Pushing my hands down the light blue dress I smiled feeling someone staring at me from the doorway. "It would be considered creepy if you weren't my husband while you stare at me like that."
"I just can't help myself, Raelyn." Klaus smiled when I turned to see he was wearing a black tux and a dark gray tie to go with it. "Honestly if I didn't have to hear the end of it. I would say we just skip the wedding and let me take that dress off you hmm."
Rolling my eyes at him I draped my arms over his shoulders leaning up on my toes. "As much as I wish that too. Josette wouldn't forgive me if I missed it. Plus she has assigned the girls to be her flower girls. So we have to go."
Klaus drove us to the place where they had everything set up for the wedding. My husband sat behind my uncle Joshua while I was off somewhere else with the girls. "Okay so this is very important for cousin Jo. So just throw the pedals and meet mommy at the very end." Alina, Missy and Hope all nodded in agreement.
My three triplets slowly walked down the row throwing the flowers where everyone turned to see Jo in her long white dress being led down by her father. She smiled at me and I smiled as he placed her hand in Ric's going to find his seat. "They are so adorable and I'm glad you freed your husband."
"Yes they are. You're and Ric's kids will be cute too." I grinned standing beside Elena since she had asked us both to be her bridesmaids. "And oh yes I'm happy to have him back."
The music stopped playing before the Reverend smiled brightly. "Welcome, family and friends, on this magical evening to the wedding of Alaric Saltzman and Josette Laughlin. Josette and Alaric have prepared their own vows.
Alaric held her hands almost making me start bawling at his vows. "Neither one of us should be here right now. We've spent our lives dodging fate and b*ating the odds, but because we did, I got to meet you, the most beautiful, hilarious, and intimidatingly brilliant woman I have ever known. You inspire me. You've shown me that happiness is actually something that I can have in my life. And so...I promise to be with you and love you and to dodge fate with you for the rest of our lives."
The Reverend looked at my cousin. "Josette?"
Jo chuckled beginning her vows until I smelled blood, saw she stabbed through the stomach and her dress was red. "Oh, God. That's a tough act to follow. Here goes. Alaric Saltzman, you are..."
Alaric caught his soon to be wife collapsing into his arms. "Jo? Jo? Jo? Oh, my God. Jo? Jo? Jo?! Oh, God. No!"
She winced where I vamped from my seat, biting into my wrist drawing blood. "Aah! Aah!"
"Jo drink!" Shoving my wrist over her mouth she attempts to drink but she was losing too much blood too fast.
Alaric began crying, staring at me. "No! No, no, no, no."
Suddenly before our eyes Kai appeared from being invisible standing beside Elena holding a bloody knife in his hand. "I was gonna wait till the "death do us part" bit, but it seemed a little on the nose. Am I right?"
Uncle Joshua rose to his feet about to do something with Klaus at his side with our girls but Kai raised his hand creating a large pitched sound spell. Everyone in the room dropped on the ground holding their heads in pain. "Miss me? No? Oh, well." He waved his other hand, smashing the glass and dropping the chandeliers from above.
"Kai!" Uncle Joshua's voice is the first thing I heard when I woke up. Rubbing my neck I frantically looked around for my husband and kids.
"Klaus! Hope...Alina...Missy!" I hollered getting to my feet gripping one of the seats.
Klaus called out where I rushed over seeing that the girls were slightly bleeding from the glass. "Raelyn! They barely have heartbeats..."
"Get them out of here and give them blood. I'll stay here and deal with Kai." I croaked brushing Missy's hair for her face listening to their tiny hearts still beating. But if he waited any longer they might not make it.
He shook his head where I watched the wound on his forehead starting to heal over. The wound that was in my stomach had already healed so we were both okay. "I can't leave you here, Rae. I will kill your uncle for this!"
"It's not his fault now. It's Kai's. But we don't have time to argue. Get them out of here before he tries to kill them." I barked at my husband watching him pick his three daughters up vamping them out of the building where I turned my head seeing Alaric holding my dead cousin away from me.
Uncle raised his hand, beginning to chant a spell slowly walking towards Kai. "Sanguinem fillio sanguinem effurgarex."
"Let me guess. Prison world?" Kai could hear the other members of our coven chanting the same spell. "I mean, you can't kill me, or else you all die, too, right?"
Uncle Joshua glanced in my direction calling out to me. "Raelyn, I'm sorry about your girls. We can handle him. I just need you to do your unliking spell that you did on me."
"And why should I do that?" I spat the question at him even though I wanted to tear Kai limb from limb.
Joshua sent me a sensitive look where I could tell he was actually telling the truth to me for once in my life and he wasn't screwing me over. "Raelyn please believe me now. Once he's not linked to the rest of us you can spill his guts if you want. We just need his blood since he's the leader now....if you help us I'll never come after your family ever again you have my word."
"Hey. I'm sorry about your twinsies. I just don't feel like competing for leadership with future Gemini twins." Kai turned away from his father looking at Alaric holding his dead wife in his arms. "See...When your family decides that you're nothing but an irredeemable piece of trash, well... Guess the best thing to do is prove them right, right?
Raising my hand I drew Kai towards me shoving my hand inside my cousin's chest. "Don't try and talk your way out of this, Kai. You just killed the only person in this family I gave a damn about. So you deserve this!"
"If you kill me they die too..." Kai started gasping for breath with my hand wrapped around his heart.
Pushing my fingers tighter around it he gasped sharper when I got in his face vamping over to my uncle grasping his hand in mine since he had some cuts on his hand drawing out his blood. "I don't give a crap about that anymore. You killed Josette and for that you don't get to live!"
"Start chanting and I'll follow you." Uncle Joshua said, glancing at me where I let Kai's blood drop at our feet. He squeezed my hand dropping his own blood onto his son's.
Raising our hands up together I began chanting, never taking my eyes off of Kai. "Phasmatos tribum, nas ex veras. Uenes fes matos et somnos. Phasmatos tribum - agh!" Their blood started to separate until Kai launched a broken chair leg into my stomach causing me and Joshua to break hands breaking the unliking spell.
Kai quickly ran forward tackling me to the ground when I yanked the leg out of my stomach. He attempted to stab me in the stomach again with another piece of wood until I threw him backwards after launching the wooden chair leg with my blood inside his chest. "Ha ha thanks for that, cousin. Now I get to be judged like you."
"What the heck are you talking about?" I asked getting to my feet looking towards my uncle seeing that he was about to run over to me and try the spell again.
Kai took the wooden piece out of his stomach, swiping his finger over where my bloody was on the other end sucking it off his finger. "This ought to do it."
Joshua raised a hand screaming the split second that Kai used a glass shard he got from the ground and stabbed himself in the neck. "No!" Kai collapsed dead right in front of Ric and Jo.
"Get out of here, little niece. There's nothing more we can do....protect your family." Joshua shuttered when the other members of our coven stopped chanting and started slowly dying alongside Kai.
Vamping from the bloody wedding Klaus was waiting with the girls cupping my face in his hands scanning the blood stained dress. "Shhh I'm okay. I healed over remember."
"I know, I know. I just....I...thought you were still linked to Kai." He nodded through tears pulling me in for a tight hug. He gripped my hair in one hand with his other on my lower back.
Burying my face into his chest I gripped his shoulders I sniffed through tear's finally getting the chance to deal with the fact that Josette was actually dead. "She's gone.....he freaking murdered her. And I didn't get the chance to murder him for it. Nik....Jo's gone!"
Nik's phone started ringing where we broke the embrace hearing Damon's voice. "What do you want, Salvatore!"
"Don't get snappy at me Klaus but I need to tell your siphon wife something she won't believe." I heard him say so he handed me the phone. "Whatever spell you tried to use on Kai to kill him before he could take vampire blood from you must have worked. Cause Bonnie Bennett is literally standing in my house."
Running a hand through my hair I gasped through some happy tears. "You mean I broke her out of the prison world. That's insane - uh we're on our way."
Klaus and I made it back to their house seeing the pair we're sitting in front of the Salvatore fireplace since Kai had managed to siphon away the barrier spell over the town. Damon was looking at the picture Bonnie brought back from the 1903 prison world. "I don't get it. So you were in my house in a 1903 prison world."
Bonnie takes out the video camera playing the video she took. "Watch this. I didn't know it was still on when I got pulled out."
Damon rolled his eyes at the witch."Congratulations. You shot some walls."
Klaus and I leaned down closer watching the video when Bonnie told him. "Just wait."
There was a woman's voice on the camera that I slightly recognized from somewhere I just couldn't place it. "Who are you?"
Bonnie's voice was on camera too. "Who are you?"
Damon took the camera from her hands. "Who is this?"
Bonnie instructs him where he hit the pause revealingly a woman with slightly curly raven black hair looking directly at the camera. "There. Stop."
Damon: mumbles. "Oh, my God."
Bonnie asked him, "What?"
Damon gasped in disbelief at the woman on camera. "It's my mother."
"I don't believe it..." I trailed off thinking back to the day I gave birth to our daughters and I somehow ended up in a prison world I didn't know about.
Klaus glanced at me, squeezing my hand in his. "What is it, Rae?"
"I have freaking met her before." I sucked in a breath when Damon shifted around to me on the couch with shock written on his face. "She was in a prison world....meaning that she's a vampire."
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