꧁ 𝟹𝚛𝚍 𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝙿𝙾𝚅 ꧂
"GET OFF OF ME!"
Damon yelled at Stefan as Skyler walked into the house the next day.
"You're not doing this." Stefan argued sternly.
"Just did. You know what happened to Rose, Stefan." Damon told his brother as Skyler set her keys down, walking into the room with furrowed brows.
"What's going on?" Skyler asked confused, she gasped when Stefan used his strength and speed to throw Damon forcefully into the cellar causing the eldest Salvatore to let out a groan.
"I don't care you're not dying today." Stefan said to Damon, not yet acknowledging Skyler as he closed the cellar door on Damon, locking it. He then looked at Damon through the bars in the door.
In the cellar, Damon was still on the ground but turned to look at him.
"What's the plan superman?"
"I'm gonna find a way out of this." Stefan said softly, it wasn't a hope, it was a promise.
"Oh right. A miracle cure. Good luck with that one." Damon responded sarcastically, sounding defeated already.
"I got Bonnie looking for something, anything." Stefan told him.
Damon scoffed, "Always the hero, Stefan."
Skyler stepped up, still confused as ever, "What's going on?"
Damon looked at her as she met his eyes through the bars on the cellar door, "I got bit by Tyler Lockwood. So just tell me goodbye now, get it over with." Unable to hold it back anymore, Damon started coughing, rolling onto his stomach as he coughed into his hand.
Blood, Skyler could smell it immediately.
"Lie still. Conserve your strength." Stefan advised before he walked away.
Skyler stole a glance back at Damon before following her twin, grabbing onto his arm after they got upstairs, she stopped him, "Tell me what happened. Now."
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In the eery old witch house that practically screamed 'haunted,' Bonnie Bennet lit candles on the floor with a match as Stefan and Skyler stood by.
"I'm not sure this is going to work." Bonnie admitted.
"You've done a seance before, right? Contacted Emily Bennet." Stefan said, Skyler looked over at him, catching on.
"One of the witches might know how to save Damon." Skyler finished, Stefan nodded.
"Let's just hope they want to." Bonnie responded nervously.
Bonnie cast the spell causing the candles in the room to start burning, voices whispered around them of people that weren't there. Skyler's eyes widened as she turned in a circle, the voices shocked her and almost scared her as she looked for the invisible source of them.
"Bonnie? Bonnie?" Stefan called.
Bonnie opened her eyes abruptly, "Emily." She whispered when suddenly her voice shifted and changed, shifting into a voice that Skyler hadn't heard in over a hundred years; a voice that belonged to none other than Emily Bennett.
"Why have you come here, Salvatores?"
Skyler turned, standing beside Stefan as a unified front as Stefan answered, "We need your help. We need to know if there's a spell that can heal a werewolf bite."
"No. Nature ensures a balance to everything." Emily told him sternly.
"Is that true... or are you just saying no because it's Damon?" Skyler questioned sternly, crossing her arms as she studied the witch in front of her.
"Perhaps it is his time to die."
Skyler shook her head, "No."
"That's not balance," Stefan cut in, "That's punishment."
"I will not give you what you want." Emily said through Bonnie, leaving no room for argument. Unless you were a Salvatore.
"So you're saying that there's an answer to give?" Stefan asked.
"Please, if you know something just tell me." Skyler pleaded with the girl she once knew, "You knew me, Emily, before all of this, you knew us. I'd like to think we were friends once. So please, help me save my brother."
Suddenly, Bonnie grasped her ears roughly as she screamed in pain, falling to the floor.
"Bonnie." Stefan called in shock.
"They don't want us here. They think I'm abusing my power." Bonnie told them.
"They know something." Skyler stated, "There's an answer. There's a way to save Damon." She looked at Stefan, "They just don't want to tell us."
"I heard them say a name." Bonnie admitted uncertainly.
"What was it?" Stefan asked desperate to find a way to save his big brother.
"Klaus."
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"Hello, Katherine." Stefan greeted as he and Skyler walked into what was once Alaric's apartment but was now known to be Klaus's.
Katherine stands up, walking up to them, "Two days, I've been waiting. I'm supposed to be free of Klaus' compulsions by now. He's supposed to be dead!"
Skyler and Stefan glanced at each other before looking back at Katherine, "We ran into complications." Stefan told her.
"Complications?" Katherine questioned.
"Doesn't really matter. I just need to find him." Stefan said, "Do you have any idea where he might be?"
Katherine pushed him against the wall and motioned for him to be quiet as Klaus and Elijah walked through the door, immediately noticing Skyler who had been forgotten in Katherine's savior attempt.
"Well hello there." Klaus greeted with a smirk, Skyler's eyes flickered to Stefan and he followed her gaze, "You just keep popping up, don't you?"
"We need your help... for our brother." Skyler told him softly.
Klaus glanced at her, "Well whatever it is, it's gonna have to wait a tick. You see, I have an obligation to my brother that requires my immediate attention."
Elijah looked to Stefan then, "You understand how important family is, or you wouldn't be here." He looked at Skyler, "My brother gave me his word that he would reunite me with my own."
"And so I shall." Klaus said with a smirk before he stabbed a dagger into his brother's heart, killing him before he pushed Stefan against the wall before Skyler even had a moment to recover.
With Stefan against the wall, Klaus stabbed a stake through Stefan causing Skyler to gasp and Stefan to groan, buckling forward however Klaus held him up.
"Do you feel that? It's scraping against your heart. The slightest little movement and you're dead.'
"Klaus please..." Skyler said searching in her best friend's eyes for a sign that he was still the man she knew, overly complicated and dangerous but good at heart.
"He's just trying to help his brother." Katherine protested weakly.
"The witches said you had a curse. Make me a deal. Just give me the cure and I'll do whatever you want." Stefan begged.
Skyler stepped up, never taking her gaze off Klaus, "We both will."
Klaus removed the stake from Stefan causing the man to fall to the floor, Skyler rushed to his side, helping him up and supporting him as Klaus walked over to the counter where he placed the dagger and pours a glass of blood for himself.
"Trouble is, I don't know if you'd be any good to me the way you are now. You are just shy of useless."
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Skyler held onto her twin desperately as Klaus approached holding a glass of blood in his hand as he studied the twins.
"I heard about this one vampire. Crazy bloke, always on and off the wagon for decades. When he was off, he was magnificent." Klaus told them, "1917, he went into Monterey and wiped out an entire migrant village... a true ripper." He looked at Stefan, "Sound familiar."
Before Stefan could respond, Klaus continued, "In 1904, on the other side of the world, there was another spree killer, another ripper, that was wanted for decades before she turned good and disappeared."
Stefan glanced at Skyler in shock but masked his surprise as he looked back at Klaus, "I haven't been that way in a very long time. Neither of us has."
"Well, those are the vampires I can make a deal with. That is the kind of the talent that I can use when I leave this town." Klaus told them pointing at them.
"Katerina, come here." He called over his shoulder, Katherine obeyed, coming closer. Klaus took her arm and his face changed, his eyes turning yellow before he bites her.
"Aah! No, no, no, no no." Katherine panicked.
Klaus then bites his own wrist, making Katherine drink his blood. Instantly her wound began to heal. He looked over at the twins, "You want your cure? There it is."
"Your blood is the cure." Skyler realized.
Klaus smirked, "Gotta love mother nature." He said, putting his hand on Stefan's shoulder, "Now, let's talk."
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Klaus squeezed a blade of a knife tightly in his palm as blood poured off his hand and into a vial while Stefan and Skyler watched closely.
"There it is. You want to save your brother? How 'bout a decade-long bender? And I have big plans for you two little wonder twins when we leave this town."
"I'm not like that anymore." Stefan argued however Skyler kept silent. She wasn't a ripper anymore, but she would be if she needed to. She didn't have the same moral obligations or hero complex that her twin had, she didn't care if people died so long as they weren't the people she cared about.
"Well, that's too bad. You would have made a hell of a wingman" Klaus eyed Skyler, "Like your sister here." Without another word, he started to pour the blood down the sink.
"Wait."
Klaus's hand froze and he smirked, pulling the blood away so no more blood will go down the drain, "Now that's more like it. I want you to join me for a drink. Both of you."
He threw the twins a blood bag each, Skyler took hers without hesitance and Stefan followed. Klaus watched, drinking his glass while Stefan takes a sip from the blood bag as Skyler downed hers.
"Finish it. All of it." Klaus ordered Stefan, "You do everything I say, and I save your brother. That's the deal."
Stefan drank the rest of the blood bag and Klaus threw another one at him, "Again." He demanded. Stefan obeyed.
For the cure, the twins would do it all.
For Damon, they would do more.
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There are four emptied blood bags on the floor and Stefan is sitting on the floor finishing another. He grunted and looked up at Klaus who is standing nearby.
"You're very cooperative. It's almost as if you're enjoying it." Klaus commented smugly before he threw another blood bag on the floor next to him.
"What about Skyler? Why aren't you making her do any of this?" Stefan questioned.
Klaus glanced at the girl who was sipping lightly on a glass of blood, "She doesn't need a push over the line between good and evil. She's already standing on it."
He looked back at Stefan, "Now drink."
Stefan shook his head, "No more. Not until you give me the cure."
"Not until we make a deal." Klaus chided, "It's your choice, Stefan. You can either remain here, living your life in Mystic Falls or you can embrace what you truly are, leave town with me, and save your brother's life. I know what your sister's chosen, what you will decide?"
Klaus crouched down, grabbing the blood bag and offering it to Stefan who snatched it up and drank it vigorously as though he was a starved man. "That's the spirit."
Klaus took the vial with his blood and looked over at Katherine, "Sweetheart," He called, compelling her, "Take this over to Damon and come right back."
"You want me to leave?" Katherine asked in shock.
"Yes and if I were you..." he trailed off and she took the hint, taking the vial before she rushed out the door at super speed as Skyler watched from the kitchen counter amused, "I'd hurry."
Klaus sat down in a chair as Stefan spoke up, "She'll never take it to him." Klaus looked at him, cocking his head indifferently, Stefan looked down and whispered, "She'll never take it to him."
Skyler's heart pounded in her chest, wishing that just for once they may be able to trust Katherine to save her brothers.
Just once.
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"I suppose, brother, you've been reunited with our family." Klaus said as Elijah lay in a coffin in a warehouse filled with wooden crates.
He closed the coffin and looked at two men standing nearby, "Put him with the others. We're leaving town tonight."
Stefan and Skyler stood nearby when Stefan receives a message from Elena, Skyler read over his shoulder, releasing a sigh of relief.
"So... did Katerina make it in time?"
Stefan turned off his phone, "You won't be seeing her again, you know."
"Thank god." Skyler muttered under her breath as she crossed her arms.
"Because she's on vervain?" Klaus asked, "I've been around a long time, Stefan. I rarely get played for a fool. Besides, she won't get far. You two will help me see to that."
Stefan walked up to him and Skyler followed, "What is it you really want from us?"
"All will be explained in time. Once we leave this tragic little town." Klaus told him.
"Finally." Skyler commented.
"Then are we done here? Can we go?" Stefan asked.
"Not quite. You see, I have a gift for you." Klaus said, calling over his shoulder, "Come here sweetheart, don't be afraid."
A girl walked over from behind a crate, Klaus looked at Stefan, "See I wanna make sure you honor our deal... that you'll be of use to me."
"What about me?" Skyler questioned, taking a step forward, "Don't I get a snack?"
"In time." Klaus responded as before he bit into the girl's neck, drinking her blood, "I could have compelled her to behave but a real ripper enjoys the hunt."
Skyler zeroed in on the girl as Klaus released her, the girl ran away, screaming and Stefan ran after her, Skyler going to follow until Klaus held her back, "Let him have his fun, you can have yours later."
Skyler glared at him as Stefan stopped the girl, draining her blood until she was dead, Klaus smirked as he looked at Stefan, "Now we can go."
Skyler was finally leaving Mystic Falls, though this wasn't exactly how she imagined it going...
Still, she knew this wasn't the end. It was never that easy. There was more to come, there always would be.
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Surprise! An extra chapter, I actually meant to post this yesterday but I didn't have time to finish it up. But anyway, this is the last episode of season 2 which means we only have a little while longer before the big reveal! Are you guys excited?
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