Sophia's POV

The drive to Mystic Falls was silent and I tried to sleep for most of it since I haven't actually been getting a lot of sleep these past couple of days but when we finally past the sign that welcomed us I couldn't help finally looking over at Nik knowing that I had to bring up something that might not go over well with him but I wanted this.

"Hey, can you drop me off at the Boarding House then-"

"You want me to give you time with your brothers without me?" he asked cutting me off and I frowned but slowly nodded my head. "Okay" he agreed making my eyes widen but I didn't say anything else as he finally pulled up just at the base of the driveway.

"Just give me a couple of hours" he nodded his head not really looking at me so I took that as my leave and hopped out shutting the door looking at him through the glass before I let out a sigh and started walking up the driveway listening to him back out and start driving away as I approached the door but stopped when I heard the voices inside.

"If anyone is drinking to Katherine's last days, it's gonna be me" I rolled my eyes at the sound of that voice knowing it wasn't Katherine so it could only be Elena, that and she had a different more whiny tone of voice so I quietly let myself in. "She impersonated me repeatedly...made Aunt Jenna stab herself in the stomach...and cut off Uncle John's fingers"

"He might have deserved that one" Jeremy argued with his sister.

"My grams died trying to seal a tomb she wasn't in" the Bennett witch said and I quickly understood what they were doing, toasting shots to all the bad things that Katherine's done to them.

"Tyler's werewolf cure got triggered because of her" Caroline added.

"Klaus followed her to Mystic Falls and because of that we lost Jenna" Elena continued making me glare towards the sound of her voice.

"And Alaric but Klaus following her here meant that Stef and I were reunited with our dearest sister" Damon argued making me smile a little.

'And that is why you're my favorite brother" I spoke up appearing in the room alerting them to my presence as I smiled at Damon before I picked up a shot glass. "She teamed up with my Ex-Fiancé and damn near killed me by stabbing me repeatedly with a branch before she left me for dead" I joined them throwing back the shot. "But my hatred for her did lead me to Klaus so this ones actually a thanks" I smirked especially at Elena as I downed a second shot while all else was silent around me.

"We're gonna need more booze" Donovan suddenly said breaking the silent judgement in the room as he grabbed the empty bourbon bottle and stood up to get more.

"She tried to kill me at least twice" Elena spoke up as if needing to one-up me making me glare towards her.

"She did kill me" Caroline quickly argued. "Although I'm weirdly better off" she added making me smile over at the girl.

"Welcome to the club Caroline" I toasted to her making her smile towards me which clearly didn't appease the high mighty Elena as I sensed her frown at this interaction.

"Rumor has it she burnt down the entire city of Atlanta once" Damon smirked easing the tension in the room as I took a seat next to him crossing my legs as I continued to smile towards Elena since she was clearly having a cow that I was here.

"That might win" Jeremy laughed.

"All right knock it off or take it somewhere else" Stefan suddenly protests walking into the room. "You guys are being insensitive"

"Stefan!" I exclaimed and vamped up wrapping my arms around him.

"Why does he get a hug?!" Damon exclaimed immaturely.

"Cause you were sitting down brother and I already said you were my favorite brother right now, which means Stefan gets the hug" I smirked back at him before I resumed my seat.

"Anyway...come on Stefan, don't let the sight of a frail human Elena look-alike cloud your memories of the manipulative psycho that she is" Damon remarked looking over the back of the lounge at him while I smiled as he held out a shot for our little brother.

"Technically Elena is a Katherine look-alike given Katherine was born first" I argued which earned myself a glare from the doppelwhore.

"In 1864, Katherine moved into my home, she compelled me to love her, seduced my brother, fed us full of vampire blood and then started a war with the town that got us killed and tried to murder our sister" Stefan said after taking the shot glass from Damon.

"Exactly, bottoms up" Damon nodded raising his own shot before throwing it back and I frowned when Elena joined him since she didn't deserve to drink to that, she wasn't there.

"But centuries before that, she was just an innocent girl who was shunned by her family, so for 500 years, she lied and manipulated and did whatever she had to do survive and she did, she's a survivor so that's the girl that I will drink to today" Stefan argued before holding up the shot. "Cheers" he downed the shot.

"Please, one night of hot sex with her and you're brainwashed?" Damon protested and my eyes widened looking back at Stefan.

"What?!" I yelled at the same time Elena had which made me glare at her again since again she deserved no input right now, not when she broke his heart.

"What?" Bonnie added sounding just as shocked as all of us.

"Oh, my…I forgot to tell you, you were kidnapped and hostaged and…" Caroline replied making me turn towards her but she was quickly getting up and avoiding our eyes.

"Bottle's empty" Stefan quickly added.

"Actually, that's why you never send a busboy to do a man's job" Damon nodded picking up the other empty bottle. "Nadia, the devil's spawn" Damon suddenly said and I frowned looking at the new face that he was addressing since I didn't know her. "Hey Caroline, did you remember to tell Elena that?" he asked and Caroline face-palmed herself.

"Mind telling me brother?" I spat annoyed that I was so out of loop with what's been going on in this corner of the world.

"Katherine" was all Damon replied and my eyes widened looking back at this 'Nadia' person since how in the holy hell did Katherine have a kid...

"I think my mind just exploded" Elena remarked and for once I could actually agree with the doppelwhore. "Ok, Katherine's upstairs" she then told Nadia.

"Actually I'm here to see all of you, I found a way to save my mother and I need some help" she argued and I couldn't hold in the bitter laugh since she wasn't serious right.

"Uh-uh no way, even my biased brother knows I will kick his ass from here to Kentucky if he helps Katherine Pierce live one more day on this earth" Damon protests then looks around. "No volunteers"

"I figured as much, which is why I found that old safe your brother spent his summer drowning in and buried it on this property with your friend Matt inside of it"

"Excuse me, Stefan spent the summer what?!" I exclaimed but was ignored. "Oh, without this" she added holding up the Gilbert Ring that prevented the wearer from dying by someone of the supernatural.

"What?!" Elena exclaimed while Nadia just smirked placing the ring down on the table and leveled her stare with my twins and I knew we wouldn't really have a choice and Matt was too cute to just go to waste being collateral damage like this, I was a sucker for baby blue eyes meaning that Stefan and Elena went with Nadia while the rest of us were going to attempt to find Matt but first I had a bone to pick with my twin brother.

"So tell me, exactly when were you going to tell me what's been happening here, I mean I find out from some random that my little brother spent his summer drowning in a safe, why the hell didn't you call me?!" I yelled at Damon the moment the others left to search the property.

"It wasn't your problem, you had that whole baby thing and I didn't want to drag you back here-"

"That's bullshit Damon, when it concerns you or Stefan you pick up the damn phone and call me, I've been going out of my mine worrying about you two and seems like I had a good reason!"

"So you tell me, why didn't you come rushing back then?" he asked making me frown.

"It's been complicated" I shrugged and he pointed at me.

"Exactly, you have your own problems to deal with Soph and that werewolf carrying your demon child-"

"Don't call her that" I spat glaring at him.

"I'm sorry okay but you got out of this town so can you blame me that I didn't want to drag you back and get you involved with our messes"

"Please Damon, this is about Klaus right?" I scoffed shaking my head at him.

"This is not about your psycho husband, sister" he argued making me frown.

"Then tell me what its really about?" I asked and he rolled his eyes.

"It's about you Soph, I don't want to see you get hurt and I know what happened when Kol died" he replied making my eyes narrow at him since Kol didn't die, his girlfriend killed him. "Elena finally told me what happened, that they nearly killed you and I...I couldn't go through that again, I couldn't lose you again so when you got out I wanted that for you, I want you to go live a normal life even if that's away from us and with your psycho ass husband and his family, you have a kid on the way Soph and that's all you should worry about" he replied and I let out a sigh before moving forward and wrapped my arms around his neck.

"I don't care about any of that Damon because I can't lose you and Stefan again either, I wouldn't survive it and besides I told you, my baby girl is gonna need her uncles in her life so next time something like this happens you pick up that damn phone and call me and let me decide to come back or not because next time I don't care, I'll drop everything and come here anyway" I felt him nod his head. "So did Elena actually tell you that she was the one to stab me in the back or did your psycho girlfriend leave that out"

"She's not my girlfriend" he argued and my eyes widened in shock. "But yes, after I all but found out anyway"

"Oh...I'm sorry" I said but he raised an eye.

"Are you?" he asked me.

"Nope" I replied shaking my head and we laughed. "And FYI, I'm not really with Klaus at the moment either, we're kind of taking some space"

"I'm sorry" he replied but I knew he didn't mean it either which just made us laugh again.

"Well I'm gonna go help them find Matt, he's too cute to suffocate"

"Do not go falling for Donovan, Klaus is bad enough" Damon remarked making me smile before I sent a wink towards him then left the Boarding House to start looking myself.

"This property is massive" I heard Bonnie say ahead.

"You have no idea little witch" I smirked speeding up beside them. "I mean it's okay considering our old place was twice as big but it's a close second place piece of property in Mystic Falls"

"Hello!" Caroline suddenly exclaims. "Is no one gonna comment on the fact that Stefan slept with Katherine, I mean that's kind of a big deal"

"Does it matter, we've all slept with our fair share of bad choices" Jeremy argued.

"No offense taken" Bonnie spoke up.

"No, obviously not you" Jeremy quickly said making both Caroline and I stop.

"Bonnie Bennett!" Caroline exclaimed while I looked at the two teenagers.

"Did you two?" I gestured between them.

"And you didn't tell me?" Caroline quickly added cutting me off.

"I didn't think I was obligated" Bonnie replied.

"Of course you were obligated, you're my best friend" Caroline protested making me smile as we continued to walk. "Oh my God, does Elena know that her little brother…"

"No!" both Jeremy and Bonnie yelled out.

"Aw scandalous sex, even better!" I sniggered at Caroline's overzealous reaction while I thought more along the lines of mischievous since I could use this. "God, how am I the only person on the planet who's not having scandalous sex?"

"It's not all that it's cracked up to be blondie" I remarked rolling my eyes.

"How would you know?" Caroline asked and I frowned looking ahead deciding not to answer.

"Why don't we split up and think about that?" Jeremy suddenly suggested.

"Good idea, we'll cover more ground that way" Caroline nodded.

"You two go that way, blondie and I will head this way" I told them before walking to the left with Caroline soon following.

"Matt!" she yelled out making me roll my eyes since I doubt he'd be able to hear us. "Matt, we're coming for you"

"You know with even the slightest chance that he could hear you, neither of us would be able to hear anything over that screeching" I complained walking ahead trying to spot any unearthed ground but I suddenly froze at the figure standing in front of us.

"Hello love, Caroline" he smiled towards us.

"Klaus" Caroline said staring at him in shock. "Sorry Matt's buried alive, no time to chat" she added before she sped away.

"Well you still have an effect on that girl, that's good to know" I frowned before following after Caroline and I heard Nik follow us.

"Your not even the least bit curious as to why I'm here?" he asked clearly talking to Caroline which just made my frown deepen.

"I literally just whooshed at the sight of your face, so no" Caroline argued.

"Damon informed Sophia that Katerina Petrova has taken a tragic turn"

"So you're here to gloat over her corpse to be, to delight in the closure of 500 years of revenge, great now I'm even less interested" she replied before speeding off again and he smiled before following her leaving me to catch up this time as he stopped her.

"Well, then perhaps you'd be more interested in talking about Tyler" he said and that instantly gained her attention.

"Is he…did you…?" she asked and I frowned since he still deserved it after what he tried to do to our baby but...

"No. I sent him off with little more than a bruised ego, he really does hate me poor lad, revenge it eats at him, I hear you two broke up"

"Because I made him choose…me or his stupid revenge fantasy and he chose wrong, I suggest that you learn from his mistakes and let Katherine die in peace, dying sucks enough learn as it is no need to rub anyone's nose in it" she replied before speeding off again but I could still hear her calling out for Matt.

"I literally told her that she's not gonna hear anything yelling like that, Matt's as good as dead"

"Actually I already found Matt while Caroline was yelling and vamping off in all the wrong directions, I heard his distant and desperate screams"

"You did, where?" I asked him.

"Don't worry love I've got it covered, trust me he'll be quite happy with his rescuer" I raised a confused eyebrow before it dawned on me.

"Rebekah's here?" he nodded his head.

"Of course she is" I scoffed rolling my eyes before I started walking back to the Boarding House.

"So the quarterback has been saved, what now?" he asked as he fell into step with me.

"Well I'm sure you have a dying girl to go punish for all of her sins?" I scoffed turning to look at him. "I mean that's what you do right, punish people"

"I do but I won't for you" he argued making me stop crossing my arms as I leveled my stare with him.

"Well then why did you come all the way to Mystic Falls just to back off, let me guess because Caroline asked you two" I argued before rolling my eyes as I tried to side-step around him.

"No I came all the way to Mystic Falls to gloat over a corpse to be, as Caroline so poetically put it but I will leave minus the gloating in return for one small thing" he replied just angering me further.

"And what is that?" I asked barely holding in my amusement.

"I want your forgiveness" he asked and I couldn't help scoff.

"I've forgiven you one too many times Niklaus but it always comes back to bite me in the ass, what makes this any different and why should I believe that you won't just do something else to piss me off in a couple days"

"Because I won't"

"But you always do, nothing's changed Nik other than we're away from New Orleans but the moment we go back you'll go back to scheming and getting what you want while I sit and play the good little wife who just wants her family safe, our baby safe"

"I want that too Sophia but if you truly cannot forgive me then I will walk away, I will leave you be and we'll have to just find a way to be a family...apart" he asked and my eyes widened in shock. "Just tell me something first, tell me that you'll never find it in your heart to forgive me or that you're no longer in love with me and I'll leave you be"

"It's not about love Nik, I love you more than life itself but I can't agree with what you do without consulting me in the plans when you know somethings wrong and that's why you do it...that's why I have trouble forgiving you"

"I promise I'll never leave you out of my plans again love" he replied and I stared at him before rolling my eyes.

"This is the last chance Nik and I mean it this time, you mess up one more time so help me I will take Hayley and our baby and you can be sure you'll never find us"

"Ok" he smiled making me roll my eyes.

"I'm not ready to just forgive you right this second though" I argued pushing him back against the tree. "I however have had a hunger these past few days that I haven't been able to satiate" I started unbuckling his jeans.

"Are you objectifying me?" he questioned.

"Of course I am" I smirked before kissing him throwing his jeans down before I grabbed my underwear thankful that I was wearing a skirt and pulled them down right before I felt hands on the back of my knees pulling me up to wrap my legs around his waist. "This is just sex Niklaus"

"Just sex" he nodded before I was pushed up against another tree.

I walked back into the Boarding House making sure my clothes were all in place quickly noticing a single leaf stuck in my hair which I pulled out and threw over my shoulder noticing Stefan and Damon heading out the back with a glass of bourbon so I grabbed one on my way past the bar heading out to them.

"What are we talking about brothers?" I asked through a smirk as I squeezed in between them on the stairs leading down to the pool house.

"How Katherine saved our younger brother from a dark place" Damon replied as we all looked up at the stars. "Irony abounds" he added making me smile a little more for this moment with them as it reminded me so much of our childhood as we used to sneak out and watch the stars all the time.

"You know whatever's going on with you and Elena, you need to fix it" Stefan said as we all took a sip from our glasses. "She's the best thing that ever happened to you"

"What, don't you think I know that" Damon argued. "Can't live without her...but when you think about it I'm no better than Katherine, Elena will be happier without me" he adds but Stefan and I both turn to look at him since who the hell was this and what's he done with my selfish twin brother, even human Damon was selfish in the best of times. "What, I'm being selfless, don't give me that look"

"I'm not giving you a look" Stefan argues.

"I definitely am, being selfless doesn't suit you Damon" I remarked shrugging when Stefan gave me a look, I always told it how it was and that'll never change.

"Katherine fricking Pierce has a selfless moment, I'm not allowed to?" Damon protests and I smile shaking my head while Stefan just smiles at him. "Fine, fine when I get Elena back and the whole universe freaks out because the fated doppelgangers are torn apart, just remember you…and you, you're the ones that pep talked me out of doing the right thing for the universe and all mankind" he adds downing the rest of his drink and I couldn't hold in a laugh.

"I will keep that in mind" Stefan agreed still smiling.

"You do that" Damon smiles.

"Amen brother" I smiled threading my arms through each of my brothers and leant my head on Damon's shoulder. "I missed you guys"

"Ok, that's enough bourbon for you" Damon replied taking my glass and downing the rest of my drink.

"Hey that was mine"

"Yeah well you get sentimental when you get all lushy"

"I do not, can't a girl be sentimental with her brothers with whom she hasn't seen in 3 months, especially since one of you's died repeatedly over the summer and I wasn't told" I argued removing my head from Damon's shoulder and laid it on Stefan's. "I'm sorry I wasn't here baby brother, that A-hole didn't tell me you went missing"

"It's okay Soph" he laughed leaning his head on top of mine.

"Okay I think we should get back inside before the kids get into something other than the bourbon" Damon spoke up and I smiled sitting up as we got up and headed back inside and lucky we did since we spotted the four empty bottles of bourbon on the coffee table.

"We've really gone through 4 bottles of bourbon today?" Stefan asked them but my eyes locked with Tyler Lockwood.

"Tyler?" I growled out angrily and everyone turned towards him with questioning eyes at my reaction.

"I'm not here for you" Tyler said shaking his head.

"We'll call a truce for now but ever end up back in my neck of the woods again and I'll kill you, got it?" I asked and he nodded while everyone looked between us.

"Oh, my God" Bonnie suddenly said.

"Alaric?!" Jeremy yelled almost at the same time.

"Ric's here?" Damon asked him.

"Where the hell have you been, I thought you bailed on us to go find peace or something?" Jeremy asked clearly talking to Ric as he was looking behind Damon somewhere and clearly we couldn't hear Alaric's reply but Jeremy and Bonnie laughed at something being the only two that could see and hear him.

"He's talking about me, isn't he?" Damon asked.

"He says you're a dick" Jeremy replies and I couldn't hold in a snigger.

"Cheers, buddy" Damon said raising his glass behind him eyes going everywhere clearly desperate and longing to see his closest friend.

"Katherine" Bonnie suddenly said making us all look at her.

"Ding-dong, does that mean the witch is dead?" I smirked at Damon's reply since it was about damn time.


A/N: I thought Sophia deserved a little closure and some sibling time ;). Hope you guys all liked this chapter please let me know any thoughts, comments...etc by either smashing that Fav/Follow or send a Review. :)