Chapter 26

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Lockwood Mansion
[The party is still going on.]
Tyler: My mom would seriously freak if she saw all these people here.
Klaus: Your mother won't be a problem: I compelled her to go to church and pray for your friends.
Tyler: What are you talking about?
Klaus: Look around! There is Bonnie, there is Elena and Matt and there's your pretty little girlfriend Caroline. Epic dance was wrecked tonight and who came through with the party? You did. What a pal. But who are all these other people here?
Tyler: I have no idea. I've never seen half these people in my life.
Klaus: That's because I've invited a few dozen friends of my own. That's my friend Mindy... picked her up along the way in Kansas. Did you know that there's an entire bloodline of werewolves in the heartland? That's Tony from North Dakota and let's not forget the Seattle contingent.
Tyler: Are those people all hybrids?
Klaus: Well, they also love a good party. And they, like you, were sired by me. They wish to serve their master. So if anyone should so much as make a move against me, they may feel obligated to retaliate. You're free to warn your friends.
"They are so dumb." Said Layla.
[Tyler and Caroline are in Tyler's bedroom; he shuts the door.]
Tyler: What are you up to with Klaus?
Caroline: Uh - nothing.
Tyler: He is on to you, Caroline. Whatever you all think you're about to pull off- he's two steps ahead of you!
Caroline: Okay, I don't know what you're talking about.
Tyler: You're lying to me.
Caroline: You know, actually, I'm not. I don't know anything. But even if I did, I wouldn't tell you about it, because you are sired to team Klaus now. And you can't be trusted. So can we please just go back to the party now? [Caroline wants to leave but Tyler takes out a syringe and vervains her; she goes down unconscious.]
"Asshole" muttered Hayley.
[Klaus walks up to Katherine disguised as Elena.]
Klaus: Where's your date?
Katherine: Getting me a drink. [Klaus offers her his drink. She rejects it.]
Klaus: Well, seems I have you to thank for Mikael's demise.
Katherine: He came at me. I didn't have a choice.
Klaus: Still impressing. It's not easy for a human to dagger an Original.
Katherine: It wasn't the first time.
Klaus: Right. Elijah. You seem nervous.
"Stop taunting her." Said Bella and slapped his arm.
Katherine: I'm not nervous. I just don't like you.
Klaus: Let's get straight to the point then, shall I, love? People have been after me for 1000 years. And I am always one step ahead. So whatever it is you're thinking of trying, go for it, give it your best shot. You won't succeed. [Tyler runs into Damon, who grabs him and throws him in an empty room.]
Damon: As the host you should know these hybrids don't make the best first impression.
Tyler: Whatever move you're making, Klaus is gonna be ready for you. He'll kill anyone at this party if he has to.
Damon: Tell someone who cares. [Damon attacks Tyler; they fight; Damon is about to stake Tyler when they both clutch their heads in pain. Bonnie comes in, using her powers to inflict the pain. After Tyler and Damon are slumped on the floor, Bonnie stops using her powers on Damon. Damon gets up.]
Damon: What the hell is wrong with you? You weren't suppose to witchy migraine me!
Bonnie: You weren't supposed to kill Tyler!
Damon: He tried to bite me! [The White Oak stake is on the floor, and Damon picks it up.]
Bonnie: What is that? [Damon puts the White Oak stake back in his jacket.]
Mikaelsons glare at him.
Damon: Nothing.
Bonnie: Oh my god is that the...?
Damon: Shh. [mouths] They're everywhere!
Bonnie: Why do you have it?
Damon: Because I'm the only one who can get inside the house! [Klaus is at a table playing beer pong with Bella.]
Klaus: You shouldn't have come here.
Bella: And leave you alone with Mikael when he has white oak stake? Yeah, good idea. [One of the hybrids comes up to them.]
Mindy: You have a visitor.
Klaus: Well, tell my visitor I'm on the brink of victory here.
Bella: You wish.
People smiled at siblings.
Mindy: He said his name is Mikael. [Klaus and Bella stop immadietly.]
Klaus: Then we mustn't keep him waiting. Move everyone out back. I'm gonna have a little chat with my dad. Tony, you know what to do. [Klaus goes toward the front door, Bella follows.]
Klaus: You stay here!
Bella: I'm not letting you go to him alone!
Klaus: It's dangerous! You're staying!
Bella: That's why i want to come. It's dangerous! [Klaus cups Bella's face.]
Klaus: (softly) I'll be fine. I promise. [Bella sights and nods. Klaus goes.]
Everyone smile at siblings protectivness.
[Mikael is at the doorway.]
Mikael: Hello, Niklaus.
Klaus: Hello, Mikael. Why don't you come in? Oh, that's right. I forgot you can't.
Mikael: Or you can come outside if you want.
Klaus: Or I could watch my hybrids tear you limb from limb.
"It would be so fun." Said Bella. Kol nodded.
[A group of hybrids gather behind Mikael on the lawn.]
Mikael: They can't kill me.
Klaus: True. But it'll make a hell of a party game. All I have to do is rub these two fingers together and they'll pounce.
Mikael: The big bad wolf. You haven't changed. Still hiding behind your playthings like a coward. You only forget. They may be sired by you, but they're still part vampire. And they can be compelled by me. [Mindy walks up behind Mikael and pushes Katherine to Mikael.]
Mikaelsons glare at him.
Mikael: Come out and face me, Niklaus. Or she dies.
Klaus: Go ahead. Kill her.
Katherine: No, Klaus. He'll do it.
Mikael: If she dies, this lot will be last of your abominations.
Klaus: I don't need them. I just need to be rid of you.
Mikael: To what end, Niklaus? So you can live forever, with no one at your side? Nobody cares about you any more, boy! What do you have other than those whose loyalty you forced? No one. No one. [Klaus' eyes start tearing.]
Elijah look at him sadly.
[Bella can't stop herself and comes into the view.]
Bella: He has me! Who do you have?
Klaus: Bella! Go back!
"Why you never listen?!" Said Klaus.
Mikael: How cute! One abomination defending another! [Klaus and Bella glare at him.]
Bella: Oh, shut it. You hate us, because our mother opened her legs for whole village to enter. It isn't our fault If you couldn't even satisfy your wife.
Everyone burst out laugh.
Mikael: Shut up, Girl!
Bella: Are you even sure we are the only bastards? Are others yours? Now i think about it, it's weird Elijah has never shown signs of magic. [Klaus looks amused.]
Elijah and Kol look wide eyed, never thought about the possibility.
Mikael: Come outside and face me, you little cowards. And I won't have to kill her.
Klaus: My whole life you've underestimated me. If you kill her you lose your leverage. So go ahead. Go on. Kill her. Come on, old man. Kill her. Kill her!!! [Mikael laughs.]
Mikael: Your impulse, Niklaus. It has and will forever be the one thing that keeps you from truly being great. [Mikael stabs Elena/Katherine with a dagger and pulls it out. She falls to the floor.]
Mikaelsons glare at him.
[Mikael laughs as Klaus looks on shocked. Damon rushes up behind Klaus, twists him around, Bella throws Damon at wall. Katherine gets up from the floor.]
Mikael: Katherine...
Katherine: [smiling] Kaboom. [Katherine has two wolfsbane grenades in her hands and throws them at the hybrids.]
"Badass. As always." Said Layla.
[Meanwhile, Damon is about to take a stake, when Stefan holds Damon down. The stake is on the floor.]
Damon: What are you doing?! [Bella throws the stake to Klaus, he takes the stake, jumps at Mikael and drives it through Mikael's heart; he bursts into flames and dies.]
"Congrulations becoming orphans!" Said Layla. Kol, Klaus and Bella laughs.
"Thank you." Said Elijah.
Damon: What the hell did you do?
Bella: He's earned his freedom. [Stefan stops clutching Damon, gets up and faces Klaus.]
Klaus: Thank you my friend. You no longer have to do as I say. You're free. [Klaus un-compels Stefan. Stefan looks where Damon was, but he has fled. Bella vamp-runs and gets two bottles of burbon and gives one to Klaus. After little silence, Bella laughs bitterly.]
Bella: It's funny, isn't it? [Klaus raises his eyebrow.]
Bella: Even after so many years, Even after becoming Immortal Heretic and Hybrid, Even after becoming the most powerful and feared people, he can still make us feel like weak, defensless children. [Klaus hummed and they sit on floor, drinking together in silence.]
People look at them sadly. Klaus and Bella ignore their gazes.
Lockwood Mantion - Flashback
[Where Klaus meets Elena/Katherine.]
Klaus: You seem nervous.
Katherine: I'm not nervous, I just don't like you.
Klaus: People have been after me for a thousand years and I'm always one step ahead: So whatever it is you're thinking of trying, go for it. Give it your best shot. You won't succeed.
Katherine: It won't be for lack of trying.
Klaus: Ah you'd be smart to tell Damon to mind his manners tonight, because if I die, I've already ensured that he'll die along with me! Even in death my hybrids have their orders. So, you kill me you're killing him too.
Katherine's Car
Stefan: You wanted Klaus dead for five hundred years. Why would you risk all that, just to safe Damon's life?
Katherine: I wasn't just trying to safe Damon's life, Stefan. I was trying to safe yours. Your humanity. Let's just say I liked the "old you" better.
"She was working with you to begin with." Pointed out Hayley.
"She is Layla's friend and she knew Layla wouldn't forgive her if she killed Nik. And also she owned me favours. For the times, i helped her out." Said Bella.
Stefan: Nah. Come on, Katherine. You don't care about anybody but yourself. You never have.
Katherine: You and I both know that that is not true. I loved you, I've loved Damon, too. Humanity is a vampire's greatest weakness... No matter how easy it is to turn it off- it just keeps trying to fight it's way back in. Sometimes I let it.
Stefan: I can't let it all back in. I don't want to. Not after everything I've done.

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