The Key

17

Davina had been lying to me after all, she had kept Niklaus trapped in hopes of sealing the Hollow away using Niklaus's hybrid magic. We broke the connection and were currently back at the compound.

I'm nursing a bit of a headache. I went to fight the Hollow and help Marcel and Elijah. My blood did damage her, she was residing in the vampire Sofya's body. Niffty. But I wasn't sure how to go about destroying her, so we lost and he got away. With two more of her bones.

If she gathers all of them together, she can find a way to return to her rightful body and be even more powerful.

Sipping my glass of whiskey, I head back into the courtyard where I stop dead at the sight before me.

The last two people I ever thought I was see in my home.

"Hey there, Little Lockwood," Damon says with his classic bad boy smirk.

Stefan turns around from where he was facing, he seemed to have been looking around the compound,

"We brought the foot bone."

Damon makes a face, his eyes locking onto mine,

"Super creepy, by the way, that your family kept it for thousands of years."

"Elijah let us in earlier, said we could wait around for a bit to say hello," Stefan explains, looking a bit uneasy at the stare down between myself and Damon.

I had come in through the back door. Elijah and Marcel had gone back to Marcel's to get something. Niklaus had come back here to make sure Hope was safe with Freya.

Finishing my whiskey with two more gulps, I continue to stare at the brothers.

Damon decides to be cheeky,

"What, the sight of me makes you speechless now?"

I move and set the tumbler down on the table beside me,

"Thank you, Stefan. For doing this, I know it's been a lot to ask. And I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate it, especially since I wasn't there for you all back in the day when I high tailed it to Alaska."

Stefan gives me an appreciative look, he seemed surprised I even acknowledged the past,

"Yeah, I mean. It's not like we had weekend plans."

I knew that was as good as a "You're welcome" that I was going to get. I look back at Damon now, frowning,

"Never thought I would see you here, in my home, Salvatore."

"Back to old formalities now?" Damon asks, his eyes look amused, a smirk plays on his lips again.

Before I can make a counter remark, Hope rushes down the stairs and entraps my waist in a hug.

"Mommy!" She says happily.

I grin, hugging her back tightly,

"How is my littlest wolf?"

"Good, dad said you have friends visiting," she says, peeking up at me and then sneaking a glance towards Stefan and Damon.

I raise an eyebrow down at her,

"Oh, he did now? And what else has your father been telling you about my friends?"

Glancing up at the brothers, I see Stefan is smiling at the interaction and surprisingly so is Damon.

Hope whispers up to me, although she forgets we all have super human hearing sometimes,

"He said the dark haired one was mean."