Sophia's POV

I was sitting on the rocks near looking out at the Mississippi River with a bottle of bourbon just looking at the sunrise since I hadn't been able to sleep knowing that it's been 15 years to the day since I fled my home town and became a vampire but more importantly it's been 15 years since my brothers died and although the Mikaelson's were like family and no matter how much I'd grown to care about them I still missed and mourned for my brothers.

"Sophia" I looked up when I heard his voice turning to find him behind me and he stared down at the near empty bottle in my hands before he came over and sat next to me. "Are you alright love?"

"I'm...fine" I sniffled trying to cover up the fact that I'd been crying because I hated it when people especially him saw me crying since it made me feel weak.

"Your not fine" he pointed out seeing right through me making me frown and pull my knees closer to my chest.

"Just go please" I turned my face away from him to hide my tears as I drank the last bit of bourbon from the bottle before dropping it hearing it smash against the rocks. "Klaus please, I don't want you to see me like this" I begged him when he didn't move.

"Like what?" he asked making me frown.

"Weak" I stated sniffling back more tears which threatened to fall at any moment no matter how hard I tried to stop myself from crying.

"Your anything but weak love" he argued and I felt his fingers grab my chin and force my head to turn towards him. "Your strong Sophia Salvatore, you always have been from the moment we met and nothing can make you look weak in my eyes" I frowned knitting my brows together since while Klaus and I were close and he was my friend he'd never said anything like that to me before.

"I don't feel strong" I admitted leaning my head on my knees as I kept eye contact with him. "It's been 15 years since my brothers passed away and no matter how much time pasts it still hurts"

"It always will" he told me and I was a little surprised as I'd expected him to tell me to move on. "I still mourn my little brother everyday but eventually it becomes easier I assure you love"

"You had a little brother?" I asked since neither he or Elijah had mentioned having a little brother, I knew about his siblings Finn, Kol and Rebekah...all of who were daggered with magical daggers which kept them desiccated but alive for however long the daggers remained in their hearts but they were alive so I knew he wasn't talking about them.

"He was killed before we were all turned into vampires"

"How?" I found myself asking but I saw the look of pain on his face. "You don't have to say if you don't want to" I quickly added.

"He was killed by werewolves" he answered surprisingly even after I said he didn't have to. "I had always been curious about the wolves and snuck out to watch them turn and I took him with me and he was attacked...it was all my fault"

"It wasn't your fault Nik" I argued reaching out putting my hand over his and he looked down at it with a surprised look before his eyes met mine.

"Nik?" he asked and I realized that I had called him that.

"I'm sorry, I've heard Elijah call you Niklaus and it just...it just slipped out-"

"It's alright love, my younger siblings Kol and Rebekah call me Nik and it's nice to hear it again, especially from you" he replied cutting me off and I smiled a little.

"I think it suits you better than Klaus and I guess it makes me feel a little special being close enough to you to be able to call the infamous Klaus Mikaelson by a nickname" I laughed and he joined me and I absolutely loved his laugh and I realized that I wasn't really feeling overly crippled by my brothers death anymore, he made it feel better and I found myself actually looking at him differently.

I had heard almost all the rumors about him by now being that I've lived in New Orleans and with the Mikaelson family for 15 years, I knew his reputation but it had never mattered to me since he'd been my sire and he'd saved my life after I'd been left for dead and he'd helped me get one part of my revenge against those responsible for my death and despite knowing how many people he'd killed and tortured to earn his reputation I had never been afraid of him not even in the beginning, I'd been wary our first meeting but not afraid and I don't think I ever could be afraid of him because in 15 years he's become pretty much the most important thing in my life.

"Thank you" I suddenly said and he looked over confused.

"What for?"

"For saving my life, for giving me a better one" I shrugged and his lips quirked upwards into a small smile.

"Your welcome my love" he replied and I felt my heart jump a little when he called me 'my love' instead of the usual 'love' since for some reason it felt different...a good different and it ignited something deeper inside me...a deeper connection to him that was completely new which I didn't really understand given I've never felt this way before.

I shot awake frowning deeply when I felt the smooth linen beneath me but I could hear the thrum of an engine and looked around what looked like a small bedroom but the moment I locked eyes with the window I shot up and stared out at nothing but dark skies and clouds.

"What the hell?!" I exclaimed since I was on a damn jet and then I recalled the last memory I had not including the dream induced one and glared towards the doors as I opened them and walked out seeing Nik sitting in a chair smirking meaning he was clearly behind the dream induced memory too by getting inside my unconscious brain. "What the hell is wrong with you?"

"Forgive me-"

"Save it Niklaus, you snapped my neck and kidnapped me!'

"I did not kidnap you" he argued and I glared at him raising my hand in the air but he was up and caught my wrist before I even had time to strike him. "Calm down love"

"Don't tell me to calm down" I protested then looked around. "Where the hell are you taking me?"

"Italy" he smirked and my eyes widened.

"So because you couldn't compel me to forget about the cure because newsflash I'm taking vervain you jackass so that you and any of your siblings couldn't compel me again you decided to snap my neck and put me on a jet with you just so I can't tell anyone when I wouldn't have anyway or if you had just asked me not to" I told him and his face fell as I yanked my arm out of his hold. "You wonder why I continue to be mad at you Niklaus" I turned back into the bedroom heading inside and shut the door flipping the lock staying hidden away for the rest of the flight.

After arriving in Italy we made haste to the church 'San Vittore' which was in Brienno and on the way here I had questioned him how he even knew this hunter we were digging up was buried here with this sword he was after and he told me after quite a bit of resistance.

Stefan had tricked Rebekah into telling him and Nik where she had buried the hunter she had loved and that she'd buried his sword with him too and afterwards he daggered her which was why he was currently getting even more of the silent treatment from me since I didn't agree with it one bit, it was cruel and unnecessary and as soon as we got home I was going to un-dagger her.

I forced to watch from the sidelines as a group of people dug up this guy's grave since if I even attempted to run Nik chased me down...believe me I've tried it 23 times and each time he'd grab me and force me but to the church and sit me down with a warning look meaning I was stuck watching the excavator site grow while they searched for the grave of a hunter and a sword that would lead us to a cure for someone I didn't even care one tiny bit about.

I looked up from the grave seeing Nik on the phone looking angry and after listening in I heard that one of his hybrids who went to change shifts in looking after the hunter found Nate dead…beheaded to be more brutely honest and it was unsettling since that meant that the hunter had managed to escape and with me stuck in Italy with my controlling ass of a husband my brothers were in Mystic Falls alone and knowing Stefan he was going to do something so idiotically stupid that it put him and Damon in trouble since Nik was forcing him to keep the secret of the cure from everyone and I knew my twin would immediately be suspicious and do something even more stupid such as get into a fight with Stefan which upped the risk of them getting killed by a substantial probability.

As soon as he started texting someone and I knew the only person he'd be bothering to text about this new change would be Stefan and my suspicion was confirmed when not twenty minutes later Nik was on the phone again and this time with my little brother who was at the mansion seeing the body for himself.

"How the hell did Connor escape?" I overheard Stefan ask as I listened in to the call.

"I blame mind-numbing incompetence but pointing fingers isn't going to help me, you're going to help me" I rolled my eyes at Nik since his hybrids were literally doing their best, after-all they're only baby vamps with added perks thanks to they're werewolf sides and they were dying for him without really having free-will.

"Well he could be anywhere now" Stefan argued.

"Think Stefan, he took the hybrids head which means he wants werewolf toxin" Nik explained.

"Which means he plans to stay in Mystic Falls to kill vampires" Stefan agreed making me frown and stand up which immediately had Nik's eyes on me as he watched me like a hawk.

"Which is a pity as I'm half the world away digging up a dead hunter, you'll have no access to my blood and therefore the antidote, nevertheless his tattoo is our only map to the cure so your task is quite simple find him, catch him and above all keep him alive, he's no good to us dead"

"Damon's been looking everywhere for him, if they cross paths…" I frowned since at least Stefan realized that if Damon found this hunter he was dead.

"You need to keep Damon in check"

"It would be a lot easier if I could just tell him the truth" Stefan argued.

"You trust Damon with the cure?" Nik asked him and I glared at him since he shouldn't be making my little brother keep this a secret and lie to our brother. "I imagine he prefers Elena the way she is"

"Nice try Klaus but I trust Damon a hell of a lot more than I trust you" Stefan protested and I smiled a little at that since perhaps they were finally learning from their mistakes.

"And I trust no one" Nik argued and I looked up with an offended look. "Which is why my sister is lying daggered in a box and yours is half way around the world with me, the more who find out about the cure the more who will go after it, nations have gone to war over less" I rolled my eyes at Nik's theatrics. "You mark my words…tell one soul and I will throw the hunter's sword in the Mediterranean and we can end this quest right now, am I understood?" Stefan's response was to hang up and Nik took that as an agreeance as he smirked dropping the phone from his ear.

"Nice you hear you don't trust me" I spoke up and he looked over at me again.

"I do trust you my love but right now you and I aren't on the same page and I can't risk you joining your twin brothers side since we both know you don't like Elena" I rolled my eyes at him.

"Translation, 'It's not like I can dagger you like I did to Rebekah'..." I spat at him before I turned away from him intending on walking away and his response to that was to speed around in front of me.

"I would never dagger you even if they worked on you Sophia" he glared at me but I just scoffed in his face since I didn't believe him. "How long are you going to act like this?"

"I'll stop giving you the cold shoulder and trusting you when you've earned my forgiveness and so far your just digging further into the dog house" I replied and he frowned before I pushed past him but stopped feeling like I needed to say more. "I don't usually question your reasons for why you dagger your siblings but what you did to Rebekah was cruel and unnecessary so think about that while your sleeping alone for however long this crusade to save the doppelbitch goes on" I sped off feeling like I needed alone time and surprisingly he had let me go.

I walked around the small rural church taking in it's beauty since it was quite beautiful here but the beauty was shadowed by the fact that Nik and I were falling further and further apart and I couldn't believe it was happening since we had never let something come between us like this and while I might be taking it too hard I couldn't just let him get away with this, I wasn't the type of girl to stand back and let a man walk over me.

My whole life I had watched my mother and father barely tolerate each other and I didn't want that, I spent my entire human life wanting more than a forced marriage like them and for 100 years I'd had it but as if my home town was cursed the moment Nik and I stayed in Mystic Falls everything went to hell meaning it was a huge mistake since Nik had been the best thing that had ever happened to me by my choices.

After a few hours of just walking and taking in the sights I returned since it wasn't like I had any means of getting back to Mystic Falls, I mean I could find an airport and compel myself a flight back to the states but something told me that I should stay here and like all my feelings I trusted them over my head...usually and when I walked up to the gravesite I saw the sword being lifted up out of the excavation site, the sword that lead to the cure.

"Tyler" my head snapped up towards Nik confused but saw he had his phone pressed against his ear. "I hope you're not causing problems"

"I can do whatever I want, I'm not sired to you anymore" I heard Tyler's reply.

"Fair enough" Nik smirked as he walked towards where the sword was getting passed up and walked closer to see the sword up close. "Although I do happen to know about your little secret about your time spent in Appalachia" I rolled my eyes at him. "What was your friends name?" I turned ready to walk away already bored of his conversation. "Hayley, was it, you'd probably prefer I kept that to myself, I'm sorry mate are you going to answer or should I just assume your back to being…how did you phrase it, ah yes my little bitch" Tyler didn't say anymore and the call ended and I watched Nik smirk as he dropped his phone.

They packed up the sword in a case before they started filling in the hole they'd dug but my gaze was turned away from that task when Nik stepped in front of me again just staring at me before he sighed.

"I don't want to fight with you anymore Sophia" I stared at him furrowing my brows.

"What does that mean?" I asked worried that this was it, I mean it certainly made sense when we were working.

"It means I'm not giving up on you Sophia" he replied and my eyes widened a little seeing as he had actually said he was gonna fight for me. "No matter what happens between us and if we don't find our way back to each other, it will not be from a lack of effort from me my love" he reached out and ran the back of his hand down my cheek and my eyes instinctively closed leaning into the sign of affection but the sound of his phone ringing interrupted the moment and he pulled away to answer his phone.

"There's no sign of anyone" I overheard a male voice say and recognized it as one of Nik's hybrids but I didn't know his name.

"Stefan's coming at him from the other side, he'll free the hostages your job is to get Connor out alive and use caution mate, he favors booby traps and ambushes" Nik warns him and I frown with the knowledge that my little brother is going in there alone, where the hell is Damon.

"Understood" the hybrid replies before hanging up.

"I should be there, I could've helped Stefan so he isn't walking in there alone against a deranged and lethal hunter" I sighed anxiously pacing since I should be there, I returned to Mystic Falls to protect my brothers from this hunter and now I was half way around the world helpless while my little brother was dealing with him alone.

"Your not going anywhere near this hunter Sophia"

"I returned to Mystic Falls to protect my brothers Nik, I have to protect them"

"Why?" he asked frowning and I matched his look.

"Because I forgave them...well almost" I admitted the very thing I had been hesitant to admit to anyone including myself. "They're my brothers and I love them, if I lose them again it'll ruin me all over again and I don't think I'd survive it a second time" he avoided my eyes and I frowned.

"We have a flight to catch" he suddenly said walking off and I followed his retreating figure with my eyes and a heavy frown before I followed him getting into the car which took us to the airstrip and we boarded the jet which would take us back to Mystic Falls and the entire flight I worried about my brothers since we hadn't heard anything and I worried about my relationship with Nik since I wanted it back but until things changed it didn't look like that was gonna happen.

We arrived home and it had been a very awkward and silent flight home where we found out nothing had gone to plan, Elena had killed the hunter and thus the trip had been for nothing anyway and the moment I heard of it I couldn't help remember thinking about my first kill and I'm not talking about the girl that I'd drank from to complete the transition...no I'm talking about my first real kill which I had done purposely and without control of my body.

It's been a year since I'd turned into a vampire and had moved in with Klaus, Elijah and Marcel in New Orleans, I had kept expecting Klaus to one day throw me out but that day had yet to come and had actually escorted me back to Mystic Falls since I wanted to visit my mothers grave.

I kept a cloak over my head to cover my face while he escorted me through town and with him at my side we didn't get any looks as we were making our way to the cemetery but as we were passing Pearl's old apothecary I froze and Klaus looked down.

"What is it love?" he asked but I was unable to answer him since right across from me stood none other than George Lockwood with Samantha Gilbert hanging off his arm.

"That's George Lockwood" I nodded and he turned to look himself.

"That's the pain you were to marry?" he asked and I nodded my head. "The one that killed you with Katerina" I nodded my head again.

"Let's go, I don't want to be here" I pulled on his arm but he was stopped in spot. "Just let it go Klaus please" I begged him and heard him sigh before he obliged my request and we walked away getting ready to speed off and return to New Orleans.

"Sophia?" I froze when I heard my name get called right as we were on the outskirts of town, off the main road into town and I turned with a glare. "How...how...your a vampire?" he asked coming to the conclusion as his eyes widened and my anger grew.

"You left me to die drowning in my own blood!" I yelled and moved towards him and he actually backed up, fear radiating off him. "You helped that bitch escape after she got my brothers killed!" I flashed towards him grabbing his neck and help him up against a tree before I broke off a branch and jammed it into his throat. "See how it feels to drown in your own blood George" I let him go and he dropped to his knees yanking the branch out of his neck and the blood squirted out despite him trying to cover the wound and he was choking on red, it slipping out the sides of his mouth before he took a final breath and dropped to the ground and I stepped back before turning to find Klaus watching with an amused smirk. "What?" I asked.

"Nothing, you're just bloody magnificent love" I smiled at him and laughed a little as I moved towards him.

"I feel much better surprisingly"

"I'd imagine so" he smirked as we started walking and I linked my arm through his as we walked.

"Now there's just Katherine to go and my revenge is satiated"

"And I assure you love we'll find her" he agreed making me smile since I believed him just like I had when he promised me my revenge before he turned me.

I hadn't planned on killing George but the moment I had seen him it was like something had taken over me and I had to kill him so I understood what Elena was going through, she killed the hunter to protect her brother just like I had found Nik to kill Katherine to protect mine in 1864 even if it hadn't gone to plan, when your protecting the ones you loved you'd do anything for them including lie and I reminded myself of that fact.

I understood now that Nik didn't tell me about his plan to put his soul into Tyler in order to protect me from Alaric since if I believed that he was dead and that I was dying than so would Alaric and I'd be saved from him killing me there and then to lure Nik out but that still didn't excuse his behavior the last few weeks.


A/N: Sophia is learning to forgive people that lie to her.