Sophia's POV
I stirred slowly blinking my eyes when direct sunlight shined through the open curtains and my eyes drifted down to my wrist where my daylight bracelet wrapped around my wrist before I acutely became aware of the weight wrapped around my waist and I smiled a little surprised that he was still here since even in the days leading up to the day everything went to hell he'd always been up early and I'd woke up alone and I really wanted to stay here all day like this but I knew the peace couldn't last.
I lifted the arm off my waist and slipped out of the bed walking silently towards the bathroom where I shut the door and stripped out of my clothes jumping into the shower and was mid-way through washing my hair when I heard the door open and cracked an eye open seeing Nik standing at the doorway leaning against the frame.
"Well good morning sleeping beauty" I smirked at him as I finished getting the shampoo out and brushed my hair over one shoulder as I got out grabbing a towel and wrapped it around myself.
"What can I say I was comfortable until you left the bed" he replied and I smiled a little at him as I moved past him and went into my closet pulling out some clothes but suddenly felt a pair of arms wrap around my waist from behind. "Anything I can do to convince you to return to that bed with me and stay there all day"
"Well as much as I'm sure you'd love that I can't" I smiled before I threw my elbow back knocking him away from me. "Because you have to earn the morning sleep ins again and Damon's making me help set up for some ridiculous high school pageant" I moved out of his grasp and pulled on my underwear than turned towards Nik seeing his eyes locked on me. "Perhaps can meet me there tomorrow, that is if you want?"
"Afraid to be seen with me?" he smirked and I rolled my eyes.
"No but I promised Damon I'd go with him besides I'm not being your date until I've forgiven you" I pulled out some blue jeans pulling them on before I pulled a cream colored top on.
"You're going with your brother over me?"
"It's not like he's my date that's just disgusting" I rolled my eyes grabbing some heels. "We just decided to show up together at the same time especially since he knows about the cure as well and will undoubtedly join the plight to find it for the dopplebitch"
"Damon knows about the cure?" Nik asked and I turned seeing him looking angry and I realized that I'd thrown Stefan under the bus but he was looking at me like I was the one that had said something and that pissed me off.
"Don't look at me, I've been with you in Italy remember" I glared at him before I rolled my eyes and took a breath to calm myself back down "Just leave him alone okay, he won't jeopardize your plan"
"I doubt that" he scoffed.
"Nik trust me" I warned him but he ignored me and left making me frown as I shook my head knowing nothing I did was gonna stop him so I finished getting ready doing my make-up and hair curling it a little to leave down before I was done and went downstairs to leave in order to help out with this pageant which was I really didn't want to but it wasn't like I had much else to do.
"Where have you been?" I heard Damon's voice as I approached the stairs.
"Oh you know, out" Stefan spat as I headed down and saw him walking right past Damon with a bag swung over his shoulder.
"Where are you going?" Damon asked him.
"Out" Stefan repeated making me sigh and roll my eyes for the fact that they seemed to still be fighting.
"Okay, I see shady Stefan's back" Damon complained and Stefan stopped turning from the door. "Please don't tell me that you're still working with Klaus" I glared at my twin since he changed his tune on Nik a lot which told me he was more than likely drunk during our talk yesterday.
"You obviously haven't heard...Elena and I broke up" Stefan said and my eyes widened since when the hell did that happen.
"Oh" Damon breathed out in his own surprise. "Got it, uh well I'll be quick then, so apparently if we wanna find the cure we have to find a vampire hunter who can kill enough vampires to reveal the map on the hunters mark, now unless we want Jeremy to go all Connor 2.0 I suggest we find a different hunter" I raised an eye since did he really think that'd be easy considering it's been 500 years since the last ones, Jeremy just seemed like an unfortunate fluke after Connor died.
"Okay, and?" Stefan asked.
"And I was gonna ask Professor Shane but it turns out he's shadier than you are, Matt Donovan connected him and the pastor through phone records"
"Apparently the two were very chatty the day the pastor blew up the council" I nodded stepping into the conversation as I stopped next to Damon.
"Oh" I raised an eye at Stefan's lack of interest. "So your gonna confront Shane, threaten him, possibly kill him that sort of thing?" he asked us, Damon and I shared a look before shrugging since that sounded okay to me.
"Yeah unless he tells me what he's up to" Damon smirked and I scoffed with a small laugh agreeing with him. "What do you say, should we tag team this?" Damon asked Stefan hitting his shoulder.
"Nah" Stefan replied making me frown. "I'd say you two are on your own"
"Or we could just blow it off man, go get drunk...sibling bond over some Tri-Delts" I rolled my eyes agreeing with all that except the 'Tri-Delts' since I'd much prefer a frat boy thanks. "If you...you know want some quality time?" Stefan chuckled under his breath.
"Let's not pretend like this isn't the best day of your life" Stefan argues towards Damon before he walks out and I let out a heavy sigh.
"I should..." I turned to Damon and he nodded knowing what I was gonna say. "I'll see you at the pageant later okay" I turned and quickly ran to catch up with Stefan. "Stef wait!" I called and he stopped. "I want to help"
"I don't need your help"
"Well too bad because you've got it, no strings attached and I definitely won't talk to you about the doppelbitch so your safe and that's the only time I'll bring her up"
"Fine but stay out of my way" he spat and I laughed shaking my head.
"That works for me little brother so long as you stay out of my way as well" I skipped up next to him as we walked. "So where are we going?" I questioned.
"To get ourselves some vampires" I raised a questioning eye but followed him wordlessly as we went to the hospital and found our way to the surgery ward and we both started looking at patient charts since Stefan still had his conscience and was clearly looking for those he could turn without feeling guilty about it.
'Quadruple Bypass Complications' I read on one of the files and frowned putting it back shaking my head when Stefan looked at me and we moved on but radio chatter reached our eyes and we turned down a different hall seeing a police officer standing guard outside one of the doors.
"Can I help you?" he asked as we approached him.
"Time for a little break, he'll be safe with us" I compelled him and he nodded before walking off allowing us access to the room and we saw a man handcuffed to the bed and Stefan approached him.
"Who are you's?" the guy questioned.
"Why is there a cop outside?" Stefan asked compelling the guy.
"I'm a convicted murderer"
"Are you guilty?" Stefan asked.
"Of course I am" the guy replied.
"Any regrets?"
"Only that I got caught" he replied and Stefan bit into his wrist forcing it to the guys mouth before he snapped his neck.
"Well that was dramatic Stef" I laughed as he grabbed him slinging the dead weight over his shoulder and we left the hospital taking the unconscious criminal to the old Lockwood Cellar waiting for him to wake up. "We should've grabbed some blood bags" I sighed kicking the guys foot since he was taking his damn time.
"We'll use Jeremy"
"Not I meant for us, I need a snack since all this waiting his bloody boring" he rolled his eyes watching as more and more time went by. "Are we sure your blood even entered this guy's system" I groaned seeing it was getting darker from the entrance meaning it had been hours and dusk was settling in.
"Can you shut up for five minutes" Stefan complained and I rolled my eyes as I leant back against the wall crossing my arms over my chest.
"Well technically we've been here for half a day waiting for this guy to wake up and I've barely spoken so therefore I can shut up for more than five minutes but my boredom is growing"
"Well go, I don't need your help" he snapped making me scoff and raise an eye at him.
"I never knew my little brother could be so horrible, vampirism really changed you"
"I'm not the only one that has, I remember my sister being kind-"
"The one that used to sneak you Damon's extra cookies" I laughed cutting him off and it actually brought on a smile as he recalled those times.
"Like I said you were nicer back then"
"So we're you little bro" I joked and nudged him. "Alright, this guys taking his damn time and I'm famished so I'm gonna go get myself someone to drink, you want me to bring you back someone" I stood upright pushing off the wall.
"Nah I'm good" he replied and I gave him a look before I nodded and left the cellar and used my vamp speed to get me to the closest place I knew I could get some food since as much as I'd actually like some warm blood from the vein it wasn't really a practice we could partake in this hell town and the closest place with blood bags just happened to be Nik's mansion and technically the place was still half mine.
I walked right in since I couldn't hear any movement or voices meaning I got lucky and Nik wasn't home then made my way to the kitchen opening the fridge moving aside everything that didn't interest me and smirked when I spotted the blood bags in the back and grabbed one before I stood upright and closed the fridge..
"Holy hell..." I jumped the moment I turned around and saw Nik standing behind me, hands held behind his back and a smirk on his face. "What are you doing here?" I asked him.
"I could ask you the same thing"
"I needed a drink" I held up the blood bag before grabbing a glass and ripped the top off the bag emptying it into the glass.
"Your brothers hide all their blood bags?" he questioned.
"No, this place just happened to be closer and it's not like I can grab an actual bite now could I?"
"I don't know, your welcome to if you want" he smirked and held out his arm.
"In your dreams Nik" I raised the glass to my lips and sipped it slowly relishing in the taste of blood since it's been at least a couple of days since I'd fed. "So what'd you take off this morning for"
"Didn't think you'd mind" he argued grabbing the glass out of my hands and drank some with a smirk that I glared at him for before he handed it back and I finished it off before placing it in the sink.
"Well thanks for the drink but I'll be-" I turned only to get pinned against the counter his hands on my waist. "Hands off Nik" I warned him but he just smiled and lifted me up so I was sitting on top of the counter top.
"Just say no love and I'll stop"
"I just did" I argued pushing my hands against his chest.
"Not convincingly" he argued and I glared at him as his hands travelled down my calves to the backs of my knees which he helped hook my legs around his waist and I frowned finding myself drawn into him like usual.
"You're not cute Nik" I argued shaking my head moving my hands up to his shoulders before sliding them towards the back of his head into his hair tugging on the blond curls.
"Sophia-"
"I can't do this Nik" I sighed pulling my hands back. "I should probably go before this...goes any further" he frowned and stepped back letting me go. "This hurts me to Nik but it has to be this way for now" I added jumping off the counter with a heavy sigh. "I'll see you tomorrow" I squeezed his hand before turning and left heading back to the boarding house going straight to my room figuring I could get some sleep before the torturous pageant tomorrow.
I woke up and the first thing I did was reach across to the empty space in the bed since it still felt so weird waking up alone and in this bed and having Nik here yesterday morning made it worse as I missed him but I quickly pushed that longing aside as I got up and showered before I slipped into the red skirt which was longer in the back and paired it with a black singlet and some black heels before grabbing my necklaces putting them around my neck.
I kept my hair down curling it before I did my make-up keeping them in natural tones with red lipstick then grabbed a small clutch purse as I left my room heading downstairs finding Damon waiting for me in a suit and he turned raising his eyes as he looked me up and down which made me look down at myself.
"What?"
"Nothing, I guess I'm still getting used to seeing you like this" he replied and I scoffed shaking my head.
"It's the 21st century brother, get over it since at least I'm no lady of the night" I bit back at him before I walked outside hearing him follow me and we got into his Camaro and he drove to the pageant and we walked in together.
"I'm gonna go find Elena" Damon stated and walked off before I even had the chance to say something and I watched him disappear upstairs and I glared at his retreating figure before I heard my phone buzzed in my bag so I pulled it out and saw a text from Stefan saying that the guy was awake.
On my way to help – Sophia, I turned around smiling a little as I held up Damon's keys which I had swiped from him as soon as we had exited his car and he was oblivious and quickly climbed into his car driving to as close to the cellar as I could get before going on foot and went down the stairs but I did not find what I'd expected.
"Stefan!" he was hunched over groaning out and I knew he was in pain and as I knelt beside him I saw the wooden stake sticking out of his stomach so I grabbed it and yanked it out. "What happened, where's Jeremy?" I asked looking over and saw the guy we'd turned was dead and desiccated.
"He's gone" he groaned out holding his hand over the wound.
"Where would he go?" I asked helping him stand.
"He changed, the mark is changing him"
"Great" I sighed since that's just what we needed, a Connor 2.0. "Well at least we know where he'll be heading, where all the vampires are" he looked up understanding and we quickly took off.
"Damon lent you his car?" he questioned as he saw me approaching it.
"Not exactly" I smirked getting into the drivers seat and he got into the passenger and I wasted no time in driving us back to the pageant.
We arrived and I didn't even bother parking the Camaro properly before Stefan and I both jumped out of the car and sped into the house up to the second story seemingly just in time as Jeremy had Elena injured with a wood stake in her throat and looking ready to deliver the final blow to the heart and Stefan raced forward grabbing Jeremy and forcing him away from Elena and I noticed Matt was in the room as well.
"Get him out of here Matt!" Stefan yelled towards Matt shoving Jeremy towards him and he quickly dragged Jeremy out of the room and I turned towards Elena as Stefan went over as she was trying to pull the skate out of her neck. "Let me do it, let me do it" he insisted and gently pulled it out of her neck and she gasped once it was out and she could breathe properly again and I could see them begin to have a moment making me roll my eyes and walk out of the room not wanting to see it.
I went downstairs figuring I needed to find Nik since I owed him an apology for not showing up when I'd told him I'd meet him here so I went out through the back doors walking towards the stairs but stopped when I spotted him near the lake with Caroline walking back towards the house but they stopped.
"I never answered your question, if I ever thought about being human" I frowned staring out at him. "Once I was on a trek in the Andes and a hummingbird flew up to me and just hovered there staring at me, its tiny heart was pattering like a machine gun...and I thought, 'what a thing you know to have to work that hard every day just to stay alive, to be constantly on the verge of death' and how satisfying every day must be that it survived...and that was the only time I thought about being human" I glared at him confessing something so personal before I turned and left the pageant heading back to the boarding house.
Stefan and Damon arrived open and we were all surprisingly in the same room actually having a semi normal sibling night in when there was suddenly a knock on the door and Damon was up and headed over to open the door letting whoever it was in while Stef and I stood walking to the entrance and I frowned at the sight of Elena.
"I can't stay at home anymore" Elena spoke up and I crossed my arms at the sight of bags in her arms since if she thought she could crash here than she was...
"Pick a room" Stefan replied and I turned towards him, my eyes shooting open wider as I stared at him in shock. "I'll crash somewhere else" he added before he headed for the door
"What!?" I exclaimed turning back to glare at Elena since the bitch just ruined everything, this had become my home, my safe and peaceful place but now she's here ruining this part of my life as well. "I'm not staying here with the doppelbitch, wait up Stef" I spat sending a hateful glare towards Elena as I walked past her walking out the front door with Stefan.
I followed him to a house and I frowned when I recognized it as Caroline's since this is the last place that I wanted to be right now after seeing her with Nik and hearing the two of them talk but here was better than home right now and when Stefan knocked Caroline opened the door, her eyes widening at the sight of me with Stefan.
"What's she doing here?" Caroline asked crossing her arms as she glared at me and I raised an amused eyebrow at her.
"Hey blondie" I smirked pushing past her since I was already invited in with Stefan following and Caroline closed the door behind us as Stefan starts pouring alcohol into three glasses.
"Elena is right, I just...I need to let go" Stefan scoffed picking up one of the glasses and took a sip.
"No you're right Stefan, it's not pretty and it's not easy but you can't give up on her" Caroline argued while I just sat back after picking up my glass and was sipping at it.
"Caroline, she looked me in the eye and she told me to move on" I rolled my eyes since was anybody really capable of moving on.
"She's lost ok, you and her...epic, her and Damon...ugh"
"Watch it blondie, that's my twin brother" I glared at her before turned to Stefan. "You know my opinion, you both deserve better that the doppelbitch, you always have" he frowned staring at me and I sighed finishing my drink before I stood since I knew I wasn't really wanted here and my brothers would never share my opinion on the bitch. "I'll find somewhere else to go, thanks for the drink blondie" I smirked at her before I left her house.
With the boarding house out the option now and the fact that I really didn't want to be around the blonde bitch who was constantly around my husband there was only one other place in this godforsaken town that I had left to go so I made my way to the mansion knocking on the door figuring I had to this time and it wasn't long before the door swing open and I met the eyes of my husband who was surprised to see me.
"Hi" I smiled at him.
"Hi" he responded and opened the door wider to let me in. "Are you okay?" he asked as I walked in sighing around at the place which was once my home too.
"I need to stay for a little bit" I replied instead without even turning to look at him to see his reaction.
"This is your home as well, your always welcome here"
"Thanks" I replied and turned around facing him.
"So what happened for you to need a place to stay?" he asked following me as I moved into the parlor room sitting down in one of the couches and he sat next to me.
"Lets just say the boarding house has a vermin problem" I replied and he chuckled a little bit as if he knew what I meant. "You know I was just starting to think my brothers were finally seeing things clearly but whenever she turns up their brains turn to mush and now there right back where they started fighting over the same vampire slut reincarnated and they can argue all they like Elena is just like Katherine, if not worse and she's gonna be the death of them since becoming a vampire seems to have finally turned her into the slut she's always been
"Very peculiar" he smirked and I looked up raising an eye at him since what the hell did that mean.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked him and he chuckled again.
"You know" he nodded at me and I frowned. "Think about it, her strange behavior, the way she does whatever Damon says-"
"Oh my god!" I exclaimed when it clicked what he was trying to get across. "That's not possible"
"Actually it's quite possible but there has to be feelings already in place, vampirism only heightens those feelings and that's what makes it possible"
"Well I knew she was a slut but a...a sire bond, really?" I asked and he nodded making me sigh since that's just perfect. "Well that's just perfect, now I bloody want to find this cure just so I can shove it down the bitches throat so I can kill her which means you just need to hurry up and find the cure"
"I'm working on it" he nodded at me and I huffed since it needed to be found ASAP because I was not watching history repeat itself and I was not watching my brothers tear each other apart over a girl, not when I'd just gotten them back and was having a semi-stable relationship with them.
"I can't watch it happen again" I sighed before I felt his hand on my thigh and I turned seeing him looking at me sympathetically but I frowned and moved my leg watching his face change into confusion. "Anyway I'm tired, I'll see you tomorrow" I stood up and started walking out.
"Your angry at me again, why?" he snapped stopping me.
"Why don't you ask Caroline, you two seem to so close today talking about being human" I snapped turning to glare at him over my shoulder.
"Your angry at me for that, you're the one that didn't show up when you asked me to meet you there-"
"Because I was helping Stefan!" I exclaimed turning to face him. "He turned someone for Jeremy to kill exactly like you wanted"
"That doesn't concern you"
"He's my brother Niklaus and Jeremy attacked him and that concerns me, that doesn't give you a pass to stroll off into the sunset with the blonde baby vamp" I spat at him before I turned and walked started to walk to the stairs but I felt him grab my arm.
"You're the one that's walked away from me!" he yelled getting in my face so I pushed back against his chest.
"I was angry at you, I didn't walk away from you!" I yelled back at him. "And that doesn't mean you get to run around and be unfaithful"
"Your calling me unfaithful?" he snapped and I stepped back since maybe that was a step too far but I was angry.
"I can't deal with this right now" I spat turning and vamp sped up the stairs before he had a chance to stop me again and I found a room locking the door since I didn't want him around right now, I knew I was probably being a naïve jealous bitch right now but I deserved to be and once again I wasn't letting go that easily.
