MYSTIC FALLS HOSPITAL
[Tyler is sleeping in a hospital bed while a police officer stands guard outside in the hall by the door to his room. When the officer hears a noise down the hallway, he walks around the corner to investigate. After looking around a bit, he starts to walk back towards Tyler's room, but Connor attacks him. Tyler hears the commotion and wakes up. In the hall, Connor uses a sleeper hold on the officer until he passes out and slowly lays him on the ground. Tyler listens for any more noise. Suddenly, Connor enters his hospital room. He looks over at the bed, but Tyler has disappeared. Connor walks into the room and turns around to find Tyler hiding in the corner. He attacks Connor, but Connor grabs him and stabs him in the neck with a syringe before injecting him with something, temporarily paralysing Tyler. He lays Tyler down on the hospital bed.]
Connor: Don't bother. It's a paralytic.
[Connor lifts Tyler's lips and sticks another syringe slowly into his gums to withdraw several millilitres of his werewolf venom. Tyler groans in pain until Connor takes the needle out of his mouth and pats Tyler on the face. He then exits the room. Tyler grunts and growls, attempting to fight against the paralytic. After a long moment, he finally manages to super speed to the door to chase after him, but when he gets to the hallway, Connor has already gone.]
LOCKWOOD MANSION
[Carol and Tyler walk into the house. Two men are standing in the foyer and Tyler immediately becomes suspicious.]
Tyler: Who the hell are you two?
Carol: Tyler, it's okay. They're here for your protection.
Tyler: [incredulous] More deputies?
[Ash and Klaus enter the room from the parlour. They have another hybrid following behind them.]
Klaus: Not exactly.
Tyler: [sighs] They're hybrids.
Ash: We were halfway to Chicago when we heard you were attacked. I said we should just leave you but Nik insisted.
Tyler: Nice to know you care.
Klaus: I don't. I should have killed you for the little stunt you and your friends pulled. Stopping my heart, leaving me in a coffin to rot.
Tyler: Yeah, you used my body as an escape hatch, then kissed my girlfriend. So, maybe we're even. [Ash rolls her eyes]
Klaus: Not even close. But, you hybrids are a dying breed. I can't make more of you, and I won't have anyone taking liberties with the ones I have left.
[Klaus begins to walk off.]
Klaus: Consider them your new bodyguards.
[He points at the three hybrids in the room and walks out.]
LATER ON...
[Upstairs in the study, Hayley picks up a picture and looks at it when Ash appears in the doorway behind her.]
Ash: You're a new face.
[Hayley turns around and looks at her.]
Hayley: And I take it from your accent you're an old one. Ash. Klaus' wife
Ash: [smiles] My reputation precedes me. Hopefully not all bad. You know I can never understand why I'm defined as Klaus' wife but Klaus isn't defined as Ash's husband. Little sexist if you ask me.
Hayley: [shrugs]
[Ash moves closer towards her.]
Ash: So, you're a friend of Tyler's? That's strange, he's never mentioned you.
[Ash is distracted by their conversation when she begins to overhear Tyler talking to Caroline in the front foyer with her vampire hearing.]
Tyler: You should go to the party. I'll be fine here.
Caroline: But, I'd rather hang with you.
Tyler: Trust me, I am no fun right now.
[Ash has a devilish look on her face as he looks back at Hayley.]
Ash: And I think I know why.
[Klaus enters the room, smirking.]
Klaus: Now, who do we have here?
Ash: Tyler's secret girlfriend. [Hayley tenses up and quickly opens her mouth to deny the accusations] Relax, I'm kidding. [Leans down so she is whispering in Hayley's ear.] But just so you know, I'm quite close with Tyler's real girlfriend, if you hurt her, I will kill you.
Klaus: Come on now love, your scaring the poor girl. Now I need to borrow you for a quick moment.
[Ash straightens up and turns to Klaus.]
Ash: Let's go then.
MYSTIC FALLS HOSPITAL
[Ash and Klaus are walking towards the sound of yelling.]
Ash: So what's this all about?
Klaus: Damon seems to have got himself into a spot of trouble.
[They walk in as Connor pulls out a gun to shoot Damon, but is struck by an arrow. He drops his gun and bends down to pick it up. When he does so, he's shot by another arrow. He looks at both the arrows and sees they are attached to the claymore bombs from his trailer.]
Damon: Stings, doesn't it?
[Connor attempts to grab his gun again, but someone kicks it out of the way. Connor looks up to see Ash and Klaus.]
Klaus: Hello, mate.
[Damon smirks.]
[Connor is attempting to pull the arrow out from his side. Damon and Klaus are watching him.]
Damon: Keep it up, buddy. We'll be scraping you off the ceiling.
Connor: You two are gonna kill me anyway.
Klaus: Well, let's not be too hasty. I feel like we're just getting to know each other!
Damon: Let's start with the basics. Where are you from? What do you know? Maybe you can cue me in on this "greater evil," because I've fought these two-- [He points at Ash and Klaus]-- and there's nothing more evil than that.
[Damon hands Klaus the letter Pastor Young wrote to April that he stole from Connor's trailer.]
Klaus: [smiles in amusement] Yeah, truth be told, I'm as evil as it gets.
Connor: I'm not telling you anything.
Ash: [Smirks] Oh I'm sure I could persuade you.
Connor: If you think if you kill me, it's gonna be over-- there's another waiting to take my place.
Damon: See, this is what I like to hear; vague threats, ominous prophecies, disappearing tattoos.
[Connor looks up at them. Klaus looks down at Connor and stops smirking. Ash's smirk also fell]
Ash: What do you mean, tattoos?
Damon: Don't bother, you can't see the damn thing.
[Klaus kneels down next to Connor.]
Klaus: There's more to you than meets the eye, isn't there?
[Connor looks at him. He attempts to stake Klaus, but Klaus is too quick and catches his arm.]
Klaus: Nice try, but I'm faster than your average vampire.
[Klaus twists his arm and grabs the stake out of his hand. Ash sees the mark carved into the wood and recognizes it.]
Ash: You're one of the Five.
Damon: The what?
Connor: And I'm faster than your average hunter.
[Damon sees that Connor is about to pull the string to the bomb and rushes out of the room, leaving Connor and Klaus behind. The bomb explodes and Damon is thrown through the air, landing face-down on the floor outside the room. He looks behind him as the massive fireball disperses.]
SALVATORE BOARDING HOUSE
[Elena is lying in Stefan's bed, looking incredibly ill. Stefan is on his phone.]
Stefan: Come on Klaus, where the hell are you?
[Stefan hangs up his phone and sits on the bed, next to Elena.]
Stefan: Hey.
[Elena smiles at him. She feels the werewolf venom running through her and shuts her eyes. When she opens them she sees Damon where Stefan once was and looks confused.]
Elena: Why am I thinking about you?
Damon: Because you're a vampire now. And part of you knows you're a lot more like me than you are like him.
[Klaus enters the room. Stefan gets up and walks towards him.]
Stefan: [relieved] You came.
Klaus: I did. And for future reference, one voicemail is just as effective as nine.
[Elena moans in discomfort. Klaus looks at her.]
Klaus: What's wrong, love?
Stefan: She has werewolf venom in her system. You know you're the only one that can heal her, Klaus. Please.
Klaus: And what would you have done if I were no longer here? Hm? If you and your friends had succeeded in ridding the world of me? Let's play that game for a moment, shall we?
[Stefan angrily steps forward.]
Stefan: Whatever you want from me...
Klaus: [smiles] I don't want anything from you.
[Klaus walks over towards Elena and sits on the bed next to her.]
Klaus: Her, on the other hand...[He pauses for a moment] If you had told me a few hours ago, I wouldn't have cared a lick about her dying. But, as it turns out...[He bites into his wrist] You may be of use to me after all.
[Klaus places his wrist in her mouth and Elena drinks his blood.]
Klaus: Yes. There we go. Could we try and keep this between ourselves? I don't think my wife would like the fact that I just saved little miss doppelganger. [Stefan nodded.]
CONNOR'S TRAILER
[Connor wakes up on the couch in his trailer. He attempts to get up, but is pushed back down by Ash.]
Connor: You saved me.
Ash: Congratulations, you just became worth more to me alive than dead.
Connor: What-what did you mean when you said I was one of the Five?
Ash: You don't know your own history?
[Ash kneels down next to him.]
Ash: Well, let's just say, it's made you the most well-protected vampire hunter in town.