Sophia's POV

When Nik and I touched down I had left him at the airport and returned to Boarding House since he couldn't compel me despite the fact that my last remaining vervain supply was running out but I wasn't about to tell him that and he let me go home which is where my brothers had filled me in on everything and Stefan revealed to me that he'd let Damon in on the supposed 'cure' knowledge.

Damon also had a fit when he found out that Nik practically kidnapped me and had been texting him pretending to be me saying that I was with Kol which of course I yelled at him for believing since I wouldn't ever just up and leave like that before I went to my room and crashed since I was drained from all the travelling and getting my neck snapped.

I groaned holding my pillow over my head to block out the sound of my phone ringing for the eighteenth time this morning and knew it wasn't gonna stop since Damon was relentless so I threw my pillow off and grabbed my phone.

"What?!" I snapped since couldn't I have one day of peace.

"Klaus just grabbed Elena" he said and I sat up rolling my eyes.

"And that has something to do with me, why?" I asked as I got up crossing the room to my bathroom putting the phone on loudspeaker while I washed my face.

"He's your husband, go and ask for her back"

"Klaus and I aren't even talking Damon and besides he wouldn't just take Elena without someone reason so what are you leaving me out of this time?" I asked throwing my hair up into a ponytail hearing him sigh.

"Elena's been having...visions"

"Visions?" I questioned since what the hell did that mean.

"There more like hallucinations after she killed Connor and she killed Jeremy last night" he said and my eyes widened a little.

"Damn" I laughed since Elena really was losing it ever since she became a vampire.

"Klaus took her because he thinks he'll kill herself"

"Well I wouldn't put it past her brother" I scoffed since Elena was weak, she always has been from the day that I'd met her and was always whining about something or other.

"Just talk to Klaus"

"I can't" I argued glaring down at the phone picking it up again as I moved to my closet. "He won't listen to me anyway"

"Please Soph"

"The answers no Damon" I spat hanging up since it wasn't my place to get involved, one because I owed nothing to Elena, two I didn't want to give Nik the satisfaction of my begging for my brothers gain when it had nothing to do with me and lastly I didn't care what happened to Elena or if she killed herself.

I grabbed some clothes and headed back into my bathroom where I showered and changed before I went downstairs grabbing some bourbon from the alcohol cart and poured myself a glass before I pulled out my very last bit of vervain and tipped it into the glass with a frown before I drank it coughing slightly as the vervain burnt my throat on the way down then poured another clean glass just to wash it down.

"Argh give up" I groaned when my phone beeped again and I pulled it out of my back pocket seeing a text from Damon.

Meet me at the high school, I'm asking for your help sister like you said you would when you returned – Backstabbing Twin, I glared at the screen since I said I'd help with the hunter and the hunter was dead meaning I was out, whatever this plight for the 'cure' mess they were in I wanted no part in it.

I growled out a number of curses before I headed for the door knowing he wasn't going to stop bugging me until I helped them so I went to the high school even less impressed to see there was some kind of occult looking exhibit like you'd find in a museum and I headed into the cafeteria where the main displays were and a gathering of people all listening to some guy giving a speech.

"...Silas wanted to give immortality to another woman so Qetsiyah killed her and buried Silas alive, leaving him powerless, immortal and alone" I raised an eye as I watched the presentation for a second. "This might actually be the origin story of hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"

"You got this?" I heard Damon say and my eyes turned scanning through the crowd and spotted him with Bonnie.

"Yeah, I'll bring him to you" she nodded and Damon turned leaving the room.

"Now it's said that Silas wants to rise again, regain his power, wreak havoc on the world...maybe we should be afraid" I scoffed since it sounded like a scary bedtime story to me and a load of crap. "Or maybe it's all a bunch of crap and that's just an old rock, all right listen enjoy exploring the exhibit I'll be around to answer any questions, thank you for coming" I turned after listening to the rest of the presentation and went in search of Damon finding him in the history classroom sitting at the desk with his feet up on it and a bottle of alcohol in his hands.

"You're missing all the adventure, pal" I heard him say making me frown just knowing he was thinking about his drinking buddy and on one hand I was glad Alaric was gone but on the other felt bad for my twin for losing his friend.

"Are you ever not day drinking?" I asked making my presence known and he looked up.

"You actually showed up" he scoffed sounding generally surprised that I had.

"Well you weren't gonna quit bugging me until I did but lets get one thing straight Damon, I'm doing all this for you and Stefan not because I care about Elena"

"Noted" he remarked right as Bonnie walked in followed by the guy that had given the presentation.

"Shane, this is my friend Damon and his sister Sophia" Bonnie introduced us after getting over the small amount of shock when she saw me. "They're kind of experts on this stuff, too"

"I audited your class, it's very enlightening"

"That's right I remember you, what's your specialty?" Shane asked looking at Damon.

"The origin of the species" Damon replied.

"Oh, I think Darwin would arm wrestle you for that distinction"

"Not that species" Damon argued and I sniggered under my breath a little.

"You're into the monster stuff, alright awesome"

"I was kind of hoping that you might have stumbled upon this at some point...maybe" Damon replied and he pulls a piece of paper out of his pocket and gives it to Shane.

"This is the hunter's mark, where did you get this?" Shane asks as his eyes widen and turned the piece of paper around and I saw the drawing that Nik had forced Jeremy to do when he told us about the cure.

"Came to me in a dream, you know anything about the hunter's curse?" Damon asked him.

"Why, you got a dead hunter in the trunk of your car or something?"

"Metaphorically speaking" I spoke up to cover our asses since we didn't need this guy suspicious.

"Legend says that if a hunter is killed by that which he hunts, then that person will be cursed to walk the earth and torment them till..." he trialed off.

"Until..." Bonnie urged him to continue.

"Until a new hunter's awakened and their legacy's passed on, they're called 'potentials'..." he replied and I watch Damon take out his phone. "Listen I have a bunch of research on it, why don't I go grab it for you"

"That would be great" I told him and he turned to leave after handing the paper back to Damon.

"Hey, thanks" Damon said to him before he left the room.

"How are we supposed to find a potential hunter?" Bonnie asked the moment the door closed.

"Yeah, about that..." Damon said as he called someone. "Little Gilbert...your services are needed" I scoffed and rolled my eyes since of course, was no one in this stupid town normal.

"Well seems like you've got all this taken care of and you don't need me, I'll be at The Grill if you need me brother but you know...don't need me" I said then left the room since this honestly didn't concern me and I left the school heading back into town towards The Grill seeing as I felt like a drink even though I scolded Damon for his day drunken stupor but one drink wouldn't kill me but the moment I walked in my eyes zeroed in on Nik at the bar with Caroline looking quite chummy and I glared at them before I went up the the bar stopping at the opposite end.

"Tequila" I ordered the bartender who nodded and grabbed the bottle placing a shot glass down on the table filling it and I wasted no time shooting it back without the salt or lemon barely getting the urge to cough at the burn since it really wasn't that bad once you'd been choking down vervain for weeks.

I look back down the bar at Nik and Caroline angry especially since Nik hasn't even noticed that I was here and the fact that he was smiling as they talked but my eyes suddenly narrow when I see Caroline looking at her phone before she looks up with a nervous chuckle.

"So here's the thing, I didn't just come here to try to get you to release Elena"

"You don't say" Nik said smiling at her again.

"I came here to distract you so that Stefan could go to your house and break her out, which he did and don't get mad but then he lost her" she replied and Nik's response is to get up quickly.

"Klaus!" Caroline calls after him.

"Caroline, you're beautiful but if you don't stop talking, I will kill you" Nik glared at her and I frowned feeling like I just got stabbed through the heart when he called Caroline beautiful before anger quickly took hold of me replacing that feeling and I got up ready to kill.

"They figured out how to stop the hallucinations!" Caroline yelled making me stop as did Nik who turned back around and I watched as his eyes finally spotted me and shot up wide for a second before he turned back to Caroline.

"Okay, you have 10 seconds to tell me" he told her and she immediately explained that my brothers planned to have Jeremy kill a vampire and become the next hunter which would in fact stop Elena hallucinating Connor and being all suicidal and she told him about one of his hybrids Chris who had broken the sire bond and had been the one to let Stefan into the room he'd been keeping Elena in which let her out.

Nik immediately left when Caroline was done but I walked towards her and her eyes widened when she saw me there and began stuttering for an answer clearly figuring out that I had seen and heard everything.

"I may like you Caroline but if you ever try and seduce my husband like that again as some slutty distraction, I'll kill you" I spat in her face before I pushed past her heading catching up with Nik easily knowing he was murderous.

"Nik!" I yelled causing him to stop.

"No more distractions-"

"I'm not here for my brothers plight to save Elena, I'm here to remind you of who you belong to" I sped towards him grabbing his neck pushing him against the nearest solid surface smashing my lips against his since seeing him with Caroline, it sparked something inside of me...call it jealousy if you want but he was mine and I was reminding him off that.

I grabbed his jacket pushing it over his shoulders and he quickly aided me in shrugging it off before he smashed his lips against mine again as he spun our positions and went for my shirt but I stopped him grabbing his throat and flashed my vampiric face at him shaking my head.

"You are mine Niklaus" I sped us over to the next surface where I pulled his shirt over his head...I trailed my lips down his bare chest before returning to his lips and went for his jeans getting them undone and he wasted no time kicking them off before he grabbed my thighs and pulled me up to wrap my legs around his waist as he turned us once again hitching the skirt I was wearing up and...I felt him fill me.

I stood with my back turned as I pulled my shirt back over my head ignoring him getting dressed behind me, ignoring his smirk as I glared down at the floor since I knew I shouldn't have done that but whenever I saw him with other women it made me possessive and I'll admit that but I knew he would think it meant more which meant I was glad when his phone rang and it was Stefan, the two of them coming up with the plan to sacrifice the un-sired hybrid to be Jeremy's vampire kill and turning him into the next hunter and I followed him to the Lockwood mansion just in time it would seem as Chris opened the door, his eyes going wide when he saw Nik.

"Going somewhere?" Nik asked him before he grabbed him around the throat and pushes him against the stairs as I walk in behind them. "When I said don't let her out of your sight, what did you think I meant?"

"It's not his fault, it's mine I was distracting him, it's my fault she got away!" Tyler yelled.

"Then maybe you should be the one to die for it"

"No one has to die!" the girl yelled and I frowned not recognizing her meaning she wasn't one of Nik's hybrids.

"Did I not say mind your business?!" Nik yelled letting Chris go to get up into her face.

"Tyler's covering for me, I'm the one that let her go"

"Hayley…" Tyler tried cutting her off and I got a name at least.

"You want someone dead, go ahead kill me, I'd rather die anyway then end up as one of your sired little bitches" she went on unfazed and I glared at her since who the hell was she.

"Don't tempt me, little wolf" Nik says before he turns and looks at Chris. "Your existence is to serve me, to please me...do you understand?"

"I'm sorry, I won't fail you again" Chris said shaking in fear.

"No...you won't, get out of here" Nik replies then nods his head towards the door and Chris wastes no time walking to the door but Stefan stops his exit and stakes him in the gut.

"No!" Hayley screams covering her mouth before Jeremy enters with an axe.

"Jeremy?" Tyler asks confused with the sight of the little Gilbert with us. "What the hell, man?!" he then yells.

"I'm sorry" Stefan says as he looks at Tyler before he turns to Jeremy with a nod and the little Gilbert wastes no time bringing down the axe and kills Chris making Hayley scream as the blood splattered onto Jeremy's face before he looks at his hand clearly watching the tattoo grow as he became the next hunter.

I left as soon as I could since I didn't want to deal with the awkwardness with Nik and went back to The Grill since now I really could do with that drink and when I entered I saw Damon approaching the bar so I headed up as well.

"Bourbon" he ordered but then looked down at the seat to his left. "Make that two" I frowned knowing once again it was for his dead friend Alaric before the human Matt suddenly joins him.

"Still saving a spot for Mr. Saltzman, huh?" he asked my twin.

"I'd say I'm in the market for a new drinking buddy" he replied then looked at Matt. "You're not qualified"

"Is your dear twin sister qualified" I smiled making myself known as I sat at a stool leaving the chair between us empty respectively and Damon smiled at me.

"I know that you don't like me" Matt spoke up making us turn to him.

"Actually I don't know you to have a problem" I shrugged as I ordered myself a scotch since I just wasn't feeling bourbon right now.

"I dug up some stuff about the explosion at the Young farm that I kind of need to tell someone about" Matt went on ignoring my comment and Damon gestured for him to go on. "So April mentioned that her dad knew that professor Shane guy, which wouldn't be creepy except he had all that info about the hunter's curse and we live in a town where, you know anybody who knows stuff is creepy until proven otherwise"

"You're on the verge of impressing me, drive it home" Damon said making me scoff with a small laugh as I sipped at my drink.

"I got the sheriff to dig up the pastor's phone records, turns out he made like a call a day to the same number the last month he was alive and on the day the council got blown up at the farm, he called it ten times, the office of professor Atticus Shane"

"Well I'm impressed, nice work blue eyes" I smirked at him nodding. "We'll look into it, bye now" he shook his head as he left getting back to work and I drank down the rest of my drink before holding up my hand for a refill.

"What's driven you to day drink?" Damon asks and I frown nursing the glass between my hands spinning it.

"I made...well not really a mistake but...I let my emotions cloud my better judgement"

"Care to elaborate on that?" he asked seeing as that was very vague.

"Can I tell you without you judging me?" I asked bitterly and he looked at me for a second before he nodded his head. "I saw Caroline being the distraction so Stefan could get Elena and I got..." I growled since I hated admitting this. "I got jealous" he sniggered out a laugh and I glared at him. "It's not funny"

"I'm sorry" he apologized half-assed and I rolled my eyes.

"Anyway, long story short that made me angry and I followed after Ni...Klaus" I corrected myself seeing as they don't call him Nik. "And we had sex"

"You did what, I thought it was over between you two?" he asked and I frowned staring down at my glass.

"It's not that simple Damon, I love him and I want to be with him but for me the thing that heightened in vampirism was my inability to forgive those that lie or betray me and I don't know if I can trust him but seeing him with Caroline...I don't know if I can survive seeing him with someone else"

"I can't pretend to like you and Klaus together and the fact that he hurt you makes me want to kick his ass" I sniggered a little as I remembered Kol saying nearly the exact same thing. "But if he makes you happy then I won't stand in your way"

"Really?" I asked shocked since with me being back at home these past few weeks I'd expected him to try and convince me to leave Nik or try and keep me away from him.

"Your my twin sister Sophia and I've caused you enough pain since 1864 that I don't want you to experience any more on my account or Stefan's, besides your already married to the psycho so it can't get any worse than that"

"Aww thanks Damon" I laughed and he rolled his eyes before we both just sat and drank for a little bit.

"I'm curious though, how the hell you fell for the guy in the first place" I turned towards him and smiled a little since the fact that there wasn't any sarcasm or underlying resentment in his voice as he asked me that meant more to me than I thought it would.

"He took me in when he didn't have to since he could've just turned me and threw me aside like I was nothing but he didn't, he took me in and introduced me to Elijah and...another friend of his at the time and for 15 years we were just friends but it was the anniversary of the day I'd turned and the day that I'd thought you and Stefan had died and I always left so that I could mourn and cry in peace-"

"You never did like crying in front of people" he smiled a little as he recalled that quirk of mine in which I'd had even as a human.

"I still don't" I laughed nodding in agreeance. "But Nik found me drowning myself in bourbon and he reminded me that I was still alive and that I still had something to live for...myself and during all that something changed, I began to see him differently and it wasn't long after that day we told each other how we felt both figuring out that something changed between us and to spare you the details we got together and for the next 30 years I fell harder and deeper in love with him than I ever though was possible" it was silent again between us as he took in everything I'd told him.

"I guess I owe him a thanks even though I'll never give him the satisfaction" he finally said and I let out a small laugh.

"Don't worry brother, your secrets safe with me"

"Seriously Soph, you deserve to be happy after everything you've been through, our father, us...becoming a vampire-"

"Katherine" I added and he nodded his head.

"That 'him' that you mentioned when you were infected at the hospital...that was George wasn't it?" he asked and I flinched. "You showed me what they did to you, him and Katherine but what happened, you said you killed him"

"I did" I nodded my head throwing back the rest of the alcohol in my glass before I stood up and walked away since I didn't want to talk about it meaning the Salvatore sibling bonding time was over and I left him alone to head home where I crashed down onto my bed once again just feeling drained with everything that's happened but before I could drift off I got up grabbing some comfier clothes but froze when I felt the slight breeze knowing it wasn't natural and let out a sigh before I turned around seeing Nik behind me. "I don't remember giving you access to my bedroom"

"Your still mad at me, good to know"

"I'm always mad at you" I remarked as I turned back to my drawers pulling out some sleep shorts and a singlet top before I walked to my bed dropping the clothes onto it.

"Well you haven't thrown me out so that's an improvement"

"I'm tired Nik" I sighed as I pulled my top over my head and reached around to unclip my bra but it sprung apart before I even had the chance, I looked behind me seeing him right behind me making me frown as I slipped my arms out of the straps and grabbed the singlet putting it on then turned to him. "Look what happened today shouldn't have, I was feeling vulnerable when I saw you with Caroline and-" I jumped when his hand cupped my cheek.

"I don't think that's what it was love" he replied smirking. "I think you were jealous as I seem to recall you saying I needed to be reminded of who I belonged to" he backed me up until I felt my knees hit my bed and I nearly stumbled back but I caught onto his arms to keep myself standing.

"Nik don't do this, I haven't forgiven you-"

"I know but you asked me to fight for you and this is me doing that my love" I felt my heart stutter when I heard him call me 'my love'.

"This isn't fighting for me, this is seducing me" I protested even though I was losing the battle in trying to keep my composure in order to convince both him and myself that he wasn't affecting me even if it was a total lie.

"No but it's me working to earn your forgiveness Angel" he argued and I frowned since he was literally tugging at my heartstrings with both my nicknames. "I love you Sophia, always and forever and I'm sorry for everything" my eyes widened a little since he'd actually said 'I love you' and 'I'm sorry' in the same sentence but he stepped back letting me go. "Which is why I'll step back if you need me to, I'll do whatever you want Sophia"

"Nik wait!" I called when he started walking to my door. "I haven't forgiven you but if I'm capable of starting to forgive my brothers and give them a second chance after everything that happened between us then maybe I can learn to forgive you since I know you did it with what you thought was the best intentions even if they weren't the right intentions so you...you can stay" I stripped out of my pants and climbed into my bed waiting for him and he hesitated for a second before he came over and climbed in beside me and I laid down next to him, the two of us face to face.

"I'll do whatever it takes to earn your forgiveness Sophia"

"Just stay with me" I told him as I closed my eyes rolling over and he put his arm around my waist pulling me back into his chest.

"Always and Forever" he vowed making me smile before I let myself drift off.