chance that we die too"
"I'll take those odds" Damon argued coming out of the house with one of the picket fence panels over his shoulder.
"And a hundred percent chance that Tyler and Sophia die" Stefan argued back and Damon turned to meet my eyes since he continued to seem to forget that detail. "Why don't we just figure out a way to put Alaric down?" Stefan suggested.
"Okay, how about Damon sneaks in and distracts Alaric while Stefan grabs Elena and carries her to safety" Nik says and even I roll my eyes since that plan is stupid and would never work.
"Huh that's a great idea, what's to stop me from getting killed instantly?" Damon spits glaring at Nik.
"Nothing" Nik smirks.
"This isn't really helping too much" I cut in over their bickering right as Bonnie walks out of the house.
"I might have an idea" she suggested. "My mom used a desiccation spell on Michael that immobilized him for over 15 years, if I can get it I might be able to use it on Alaric"
"If and might, your words inspire such confidence" Nik argued.
"I'll get it but even with the spell, we need a lot of vampire muscle to take him down, including yours" she argued glaring at Nik with the last bit.
"Just so we're clear, the sun sets in about 8 hours we don't succeed before then, Elena will be dead, Sophia and I'll be gone and the rest of you will be left to fend for yourselves" Nik told them and once again I met my twins eyes seeing a questioning manner in his eyes as if he was asking me if I was planning on leaving with Nik so I just turned and avoided his eyes.
We split up with Damon taking Bonnie to the boarding house to wait for her mother to show up and get the spell while Nik, Stefan and I headed for the school so we can get a clearer picture of what we were up against.
"Abby just showed up" Stefan said as we got out of Nik's SUV.
"Good perhaps this plan won't be an epic failure after all" Nik replied leaning against the front of the car and I stood arms crossed next to him staring up at the school. "You know, if this does go off and we drop the history teacher in the Atlantic I'm still leaving with Elena" Nik added and my frown grew for the reminder that I was gonna be stuck with a doppelbitch.
"I'll go with you" Stefan suddenly replied and I turned back raising my eye at him.
"Really?" Nik asked with a tone of disbelief. "What's the catch?"
"There's no catch, I'd turn my back on everything here to make sure Elena's safe" Stefan admitted and I rolled my eyes since this just kept getting better and better and knowing my idiot twin he'd do the same meaning I'd be forced to watch them repeat this stupid love triangle thing, or perhaps I'll just let Elena die and say...oops sorry I did everything I could.
"And that is what makes you her better option" Nik replied but I rolled my eyes since I doubt Elena would see it that way since she was a two-timing whore.
"It's a shame it's not easier for Elena to see that" I voiced my opinion scoffing.
"She's right, personally I think she's wasting her time with Damon" Nik added and I rolled my eyes since that wasn't what I meant.
"You know all this time and energy you've spent trying to get me and my brother to hate each other it's actually had the opposite effect" Stefan suddenly said making Nik and I turn towards him as Nik laughed sarcastically.
"Has it, has it really?" he asked pushing off the front of the car to stand up straight. "Then perhaps I should let Elena decide which Salvatore joins us being as you and Damon are so close" I glared at Nik since over my dead body was that happening.
"Ah go for it, Damon and I have been through a hell of a lot worse than you" Stefan argued before walking off and Nik turned towards me but I kept my eyes trained on Stefan as I couldn't help feel hurt by what he had said, they were my brothers too but really I was like I didn't exist to them anymore and don't know whether that was my fault or theirs.
I'd always imagined and dreamed of the day that perhaps I'd see them again, more in death but that was beside the point and I thought I'd be happy and throw myself into their arms and we'd feel like a family again, that we'd be the three Salvatore's again...closer than the 3 amigos growing up but I didn't get that and it hurt more than anything which is why I covered it with hostility and anger towards them but really I just wanted my brothers back and how things used to be only to be kidding myself since that was never going to happen.
"Sophia" I looked up brought out of my thoughts by Nik seeing him looking at me.
"Sorry what?" I asked since clearly I missed something he said.
"You alright love?" he asked and I frowned hesitating for a second.
"Yeah just preparing myself for the fight" I smiled to reassure him before I started walking after Stefan hearing him follow behind me and we caught up to Jeremy, Damon and Bonnie on the other side of the school.
"Look at this, one big happy family" Nik said trying and failing to make a joke and I couldn't help smile since he wasn't wrong...well except for the happy part.
"Drink this" Bonnie suddenly said holding up a bottle. "It's my blood, it bridges us all together so when I stop Jeremy's heart you'll have the power to stop Alaric's, you'll have to make a physical connection to his blood stream a vein, an artery something connected to his heart" she explained as Damon took a sip of her blood from the bottle before handing it to Stefan.
"If one of us gets a clean shot take it, the other three hold him down" Stefan added taking his sip then passed it to Nik.
"Before we all walk through these doors let's get on the same page, shall we?" Nik said and I looked up. "I was the one who created your vampire bloodline therefore I am responsible for your lives, and Tyler's life, Caroline's life and of course Abby's life should anything go wrong-"
"Or your just lying to save your own ass"
"He's not lying about me Damon, you saw my death, you know the truth brother" I spat at him with a glare before I took the bottle from Nik and sipped the last of it.
"But go ahead call my bluff about the rest of you, let the teacher kill me, you'll all be dead thereafter" Nik added. "And should any of you allow Sophia to be killed, I will personally see it that you suffer pain worse than death" I smiled towards Nik.
"Let's just get this over with shall we, I've had enough of the heartfelt threats from the original couple of the year" Stefan added and I rolled my eyes as we headed towards the school going inside.
Once inside we all spilt up to find Alaric since the faster we found him and did this then Nik and I could finally leave this stupid little town with or without the doppelganger since I didn't care about Elena and he was coming with me whether he liked it or not since perhaps it's time for me to be the sociopath in our relationship.
I was walking through the halls keeping my eyes and ears out for any sign of Alaric when I saw a flash of blonde hair and moved towards her catching her as she was speeding and covered her mouth before she could scream.
"Relax it's me Caroline" I slowly let her go when I knew she wasn't going to scream and she turned towards me. "Are you okay?" I whispered and she nodded her head. "We're all here, they'll save Elena, you just go home and stay inside, understand?" she nodded her head again.
"Thank you" she whispered before she left and I quickly turned down the hall she'd come from.
"…if you want me dead, then kill me" I heard Elena say so I headed in that direction just in time to see Alaric let her go and frowned in confusion since if he was truly as evil as they said to vampires and vampire sympathizers then why would he back down, I didn't have time to dwell on it long since Damon and Stefan arrived at the right time and they both grabbed one of Alaric's arms each.
"Do it now" Damon grunted trying to restrain him and I moved forward ready to make the connection but Alaric suddenly knocked Damon off straight into me and we went back into the lockers before he snapped Stefan's back. "Soph get out of here!" Damon yelled at me as he pushed me away before going after Alaric but he had grabbed him and gasped when I watched him snap Damon's neck then Alaric's eyes turned to me but didn't get the chance to get near me since Nik chose that moment to arrive.
Nik used Alaric's distraction on me to move in making the connection and I quickly moved in to grab Alaric and hold him but we managed for a total of 30 seconds before Alaric grabbed Nik's hand breaking it and the connection before tossing him to the ground and me aside before heading straight for Nik and had the stake down on him before I had the chance to react or even think about getting up.
"No!" I yelled but Nik grabbed his arms stopping the stake from piercing his heart but he wouldn't be able to hold it, I looked up at Elena and decided to follow a hunch speeding up grabbing her, she gasped but I had my hands ready to snap not caring if I had to finally kill to protect Nik. "Stop!" I yelled and Alaric looked up. "Let him go or I'll kill her" I added letting my veins and eyes show telling him that I was dead serious.
"Your bluffing" Alaric glared up at me.
"Oh yeah try me I've been waiting to kill this bitch for a very long time" he continued to push the stake down towards Nik's heart. "You need her alive so let him go" I said slowly in warning.
"Oh my…there's a reason Esther used me to make you, isn't there?" Elena asked him catching onto where I'd taken this, doppelganger blood is always used for immortality spells. "She didn't want you to be immortal so she tied your life to a human one…mine that way you only have one lifespan to kill all vampires and then you'll be gone" I scoffed at Elena since maybe she actually did have a brain.
"Who knew that Elena Gilbert actually has a brain" I smirked looking back up at Alaric tightening my grip around Elena's neck. "So when she dies, you die too, that's it isn't it" I smirked knowing I'd gotten it right and I was ready to deal with the consequences from my brothers if it meant Nik was safe, that we were all safe.
"You're wrong" Alaric argued glaring up at me but it made too much sense for me to be wrong.
"Am I?" I smirked back and started squeezing as Elena started choking for air.
"Stop, stop, stop!" Alaric said and in his distraction Nik knocked him over speeding towards us and together we whisked Elena away since now she did prove useful, I knocked Elena out as we reached Nik's car quickly getting in and left heading for the mansion.
"How'd you figure that out?" Nik asked as he drove.
"Was pretty easy when I saw him refuse to kill Elena before my brothers stepped in and after everything Esther's gone through to destroy you and your siblings, why would she create another immortal being without having a loophole, every spell has one"
"You really are a genius"
"Always a tone of surprise" I smirked at him before we arrived at the mansion and he carried Elena in tying her to a chair before leaving for a few minutes coming back with a nurse from the hospital who began filling bags with Elena's blood, killing two birds with one stone.
"What are you doing?" Elena asked as she woke up while the nurse you was setting up the needles and bags to collect her blood.
"Draining you of all your blood" Nik replied with a sour look on his face as this supply wouldn't last him long but it was all he was gonna have.
"Elena?" Tyler suddenly asked having walked in the room.
"Tyler" Elena said trying to get loose. "Help me" she added and Tyler dropped the box in his hands and went to help her.
"He can't" Nik said and Tyler stopped. "He needs to go fetch me more empty blood bags about three liters worth Tyler" he added and I watched Tyler looking back and forth conflicted on what to do and raised an eye since that seemed different.
"Tyler please…get Stefan…please" Elena said looking at him.
"No Tyler, get the bags" Nik warned him but Tyler still didn't do it and suddenly went to go to Elena but Nik was up and grabbed his throat stopping him. "Forget the girl and get the bags…now" Tyler seethed but finally turned and walked out of the room but I had a feeling he wasn't going to do it which meant he was no longer sired.
"So that's it, you're just gonna bleed me dry?" Elena asked as Nik walked to stand behind her chair.
"Yes but don't worry it'll be completely painless as the last drop is drawn you'll simply fall asleep" he replied walking back around to stand in front of her.
"What about your hybrids, you'll need more than this to create your army?" she asked looking and sounding weaker already as the nurse swapped out the full bags with empty ones.
"These last few liters will have to suffice" Nik said grabbing one of the bags of blood as the nurse tried to pass him. "You see by attempting to kill us my mother strengthened the bond between my siblings and I, strengthened the love I share with my wife" I smiled at him. "…I don't need hybrids, I have my family"
"If you believe that then why take my blood at all?" Elena asked him. "You want a backup family, you know that your siblings will never trust you again and Sophia has her own brothers she can leave you for" she spat and I glared at her since she knew nothing about me.
"You know Stefan blames Nik for trying to tear him from Damon but I think we both know who really came between them…you" I spat glaring at her. "That's why you won't choose, you know once you pick a Salvatore you'll destroy their bond" I added then sped forward grabbing the armrests leaning down towards her. "Consider this saving my brothers since once you're dead, they won't continue to fight over you, no broken hearts and our family stays intact but just between us girls…who would you have picked?" I asked her with a small smirk.
"Rot in hell" Elena spat out glaring at me.
"Maybe I'll meet you there one day doppelwhore" I replied before standing up right.
"Sweet dreams Elena, it's been fun" Nik added before walking out and as soon as he was gone Elena's tired and drowsy eyes fell on me.
"How can you stand to be with him, turn your back on Stefan and Damon for him?" she asked me barely able to get the words out and I glared at her.
"Don't try and find talk to me about things you know nothing about Elena" I spat at her. "You don't even know the one day of the life I have had nor the relationships that my brothers and I used to have so why don't you just sit there, shut up and go to sleep" I smirked then turned and walked out.
I counted a total of five minutes…thirty three seconds before I heard Tyler make his move knowing he was waiting for Nik and I to leave and he began untying Elena but Nik was always a step ahead and stood behind them stopping Tyler from untying her.
"So much for that sire bond?" Nik said as I appeared behind Tyler.
"I'm not your little bitch anymore" Tyler spoke up and Nik let out a dry laugh walking towards him.
"How did you break the sire bond?"
"By breaking every bone in my body 100 times for the girl I love" he replied.
"That's impossible" Nik argued.
"Is it or maybe real love is stronger than fake loyalty but what would you know about that, since it's clear you don't really love Sophia" I glared at his back since what was with all these teenagers thinking they knew anything about love, their barely 18 years old they don't know the meaning of what it is to love someone, their children with hopeless fantasies.
"You know you should be thanking me, I gave you a gift I took away your misery"
"You didn't give a crap about me, you just didn't want to be alone!" Tyler exclaimed then went over to Elena and picked her up but Nik sped over knocking into them as he grabbed Tyler slamming him against the wall as Elena fell and I saw her head smack against the steps.
"Good bye Tyler" Nik said but Tyler suddenly snapped Nik's arm and I felt myself get thrown back into a wall, a hand wrapped around my throat as Stefan suddenly appeared and created the same connection we'd tried to achieve with Alaric on Nik while Tyler held his arms and Damon was holding me back.
"NO!" I screamed as Nik yelled out in pain. "Damon let me go"
"Sorry no can do little sis" I tried to fight and knocked him aside to run towards Nik but he had recovered and grabbed me again this time arms around my shoulders and hands on my neck ready to snap at any moment.
"Please don't do this!" I screamed begging at this point as my ears trained in on the sound of Nik's heart slowing and his ragged breaths. "Damon please don't do this to me, you know how much he means to me"
"I'm doing this for you Sophie" Damon argued and I stopped fighting when Nik's eyes met mine and I saw the desiccation start rising up his neck.
"Nik" I cried feeling the tears fall down my face as he looked around at everyone involved, betrayal evident on his face. "Nik look at me" I begged him and his eyes met mine again. "I love you, I love you more than anything and no matter what it takes or how long I'll get you back I promise you my love" I smiled at him as I watched a tear slide down his cheek before he was fully desiccated. "YOU'LL ALL PAY FOR THIS-" I felt the sharp snap of my head before everything went black.
Third Person's POV
Damon felt awful since he'd seen the love his sister had for the hybrid dick, he knew that he had saved his twin sister when he hadn't but they had to do this not only for her own good but for all of them and when she started her threat he had snapped her neck since he didn't want to feel worse about what they did and he gently laid her down on the floor before he went towards Elena helping her stand up while Tyler lowered Klaus's motionless body to the ground.
"We should get her home before the sun sets" Stefan said turning to Damon who was holding onto Elena's arm to keep her upright but was staring down at the two unconscious vampires laying on the floor, their hands barely an inch from the others looking like a weird twisted Romeo and Juliet stage scene.
"Get her home brother, keep her detained"
"The cellar?" Stefan asks but Damon shakes his head.
"Pack her up into the car, keep snapping her neck if you have to but it's time to welcome our sister home properly and get rid of our original hybrid brother-in-law" he states before he takes Elena's hand and walks her out of the house leaving Stefan to look down at his sister.
He knew how Damon felt but he had memories of Sophia in the 1920's and had seen the connection she had with Klaus so he knew that no matter what they tried she was never going to stop fighting to get him back, Damon had a weak spot and he didn't blame him since Sophia was his twin it was a different connection to what Stefan had with his older sister so he was never going to drop his guard knowing that this wasn't over.
A/N: Thank you 'ChocolateGal16' for reviewing the past few chapters they've been amazing and motivational especially since I've been dealing with some health issues and I apologize for the infrequent updates since I've been in and out of hospital but I'm better and will try and continue with more updates.
