TVD - The Originals

Do not go gentle - 2

Matt and I took off to the dance, finding the party well on the way. I spotted Elena and Stefan dancing and I do not know why that made my heart sink. I knew it was coming, I just didn’t know how much it’d hurt.

“Dance with me.” I recognized the voice that grabbed my hand and pulled me onto the dance floor before I had a chance to even answer. “What is it Damon?” 

“We’ve got a problem.” God I do not like the sound of that. We get Stefan and Elena and Damon huddles us in the hallway to talk more freely. He told us that Alaric hasn’t been taking his herbs and he’s out there somewhere. Probably plotting some vampire slaughter party.

"If Alaric is sick then we need to find a cure. Something." 

Damon shakes his head at that. "We tried medicine, we tried magic." We’re running out of options. 

"Why don't we get him off vervain,” Stefan suggested. “compel him?" 

Damon scrunched his face up at the idea. "To do what? Pretend to be Alaric? The guy that we know is gone.” I shake my head at Damon and cross my arms.

“No. This is Alaric we’re talking about.” 

Damon argued. “We're talking about someone who not only hates vampires, but vampire sympathizers. Which makes one of his most obvious targets:” He points at me. “I don't know, you!" 

I frowned. “What?” 

“You’d think he'd go after Ariel?" Stefan asked. Damon nodded. “Very much. Alaric basically trained you to kill vampires and here you are having parties and planning sleepovers with them.” He makes a point. 

“He’ll go after Elena as well because she’s the doppelganger, kill her, you're ending the Hybrid line.” 

Stefan sighed, seeing where Damon was going with this. “And since Klaus doesn’t know about Ariel's bloodline-” I finished his sentence for him. “He’ll kill me to ensure Klaus never does.” Ending the bloodline for good. 

"So wait, what are you suggesting we do?" Elena asks him. "I'm suggesting that we put him out of his misery."  My eyes went wide.

"What?!" Elena and I exclaim. "No way in hell!" yells Jeremy from behind us. Where did he come from? "Oh come on, It's what he would want. It's a mercy killing." Damon argues.

"You are out of your mind!" 

"Jeremy..." Elena starts. Jeremy turns around and leaves not wanting to listen."We are not killing Alaric." I scolded sternly. That is not happening. Damon huffs and rolls his shoulders when Jermey comes running back to us, without Elena.

"It's Esther,” he announced. My eyes went wide. “She's here." The boys and I exchange a worried glance and we start to run to the entrance following Jermey. Jeremy and I stopped when the brothers did.

“Why’d you stop?” My question was answered when I looked down at the ground. There was salt on the ground, like a barrier going around the school.

"Salt. It's the binding agent for her spell." Stefan explains. I groan and beg.

“Please tell me it’s not what I think it is?” 

"We're trapped here." 

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“Hi Klaus.” I chirp, stepping in front of him and Caroline who were dancing. I clasp my hands together in front of me all innocently with a tilt of my head. I must have interrupted at a great time.

“Caroline, do you mind if I steal him for a moment?” She immediately let him go relieved.

“Have at it.” 

She stormed off to Tyler. Tyler? When did he get here? "You better have a good reason for interrupting." Klaus scolded. “I do.”

Klaus extended his hand for me to take. Seriously? Dancing? I frowned at his offer. “You stole me from a dance, the least you could do is pay it back.” 

I sighed and took it. We were hand in hand as we began to dance. "I'm surprised you haven't sent Tyler packing." Klaus chuckled amused. "I'll let him have his fun." I stare at him.

"Why are you such a dick?" 

"Excuse me?" 

"You're a dick. Simple as that. You kill with no mercy, control people, dagger your siblings for trying to live their lives." I told him. "Is that where Rebekah is? Daggered in a coffin?" 

Klaus frowned. "What do you mean?" 

"Your sister, the one who insisted the theme of the dance be the 20's and head of the committee. She wasn't even here this morning to help decorate." 

Klaus' face went stone solid. I raise an eyebrow at him. He doesn't know where she is. It's actually genuine. "You don't know where she is. Do you?" 

When he was silent that was an answer enough. "I think I might know what happened to her." I pulled away from him and made him follow me to the side so no one overhears.

"Your mother is back." The words made him go from seriously concerned to shock. "What?" He said through gritted teeth. I continued. "She took Elena. And if you don't know where your sister is, I'm sure she had something to do with that." 

Klaus growled, and I mean really growled. “There’s a barrier spell around the school that she put up to keep you all here. By now Bonnie should be figuring out how to lower it.” I hope. Klaus nodded. “Lead the way, huntress.” My lips curl into a smile.