Sophia's POV

The next morning things just got even worse when Damon filled me in on the knowledge that the hunter ambushed Tyler Lockwood in the hospital and highjacked him of his venom which had me rolling my eyes since he was seriously the most incompetent hybrid ever to have even allowed it to happen but this hunter was proving nothing but resourceful which was concerning.

I came down the stairs after showering and changing finding Damon approaching the front door and watched as he opened it showing Stefan who was tinkering away with a motorcycle and I raised my eyes in appreciation since it was a T-100 Triumph and I approved.

"Good day for a midlife crisis, 164 years I'd say you're due" Damon spoke up making me snigger a little while Stefan sits down on the motorcycle.

"Elena's transition to vampire has been a little depressing, I'm gonna help her have some fun" Stefan replies and I scoff rolling my eyes since seriously she should just get over it it wasn't the end of the world.

"Oh...those who can't do, teach" Damon jokes and Stefan chuckles sarcastically.

"Oh I see we're still fighting, got it" Stefan replies and I roll my eyes since was there ever a moment when they weren't fighting. "Where you going?" Stefan then asks looking at Damon.

"That hunter jacked Tyler Lockwood of his werewolf venom last night, so basically he's got vampire poison in a bottle and I'm gonna find him and I'm gonna eat him"

"I'll go with you" Stefan

"I don't want your help, I just wanna kill this guy and get the hell out of town" I frowned confused on what that was about watching as he takes drinks. "Isn't that the deal, whoever Elena doesn't choose leaves?" he asks looking at Stefan and I sigh rolling my eyes.

"That was before she turned" Stefan argued.

"And I stayed to help but I take you punching me as the first clue...I'm not wanted here anymore" Damon replied and I rolled my eyes since they were seriously children.

"Listen, you blood-shared with my girlfriend and I punched you in the face you deserved it, why don't you stop being dramatic?" I couldn't help smile as I pictured that happening.

"No brother, dramatic would be leaving before I kill this hunter" Damon argues and leaves making me smile a little before I turned to Stefan seeing him looking at me.

"So what are you doing here?" he asked me and I rolled my eyes.

"I'm helping you guys find this hunter"

"Why?" he pressed and I frowned since I didn't really know the answer to that myself, I told myself I was that they needed my help.

"You guys need the help" I shrugged then walked off deciding I should go and see Rebekah as I haven't had the chance since I was back and knew exactly where I'd find her...high school. "Bekah!" I exclaimed when I saw her arrive and she turned.

"Your back?" she questioned and I laughed.

"Yeah well my brothers got themselves a hunter mess and with the white oak stake still in existence I thought it best I help them get rid of him before he manages to kill one of you"

"I'm surprised Kol let you come back, he was calling me non-stop when you were ignoring him"

"Yeah he found me in Chicago, we-"

"Oh we heard the news reports" she laughed meaning our victims had been found.

"It got a little wild" I smirked before I noticed the flyers in her hands. "What are those?"

"I'm throwing a party at my new place" she smiled holding one out towards me. "It's an anti-curfew party" I looked down at it.

"You left Nik's mansion?" I questioned.

"Of course, you should come seeing as you left him too" she replied and I frowned, my hand instinctively moved up to the necklace around my neck where I'd placed my rings for the time being, they rested next to the vial of Nik's blood which I still wore.

"What's he...has he been okay?" I asked unable to help myself since I still cared about him even if we weren't in the best place right now.

"I don't know, he left Mystic Falls the same time you did" she argued and I frowned at that. "I don't care anyway" I smiled since I kind of gathered that with the last conversation I'd heard them have. "I should go, don't want to be late"

"Sure, I'll see you later then" I held up the flyer and she nodded her head before leaving once the warning bell went and I huffed heading off myself as I had no desire to stick around.

I walked into the Mystic Grill intending on just grabbing a drink to curb the hunger I was feeling since I didn't exactly have Nik's never ending supply of compelled humans and didn't want to rely on my brothers seeing as they had an entire stash of blood bags in the basement but I was too proud to accept anything from them.

"Bourbon" I told the bartender taking a seat at the bar pulling out my phone seeing a text from Kol whining about the fact that I'd left him making me smile since god he was a petty child sometimes.

Your more than welcome to join me in Mystic Falls, big baby – Sophia, I texted him back just as someone sat next to me and I looked up my eyes widening when I saw it was Nik since Rebekah had said he'd left.

"Hello luv" he smirked at me making me frown right as the bartender put my drink down in front of me.

"Rebekah said you'd left" I said avoiding his eyes as I grabbed my drink and sipped at the amber liquid to help with the cravings since I was never much of a day drinker, not unless I was partying with Kol.

"I did, I was on my way to Chicago but I heard a hunter was in town intending on taking out my hybrid and I couldn't have that" I looked over a little shocked that he'd been going to Chicago and narrowed my eyes a little since it can't have been a coincidence.

"Why Chicago?" I asked but already knew the answer.

"Heard rumors of my little brother getting into mischief-"

"Well Mikael's gone so that's not a bad thing anymore, let Kol do what he wants to do"

"Can't do that, not when he's dragging my wife down with him"

"Well whatever I do has nothing to do with you anymore" I glared at him as I picked up my glass intending to move but he caught my arm.

"Sophia, let's talk-"

"We did talk Niklaus, we talked about how you let me believe you were dead" I snapped pulling my arm out of his grasp.

"Luv-"

"Do you know that I thought about killing myself?" I cut him off before he had the chance to argue. "To ease my pain myself instead of waiting for the bloodline being severed to do it for me, I was ready to die Nik when I saw that stake pierce your heart, I was ready to follow you the moment you caught fire and you should have known I'd think that way...you should have told me"

"Sophia-"

"No" I cut him off again. "I'm not ready to forgive you and I don't want to see you right now" I downed the rest of my drink slamming the glass down on the bar before I stood and glared at him as I took the necklace off from around my neck and dropped it down on the bar beside him. "You need to give me space" I turned and walked towards the door not letting him say a single word so that I wasn't persuaded into forgiving him.

Just as I was about to leave I chanced a glance over my shoulder seeing him holding up my necklace in front of him staring at it making my frown grow before I left using vamp speed the first chance I got when it was less conspicuous to get to the safety of the Boarding House walking right in and headed up the stairs for the silence and peace and quiet of my bedroom but I stopped when I heard voices coming from Damon's room.

"You keep alcohol in your underwear drawer?" I heard the annoying voice of Elena Gilbert and glared towards the door since what the hell was she doing in Damon's room.

"No" Damon replied. "But you weren't looking for alcohol, were you?" he asked her and I didn't need to see her face to know she was guilty. "Do you think I'd actually leave the last remaining white oak stake where any vampire could just walk in and take it?" I frowned since my attention was piqued now since it was one of the reasons I'd come back, to ensure they didn't screw up and let someone steal the stake that was the only weapon that would kill my best friend, my family members and my...husband, for real this time.

"What happened to you?" Elena asked him and my frown deepened even more with the knowledge something happened to my twin, even if I tried not to care it was hard not to.

"Hunter mishap" Damon replied making me roll my eyes for the fact that he'd gone alone, I should have gone with him this morning.

"You know he was at my school today?" Elena said and my frown returned since this hunter was too close to the people that I cared about which meant he needed to be dealt with as soon as possible.

"Yep, Jeremy told me"

"Why were you talking to Jeremy?" Elena asked undoubtedly worried about her brother.

"Don't worry about it"

"Damon, don't bring him into this" Elena protested.

"Perish the thought he might actually be useful, Elena" Damon protested and I suddenly heard Elena's heartrate pick up. "You staying for the show, or..." he trailed off and Elena huffed before I heard her footsteps.

"I'm finding that stake" she insists walking out of Damon's room and I glared at her back since if she so much as even tried to stake Rebekah or anyone else than I'd remove her heart from her chest.

"Eavesdrop much little sister" I heard Damon say and turned seeing him standing in his doorway with nothing but his jeans on and the button was undone.

"Urgh put some clothes on Damon, no one wants to see that" I scoffed turning to continue on my way to my room since I was not in the mood to deal with him right now, not when I just overheard what I heard...Elena might have chosen Stefan right now but even I could tell she harbored feelings for my twin and if she even thought about switching brothers I was gonna kill her before she tore them apart.

I shut my bedroom door making it clear I wasn't to be disturbed before I went into the adjoining bathroom to shower and change in order to get ready for Bekah's party deciding on a red top that hung off my shoulders a little, blue jeans and some heeled boots applying a darker eyeliner to my eyes than usual and some bright red lipstick and looked over the entire look in the floor length mirror making sure it looked good but my face fell a little when I saw my neck bare and my hand instinctively rose to run over the bare skin since for nearly 100 years I'd worn the necklace that contained my rings and in recent months the vial of blood containing Nik's blood and I'd given them back to him just to get back at him but it was childish.

I shook off the feeling since I wasn't some pathetic girl that pined after a guy and I grabbed my phone heading out finding Rebekah's house easy enough since she was almost exactly like Nik and picked one of the biggest and lavish houses in Mystic Falls, not to mention the hoard of teenagers in which had already ditched school and were surrounding the place all drinking and dancing.

I made my way to the front door hesitating at the threshold for a total of two seconds before my foot passed through meaning no human lived here and I made my way towards the backyard finding Rebekah standing at the top of the deck which overlooked the backyard.

"Nice place you got here" I smiled when she turned around.

"I know" she smirked making me laugh a little as I looked around seeing kegs and teenagers doing keg stands rolling my eyes at the antics since I never understood people my own age in this century or why Rebekah was insistent on trying to pretend she was some normal teenager.

I talked with Rebekah for a little while before she went off to play hostess and I made my way through the party on the outskirts of it since I didn't really want to be here but I'd really had nothing better to do and Damon was adamant he could handle this hunter problem all by himself so I was letting him knowing the moment he called for my help was only a matter of time.

"What are you doing here?" I turned coming face to face with my little brother.

"I'd say the same as you but I'm not a naïve vampire trying to play baby sitter for my newbie vampire girlfriend" I retaliated. "I came to support my sister-in-law" I added when he continued to just look at me, seriously he was such a bore...more so now than he was growing up. "So where is the newest vampire doppelganger?" I asked him noticing Elena was nowhere to be seen.

"Talking with her friend April" he replied and I scoffed since he seemed to actually believe that but with what I'd overheard earlier I doubt that's really what she was doing.

"You know she asked Damon for the white oak stake, right?" I asked and he frowned clearly meaning he didn't. "You brought her here and you really thought she wasn't murder happy?" I asked him making his frown deepen. "I know you've always had way to much trust in people little brother but are you really that stupid to believe she didn't have an ulterior motive to coming to a party hosted by one of the few people in which she hates most especially with her emotions being heightened out of control right now" I reminded him before I left him and found Rebekah again looking damn proud about something. "What'd you do?" I asked and she smiled but didn't answer me and I rolled my eyes standing with her on the balcony again before I suddenly watched Stefan and Elena walk out the back door looking like they were leaving.

"Leaving so soon?" Rebekah asked looking at Elena who stopped turning towards us.

"No" Elena argues right as I felt my phone buzz in my pocket. "Not just yet" I looked down seeing her look at Stefan. "I never got a drink" she says then gives her bag to him making me frown watching as she goes to the keg and flips upside down and one of the students puts the nozzle in her mouth and she drinks while everyone cheers.

Going after the hunter, could use your help sister – Backstabbing Twin, I smiled a little when I pulled out my phone and saw the text from Damon before I turned back to the scene as Elena gets down and looks straight at Rebekah, smiling.

"Now I'm ready to go" she insists and Stefan gives her back her bag, smiling as they leave and I roll my eyes at the childish behavior before I turn to Bekah.

"As fun as this party is Beks, I've got to go" I told her and she frowned but I grabbed the red cup out of her hand and sculled the rest of the beer in it. "We'll catch up for a proper drink sometime since Kol isn't the only Mikaelson sibling I can let loose with" I smiled at her before I headed for the door texting Damon to text me where this was happening and he texted back immediately telling me to meet him at the hospital so that's where I headed to meet him.

"So what are we doing?" I asked when I found Damon before I also noticed the brunette human behind him and I recognized her from the charity ball, she'd been the ones taking the money pledges for the Wickery Bridge refurbish.

"Jeremy is gonna lead the hunter here, Meredith is gonna lead him to the storage room and we'll interrogate him about this greater evil" he pulled out a letter and showed it to me, I read over it quickly seeing it was from the pastor that had taken Rebekah and I addressed to his daughter clearly, his suicide note seeing as he blew himself up and the entire council with him. "I've also got a touch of revenge to hand out to this guy for shooting arrows into me attached to bombs"

"What?" I laughed since that was kind of awesome.

"I went to his trailer and he'd rigged it with traps"

"Gotta hand to this guy, he knows what he's doing" I shrugged before we all set off setting up for what we needed than he texted Jeremy to lure the hunter here and we waited while Jeremy showed him to Meredith who lead him into the storage room.

"Is a hospital really the best place for a germophobe?" the hunter asks as we make our way in and he clearly notices us.

"Did I say that I was a germophobe?" Damon scoffs. "Sorry, I meant vampire" he smiles and even I have a small smile on my face as the hunter has his gun out in a second ready to shoot but his movement triggers our booby traps and he's stabbed by an arrow but that doesn't stop him and he quickly bends to pick up his gun but is stabbed by the second arrow and looks to see that they are attached to the very same bombs that Damon took from his trailer, the ones that had nearly blown him up. "Stings, doesn't it?" he is about to pick up his gun again but my eyes narrow a little when Nik suddenly appears and pushes it with his foot and I turn my glare to Damon since he didn't say Nik was gonna be here.

"Hello, mate" Nik says smirking down at the hunter who is glaring towards Damon and I notice my twin just smiles while the hunter starts trying to move.

"Keep it up buddy, we'll be scraping you off the ceiling" I warned him.

"You three are gonna kill me anyway" he argues and I just shrug since that was true.

"Well, let's not be too hasty, I feel like we're just getting to know each other" Nik argued back at him.

"Start with the basics, where are you from, what do you know?" Damon goes on to ask him as he walks to stand between Nik and I. "Maybe you can cue me in on this greater evil, because I've fought this guy and there's nothing more evil than that" I rolled my eyes at Damon.

"Yeah truth be told, I'm as evil as it gets" Nik agreed as he takes the letter from Damon to look at it for himself.

"I'm not telling you anything" the hunter protests. "You think if you kill me, it's gonna be over...there's another waiting to take my place" I frowned since what the hell did that mean.

"See, this is what I like to hear...vague threats, ominous prophecies, disappearing tattoos" Damon smirked at him.

"What do you mean, 'tattoos'?" Nik suddenly asked and I turned to look at him since something about the way he asked that told me that meant something to him.

"Don't bother, you can't see the damn thing" Damon protests and I saw the hunters look, he's looked up at Damon when he'd mentioned the disappearing tattoo and my frown grew when Nik bent down closer to the hunter.

"There's more to you than meets the eye, isn't there?" he asked him but the hunter suddenly tries to stake him but Nik's faster and catches his arm. "Nice try but I'm faster than your average vampire" he twists his arm and takes the stake before looking down at the symbol I could see carved into from here. "You're one of the five" I raised my eye.

"The what?" Damon and I asked him.

"I'm faster than the average hunter" the hunter suddenly says and we look down just in time to see him grab the wires connecting him to the bombs and luckily we waste no time to rush out of the room with vampire speed before the bomb explodes raining debris down on top of us and I groan feeling something piercing me through the back.

"Soph don't move" Damon quickly warns me before I felt the excruciating pain as he pulls something from my back and I look up seeing a large piece of glass but something else feels wrong.

"Damon I can't...I can't see..." my vision was fazing in and out from blurry to not blurry.

"What?" he asks and I feel his hands moving over my back. "That was the only piece of glass, tell me what hurts!" he asks sounding near worried.

"I don't..." I look down at my arms and can see lines of red veins as I fight to keep my vision straight. "What the hell is this?" I ask turning to him.

"He had werewolf venom, he must have gotten you somehow"

"Urgh this feels worse than a bite" I groaned holding my head at the raging headache as I rolled onto my back staring up at the ceiling trying to get things to focus.

"Where the hell is Klaus?" I heard Damon ask but I was growing weakier and I looked over at him seeing he had his phone to his hear but all of a sudden everything blurred and I flexed my hand feeling a wet substance beneath me...my mind immediately taking me back to the last human memory I had.

"Sophia" my eyes shot open when I saw him hovering over me.

"Get away from me!" I suddenly backed up scooting across the floor.

"You know you can't really escape me" he smirked stalking after me.

"Just leave me alone, your dead...I killed you!" I yelled feeling my hand come into contact with a piece of wood and I grabbed it thrusting it upwards aiming for the throat and watched it piece through his flesh before I blinked and I was looking at my twin. "Oh my god, Damon!" I yelled eyes going wide before I saw him pull out the wood and press his hand over the wound. "I'm sorry I didn't...I thought..."

"Sophia it's okay, I'm okay but you need to get to Klaus...I can't leave until I make sure the hunters dead and he's not answering, you have to find him" I frowned since where the hell did Nik go.

"Did he...did he get out?" I asked turning back to the rubble of the storage room and Damon nodded.

"There's no Klaus bits" he replied and I glared at his choice of words before I felt myself wanting to be sick and the reminder of the venom coursing through my body meant I had to focus. "Get to Klaus!" he told me before he helped me stand and I stumbled through the halls trying to keep my eyes focused and my mind clear as I made it out into the parking lot...god why did I give back the necklace when I needed it.

"Nik" I whispered praying by some powers that be that he could somehow hear me, that he didn't just leave me after that place blew up...the Nik I knew would have grabbed me and made sure I'd gotten out...maybe we were really over.

"Sophia" I spun hearing that threatening voice but nothing was there.

"Leave me alone!" I yelled at it then saw him...everywhere, every person that was around looked like him and my eyes frantically shot around as they were all looking at me. "Just leave me alone" I whispered grabbing my head as if I could force the image of him out of my head. "He's dead, it's not real...you tore out his heart...you killed him" I heard myself saying before I suddenly felt hands on my arms. "NO!" I yelled thrashing against it.

"Easy love, it's me!" I heard Nik's voice and my eyes opened but all I saw was him and I shoved him away.

"Your not real!" I yelled at him.

"Angel listen to my voice" it said and I froze since only one person called me that, one person and no one else even knew he called me that since he never said it in public or around anyone else. "It's me, you have to drink this" he held something up and I stared at it still seeing his face instead of my lovers but there was something about the eyes that got through to me and I grabbed the vial tipping the thick red liquid down my throat and I closed my eyes relishing in the taste of it since I recognized the taste instantly then slowly opened my eyes feeling the haziness in my head passing and my eyes focused in on his face.

"N...Nik?" he smiled letting out a soft sigh.

"Your okay" he cupped the back of my head and pulled me into a hug and I wrapped my arms around his waist. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry I left but I hadn't known and you asked for space-"

"It's okay" I sighed stepping back from him. "Thank you"

"Anytime luv, you know that" he replied reaching out and brushed a few loose strands of hair away from my face tucking them behind my ear.

"I should go, I need to wash all this ash and blood off" I stepped back even further and watched his face fall but I wasn't ready to forgive him.

"Take this" he reached into his pocket and pulled out my necklace. "Just wear it for your own safety and my sanity..." I frowned at it hesitating for a second while I stared at the blood and my rings glittering off the lights as it hit the silver and the diamond.

"Okay" I took them from him, my hand barely brushing his and felt the usual spark that I always had with Nik.

"Be careful love" he warned me before I blinked and he was gone making me frown since as much as I was angry at him and betrayed, I wanted nothing more to forgive him since not having him in my life like things used to be, it was killing me but I couldn't let him walk over me and think it was okay to lie and break promises which meant I had to remain strong until I knew I was ready to forgive him.

I returned home heading straight up to my room and showered to rid myself of the smoke, ash and blood smell that clung to my skin as well as the sweat that I had began to experience as my body had fought against the venom then dressed in some comfier clothes before sitting on my bed and pulled out the journal I had once kept and stared down at it but before I could even think about writing down any thoughts I heard his footsteps before Damon was walking into my room and he let out a sigh when he saw me.

"I'm alright Damon" I reassured him rolling my eyes. "You don't have to pretend you care-"

"Of course I care Sophia your my twin sister and I'd watched you nearly dying for the second time" he snapped cutting me off and my eyes raised a little at his outburst as I stood.

"Well now you half know what it's like to watch your twin die" I argued back being bitter to remind him of the fact that I'd watched him die and I mean actually die.

"I know and I don't know how you dealt with it because it drives me crazy...you drive me crazy" he shouted and I laughed.

"Didn't I always?" I remarked and he rolled his eyes.

"Don't do it again" he warned me with a glare.

"I'll try not to brother but we both know that's highly unlikely in this town of vampires, witches, werewolves and hybrids" I laughed before punching his shoulder. "I'm fine okay and you can go now" I nodded my head for him to leave turning back towards my bed.

"Who were you seeing in the hospital, Soph?" he suddenly asked making me freeze and close my eyes before taking a breath to calm down nerves as I turned to face him.

"No one" I argued.

"Didn't seem like no one and you stabbed me in the neck meaning whoever it was you were scared off"

"I'm not scared of him" I growled out angrily not realizing I'd given away something.

"Him?" he questioned clearly catching my mistake.

"Just drop it Damon" he frowned clearly wanting to keep pressing.

"Alright fine but you can tell me, you know that right?" he asked but all I could do was frown since I couldn't, I couldn't go back to that and talk about it, the only one that knew was Nik and I was intent to keep it that way...that and I still didn't trust Damon nor have I forgiven him even if I was living under the same roof as my brothers it didn't mean we were a family again and I doubt we ever would be.

"I'm tired Damon" I told him and he sighed.

"Alright, goodnight" he said before he left my room and I sighed falling back onto my bed staring up at the ceiling, why were all my relationships so screwed to hell...was I really that cursed to have no one I could trust or was I just to untrusting and childishly holding onto grudges...


A/N: Sorry if I'm dragging on the fight between Klaus and Sophia but I feel like it's necessary for Sophia's character development since this isn't just a love story, this is my OC character in the entire TVD universe and I want to write the character how I see her and one that's not solely focused on one relationship especially since she's not just anyone.

P.S - Who do you think the 'He' is that Sophia hallucinated?