The banshee

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•Hello Love•
*Lydia's pov*

-Mystic Grill-

I had just walked into the grill starving, I had just finished talking with Stefan and decided to leave before Carol got worried.
I texted her that I would be at the grill and then I'd be staying at Elena's house for the night. I sat down at the bar and ordered a lemonade. I sat quietly sipping my drink when someone sat beside me.
I looked over and saw a man sitting there. Not gonna lie, he was pretty attractive but I didn't get a good vibe off of him. I could sense death on him, a lot actually. He must be a vampire too and judging by how strong this feeling is, an old one.

"Hello love" he spoke probably noticing me looking over at him. I was a little embarrassed but answered back with a hello. He smirked and kept drinking his bourbon.

"My hybrids tell me you're friends with the doppelgänger.." he said while staring forwards, a slight grin forming on his lips. I noticed that he had an accent, a British one. Though it didn't click in my head right away, I had a feeling I already knew who he was. I decided to play dumb, pretending I had no idea what he was talking about.

"Doppelgänger?" I questioned while putting on an innocent but confused face. He let out a laugh and then turned to face me, a smirk still sitting in his lips.

"Don't play dumb with me love, even if I couldn't hear your hear skip a beat, I would still know you were lying.." he stated lowly while leaning forward a bit. I dropped the act not seeing any point in keeping it up.

"Who are you?" I asked with caution, he just smirked and changed the subject. "Since you're friends with the Gilbert girl, you must be friends with the rest of them hmm?" He asked with a mischievous look in his eyes.

"Yeah..so what? Why do you ask?" I asked sassily, wanting to know what he was up too. He smirked again, it reminded me of Damon's. "I'm looking for someone.." he started while looking back at his drink. I got nervous, what was he planning?

"Perhaps you've heard of him...Salvatore" he said with a look of anger flashing through his eyes but it was gone as soon as it came. Salvatore? Damon or...Stefan?

"Stefan Salvatore" he finished while turning to look at me once again. I held my breathe, oh no. I looked at my drink, quickly downing the rest of it. "I'm sorry I've only heard stories of him, I was told he was taken a little while back , I'm sorry I don't know him. I must be going, Mrs.Lockwood is waiting for me at home,it was nice to meet you" I quickly said, lying to the best of my ability. I payed for my drink, grabbed my bag and got ready to leave when the man grabbed my hand,

"It was nice to meet you Lydia, we'll see each other again, I'm Klaus" he said with a smile. I smiled back politely before walking out of the grill quickly running to Elena's house, still not comfortable walking alone at night.

-Elena's house-

I knocked on the door and waited for Elena to answer. I was still breathing heavy due to the running I just did in heels. Probably not a good idea but I wasn't really thinking about that, I was thinking about Klaus. Who was he and why does he seem familiar?
The door opened revealing Jeremy, the younger Gilbert.
"Hey Lydia! Elena's upstairs, in pretty sure her door is open so you'll find her room easily" he greeted while opening the door wider so I could enter. I greeted and thanked him, taking off my shoes and leaving them by the door before heading upstairs.

"Oh hey Lydia! Come here, I was just grabbing some movies to watch.." I heard Elena say from the room in front of me, I walked in to see her looking through a stack of movies. I smiled and sat down, I was really excited when she invited me over, I really wanted us to be great friends.

-Next morning-

I rolled over on Elena bed looking at the alarm clock beside me. 11:36am. Oh my god it was almost noon, I told Carol I would be back by lunch so I unwillingly got out of bed and made my way to the washroom.
I came into Elena's room to find her brushing her brunette hair, she was already dressed so we both headed downstairs when she finished.
"Morning Elena, morning Lydia" Alaric said to us while smiling, turning back around to make some more coffee. I sat down with Elena and texted Carol that I might be a few minutes late, Elena and I had stayed up till early in the morning watching the whole Harry Potter series.

I drank my coffee ignoring the conversation going on around me, that was until Tyler walked in. What was he doing here? I heard Elena say something about hybrid master and doing what he says, what shocked me was when she said one name, Klaus. That's when it clicked, Klaus is short for Niklaus. He's an original, I gave attitude to an original. How do I still have my head?

The phone rang bringing me back to reality, Jeremy went to answer it while I looked at Tyler suspiciously, something wasn't right. Suddenly I got the feeling. Death was coming. I stood up quickly grabbing Elena's arm lightly. Nothing. I grabbed Ric's, nothing, I grabbed Tyler's, nothing again. I turned to grab Jeremy but he wasn't there, uh oh.

"What was that?" Ric asked me confused as to why I just touched everyone. Not knowing if he knew what a banshee was I came up with something quickly so I could find Jeremy.
"I'm kind of psychic.. I'll explain later, we need to find Jeremy!" I rushed out, the feeling getting stronger. I turned around ready to run upstairs to see if he was there when I saw his ring on the table. Isn't that ring supposed to keep him alive if he dies?... oh.

Elena must've seen it too because she was up and running to the front door along with Aric and myself. Jeremy was standing in the middle of the street, I yelled for him to nice but he didn't. He was compelled, someone must've compelled him on the phone. The screeching of tires was heard down the street when a black car appeared to be driving straight for Jeremy.

Before I could process what was happening, Ric was running towards Jeremy, pushing him out of the way just in time before trying hit himself. I felt the urge to scream but I held it down knowing he had his ring on. Elena and I ran down the pathway towards Ric and Jeremy. The man driving the car looked familiar, I've definitely seen him before. Must be working for Klaus.

"There I go again bumping into people.." he says with a smirk while looking at Elena. He drives off before anyone could do anything, Jeremy runs over to us and Elena asks him "Jeremy who was on the phone?" He replied with the answer we were all dreading. Klaus.