TVD - The Originals

Bringing Out The Dead - 4

"What do you say, Klaus?" I questioned when we rendered. "It's time for you to put something on the table. We've made our offer, now you counter." Damon finished.

Klaus nodded and sat down, "Okay. I offer Elena's future happiness. You see, what she needs right now is to be rid of you lot. And to fall in love with a human, maybe that nice football player, you know the blond one?"

Damon frowned, "Matt Donovan? Really?"

I gave Damon a pointed look, "I'm right here."

Klaus nodded in remembrance, "Right he's your brother. Well Yeah, why not? They'll marry, live a long and fruitful life, and pop out a perfect family."

"And continue the Petrova bloodline. Every few hundred years, you'll have a new doppelgänger to drain and never run out of hybrids, right Klaus?"

I kept a calm posture even as it was eating me inside, Damon grabbed my arm as if he knew what I was thinking so I opened my mind to him.

Don't you even dare.

But Damon.

No, forget it.

"Consider it a small return on my investment in her well-being. See, after you hand me back the coffin, I'll ensure her safety for the rest of her natural life. You know it's what's best for her."

Klaus gets up and walks towards Stefan.

"So, what do you say Stefan, hmm? Do we have a deal?"

Stefan starts walking over to Klaus, leaving our side.

"Stefan What are you doing?" I questioned as he reached him.

Klaus holds his hand out to Stefan who grabs it, "Nice try, Klaus. But no deal."

Klaus in anger broke Stefan's arm. He kicks his leg and breaks it as well. He pushes Stefan's hand into the fireplace, and it starts to burn and Stefan screams in pain. Damon and I attempt to rush over to him, but Elijah intercepts us and pushes us against a wall.

"What are you doing?"

Klaus continues to hold Stefan's arm in the fire which burns.

"Stop!" I yelled at him.

"Now, bring me my coffin before I burn him alive." Klaus threatened as he pushed Stefan in a little further.

Elijah released us and Damon scowled at Klaus, "We'll get it."

We both turned around and left the dining room, finding it hard to not simile. When Elijah followed us we proceeded into the kitchen.

"Let's get this show on the road." Elijah said as he grabbed a tray and handed it to me. I pulled out the daggers from my boots and laid them down, grabbing the dome cover and placing it on top.

"This is going to be fun."

"Elijah...why haven't you left?" Klaus questioned with confusion when he noticed us standing.

"Where are you manners, brother? We forgot dessert."

I smiled and lifted the dome off the tray, revealing the two silver mythical daggers. "Tada. You know I heard that it does wonders for the heart."

"What have you done?"

"What have you done? You see, I've learned not to trust your vulgar promises, Klaus. We're doing this on my terms now." Elijah said to him.

I grinned as on cue Kol appeared from behind us and walked to his brother. "Kol." Klaus said in actual fear.

"Long time, brother."

Klaus starts to back away and the older brother with shaggy hair, Finn suddenly appears, he swipes one of the daggers from the tray and uses it to stab Klaus through the hand.

"Finn, don't!"

He tried running away but ran into Rebekah.

"Rebekah!"

She smirked as she stabbed him as well with the daggers, "This is for our mother."

She pulls the dagger out and Klaus falls back into Kol's arms who restrains him. Elijah looked over to us and nodded, "You're free to go. This is family business."

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I frowned at the blood that was in the kitchen when I entered the house, "Elena!" I yelled as I rushed up the stairs to her room.

Both Matt and Elena jumped when I burst through her door. "What happened down stairs? It looks like someone died."

Elena opened her mouth to say something when I noticed Alaric was lying uncannily still on some pillows on the floor. "What happened to him!" I asked as I dropped down to his side and grabbed his hand, seeing he had his ring on.

"He was attacked, I had to kill him." I looked up at her with wide eyes. "What?!"

"I had to! We had no idea if the attacker was supernatural or not. He could have died!"

Her phone buzzed so she stepped to the side to answer it. "How long has he been like this?" I asked Matt as I kept holding onto Alaric's hand.

"A while."

"She has an alibi?" Elena questions in shock, to the person on the phone. I frowned and raised an eyebrow at Matt, "Who is she talking to and about?"

"Sheriff Forbes. Elena thought that it could have been Meredith."

"Meredith?" I said with confusion. "Then who could it be?" Elena asks into the phone.

Alaric suddenly wakes up and starts coughing making me jump from freight. I held his right hand and Elena hung up her phone and rushed over to him and grabbed his free hand.

"Oh thank god." I breathed out as he squeezed our hands. "I leave for five minutes and everything goes to shit."

Alaric let out a chuckle laugh, "Not my fault."