i'm not me || tvd [1]

•i'm not daggered again•

Klaus drank his remaining beer and walked past one of his hybrids. "Tony, you know what to do."

He went to the front door and saw Mikael at the doorway.

"Hello, Niklaus."

"Hello, Mikael. Why don't you come in? Oh, that's right. I forgot you can't." Klaus mocked.

"Or you can come outside if you want." Mikael suggested.

"Or I could watch my hybrids tear you limb from limb."

A group of hybrids gathered behind Mikael on the lawn.

"They can't kill me." Mikael told Klaus.

"True. But it'll make a hell of a party game." Klaus said as he lift his hand. "All I have to do is rub these two fingers together and they'll pounce."

"The big bad wolf. You haven't changed. Still hiding behind your playthings like a coward. You only forget. They may be sired by you, but they're still part vampire. And they can be compelled by me." Mikael said as Mindy walked up behind him and pushed Katherine, who posing as Elena.

"Come out and face me, Niklaus. Or she dies." Mikael threatened.

"Go ahead. Kill her."

Katherine looked at Klaus. "No, Klaus. He'll do it."

"If she dies, this lot will be last of your abominations."

"I don't need them. I just need to be rid of you."

Mikael looked at Klaus. "To what end, Niklaus? So you can live forever, with no one at your side? Nobody cares about you any more, boy! What do you have other than those whose loyalty you forced?"

"Ah! I almost forgot about Imogen. The Immortal Imogen Avery, who you and your brothers fought over but where is she, bastard boy? Where is your Imogen?" Mikael mocked. "You have no one. No one."

Klaus's eyes started to tear. "I'm calling your bluff, father. Kill her."

"Come outside and face me, you little coward. And I won't have to."

"My whole life you've underestimated me. If you kill her you lose your leverage. So go ahead. Go on. Kill her. Come on, old man. Kill her. Kill her!"

Mikael laughed. "Your impulse, Niklaus. It has and will forever be the one thing that keeps you from truly being great." he said and stabbed Katherine with a dagger and pulled it out.

Katherine fell on the floor as Mikael laughed and Klaus looked on, shocked. Damon rushed behind Klaus, twisted him around and stabbed the White Oak Tree dagger into his stomach while Katherine got up from the floor.

Mikael looked at Katherine. "Katherine."

Katherine smirked at him before turning to the hybrids on the lawn.

"Kaboom." Katherine said as she took two wolfsbane grenades and threw them at the hybrids.

Meanwhile, Damon was about to stake Klaus, when Stefan appeared and knocked him off of Klaus and held him down. Damon dropped the stake in the process.

"What are you doing?!" Damon exclaimed.

Klaus looked at Mikael and the stake. He got up and took the stake, jumped at Mikael and drove the stake through his heart. Mikael yelled in pain as the stake bursts into flames, burning him in the process and killing him. Klaus watched on as he wiped his tears away.

"What the hell did you do?" Damon said as Stefan continued to hold him down.

Klaus walked towards them. "He's earned his freedom."

Stefan stopped clutching Damon and got up to face Klaus.

"Thank you my friend. You no longer have to do as I say. You're free."

Stefan turned back to where Damon was, but he has fled.

~•~•~

Niklaus Mikaelson was leaving a voicemail message to Rebekah, who was still daggered at the Salvatore Boarding House.

"Rebekah, where are you? Pick up the phone, darling. And where's Imogen? I bet she's with you. Daddy is dead. It's time for a family reunion, Imogen will be thrilled when she hears this."

Klaus received another call and switched to it. "Stefan! Miss me already?"

"I'm just calling to thank you for my freedom."

"Oh, I like to believe I'm a man of my word, more or less."

"Thing is, it came at too high of a price. You took everything from me, Klaus."

"Everything, you say? That sounds as if it includes a certain Immortal." Klaus smirked as approached his truck in which he transports the caskets of his family, including Imogen's empty one. "Let bygones be bygones, trust me. Resentment get's old."

"It does. You know what never get's old? Revenge."

Klaus opened the truck but it was empty. All the caskets were gone even the empty ones.

"No."

"What's the matter, Klaus? Missing something?"

Stefan was in a large room with Klaus' caskets. He stood in front of a black casket with a certain noirette in it.

Klaus was seething in anger. "What are you doing?"

"Just enjoying my freedom." Stefan said and smiled.

"I will kill you and everyone you've ever met!" Klaus threatened.

"You do that, and you will never see your family again." Stefan threatened and smirked as he opened the casket in front of him. "That includes the love of your life."

Laying peacefully in the casket was no other than Imogen Farien Avery.

"You wished for your death the moment you laid your filthy hands on Imogen, Stefan." Klaus said.

No feeling or words can describe how angry he was with Stefan for taking his family's caskets and Imogen, as well. He wanted to torture the younger Salvatore, kill those who are important to him and kill him with his own bare hands.

"I wonder Klaus, as someone who has been one step ahead for a thousand years. Are you prepared for this?"