Sophia's POV

I rolled over when the sunlight hit my face startling myself when I came into contact with a solid chest and I panicked for a second before last night came rushing back to the forefront of my mind and I looked up seeing Nik's sleeping form in the bed next to me looking quite peaceful while the memories filled my mind of our lips moving against one another's, my hips moving against his and the absolute bliss as I allowed myself to get lost in the night with him.

And for the first time as in what seemed like ages as I laid still watching him I felt at peace and not an urge to run in sight since this wasn't a mistake no matter what anyone else thought about him I was as in love with him from the moment I had began to fall for his devilish charm, I loved both sides of Nik meaning the good and the bad and I was happier with him than without him.

I smiled hearing him begin to stir and felt like having a laugh so I quickly got out of bed disappearing into the bathroom before he was even completely conscious and watched him from behind the door as his arm instinctively reached out to the space I had just vacated before his eyes blinked open and he lifted his head clearly looking for me, he sighed and flopped his head back down on the bed while I continued to watch as he rolled over and got up with the sheet falling away and I smiled taking in the perfect shape of my husband's body before I sped towards him.

"Good morning my lover" he actually jumped turning around with wide eyes before a grin replaced his surprise.

"Good morning my love"

"Think I ran away?" I smirked looking up at him through my eyelashes.

"Never" he lied making me smile as I lifted my hands running them over the smooth tones of his abs before up his arms and over his shoulders cupping the back of his head. "Where were you?" he asked.

"I wanted to watch your reaction, thought it'd be more entertaining" I fake pouted as my hands moved to his cheeks before melting back to the back of his head letting my fingers comb through his hair. "You missed me" I smirked up at him as I remembered the instant reach out as he'd woken up, Nik always was a morning cuddler when he actually woke up at the same time as I did instead of leaving me to sleep.

"You clearly missed me just as much love"

"Mm how do you figure that?" I asked letting my eyes roam his body admiring it since I had full legal right to.

"You're here aren't you, you didn't leave last night"

"Maybe I was just tired" I argued.

"That doesn't explain your drooling" he shot back and I immediately snapped my eyes up to meet his.

"I don't drool" I glared at him.

"You only have to take me if you want me, my love" he smirked but his words sparked my lust, I grabbed his arms spinning us around before pushing him down onto the bed straddling his waist.

"You want me?" I asked letting a finger run over his bottom lip and watched his eyes darken.

"Yes" he croaked out making me smirk, I was the only one that could make Niklaus like this and that was my greatest achievement that only I would ever have the privilege of knowing because he was mine.

"Then take me" I leaned down and had whispered his ear before I felt his hands grab my waist and move me to where he needed before I felt myself being completely filled by him and I moaned throwing my head back a little as I let my hands rest on his chest as he moved and set the pace that we both needed.

"Stay by my side"

"Always and Forever" I moaned right before I felt my orgasm ripple through me and he followed a fraction of a second later right as I collapsed against his chest before rolling off him to lay beside him, my chest heaving a little. "God I missed this" I breathed out before I realized what I said.

"I knew you did" he chuckled knowing he'd won our game before we had sank into our lust for each other's bodies and he rolled onto his side letting his fingers skim over my skin invoking my nerves to explode at his touch.

"Don't let it go to your head Niklaus" I stood up hearing him growl in annoyance for the interruption as I'm sure he wanted to remain in bed and continue to reconcile and rekindle our love but I had more to do today than lay in bed with him all day. "Don't growl at me, I've given you plenty this morning and last night...so suck it up" I went into the closet pulling out some clothes.

I grabbed a matching set of black lace undergarments slipping into them before I pulled out some short denim shorts that I knew clung a little snugly to my ass smiling a little to myself while I also pulled out a white singlet shirt before slipping into some heels turning to find Nik behind me already dressed and as soon as I had he leant in and kissed me.

"Were you waiting until I was done just to do that?" I questioned when he pulled back.

"Well I had wanted to continue to lay with my wife but she had other ideas so I'll take whatever I can get whenever I want" I scoffed and shook my head at him.

"Well some of us have actual things to do today besides hole up in a room and make love to their husbands" I remarked as we went downstairs and I passed the kitchen grabbing a blood bag out of the fridge pouring out the thick liquid into two glasses to share sliding him one as I threw the empty bag out and we drank our breakfast before he went into his art room to finish some painting he'd been working on for the 'Winter Wonderland' charity event the town was holding and I stretched out on the couch not far from his easel with the copy of Wuthering Heights which I had stolen from the Salvatore boarding house library.

'... so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same...', I smiled as I read my favorite line unable to look up at Nik since although I didn't really believe or want a love quite like Catherine and Heathcliff's the last line in that sentence I believed since when you loved someone so much lines began to blur and you changed and I believed that Nik and I's souls are intertwined in some way for if they weren't we never would have met and that would have been my tragedy as it meant I would have been forced to live a life that suffocated me, a loveless marriage and a hopeless existence...I looked up hearing heavy footsteps and rolled my eyes when I watched my little brother walk in and knew the peace and quiet was over.

"Looks like a giant snowflake"

"I prefer to think of it as an expression of post-modernism, it's my donation to the winter wonderland charity event" Nik replies and I smile a little right as Adrian enters, one of Nik's hybrids and his right hand given the others are dead.

"You said it was urgent?

"Yes, take this to the mystic grill immediately"

"You want me to be a delivery guy?" Adrian remarked and I raised an eye with the attitude since that was new.

"What I want is for you to do whatever I say, without the attitude" Nik bit back getting into Adrian's face and my face dropped even more when he scoffed and went over grabbing Nik's painting. "Be careful with that, it's still wet" Nik quickly warned him before Adrian leaves.

"Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, you know" Stefan protested and I scoffed rolling my eyes.

"What is the point of my hybrids being sired to me if I can't maximize on the benefits of free labor?" Nik replied and Stefan snickered while I sighed bookmarking my page before I put it down and swung my legs off the couch. "What are you doing here?"

"Elena is sired to Damon" Stefan told him and met my eyes seeing me frown at the reminder.

"I intuited as much" Nik smirked as I stood.

"Which means I need to find the cure now more than ever and here you are making post-modern snowflakes" I didn't think the cure was gonna solve this, I'd be happy to just kill Elena and problems are solved all over.

"I've delivered, I retrieved the hunter's sword from Italy which we'll use to decipher the map hidden in the hunter's mark, you're the one who's supposed to deliver the hunter and his mark"

"Well, Jeremy is the hunter and he has to keep killing vampires to complete his mark but we can't quite figure out how to keep him from killing us"

"Sounds like quite the chore, which is why I feel perfectly justified in doing a little charity work" Nik argued being absolutely no help making me roll my eyes.

"Or maybe you're lying about having found the sword" Stefan argued and I turned to him with a glare since I'd been with Nik and we'd found the stupid sword.

"Why would I lie to you, Stefan" Nik protested to his accusation and went into the other room unlocking his vault and pulled out the hunters sword. "We're in this together, the hilt acts as a cypher which we'll use to decode the marks on Jeremy's tattoo when he's killed enough vampires to complete it" he put it down on the table before sitting down and put his feet up on the table which I glared at him for since that table was antique while Stefan had picked up the sword and was inspecting the handle and looking at the hunters mark on the hilt. "I heard you moved out of your house, bit of a martyr move, hmm?" Stefan looked up.

"I'm not here to bond, Klaus" Stefan shot back dropping the sword back onto the table.

"Oh on the contrary, I think right now I'm the best friend you've got and we are brothers by marriage" he pointed to me and Stefan turned towards me.

"Your back with him?" he questioned and my eyes narrowed a little seeing the look on his face.

"That's not really any of your business is it" I bit back and he frowned before he turned and left without another word and I turned my head to face Nik who was watching him go with a smirk before he turned towards me and it dropped from his face when he saw my look. "You couldn't have let me break it to my brothers gently" I spat a him turning on my heel and left the room figuring I had about 10 minutes to tell Damon before Stefan spilled.

I grabbed my phone from upstairs and scrolled through my contacts stopping at Kol's for a second since I probably should call and check in with him being a while since I had before I continued on and found Damon's which was still logged under 'Backstabbing Twin' making me frown since I was putting the past in the past so I quickly changed to his actual name before I called him but it rung out making me sigh.

"Damon, call me back" I kept it short leaving him a voicemail before I hung up then grabbed my keys heading downstairs to leave but Nik stopped me at the door.

"Where are you going?" he asked.

"To do damage control, I just got my twin back in my life with a semi-stable relationship between us and I can't lose him Nik" he frowned looking like he wanted to stop me from leaving but he finally nodded and stepped aside. "Thank you" I walked over leaning up a little on the toe of my heels to press a kiss to his cheek. "I'll meet you at The Grill later okay"

"You better" he remarked with a small smile on his face making me smile back before I left getting into his SUV and drove over to the Boarding House.

On my way to the Boarding House Damon texted back saying that he'd call later and that he was away at the Gilbert Lakehouse which made me frown but hopefully that meant that Stefan hadn't had a chance to spill the fact that I was back with Nik yet so after changing at the Boarding House and packing up the clothes I had there, I went into town smiling when I saw all the decorations fit for a Winter Wonderland including a fake snow machine that was spraying buckets of snow out onto the lawn, Christmas has always been my favorite holiday even if I haven't exactly celebrated it in this past century since it had been too painful without my brothers.

During our human life we'd always loved when the servants would decorate the house for the holidays, we loved the the first snow fall and enjoyed many a days outside playing and hitting each other with snowballs but placing the star on the tree with Damon lifting me on his shoulders had always been my favorite part of the holiday since no matter what was happening around us, whether our father was a grump the entire time and especially after we'd lost our Mom it was always the three of us and we made sure that each Christmas was as memorable as the last...

But as it went it all stopped the moment we died and that's why I never really celebrated it again even if I did love the time of year especially with the recent times and how beautiful everyone made it with all the new traditions people came up with like wrapping lights around houses, the popcorn garlands that Kol and I loved to do before Nik daggered him last...I really should call Kol and get him around for Christmas so we can make some.

"...nice snowflake by the way" I heard Caroline's voice as I walked into The Grill to meet with Nik and frowned when I saw the two together over by his painting that he'd donated.

"Is my work really that literal" Nik asked her.

"I'm serious, there's something...lonely about it" I glared at her since he wasn't alone and quickly made my way over since I was not sitting back or leaving the two of them like I had at the pageant.

"I'm gonna take that as a compliment"

"Hello my lover" I smiled announcing myself and Nik turned to me with the same smile he'd been showing Caroline.

"Hello love" he kissed the side of my head as I was looking at Caroline.

"You can go now, he's not lonely anymore" I spat towards her and she seemed to hesitate and clearly looked like she wanted to persuade herself to say but she turned and left making me roll my eyes as I turned back to Nik seeing the amused smirk on his lips. "Don't"

"I wasn't..." he laughed shaking his head. "Can I get you some champagne?" he asked.

"Well I didn't just marry you for your looks" I remarked and he smiled heading off to get us some drinks while I looked around stopping a little at his artwork understanding why everyone was calling it a snowflake before I turned to where Nik was at the bar since seeing him with Caroline again brought back memories of what I'd heard at the pageant and the part he said about being human which led to me thinking about this cure we were all after.

I didn't know if I'd ever take it since my human life hadn't been that great aside from my brothers but even they hadn't been enough when I was alone, and everything that I had ever wanted for myself came to me after I became a vampire and with what he'd said made me sure that he'd never take the cure but I think we should at least talk about it since there was one thing the cure could give us that I had wanted when I was human...a family.


Third Person's POV

Stefan Salvatore looked down at his phone as the text from Caroline came through. He's here with Sophia, Go, he frowned at the change in plan since Caroline was supposed to be distracting Klaus but his sister had clearly ruined that although it meant they were both out of the mansion so he entered heading straight for the safe and not even bothering to try a combination since who knows which numbers or date was significant to Klaus and pried the lock right off opening it but the sword was gone and he sighed before he quickly started looking through the whole house for it but like the safe it was nowhere to be seen.

"Well he's not walking around with it, check the rest of the house" Damon said seeing as Stefan had called him during his search.

"I am, I haven't found anything" Stefan argued walking into a bedroom recoiling when he saw clothes on the floor, among them was a black skirt he recognized as his sisters with some black lace underwear next to it which made him shudder with the thought of what it clearly meant went on in this room.

"Try the sock drawer, people leave the sketchiest stuff in sock drawers"

"All I'm gonna find is our sisters knickers so I'm gonna need real ideas, Damon" Stefan argued.

"What are you talking about Stefan?" Damon asked his brother. "Sophia left his sorry ass"

"Yeah well not anymore" Stefan argued and on the other side of this call Damon glared since while he'd given Sophia a drunken blessing he'd hoped she'd came to her senses and wouldn't go back to Klaus but guess he was wrong.

"Well here's two: kill Tyler before he goes to Klaus or since Klaus has suddenly become MVP in our relay race for the cure, tell him about the hybrids and he'll kill Tyler"

"Nobody's killing Tyler " Stefan argued as he lifted the lid on a trunk and stopped when he saw the stack of letters which filled nearly the whole trunk and picked one up reading it seeing it was from some girl from way back before he'd obviously met his sister.

"Hello, Stefan?"

"Look, I know it's a touchy subject but do you know where Elena is today?" Stefan asked his brother getting back to the topic at hand and Damon stumbled since he knew exactly where Elena was but he couldn't exactly tell Stefan where.

"I think she's running around...trying to figure out how to deprogram Jeremy"

"How'd she take it last night...you telling her to stay away from you?"

"Not well"

"You okay?"

"Peachy" Damon sighed hating lying to his brother. "Got to go, Bonnie's enlisted Dr. Evil in her plan and I have to thwart him" Damon hung up then turned back to the lake house.


Sophia's POV

I had joined Nik at the bar but my train of thoughts was stuck on my revelation of what this cure could mean for me and although I was trying to push it back to the furthest parts of my mind given I knew that Nik would never take the cure with me meaning it was pointless to even dream about such a thing I couldn't stop and he clearly noticed.

"Something the matter, love?" he took my hand making me look up.

"Yeah sorry" I apologized hoping he didn't press it since I definitely couldn't talk to him about it since it'd only disappoint me further. "It's just all this festive decorations, this time of years always hard for me remember" he nodded and I saw his eyes looking at the gold bracelet around my wrist with the large lapis lazuli stone that prevented me from burning to death in the sun, it was a little outdated for this time but I loved it since Nik had gotten it for me a couple of days after I turned.

"You never did like Christmas, at least until Kol convinced you to celebrate it with him" he sighed a little jealously making me smile a little as I placed my hand over his.

"It had nothing to do with you and you know that"

"You never really explained why in detail but I always assumed it had something to do with your brothers" he suggested and I nodded my head.

"Christmas was our favorite holiday, we'd spend the entire day at home just baking cookies, opening whatever ridiculous presents we'd gotten each other at the time, days leading up to Christmas we'd help the servants decorate the house and Damon always made them leave the star for me, he'd lift me on his shoulders so that I could be the one to put it on top and after I turned the holiday just reminded me that they were gone and I was alone mourning them"

"You weren't alone" he argued making me smile.

"I know but you and I weren't exactly lovers back then and even though I loved living with you, Elijah and...it wasn't enough to fill that pain my brothers left when they were supposed to be dead" I didn't say Marcel's name since Nik hated hearing it. "When you woke Kol and we became close, he was adamant that I needed to celebrate in order to heal and that's when we invented the popcorn strings as we all know popcorn is my favorite snack, he helped me see past the pain the holiday brought me and reintroduced the beauty of the traditions"

"I get it love and I'm thankful for my brothers ability to cheer you up when I can't, I always have been grateful for him becoming your friend after I was no longer that person in your life" I nodded my head as I reminisced the times when Nik and I were just friends, we weren't as close as Kol and I were but we were close enough and the reason I would say we weren't like Kol and me was because from the beginning there was always underlying tension and feelings between us that went further than friends it just took us a while to actually see it for ourselves.

"You've helped me through my entire vampire life, you're the one that got me through all the hardships in the beginning, the middle and you'll be the one getting me through the unlikely end of my existence if that ever comes and no one will ever take that from you"

"You'll never die on my watch" he vowed and I laughed softly nodding my head.

"Just like you'll never come close to dying again on mine" I leaned forward and captured his lips feeling him still playing with my daylight bracelet which made me pull back. "You seem awfully focused on my bracelet today, something wrong with it?" I asked looking down since maybe there was something on it.

"No, nothing like that" he argued still staring down it before he suddenly pulled off my wrist.

"Hey!" I tried grabbing it. "Nik it's daylight out, I need that" I protested still trying to get it back confused on what game he was trying to play before he grabbed my hand and was suddenly slipping a ring down onto my right ring finger and I stared at it confused before I saw the stone and my eyes widened. "A daylight ring?" I held up my hand examining it carefully, it was beautiful but my bracelet held sentimental value.

"I thought it was time you had one, this bracelet is outdated"

"But I like my bracelet, it was the first gift you ever got me" I whined.

"You can still wear it but now you don't have to worry about this chunky metal on your wrist that doesn't really go with modern fashion" I raised my eye since he was acting weird.

"I like antiques" I shrugged making him laugh as he held up my bracelet.

"At least now you have the option to be less conspicuous in these times" I rolled my eyes but leaned forward pressing a kiss to his cheek.

"I appreciate the kind gesture" I told him so at least he knew that I did like the ring since it was beautiful but my bracelet would always hold a special place in my heart and like I now had the option to wear it instead of my life relying solely on it to keep me alive from the sun and I quickly played with it a little getting used to its presence since besides my wedding ring I didn't really wear any rings. "So where'd you get it, I doubt the Bennett witch would do anything for you and if you cornered her into making it I'm a little scared to test it"

"I still have a few witches in my corner" he replied vaguely.

"Are you sure it even works?" I questioned a little hesitantly not that I didn't trust him but not a lot of witches could or would make daylight rings for vampires.

"Lets test it shall we?" he stood and held out his hand and I turned towards the door even more skeptical.

"Be ready with my bracelet if this goes wrong" I sighed standing and taking his hand as we went out through the side door with me hesitating just a bit at the door before I stepped out seeing it was nearing sunset as I looked up at the sun before down at myself when I didn't immediately burst into flames and I smiled down at the ring since it worked.

"Well that wasn't as comical as your first time" Nik laughed and I turned to glare at him for the reminder.

"Shut up" I shoved his arm making him flinch back still laughing and pretty soon I was unable to stop myself from joining in as I remembered it as well.

It's been three days since I turned and I was sitting in my room Klaus had given me in their home in New Orleans looking outside the window listening to the lively streets of laughter, music and chatter of the people.

I unfortunately was stuck inside given my new vampire nature came with the disadvantage of burning in the sun and for an outdoorsy person like me it's been hard staying inside especially when it allowed me to think about and mourn my brothers, it's been three days and everything still hurts about that night.

I heard a knock on my door and called out that they could come in and smiled once Klaus opened my door and walked in, despite all that I was grateful to the chance that he'd given me by turning me into a vampire because I was going to get revenge on the bitch that got my brothers killed and I had the power to do that now.

"Hi" I greeted as he sat down on my bed with the thin stream of sunlight streaming across his face as I sat on my bed with my feet pulled close to me, I know it would have been smart to close the curtains but I wanted to see the sun to remind myself that I wasn't lying back there in the dark since I hated the dark now thanks to Katherine and George after they left me to die alone and in darkness.

"I've got something for you love" I raised an eye since he seemed excited which was strange as I haven't seen the look on him before, he's been kind and helping me adjust to everything vampirism had to offer and that's as far as our interactions have gone so far. "Close your eyes"

"Why?" I questioned suspiciously since I didn't know whether I could trust him.

"Just do it love" he argued and I narrowed my eyes. "For me" he said and I rolled my eyes but closed my eyes tensing up a little awaiting for whatever he was about to do and actually jumped when I felt him grab my hand and pull my arm towards him before I felt something slipping onto my wrist. "Okay now you can open them" I opened my eyes and looked down at my wrist seeing a thick gold banded bracelet with beautiful engravements on the band and in the center sat a rather large blue stone surrounded my small jewels.

"A bracelet?" I questioned wondering why he'd gotten me a bracelet as I looked up at him before touching it with my other hand running my fingers over the large stone.

"It's a lapis lazuli stone" he informed me and my eyes widened knowing what that meant since I'd known about Katherine's necklace that protected her and Pearl from burning in the sun thanks to Emily Bennett and the Mikaelson's all had rings that did the same thing.

"Is this a...daylight bracelet?" I asked and his response was to move towards the window and yank the curtains wide open. "No wait!" I yelled shrieking out a yell in fear of burning shutting my eyes awaiting the pain but nothing happened and I opened my eyes to see the sunlight glowing over my skin before my eyes widened and sped towards Klaus and hit his shoulder when he started laughing. "It's not funny, what if it didn't work I could have died!" I yelled at him before I turned to see that I was completely in the sun and my eyes lit up. "I can go outside...this...this is amazing!" I announced and spun in spot looking out at the sun. "Oh my god the sun never felt so good, I want to see this town in the daylight!" I sped towards the door but stopped when he didn't follow and I saw a genuine smile on his face as he was looking at me. "What?" I asked.

"Nothing, I'm just glad to see you like it"

"Are you kidding I love it, this is the best gift I've ever gotten" I admitted and if possible his smile lit up even more as he began walking towards me.

"Your emotions still seem to be a bit heightened"

"Yeah I know" I blushed since so far my emotions have been very heightened and that included all of them, joy, rage, despair, grief but I was still getting used to vampirism.

"Shall we, I'll show you everything this city and the world has to offer if you'd like love?" he held out his arm making me smile and almost blush at the chivalrous notion along with his words.

"I'd like that Mr Mikaelson" I smiled and playfully took his arm with a curtsy.

"Then let's go, Miss Salvatore" he winked and I swear my heart skipped a beat before I reminded myself that this was Klaus and he was just being nice given being my sire I was kind of his responsibility until I got the handle of this vampire thing.

"I still can't believe you did that" I laughed shaking my head at him as I came out of the memory.

"Best way to test it and I would have saved you if it hadn't worked" he reminded me making me smile before I turned to the town square seeing the festivities still going and I smiled at the snow machine quickly grabbing his hand pulling him across the road towards it. "What are you doing?" he questioned but I just smirked as I pulled him to stand with me under the stream of fake snow.

"The best part of Christmas was always the first snowfall, Damon and I used to wake up early when we were kids just to go outside and made snow angels and after Stefan was born we always woke him up just to drag him out into it even though he complained about the cold all the time it never bothered Damon or me and we'd spend all day outside until our noses were red and risking hypothermia and afterwards our Mom would always make us tea or cocoa and we'd sit by the fire to warm ourselves up laughing about our antics that day"

"You're very reflective today" Nik smiled after I was finished and I nodded.

"Having them sort of back in my life means I've been forced to relive most of our childhood and I've been letting myself remember a lot of it since it's less painful to think about now and you've always been mostly honest with me about your human life and your life before me so it's about time that I start telling you more about my life as a human"

"It's nice but I love you now so no matter what you tell me that'll never change"

"I love you" I smiled as I leaned in and pressed my lips against his as he pulled me in close and I smiled against his lips feeling the fake snow fall around us and it was as romantic as I'd always fantasized about since this was a dream come true for me, most people wanted that whole kissing in the rain thing but for me snow was more romantic for the promise it always seemed to lead to, a warm fire and with your lover the possibility of more intimate connection.

"I'm gonna go find you some cocoa" he announced after we pulled apart and I laughed a little. "Then perhaps we can go home and curl up by the fire and actually have one of those romantic nights we used to have"

"I'd like that Mr Mikaelson" his eyes flashed with the memory as he laughed a little leaning forward to kiss my forehead.

"Then it's what we'll do, Mrs Mikaelson" I smiled as I watched him go unable to stop as I looked around loving the whole atmosphere we'd created out of this event and the fact that Nik and I seemed to be back to normal.

I wondered around the celebrations knowing Nik could easily find me in the crowd but after 10 or so minutes went by and he still wasn't back I got a little worried and who can blame me with the amount of times the scooby gang has tried to kill him and get rid of him so I started looking around the town square frowning when I spotted him talking to some girl that I didn't recognize and it looked heated which confused me especially when she had the actual balls to get right up into his face before she left so I started heading over to question him on what that was and who she was when Stefan beat me to him.

"She doesn't like me much" I heard Nik say addressing the statement towards Stefan which furthered my confusion since clearly he knew her. "Where have you been all day?" he then went on to ask.

"I've been around" Stefan replied suspiciously.

"He's not interested in vagaries Stefan" I spat glaring at my brother unable to push back the feeling that they were up to something. "You've been dodgy and Caroline's been lurking pretending to be lovely with Nik which we've come to realize is a tool of distraction by being slutty, now do you have something to tell us or should he compel it out of you?" I added continuing my glare which was a tactic I used to use on him when he was little and always tried to lie to me, it never worked since I've always been able to see through my little brothers innocent acts especially given it angered me how Caroline thought she could get away with it.

"I broke into your safe to look for the sword" Stefan finally replied after looking directly into my eyes for a couple of tense seconds and I smirked since I still had it.

"Why?" Nik asked him and to the untrained ear you couldn't even tell that he was hurt by the betrayal of that sentence coming from Stefan.

"Because I don't trust you" Stefan admitted and I glared at him since were my brothers seriously this stupid especially when Nik's done nothing but help find this cure, sure it might be for his own gain in the end but he was helping.

"I showed you the sword, I explained its value, I've been on your side the entire time, what do you want from me?" Nik spat out angrily and betrayed. "A secret brotherhood handshake?" I couldn't help snigger at that amused by the thought.

"I found the letters" Stefan said and my face dropped of any amusement knowing exactly what letters he was talking about, the ones stored in a trunk tucked into a corner of our room from Nik's many pen pals and victims throughout the years, at least before he met me. "You have a few pen pals over the centuries?" Stefan asked and I saw his eyes drift over to me as he'd seen my look.

"Well is keeping my victims letters really so different from writing their name on a wall like you did...Rippah" I frowned at Nik's words knowing that's what Stefan did in his ripper days since that memory of us finding out had come back when Nik returned my memories hearing Nik laugh at Stefan's guilty look at being reminded before he fell silent and I looked up seeing his eyes looking past over Stefan's shoulder and followed his line of sight seeing Adrian before I looked back at Nik and swore I saw an angry glare towards the hybrid making me wonder what he'd done to anger Nik.

"Nik..." I trailed off when he walked past Stefan towards Adrian but stopped and turned back to face my little brother.

"Loneliness, Stefan" Nik suddenly said making my frown deepen as I looked at him. "That's why you and I memorialize our dead, there's the briefest of moments before we kill where we literally hold their life in our hands and then we rip it away and we're left with nothing, so gathering other people's letters or writing their names on a wall...it's a reminder...that in the end we're left infinitely and utterly alone...at least that's before I met your lovely sister and saved her when you and your brother didn't" he added and I smiled a little at the jab he sent my little bro with the last part and went towards him when he held out his hand for me to join him.

We started walking with Adrian in front of us until we got out of the main festivities and the town square before he pulled me to a stop and I turned towards him in confusion when I saw his look.

"I want you to go back to the mansion love, I'll meet you there shortly" he told me and my eyes narrowed.

"Why?"

"Just do as I say for once" he argued not giving me an answer before he walked away with Adrian, how hands attached until the last second before he was gone speeding away with the hybrid leaving me alone and I frowned since something didn't sit right with me.

I walked back through the square to go to Nik's SUV in order to head back to the mansion like he'd asked even if it was the last thing I really wanted to do since I just had one of my feelings that something was wrong but I stopped when I saw the same girl that Nik had spoken to talking to Tyler Lockwood.

"You're supposed to be taking the witch to the cellar" I heard Tyler say as he approached the girl as I trained my ears to listen to their conversation in order to figure out what the hell was going on.

"There is no witch Tyler" the girl replied.

"What?" Tyler asked her.

"I made it up, I never intended for you to put Klaus down I needed him for the sacrifice"

"The what?" Tyler asked her but I was stuck on the words 'put Klaus down', they were trying to kill him again.

"I don't know how to explain it but I made a deal with someone who can help me find my family"

"What are you talking about, what kind of deal?" Tyler asked her.

"There needed to be 12 for the sacrifice, Tyler" she replied and my eyes widened immediately understanding what she meant since aside from Tyler Lockwood there was 12 other hybrids and whatever these two had done had angered Nik and he was walking into a trap led by his anger meaning I didn't stand by to hear anymore and immediately took off after Nik.

"NIK!" I yelled as I ran towards the Lockwood cellar since it was the only place he could be running into the field eyes widening when I saw dead bodies all over the place. "Nik!" I called out moving towards the cellar but stopped when he walked up out of it, covered in blood from head to toe. "What have you done?" I asked staring wide eyed at him but he didn't even speak as he looked straight through me.

"I told you to go home" he finally said as he started walking away.

"No you don't get to turn this on me, what the hell did you do?!" I spat angrily since what the hell was this. "Nik talk to me!" I yelled when he remained silent.

"They broke their sire bonds!" he yelled out more in anger than at me but I still jumped at the sound of his fury.

"And that justifies all this!" I gestured around at all the blood, hearts and bodies that littered the forest floor. "You were manipulated by some girl to kill them, can't you see that...all this is for something bigger than a plain slaughter" I yelled back as I remembered that witch in New Orleans saying something about 12 people sacrifices, there was a reason for that number and it was for witchcraft. "You just opened up a can of who knows what without thinking as usual!" I turned and stormed off since even all this yelling at him I couldn't really blame him, this was all because of the stupid scooby gang and I knew Stefan was somehow apart of it and I wasn't sitting back and letting it happen.

I made my way to the Boarding House ready to unleash my anger on my little brother not caring in this moment that he was my brother because I am so sick in tired of being in the middle of this stupid war between my brothers and my husband because it wasn't going to end unless I put a stop to it and leaving Nik wasn't going to happen.

"...is this you in crisis mode, because it's a lot more stealth than mine" I heard the annoying voice of Caroline as I made my way towards the door hearing her from somewhere inside, good I can kill two idiots with one stone.

"I thought I'd be happier watching Klaus get led away to the slaughter but for some reason I can't help but feel kind of...guilty" I heard Stefan reply and I clenched my fists as I quietly made my way inside following the sound of their voices towards the library.

"Yeah, you and me both" Caroline replied but all I continued to do was hate her more. "All day I've been trying to remind myself of all the horrible things he's done"

"See that's the thing, we've all done horrible things and I'm sitting here trying to figure out what makes us any better than him and I think it's just that we have family we can trust" I stopped when I heard Stefan say this since maybe he was finally starting to see that they weren't as saintly as they all liked to believe they were, we were all vampires and have all spilled blood so they needed to get over this virtuous life they kept themselves locked in and get over themselves and stop trying to kill Nik.

"Yeah, you're right Stefan" I heard Caroline reply after she scoffed but by the tone of her voice she was clearly talking about something else which just reminded me to be pissed off. "Trust is everything. Have you heard from Damon?"

"Yeah, he's still with Jeremy at the lake house"

"Did he happen to mention...where Elena was?" she asked him and I was a little curious on where this conversation had gone given it regarded my twin who was supposed to have kicked Elena to the curb.

"Wait...why are you...why are you asking me this?" Stefan asked her making me roll my eyes since it was obvious where the doppelbitch was. "They're together aren't they...how together are they?" he went on when he realized what she was insinuating. "Caroline tell me...how together are they?"

"Isn't it obvious little brother?" I spat walking into the room and saw both their heads turn to me. "We obviously assumed too much of our brother and your precious Elena has turned out every bit the slut I knew she was and is a brother swapper" Stefan stood suddenly knocking over a chess piece on the board before he grabbed it and threw it following with throwing the table over in his anger sending it flying through the air into the far wall. "This is what you get for repeating history Stefan"

"Shut up!" he yelled at me but I wasn't done.

"I knew this would happen again...I warned you against it again but you and Damon never listen to me, you didn't listen to me in 1864 and you didn't listen to me now so you deserve every bit of pain you're feeling now and especially when I tear that doppelbitches heart out" I turned on my heels and headed for the doors but stopped. "Oh and if you two ever try to lead Klaus to his death again, I'll actually go through with what I came here to do and rip your bloody heads off...goodnight" I spat before I walked out and left them with everything I said.

I walked into the mansion to see Nik sitting on the stairs looking like he'd showered and changed out of the bloody clothes but as soon as I closed the door he shot to his feet, eyes wide as he stared at me.

"What?" I asked confused at his reaction.

"I thought...I thought you'd gone" he replied and my shoulders sank realizing what he meant by that.

"As much as I'm angry at you for what you did tonight, it wasn't entirely your fault and I'm too tired fighting with you and running away" he let out a sigh before he started walking towards me but I held up my hand. "That doesn't mean I'm just gonna forget about it, I'm going upstairs to shower since I feel gross than I'm going to bed...in the spare room tonight" I told him as I passed him heading up the stairs and I could feel his eyes on the back of my head but I wasn't being naïve and fall into his lap after tantrums like this, I hated repeated cycles and I wasn't going to fall into one of my own.