Bellatrix Mikaelson(Tvd)

Chapter 54

Town Square
[In the town square, the Winter Wonderland charity event is in full swing, complete with fake snow. Caroline and Tyler and standing in the middle of the square.]
Caroline: You're going to do what?!
Tyler: Hayley found a witch strong enough to do the body jump spell. You know, the Klaus specialty.
Caroline: So, you're going to put him in someone else's body and then what?
Tyler: We'll encase the body in concrete then bury it.
Everyone glared at him.
Caroline: Why not just desiccate him like Bonnie did?
Tyler: Because to do that spell, you have to stop a human heart. I was a little short of volunteers.
Caroline: Well, who was dumb enough to volunteer their body to be a Klaus sublet? [Tyler sighs but doesn't respond. Caroline's face falls as she realizes that Tyler is the volunteer.]
Tyler: Okay, don't freak out.
Caroline: Freak out! Freak out?! I'm about to hemorrhage! You volunteered?!
Tyler: It's not forever. Just long enough for the hybrids to be able to completely disappear.
Caroline: Well, I can think of better ways for us to spend our senior year then you buried in concrete, Tyler. [Caroline has grown increasingly angry, but Tyler's face remains calm. He gently grabs Caroline by the shoulders and looks directly at her.]
Tyler: This started with me. This has to end with me. [Caroline can't seem to bear looking Tyler in the eyes. She continues to look down at the ground.]
Tyler: I need your support. [Caroline finally looks up at him with sad eyes.]
Mystic Grill
[Outside in the Town Square, children are running around in the fake snow and starting snowball fights. Inside the Grill, Caroline is admiring the postmodern snowflake Klaus painted. She seems to notice she is being watched and turns to see Klaus looking at her. He smiles at her and she turns to face him.]
Caroline: Here to steal Tiny Tim's crutches?
Klaus: Dickens was a dark man. You would have liked him. [Klaus walks around the table towards her, but Caroline makes her way to the other side of the table so that they are still apart.]
Caroline: Nice snowflake, by the way.
Klaus: Is my work really that literal?
"It's not. It's really deep actually, but everyone of them is... sad, angry or lonely." Said Layla.
"That's Nik's style. Seriously, can't you paint something happy for once?" Said Bella.
Caroline: I'm serious. There's something... lonely about it.
Klaus: I'm gonna take that as a compliment. Can I offer you some champagne? [Caroline turns around and starts to walk away. Klaus pursues her.]
Caroline: Can't. Too many adult prying eyes. [Caroline turns around to face Klaus who has closed the gap between them.]
Caroline: Don't want to be a high school cautionary tale at the next town meeting.
Klaus: Well, then it's a good thing the high school part is nearly over. [They stare at each other for a brief moment.]
Caroline: If we're going to be nice to each other, then I will need that glass of champagne. [Klaus smiles and walks closer towards her.]
Klaus: Is that our thing? [Caroline scoffs and rolls her eyes.]
Caroline: We don't have a "thing."
Klaus: Allow me. [Klaus smiles at her again and walks away to get them some champagne. Caroline watches him walk away. When she is positive that he can't see her any longer, she takes out her phone and texts Stefan "He's here. Go."]
Klaus glared at her.
Town Square
[Hayley is talking to Klaus in the middle of the square. Stefan sees the pair and watches them. Hayley walks off, leaving Klaus alone. Stefan walks up to him.]
Klaus: She doesn't like me much. Where have you been all day?
Stefan: I've been around.
Klaus: I'm not interested in vagary, Stefan. You've been dodgy and Caroline's been lovely, which I've come to recognize as a tool of distraction, now, do you have something to share with me or should I compel it out of you?
"Well... you finally learnt your lesson. You took your time." Said Layla.
Stefan: I broke into your safe to look for the sword.
Klaus: Why?
Stefan: Because I don't trust you.
Klaus: I showed you the sword. I explained its value. I've been on your side the entire time. What do you want from me? A secret brotherhood handshake?
Stefan: I found the letters. You've had a few pen-pals over the centuries. [Klaus smiles smugly at him.]
Klaus: Well, is keeping my victims' letters really so different from writing their names on a wall? Like you did, Ripper? [Stefan doesn't respond. Klaus smiles even more smugly now. Suddenly, Klaus sees Adrian over Stefan's shoulder and his face falls. He walks past Stefan and towards him but stops midway. He turns back to talk to Stefan.]
Klaus: Loneliness, Stefan. [Stefan turns around and faces him.]
Klaus: That's why you and I memorialize our dead. There's the briefest of moments before we kill where we literally hold their life in our hands and then we rip it away. And we're left with nothing. So, gathering other peoples' letters or writing their names on a wall is a reminder that in the end we're left infinitely and utterly alone.
Bella hits Klaus's head.
"Can you believe him? I spent 10 century with him and he whines about lonliness. What am i to you? A ghost?!" Said Bella. People looked at Bella amused. Klaus has small smile.
[Klaus turns and walks off with Adrian as Stefan watches them go.]
Town Square
[Tyler is on the phone and leaving a voice message for his mom.]
Tyler: Hey mom, I don't see you. Things have changed, it's gonna be fine. [Tyler sees Hayley walking through the crowd.]
Tyler: I'll be back later. I'll pick you up.
[He hangs up and walks over to Hayley.]
Tyler: What are you doing here? You're supposed to be taking the witch to the Cellar.
Hayley: There is no witch, Tyler.
Tyler: What?
Hayley: I made it up.
Hayley looked down.
Woods
[Kim and the other hybrids are waiting in the woods.]
Kimberley: Where the hell is the witch? Adrian should be here any minute. [There is a rushing noise that all the hybrids hear. They turn around and see Adrian.]
Adrian: Kim. [Suddenly, Adrian's heart is torn from his body.]
Kimberley: No!
Town Square
Hayley: I never intended for you to put Klaus down. I needed him for the sacrifice.
Tyler: The what?
Woods
[Adrian falls down on his knees. Klaus stands behind him holding out his bloody heart in his hand. He drops it on the ground. His face shows nothing but pure rage. He has the Hunter's sword in his hand and begins to rush at the hybrids, slashing at them with the sword.]
Bella hugs him, knowing how hard it was for him.
Town Square
Hayley: I don't know how to explain it, but I made a deal with someone who can help me find my family.
Tyler: What are you talking about? What kind of deal?
Hayley: There needed to be twelve for the sacrifice, Tyler.
Woods
[Klaus has slashed at one of the hybrids who falls to the ground, dead. Another hybrid jumps at him, ready to attack him, but Klaus slices her head off with the sword.]
Town Square
Tyler: Twelve what?
Woods
[Klaus slashes at another hybrid's throat with the sword.]
Town Square
Hayley: I'm sorry.
Woods
[Klaus throws the sword at another hybrid and pinning him to a tree.]
Town Square
Tyler: Hayley, what did you do?
Woods
[Klaus rips the heart out of the hybrid that is pinned to the tree.
Town Square
Hayley: If you run now, you might make it out alive. [Tyler looks at her with a mixture of horror and shock.]
Woods
[Klaus takes the sword out of the now dead hybrid's chest and slashes the throat of another one of his hybrids.]
Town Square
[Tyler continues to stare at Hayley while he backs away. He turns around and dashes through the crowd.]
Woods
[Klaus stands in the midst of all the dead hybrids. He breathes heavily and has blood splashed across the front of his shirt. He hears Kim crying and hiding down in the Lockwood Cellar. He proceeds to follow her. Kim trips down the remaining stairs and looks up from the floor as Klaus walks down towards her. She attempts to back away from him. She gets up and grabs the bars of the Cellar, trying to find a way out as she continues to sob. She turns
and looks at Klaus.]
Klaus: Where is Tyler Lockwood? [Kim continues to cry, but does not answer. Klaus points the sword at her throat and moves closer towards her.]
Klaus: You'd do well to answer me, love. [Klaus places the blade against her throat and screams in her face.]
Klaus: Where is he?!
Kimberley: I don't know.
Klaus: Wrong answer. [Klaus pushes the blade into her throat. Kim gasps for air, but Klaus successfully presses the blade through her neck and chops her head off. He turns around and starts to walk off. His face is not full of rage anymore but seemingly full of sadness and loneliness. He breathes out a sigh.]
Town Square
[Carol Lockwood is leaving a voice message for Tyler.]
Carol: Tyler, honey, you're supposed to be my sober cab. I think I drank half the party. [Carol hangs up her phone and sits down on the edge of a stone fountain. She puts her champagne glass down next to her and takes her shawl off. Klaus approaches her, his clothes and face blood-spattered.]
Klaus: Good evening, Carol. You're looking for Tyler. I'd like to have a word with him myself. [Klaus has a bottle of champagne clutched in one of his hands. Carol looks up at him, terrified.]
Carol: Klaus, please, don't hurt him. He's my son. He's all I have.
People looked at her sadly.
Klaus: And you're all he has. There's a beautiful symmetry to that, don't you think? [Klaus grabs Carol by the back of the neck. Carol screams, but Klaus dunks her head into the water surrounding the fountain. Carol struggles to fight Klaus off but he continues to hold her head under. Finally, Carol takes her last breath and the life leaves her eyes. Klaus takes his hand off her neck and walks away, leaving Carol's body in the fountain.]