Fire & Flame | Klaus Mikaelson

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07. My Brother's Keeper

Lily sat in her room while on the phone with Stefan, "What the hell do you mean you're not going to Miss Mystic Falls pageant, if I'm going so are you and aren't you a member of the founding families, I thought it was compulsory for us to attend these events?".

"Elena and I broke up, by definition, I don't need to be anywhere" Stefan stated, doing push ups in the woods.

"You realise that sounds really depressing, right?" Lily asked.

"Oh, I'm not depressed" Stefan said, "I just want to rip into someone's artery and feed until I can't breathe anymore", Stefan stopped his push ups and laid on the ground.

"Sounds real healthy" Lily commented.

Stefan stared at the sky above him, "She said she has feelings for Damon".

Lily let out a sigh, "I really don't want to be that person, but as your best friend, I feel like I need to be that person and tell you that I told you so".

"Yeah you did" Stefan said, "I just didn't want to believe it".

"No one wants to believe that the woman they love has fallen in love with their brother" Lily said, "And if it makes you feel any better I'm pretty sure no one in Mystic Falls is going to be happy with Elena's decision of choosing Damon over you".

"Yeah well, I don't know what good that will do" Stefan said, "Elena's right, being a vampire really has changed her".

"Doesn't it change everyone?" Lily asked, "I can't believe I'm saying this because I really don't like her, but if you want the human Elena back, then your only solution is the cure".

"Yeah, I know" Stefan said, "Alright I gotta go, I'll call you back once I've figured out what to do".

"Please do and please don't rip someone's head in the meantime" Lily said.

"I'll try my best not to" Stefan assured, "Bye".

"Bye" Lily said, hanging up on the youngest Salvatore.

Once Lily hanged up the phone, Stefan stood up from the ground when suddenly Klaus showed up behind him and held him in a choke hold, "In what world do the words, tell no one, mean tell your brother and every teenage sycophant in town?".

Stefan groaned in pain, "The secret's safe, no one who knows about the cure will endanger us, trust me, you know I wanna find it more than anyone else".

"Well then I suggest you find some more vampires for Jeremy to kill before I'm tempted to offer you up as a victim" Klaus threatened, finally letting go of Stefan, "And try to keep this one to yourself, would you?".

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"Okay, does no one in this damn town follow instructions?" an annoyed Lily asked, at the Miss Mystic Falls event, helping them prepare for the main event that was happening tomorrow.

After her call with Stefan, Liz had come into Lily's room and told her that she had volunteered Lily to go help at the pageant, and no matter how much Lily begged her mother not to do this to her, stating that attending the actually pageant was torture enough she didn't want to become another Caroline and start organizing events, Liz refused to budge, saying getting out of the house to do normal teenage things and not some supernatural secret mission will actually be good for Lily, that is how Lily ended up trying to get a bunch of girls to listen to her.