Estelle

Chapter 19

I followed Niklaus, still in possession of Alaric's body, into Alaric's classroom. He had me compel the office staff into believing I was his new student teacher once we had arrived at the school. Now we were entering the room to start the day with his precious doppelgänger's class.

All the students were in their seats as we entered the room, where they had been talking loudly before now they all fell quiet. Niklaus/Alaric stepped to the front of the room, motioning me to move to the back of the room.
I moved to the back of the room, the students watched me curiously.

I spotted Stefan, Elena, and Bonnie in their seats oblivious to our entrance. Elena was showing a flyer to Stefan, who was shaking his head. None of them noticed me as I moved back.

"Hello class. What are we learning today?"

A girl spoke up, "With the decade dance tonight, we've been covering the sixties all week."

"Right. The sixties." Alaric/Niklaus muttered.

He noticed Elena and stared at her for a few minutes. I cleared my throats subtly, and he snapped out of it.

"The, uh, ahem..." He turned to the board and wrote on it. "The sixties. I wish there was something good I could say about the sixties, but...Actually, they kind of sucked. Except for the Beatles, of course. They made it bearable. Uh, what else was there? The Cuban missile thing, the...we walked on the moon. There was Watergate."

Elena spoke up, "Watergate was the seventies, Ric." The class stared at her, and she stammered to correct herself. "I-I mean, Mr. Saltzman."

Alaric/Niklaus cleared his throat, "Right. It all kind of mushes together up here, the sixties, seventies. Thank you, Elena."

I snickered drawing attention to myself. Stefan, Elena, and Bonnie noticed me for the first time. They stared at me in shock and I gave them a little wave and a small smile.

"Miss Smith is our student teacher. She'll be observing us this week." Alaric/Niklaus said before going back to his lesson for class.

At lunch Alaric/Niklaus compelled one of the girls in the doppelgänger's history class to tell Elena that Klaus wanted her to save a dance for him. Then After school Alaric/Niklaus was summoned to the Boarding House by Damon.

"What does he want?" He asked me.

I shrugged, "After your bit of fun at lunch, I'm guessing he wants to be a chaperone to the dance tonight. You probably freaked them out."

He laughed, "Well that was the point. The best time to strike is when they are unaware but what is the fun in that?"

I shook my head and laughed, "Only a Mikaelson. A Malfoy strikes and tells no one."

Niklaus only smirked at me and had me direct him to the Boarding House. We entered to find Damon, Stefan, Elena, and Bonnie on the middle of a serious discussion. A spark of surprise that flickered in Damon's eye when he saw me but he didn't say anything to me, instead he looked at Alaric/Niklaus.

"There you are."

"Sorry we're late." Alaric/Niklaus replied leading me to the couch and lightly pushing me onto it.

Damon merely nodded, "Hey, I need you to put me down as a chaperone at the dance tonight. Klaus made his first move."

Alaric/Niklaus nodded but didn't get a chance to respond because Elena spoke up. "Okay, so we find him and then what, hmm? What's our plan of attack?"

I mentally rolled my eyes, I had to hand it to Nik he knew how to get information from people. The crazy lot were going to tell him their plans on how to kill him.

Bonnie, their local Bennet witch spoke up confidently, "Me. I'm the plan. He has no idea how much power I can channel. If you can find him, I can kill him."

Alaric/Niklaus spoke up with an eye brow raised, "That's not going to be that easy. I mean, he is the biggest, baddest vampire around."

I had to stifle my snort at his words and rolled my eyes mentally. Damon and his friends had no clue who they were talking to and Niklaus was just building his own ego. Talk about drama, I was starting to really miss dealing with my father.

"Alaric has a point. I mean, what if he... " Damon said as he rushed at Bonnie.

Bonnie effortlessly threw him on the other side of the room with her magic.

"Well, I was impressed." Stefan muttered.

"It doesn't matter if he's an Original. I can take down anyone who comes at me. I can kill him, Elena. I know I can." Bonnie told Elena.

I smirked, now they had a plan, the only problem was they told Klaus all about it. On our way out Damon told Alaric/Niklaus to make sure I wasn't at the dance tonight. I protested, but Damon declared he didn't want me there in possible harm's way.

"I absolutely do not want to have to explain to your father you got hurt because Klaus came to town." He stated seriously, before kissing my forehead and walking away.

I glared after him as he sauntered off and muttered, "More like, you don't want him to be even angrier with you after he gets undaggered."

Alaric/Niklaus cleared their throat and I looked over at him. He raised an eyebrow at me and said, "We should get back to the apartment, I have a dance to get ready for, and you Estelle, have some explaining to do."

"Shite." I mumbled, he heard me, now I was in for it.