Second Chances

Katerina

Vicki's POV

After what felt like hours, he slowly opens his eyes and the grey veins disappear.

He quickly gets up and slams me into the wall. I roll my eyes. "You won't hurt me."

He tilts his head in intrigue. "And why is that?"

"Don't you recognize me? I'm Kol's soulmate."

He immediately releases me and studies my features. "How do you know about that?"

"I found out from a witch that I was one of your soulmates' and I dug around to find out which one."

He holds out his hand. I place mine in his and he kisses the top of it softly. "Welcome to the family-"

"Victoria."

"Welcome to the family Victoria."

He releases my hand and I smile. "Now that's more like it. Now, let's get out of here."

"Let's." He extends out his arm and I take it. We get in the car and it takes about three hours to get back to Mystic Falls. We would've gotten there sooner but Elijah drives like a grandma and wouldn't speed up no matter how many times I nagged him.

When we got there, I showed him where my house was so that he could change. While he did that, I went over to the Boarding house.

As I walk into the house, I see everyone sitting in the parlor.

"Who is he?" Elena asks.

"He's one of the originals, he's a legend."

"From the first generation of vampires." Stefan adds.

"Like Elijah." Elena guessed.

"Klaus is known to be the oldest." Stefan answers.

A laugh escapes me. "He's not the oldest, just the strongest."

"Okay so the strongest vampire in the history of time is coming after me?"

Rose, Trevor, and I answer at the same time. "Yes."

While Stefan answers. "No." While giving me a look. I shrug my shoulders innocently. 

"What they're saying is, I mean if what they are saying is true-"

"-It is." The two say.

"And you're saying it so I don't kill you-"

"-Which we're not." Trevor interrupts.

"Then we're looking at a solid maybe." Damon finishes.

"Look, Elijah's dead right? So no one else even knows you exist."

"Yeah about that..." they all look at me. "He's not dead."

"Um, I'm pretty sure he's dead. I staked him myself." Damon smirks.

"You can't kill an original like any other vampire. It doesn't work that way, they are stronger than that."

"And how do you know all of this but they don't?" He points to Rose and Trevor.

"After all this time, you guys still don't get it. I know almost everything about the past and future of your lives."

"Prove it." Elena says.

I groan. "Ugh fine, not like I haven't done it before." I look at Trevor. "If I didn't tell you to be careful with your wording, Elijah would have literally ripped your head off and spared Rose."

I turn back to Elena. "I knew that he would rip off your necklace to compel you and brought extra vervain."

"That doesn't prove the past." She smiles arrogantly.

I cock my head. "Alright. Damon," he nods his head. "You had a pet turkey when you were human. Sammy."

"Stefan?" I look at him and say one name. "Valerie." He looks shocked but covers it quickly.

"And Elena? When you were seven, you went down to the creepy basement in your fathers clinic because you heard someone screaming. That good enough?"

I stand up to leave. "Bye Rose, Trevor. I'll put in a good word with Elijah." I wink.

I head back to my house and Elijah is there with Jonas Martin.

"What is Jonas doing here?"

"Performing a locator spell for your friends."

"They're in Richmond. At a coffee shop with some dude named Slater. Does that help narrow it down?"

Jonas nods. "Yes, thank you."

He found it quickly and we left for Richmond, it wasn't too far.

We stopped in front of the coffee shop near a guitar player. Elijah places a lot of cash in his case and grabs a handful of the coins that were already in there.

After another minute, Elijah throws all of the coins towards the window, breaking it. The vampires inside burned and ran to leave.

Elijah and I then sped away so we wouldn't get caught and drove to Slater's apartment.

Jonas met us there and they waited for him to come.

When Slater came home, Elijah compelled him to call Rose and what to say.

"Hello?"

"Rose?"

"Slater? Are you okay?"

"Yes, I took off, I'm sorry. I was freaking freaked."

"No, I'm sorry to have involved you."

"Look, i want no part in any of this but i did some digging."

"Okay, what did you find?"

"You can destroy the curse but you need the moonstone."

"How? What do you mean? I don't follow."

"Can your friend get the moonstone? You need it."

She paused for a moment. "Yes he can get it. What next?"

"You need a witch. Get the moonstone, a witch should be able to figure out the rest. Good luck, Rose."

Slater hangs up.

"Very nicely done." Elijah says from beside me.

"Thanks, I have a degree in theatre. How can you compel me? A vampire can't compel another vampire."

Elijah's smirks. "I'm a special vampire."

"What, because you're an original?"

Elijah steps towards him and holds out a stake. "Hmm. Now I want you to take this and drive it through your heart." He compels him.

Slater takes the stake. "But that will kill me forever."

"I know." He compels him again. "But it's necessary."

Slater then drives the stake through his heart, dying and falling to the floor.

"Was it, really?" Jonas asks Elijah.

"It had to be done. He delivered his message. Won't be long now."

We walk out and head back to Mystic Falls.