⚠️ Trigger Warnings ⚠️
Blood and bodies mentioned
(never described thoroughly but mentioned)
Rewritten ✔️
꧁ 𝟹𝚛𝚍 𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝙿𝙾𝚅 ꧂
SKYLER TOOK THE LIST FROM DAMON, getting impatient quickly. He had already used a marker to mark off the ones he wanted to do.
1. Permanent hair dye in shampoo and conditioner
2. Lock door and put traps in the room
3. Put his favorite animal in room with cameras (for blackmail purposes)
4. Compel Elena to kiss Damon in front of Stefan (compel her to forget)
5. Get the whole town to forget who he is and act like we don't know him
6. Put human blood and bodies in the room and make him think he did it
7. Act like emotions are off
8. Make him think he did something terrible to make me cry and 'hate' him
9. Act like he or Damon hurt me (with cameras on)
10. Act like I have amnesia
Looking it over, Skyler was slightly disappointed. She thought he would choose better ones.
At least they would be fun.
She smirked at Damon. "We should do this more often brother." She told him, he hummed, "it would be a living hell for Stefan."
"That would be fun." Damon agreed, taking a sip of his bourbon. "Which one should we do first?"
Skyler hummed, thinking about it momentarily. She might as well start easy. "Hair dye and... traps." She decided.
Damon smirked before he used his speed to disappear without a word to trace left behind.
Grabbing a book from one of the bookcases (both were extremely dusty, apparently none of her brothers read anymore), Skyler sat down on the couch and opened the book to page one after dusting the front and back of the book off.
Skyler disappeared into her own world the second she opened to page one and only returned to the real one when she heard the front door open with a whoosh of air following. She eyes the page number before closing the book and setting it aside.
She turned to Damon to find him with two bags, one from a beauty store and one from a hardware store. "Are you ready?" He asked with an arched brow and a smirk.
"I am," she responded as she stood, "Not sure if Stefan is."
Damon smirked and handed her the hair dye bag, within seconds they disappeared, off to work on their first pranks of the day.
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Unfortunately for her twin, Stefan had left for a hunt before they even thought to have a prank day. Apparently, he had been sick of them and needed a break. Skyler knew he would have to take a shower upon his return and would have no idea there was hair dye in his shampoo and conditioner which would be the perfect start to their day of pranks.
"Good luck brother." Skyler mumbled as she twisted the cap of the conditioner bottle back on.
While she set up the hair dye, Damon found a spot to hide the traps before finding a spot to hide for himself, he would set the traps when Stefan entered the shower. Before Skyler left Stefan's room, she found Damon and gave him a high five with a smirk.
After setting the traps, Damon came to Skyler's room and plopped down on her bed despite her sitting there, easily making himself at home (after making her make room for him.)
"How mad do you think he'll be?" Damon asked as he finally got comfortable beside her.
Skyler shrugged, "I'm not sure," she admitted, "all we can do is sit back and watch." She said with a grin as she grabbed her laptop, there was one other thing she had done; set cameras up.
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Soon enough Stefan got back from his hunt and went straight to his bathroom to shower and get rid of his bloody clothes.
When he left the bathroom fifteen minutes later, Skyler pulled the laptop closer to her, he was whistling as he toweled off his hair.
When he took the towel away it showed his bright red hair. Skyler elbowed Damon and pointed to the camera just as Stefan set off the first trap which in turn set off the rest. He panicked of course and ended up stuck in place, scared to move and set off another trap, his eyes found the camera and he glared.
"This isn't funny!" He called to the camera as Damon and Skyler howled with laughter in her room.
Stefan survived with a few minor cuts and possibly a few nightmares in the future.
Next, the Salvatore duo decided to do prank number six and eight while Stefan was out with Elena having had enough of their trouble. Skyler went to New York where she killed a couple of humans, got some blood from one of the bigger hospitals, and on her way home she snatched a newborn vampire who she killed.
She used all the above to set up Stefan's room like a crime scene, there was blood on the walls and bodies on the floor.
Once more, the duo waited.
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When Stefan returned home again, he went to his room to find blood and bodies and his sister right in the middle of it with tears in her eyes and blood on her clothes and his eyes widened.
This has to be a prank, he thought. But looking into her eyes, he wasn't so sure.
Skyler pretended she didn't see him at first, staring at the body of the newborn vampire she couldn't help the memories that came to mind. Honestly, the tears in her eyes weren't all fake.
"Sky?" Stefan called hesitantly, he didn't dare breathe in the smell of blood. "Skyler, what happened here?" He asked keeping his words short.
Finally, Skyler looked at Stefan and glared at him coldly, "You did this." She told him, "You killed them," she glanced at the vampire, "you killed Sammy. You killed my best friend." She spat out the words like venom as memories filled her head.
Once upon a time, Skyler got in a fight with Klaus, one of the very few bad ones they had, and left for a short break from the family. She met Sammy who had been her first vampire friend before meeting them, she had first met him when she was in a dark place, and with him by her side, she wounded up right back in that place.
Her short break wasn't so short and after months of looking for her, the Mikaelson family found not the person they were looking for but a much worse version of her.
In a fit of rage upon seeing the supposed friend who caused her to be like this, Klaus had killed Sammy. It was for the best however it had still hurt.
She used that pain now. Without even thinking, she was taking the pain out on her brother and she knew it was bad but Klaus hadn't allowed her to take it out on him, and truthfully, she had never allowed herself to let it out, so now she did.
Too bad Stefan didn't know this.
Too bad Damon didn't either.
"I didn't do this, Sky." Stefan told her, "I would never." He stated with furrowed brows.
"How could you, Stefan?!" Skyler responded harshly, "I hate you!" She exclaimed before he could speak.
Damon appeared beside Skyler before Stefan could say a word. He didn't see it at first, the way she acted, that this wasn't all pretend.
He narrowed his eyes at Stefan after examining the scene. "Guess you aren't so great after all," He told his little brother, his usual line not as lighthearted as usual, "Even I wouldn't do this. And I've done a lot of things."
"But I didn't." Stefan told them stubbornly, "I didn't." He repeated sounding unsure.
"But you did." Damon responded. "You killed people, you killed Sammy." It was clear Damon had been listening, although Stefan took this as the vampire on the floor really being Skyler's best friend and his resolve broke.
"I did this?" He asked on the verge of tears as he looked over the scene for the second time.
Skyler looked at him again, a single tear escaping and Damon realized maybe, just maybe this wasn't all for a prank, "How could you?" She said in between fake hysterics that, while somewhat more real than her older brother realized, were very exaggerated.
Within a blink, Skyler's whole attitude changed, the tears disappeared from her eyes and for a second as she wiped away the tears that had fallen, Stefan believed she had just flipped the switch.
And then she spoke.
"How could you believe you did all this?"
Stefan blinked. "What?"
"It's a prank." Damon stated in a duh tone. Stefan's confusion turned to irritation in seconds.
"You went that far?! For a prank?!" He exclaimed with wide eyes, "I thought it was real, I thought I killed people!" I thought I killed her best friend, was added silently but they all heard it when his gaze flickered to the dead vampire on the floor.
Skyler stood up with a smirk, brushing off her blood-covered hands on her jeans; they had already been ruined anyway.
"That's what makes it fun, Stefanie." Skyler added his nickname with a smirk before Damon and Skyler began to chuckle which turned into full-blown laughter. It seemed it was contagious as even Stefan let out a few chuckles.
Skyler was happy to see her brothers laughing together because for a moment, just one moment, they were back to the good times. Before Katherine, before their father, before their lives were ruined.
Skyler went to bed that night with a grin, excited to tell her mate about her day she had grabbed her phone almost immediately only to find a message from Kol already waiting for her.
She frowned, unlocking the phone after double-checking her door was locked and sitting down.
Koala
Are you there love? 10:30 pm
Bekah and I finally convinced Klaus 10:32 pm
We're coming to visit you tomorrow 10:34 pm
Meet in the woods? 10:34 pm
Read Now
Her smile widening, Skyler typed a response.
Skygem
Absolutely!
I've missed you and the others
10:40 pm
Because it was always him and then the others. Because they may be family, but Kol was her soulmate and she would choose him above everyone, above even her brothers it would be Kol.
Koala
I've missed you too love
Skyler went to sleep that night with a grin, excitement in her veins.
She couldn't wait for tomorrow, she was finally going to see her mate! And the others too of course.
꧁ 𝟷,𝟽𝟽𝟾 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜 ꧂