𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑨𝑫𝑶𝑿𝑰𝑪𝑨𝑳 - Klaus Mikaelson

𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆

"What do you mean she's missing?" I asked in disbelief as I leaned against Damon's stone-blue Camaro. I held my arms crossed in front of my chest as I listened to the brothers speak. Elena disappeared last night, not having come home and her car was still at the Lockwood mansion.

"This has Katherine written all over it," Stefan said loudly as he stepped closer to his brother. I think he forgot for a moment that we stood in the high school parking lot with many human ears around. 

"Katherine's in the tomb. Trust me, I'm the one who shut her in." I rolled my eyes as Damon spoke. I was the one to shut her in.

"Did you?" Stefan said, accusing Damon of not being able to lock Katherine away. I decided to stay quiet for a moment, and let them hash things out before I said anything.

"Did I what, Stefan?"

"Well, I know the hold that Katherine has on you."

"She's in the tomb. Period. End of story. I shut her in." I spoke up, pushing myself off of the hood of the car. Stefan looked at me for a second, scanning my face to see if I was lying. He stepped away, pacing slowly in front of us. Damon looked at the grass in thought before glancing at me.

"But she did say something to us right before you shut her in." He said quietly, looking at me to see if I remembered. I nodded along as I looked at Stefan. "I thought she was lying."

"What did she say?"

I had put the pieces together last night. Niklaus was searching for the ingredients to break his curse, hidden behind the false myth of the Sun and the Moon curse. I remember him telling me about it, and how they created the myth so all vampires and werewolves would be on the lookout for the ingredients. 

I doubted whoever was involved in taking Elena had any idea who Niklaus or the family was. They were probably just trying to 'break' the Sun and Moon curse. If so, it would be easy to get her back.

"Elena's in danger." Damon said.

"And you didn't think to ask her to elaborate?" Stefan replied, annoyed with his brother.

"Aren't you always talking about how she's a liar? How do you expect us to have believed her?" I ask, genuinely. They always spoke of her lies, and the one time we didn't believe her, she was telling the truth.

"We have to go talk to her."

"No, no. Let me tell you how that's gonna go; we're gonna ask for help, she's gonna negotiate a release, which you're dumb enough to give her, and then she's gonna get out and kill us." I chuckled as Damon spoke, blabbing on about what she would do. He wasn't wrong, of course. I've learned she's great at getting her way and slipping away.

"I don't really care," Stefan said as he began to back away.

"It's a bad idea, Stefan," I shouted to him as he all but jogged away. I sighed as I turned to Damon, a slight look of anger on his face.

He was angry at Katherine, having just locked her away for what he thought was forever, just to have Stefan need her help. He was also angry at the situation, with Elena missing and in danger. He pretended not to care for her and denied his feelings for her, but I knew him better than that. I saw the way he would steal glances at her when Stefan wasn't looking, the way his face lit up when she was near him, and how angry he got when something was wrong with her or came after her.

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Damon and I stood out in the hallway of the high school as Stefan worked with Bonnie and Jeremy to get a location for Elena. The classic locator spell. We were making sure no one wandered into the room while they worked.