Sophia's POV
I've spent the last three days trying to distract Nik who was now on emergency cure mode since given he just killed every one of his hybrids he wanted this cure to give to Elena in order to use her as a blood bank again to make more but I knew that path would send him after my twin who was on hunter duty at the Gilbert lake house in order to prepare Jeremy to kill vampires and that it wasn't going so well hence the distracting Nik part.
But I could only keep him distracted for so long especially after it came out that the same night he killed his hybrids he also thought it'd be a genius idea to kill Carol Lockwood which had the town in mourning and a new mayor who we were less likely able to suck up to using her son as leverage to forgive...indiscretions such as slaughtering 12 people and the mayor.
And what do I wake up to this morning, a letter on his pillow telling me that he'd gone to the exact place I'd been trying to keep him from the past three days so I reached for my phone and immediately called him as I raced through the room throwing on clothes.
"Morning my love, got my letter I see" his voice rang through the moment he answered and he sounded awfully chipper meaning his mood had not improved and my twin was likely gonna get killed.
"Nik please don't do this, just come home" I begged as I left our room and headed downstairs.
"Sorry love but I've had enough of your distractions, I need that cure and I need to check in on the hunters progress to make that happen sooner rather than later" he argued and I knew there was no changing his mind but before I even thought about chasing after him the moment I stood at the bottom of the stairs I came face to face with Rebekah and my eyes widened in shock. "Soph?" I heard Nik say and I remembered I was on the phone with him.
"Do what you need to do but don't kill anyone okay, especially my twin...you can hurt him all you like just not fatally since that's my job if I ever desire"
"Thank you love" he replied before I hung up turning my attention back to Rebekah despite never taking my eyes off her during the conversation with Nik.
"Where's Niklaus?" she asked glaring at me.
"Not here" I shrugged answering her. "How are you here?"
"I actually have real friends that un-dagger me when they find out I've been daggered" she replied and I frowned since she had a point.
"To be fair right after they daggered you, Nik tried to compel me to forget about the cure expect that I was taking vervain and so when it didn't work he snapped my neck and practically kidnapped me"
"All that and your still here, forgiving my brother and being his doting little plaything"
"Look Bekah, you can hate me but honestly things are so more complicated these days than having to worry about you" I spat trying to pass her since I had to warn Stefan that Nik was on his way to Damon and that we had to further our efforts for this stupid cure on our end before Nik went on another rampage but right as I passed Rebekah I felt her hands on my head before nothing...
I jolted awake the moment my consciousness started coming back to me and stood up seeing I was in the high school library before I looked up once again coming face to face with my sister in law who was clearly on the war path and I sighed.
"You seriously snapped my neck?" I asked her.
"I had to get you here someway" she replied suddenly grabbing my arm and dragged me from the shelves and my eyes widened when I saw Stefan, Elena, Caroline and April who I'm guessing is the one who un-daggered Rebekah all sitting at a table and Rebekah pushed me down into one of the seats. "Any vervain on you my dear sister-in-law?" she asked and I frowned looking up at her which she took as an answer. "Good, don't get up until I say you can and answer truthfully to everything that I ask until you get up" she compelled forcing me to keep eye contact and I glared at her when I felt the difference immediately.
"Seriously Beks, I have better things to do today than sit here for whatever revenge plan you have cooked up" I complained but she didn't say anything.
"Where were we?" she asked herself before smirking. "Oh yes...Stefan Salvatore, the last time we saw each other, you had a vampire hunter but in order to decode the map, you needed the location of the hunter's sword which you got out of me using some very dirty tricks assuming you found the sword, you must have found the cure and yet you're all still vampires, which means something went wrong" she looks at April, who's writing. "What are you doing?" she asked the girl.
"You asked me to take notes" April replied dumbfounded.
"I wasn't being literal, darling but now that you mention it a flow chart would be nice, which means index cards and push pins, go fetch" Rebekah replied and April leaves.
"You're wasting your time, we don't know anything" Stefan spoke up after she was gone and I met his eyes since what the hell was this.
"So you just gave up, I thought you'd do anything to save Elena even if it meant taking the cure yourself so you could grow old and die with her" Rebekah went on ignoring him and I glared at Elena as she turned to look at Stefan seemingly surprised by that. "Why do you look so surprised?" Rebekah asked clearly seeing her look. "I'm missing something, what is it?" she asked and it was a tense silence between all of us as no answered.
"They broke up, okay!" Caroline finally exclaimed to break the silence. "Now let us go"
"Broke up?" Bekah asked laughing to herself with that notion. "Wait I'm confused, I thought Elena was your epic love Stefan" once again Stefan didn't answer as she stood next to me and leveled her gaze with him. "I asked you what happened and you have to tell me"
"She slept with Damon" Stefan answered not having a choice and Elena's eyes shot towards him in shock before they turned to Caroline with suspicion realizing that the blonde spilled her dirty little secret.
"So, vampire Elena is a trollop who likes bad boys, which explains why Stefan reeks of alcohol but what it doesn't explain is why sweet, loving, innocent Elena could be so heartless towards Stefan, how could she hurt you like that...answer, please?" Rebekah went on.
"She didn't know it at the time but she was sired to Damon"
"A sire bond...fascinating" she smirked turning to Elena. "And what do you think about that, Elena?"
"I think you're sad and bored and in desperate need of a hobby" Elena snarked back at her.
"You're hiding something, fess up"
"I didn't sleep with Damon because of the sire bond, I slept with Damon because I'm in love with him" Elena replied saying the truth due to the compulsion and all our eyes shot towards her as even her eyes widened at the revelation.
"What does any of this have to do with the stupid cure?" I asked Rebekah when I saw Stefan's face since she might be my sister-in-law but he was my brother and although I'd told him this would happen didn't mean I enjoyed watching his heart breaking even more.
"You're right we got off the point, Stefan how do I find the cure?" she got back onto the topic of the cure. "Unless you'd rather talk about Damon and Elena all day" she added when he tried to stay quiet again.
"There's a Professor, he knows where the cure is"
"Thank you and uh...where do I find this Professor?" she asked looking around.
"Whitmore College" I said when no one else did since the sooner we found this damn cure the sooner things could go back to bloody normal.
"Thank you Sophia" she smiled at me before she stood pulling out her phone texting someone before she took held up a different phone and called someone.
"I told you I don't wanna talk" I heard the distinct voice of Tyler Lockwood answer.
"I heard, you're keeping all that rage bottled up inside, Caroline's worried sick about you
"Rebekah?" Tyler asked with confusion.
"Hello Tyler, I heard my brother made a real mess of your life...believe me, I can relate you have my condolences, in fact why don't you come down to the high school so you can accept them in person?"
"And why would I do that?" he asked her.
"Because I have your girlfriend, maybe you have a better shot at saving her than you did your mother" she explained before hanging up. "Now onto my sister-in-law" I looked up when Rebekah turned her attention onto me. "Where's my brother?" she asked and I frowned.
"I don't know" I replied and her eyes narrowed for the fact I'd gotten out a lie...kind of since it was easy to find loopholes especially when I didn't know where Kol or Elijah were and they were also her brothers she just had to be more specific.
"How could you...go back to Niklaus after what he did?" she asked and I tried to keep my mouth shut but everything inside me told me to spill.
"Because I love him" I spat out after much deliberation with myself to remain quiet.
"Even after he lied to you about your brothers being alive, compelling you to forget you found Stefan in Chicago-"
"That's old news Bekah" I spat out glaring at her.
"How do you know you can trust that he isn't hiding more from you"
"I don't" I replied before I could stop myself and frowned looking down at the table when she smiled meaning she got what she wanted me to say.
"Have you forgiven Niklaus?" she'd clearly realized I'd figured out the loophole since she kept saying Nik's full name.
"I haven't" I replied having no choice but to answer with the truth and her smile grew even wider. "But that doesn't mean he still can't earn my forgiveness" I spat glaring at her.
"Do you actually believe that?"
"Yes" I spat intensifying my glare and clearly she hadn't counted on that and before she had the chance to continue this torment the door opened slightly.
"Sister" Kol greeted before his eyes fell onto all of us and my eyes widened at the sight of him.
"Kol" I breathed out and he met my eyes for a second before he looked back at Rebekah.
"You're even worse than Klaus" he smirked in his usual devilishly way.
"Kol. Finally, did you bring me what I asked for?" Rebekah asks him and his response is to push some guy into the room.
"You must be Shane" she smirked at him before turning to us. "No one gets up" she told us before she left with Kol who looked back at me and I sent him a begging look to get me out of this before he went with Rebekah dragging Shane out of the room.
"Anyone got a pencil so I can stab myself?" I sighed leveling my gaze with the table but no one answered, I clenched my fists underneath the chair as I tried to fight against Rebekah's compulsion, this was exactly what I'd always been afraid of and what Nik had been afraid of which is why he never told me about him killing their mother but no matter how hard I tried to stand.
"Still glued to your seats?" Rebekah suddenly announced walking back into the library. "Ooh, it's thick with tension in here, let's spice things up a bit" I looked up glaring at her but she ignored everyone else and turned to Elena. "Elena, truth or dare?" she asked her.
"We're done playing your stupid games, Rebekah" Stefan spat.
"Truth or dare, Elena?" Rebekah asked again ignoring him. "You're compelled, answer" she added but I already knew it wasn't really an option.
"Dare" Elena finally replied not having a choice.
"I dare you to tell Stefan the truth about Damon" Rebekah smirked and I rolled my eyes.
"Seriously?" I spat at her annoyed.
"Being with Damon makes me happy" Elena answered and I glared at her.
"Makes you happy, clowns make you happy Elena, dig a little deeper?" Rebekah argued.
"When I'm with him... it feels unpredictable, like...like I'm free" Elena added
"And how do you feel when you're with Stefan?" Rebekah asked her again.
"Stop!" Caroline exclaimed but Rebekah just smirked.
"She can't she's compelled"
"Lately, I feel like I'm a project like I'm a problem that needs to be fixed, I think I make him sad and I can't be with someone like that because...when he looks at me, all he sees is a broken toy" Rebekah smirked towards my brother knowing the knife she was digging into his heart and I glared at her.
"Do you still love Stefan?" Rebekah asked turning back to Elena.
"Yes" Elena replied straight away.
"Are you still in love with Stefan?" she clarified her question.
"No" Elena practically whispered after a second of silence and Rebekah looks at Stefan.
"Did that hurt having someone you love drive a dagger through your heart?" she asked him.
"Go to hell" he spat at her.
"Did...that...hurt?" she asked him again pronouncing each word slowly.
"Yes" he had no choice but to reply and I frowned meeting his eyes feeling the hurt and heartbreak clearly and felt my head constrict for the pain my little brother was feeling all because like an idiot he fell in love with a doppelganger all over again when he should have learnt the first time.
"Welcome to the last 900 years of my life" Rebekah stated and I frowned since my heart also felt for her knowing about all her failed attempts at love but that wasn't excuse but before I could tell her that the door opened and Tyler Lockwood came running in. "Ah, good you're here, it was just getting depressing"
"What the hell is going on?" Tyler asked looking at us all sitting at the table.
"Listen to the rules carefully, stay in the building, no vamp-running in the hallways" Rebekah explained as she walked towards him.
"Vamp-running from what?" Caroline asked her but she turned towards Tyler and locked eyes with him.
"Turn"
"What?!" Elena exclaimed while I just glared at Rebekah since now that was going overboard.
"But he can't, he'll lose control" Caroline added.
"That's the whole point, I've exhausted all your knowledge now I have the Professor to help me find the cure, you're just competition...whoever finds it first gets to decide what to do with it, use it, share it, destroy it, save it...I want that to be me" Rebekah argued.
"But if I turn, I'll kill them" Tyler protested.
"Yes, you will" she smirked before locking eyes with him. "Turn" she told him more forcibly before she turned towards us with a smirk before she left the room and my hand instinctively raised to my neck for my necklace but came up empty and my mind flashed back to me rushing to go after Nik and forgetting to put in on.
"Crap" I whispered to myself before looking up meeting my little brothers eyes but Tyler starts turning which draws his eyes while we turn to the werewolf fighting against the compulsion by crashing into things, throwing things but it was gonna be for nothing since he wouldn't be able to fight the compulsion and Stefan knew this pulling Caroline and Elena behind him while I already started backing up towards the door before I turned and left since I wasn't sticking around to be bitten again.
"You should be thanking me" I heard Kol's voice from down the hall and started running for it.
"You killed my only chance at finding the cure" I heard Rebekah complain.
"Silas on the loose would be hell on earth and frankly, sister...I don't think you could handle it"
"How did you get that?" Rebekah asks him.
"Way too easily" I heard Kol say right as I slammed myself through the door quickly shutting it turning to find both their eyes on me but I focused on Rebekah.
"You've had your fun Rebekah now let me the hell out of this school before I become werewolf bait!" I glared at her and she smirked.
"Nik wouldn't be too happy with that sister" Kol had the audacity to smirk as well so I turned my glare onto him.
"I know" Rebekah replied amused but I wasn't.
"Now Rebekah!" I yelled letting my uncommon temper out and both their eyes raised a little before they laughed.
"Your free to leave" she finally said locking eyes and letting me free of her compulsion and I sighed out in relief before I turned to Kol as he left and I followed him.
"You're an ass, why the hell didn't you help me?" I asked as we walked out of the school together.
"You weren't in any real danger, Rebekah never would have let anything happen to you, she's too scared of Niklaus for that"
"Doesn't mean what she did was right" I spat crossing my arms over my chest before we stopped and I smiled at him quickly hugging him. "It is good to see you Kol"
"You too Soph" he replied before we pulled apart and that's when I hit his shoulder.
"That was for not helping me, it's justifiable deserving" I told him when he looked at me with wide eyes before we laughed a little. "Now what about this Silas person I heard you freaking out about?" I asked him and he did, he told me about all the legends he'd heard about Silas and I agreed that if this Silas person is real he shouldn't be released but also because I don't want this damn cure found because that little dopplebitch doesn't deserve it and after this I was gonna follow through with my threats and rip her damn head off for breaking my little brothers heart.
"Well in that case, care to assist me in killing the doppelganger bitch that's broken my baby brothers heart and swapping to my twin like the backstabbing slut that she is?" I asked Kol and he smirked.
"With you, any day" he replied before hanging his arm over my shoulder and I smirked letting him have it there for a few seconds as we walked before I pushed him away from me laughing.
"So we'll start with you first, what's your plan to prevent this cure from being found?" I asked.
"First thing, where is my brother?" he asks me and I frown not seeing how that's relevant.
"He's with Damon at the Gilbert's lake house, they're trying to complete the hunters mark which leads to the cure"
"Then that is how first course of action" he replied and started walking off ahead of me making me frown since I had a bad feeling about this, although I didn't want this cure to be found something told me Kol was about to become his psychotic maniac alter ego which wasn't unusual for him given under the surface he always had psychotic maniac tendencies but this felt different which meant I was going to have to keep my eyes open on both him and Nik given they were on opposite sides and when Mikaelson siblings fight there's always crossfire causalities which I couldn't let that happen.
