THAT NIGHT WAS CHAOTIC TO SAY THE LEAST. When Jeremy refused to hunt all of those innocent people, Klaus gave him some incentive by biting Matt so that all of the in-transition vampires would come after him because of the blood. Jeremy and Matt ran through the woods while Damon and Charlie tried to hold off some of the hungry and vicious new vampires.
The Gilbert boy ended up having to kill a couple of them, and when they got back, Elena was not very happy about the situation and how Damon chose to handle it. The whole thing just made Charlie hate Klaus more. Now, she was with Jeremy and Damon, and they were headed back to the bar to finish the job. The chances were that some of them died when the sun came up, but some of them most likely sought refuge at the bar.
They drove by the bar but then parked in the woods nearby. The Hunter boy held the door open for Charlie while asking Damon, "Do you really think they went back to the bar?"
"Where else are they gonna go? It's all cabins and vacation homes; they can't get in anywhere," the Salvatore man pointed out as he opened the trunk and handed Jeremy a gun full of wooden bullets. He put it in his waistband before taking the compound bow from the vampire. "All right. There you go."
"Man, you are prepared," the hybrid breathed out, glancing between all of the weapons. Jeremy chuckled and nodded.
He pulled back the compound boy, not excited about the fact that he was about to kill an entire bar full of innocent peple that were just in the wrong pace at the wrong time. "Let's get this over with."
"Listen, just go one at a time, only shoot for the heart, don't hesitate, and don't miss," Damon instructed as he handed the boy an arrow.
Jeremy scoffed, rolling his eyes because the vampire was acting like he actually cared about whether he lived or died. "Save the teaching moment. Elena's not here. You don't have to pretend like you give a damn about me."
"I'm trying to keep you alive, dumbass. Come on." They all walked into the bar, and there was still music playing, which kind of messed up the vibe. They walked in cautiously, and Jeremy had his bow at the ready. A giant blood smear was on the ground, and they all furrowed their eyebrows. "Something's not right." They followed the trail into the back cold storage room. They froze when they saw a giant pile of vampire corpses in the corner. Damon groaned, "Looks like we're gonna have to find some new vampires. What a waste."
"What the hell happened?" Charlie asked, looking around the room. The sunlight did not do that, so it must have been someone else. Klaus would not have done that considering how much he wanted Jeremy to kill them.
"I confess," came a voice, and they all spun around to see someone that they had seen in a hot minute. The Lockwood girl had been pretty sure that he had moved on to some other town. "I did it."
Both of the younger people in the room exclaimed in shock, "Kol?"
"Hello, darling. Jeremy, good to see you, mate. Sorry about the mess. Ugh, it was a little crowded when I arrived, and I prefer more intimate gatherings. We four need to have a little chat," he explained, winking at the hybrid while taking a sip from a bourbon bottle. "Care for a drink?"
"They're underage, and I don't like you, so let's just cut to it," Damon spoke p before anyone else could say anything. He was clearly not having it, and he knew that Elena would be mad that they had to find more vampires for Jeremy to kill.
The Mikaelson had a huge and cunning grin on his face. "You know, my brother bragged about his plan to complete Jeremy's hunter's mark. It was easy enough to track this lot down. They were all hiding in the shadows. Now, killing young vampires is easy or old ones, for that matter."
"Why?" the girl questioned since there was literally no point for him to kill all of those vampires that she knew of. She was about to kill him. "What's it to you either way?"
"Because, you fools, in your zeal to find the cure, you risk waking someone very dangerous," he informed them, shaking his head. He seemed scared of whatever he was talking about, so the girl realized that he must mean Silas.
The Salvatore man seemed to be on the right track as well. "Oh...You must be talking about Silas."
"What do you know of him?" the Original asked, intrigued to see if they had figured out anything else about him other than what he knew. Maybe they had found a way to deal with that problem.
Damon just shrugged, and he seemed curious as to why Kol was so freaked out about him and what they knew about him. "Nothing. Don't want to. Not our problem."
"Isn't it? A few hundred years back, I came across a group that worshiped Silas. His followers told me that he would rise again, and when he did, he would trigger the end of all time. You know, being an immortal, you can see why I'm opposed to time's ending. So I murdered all of them. And now, here you are willing to risk raising him in your search for the cure. I can't exactly sit back and let that happen, can I?"
"We're not going to back off the Cure 'cause you were told one too many scary bedtime stories, you idiot," the younger vampire told him, scoffing. He was very determined to get Elena that Cure, and Charlie was surprised because she was sure that he would want to live a long vampire life with her.
Kol pushed Damon out of the way and looked over to the Gilbert boy, who was pulling Charlie to stand beside him instead of in front. "Jeremy, we were mates in Colorado. You're a smart lad. Why don't you call off this imbecilic treasure hunt?"
"I'm not calling anything off, mate," the Hunter replied, and he held up the bow and pointed it and the arrow straight at the man's chest.
"Well I could kill you. But then, I'd have to deal with the hunter's curse," Kol said, taking a step back and holding his hands up in surrender. "And I, I don't particularly feel like being haunted for the next century. Better idea. I'll just rip off your arms."
He rushed at Jeremy then, and Damon came flying toward him and slammed him into the wall. Charlie moved to join the fight but was stopped by the Gilbert boy grabbing her arm and dragging her out of the boy. He pulled out his phone as they ran through the forest. "Elena, listen to me. Kol attacked us. Char and I barely got away, but he has Damon."
They finally made it back to the house, and the next day, they discovered that Kol had compelled Damon to kill Jeremy. Once Charlie found this out, she was trying t track them through the woods. She froze when she smelled blood, and she prayed that Jeremy was okay. She heard heavy breathing in the distance. And she ran through the forest and stopped when she saw Damon advancing on the Gilbert boy. The Salvatore man told him, "Shoot now."
She sped toward them and slammed Damon into a tree. She snapped his neck quickly just as Stefan and Elena came running up to them. Stefan grabbed his brother's unconscious body while Elena checked on her brother. He grinned up at the girl above him who had just saved him and laughed out, "Thanks."
"Anytime," she breathed out with a smile.
They went back to his house, and Stefan took Damon back to theirs so that he could work on fixing that problem. It was not long before a knock on the door disturbed them. Elena opened it to see Klaus smirking back at them. "Good evening, Gilbert clan. Charlie, my condolences about your mother. Such a tragedy."
"What do you want, Klaus?" Elena asked angrily, glancing at the Lockwood girl and making sure that she had not combusted because of how mad she was. She tried to keep her cool, knowing that they would find some way to get rid of him.
"I've come to fetch my hunter," he informed them. "Seeing as how my brother's become a liability, Jeremy will be safer with me."
Jeremy shook his head, and he chuckled slightly when the Lockwood girl stepped in front of him protectively. He was not doing anything else for klaus, at least not for a good little bit. "I think I'll pass. I've killed enough people for you today."
"You think you're safer here? Hmm. Clearly you don't know Kol. He'll stop at nothing to get what he wants, so strange as it may seem, I'm your best bet," the Mikaelson informed them.
Charlie scoffed. She was not going to let him take anyone else away from her, even if he was not planning to kill him. She was not allowing Jeremy out of her sight for a while after everything that had gone down that day. He was completely fine with that too. "Sorry, but I think we'd rather take our chances."
"Fine. But when Kol does come-and he will come-be sure to let me know, preferably before he burns your nice little home to the ground. And as for you, hunter, there's no shortage of people to turn or loved ones to threaten, so sleep well. We'll plan on finishing our work tomorrow."
He left, and they all went to sit at the dining room table. Jeremy groaned and leaned his head on the Lockwood girl's shoulder. "This is never gonna end. If Kol doesn't kill me first, then Klaus is just gonna force me to kill more innocent people. How many is it gonna take, 10? 100?"
"If you kill one Original vampire, their entire sire line will die with them. That's thousands, maybe tens of thousands of vampires. Kol compelled Damon to kill you," Elena said, and they both looked up at her in realization. "You're gonna kill Kol instead."