The Owl Gilbert

3:9: Homecoming

It's an hour earlier as Stefan, Damon, and I are in the Salvatore Boarding House Library, talking about a plan. "All right, let's say that Mikael followed Adam in here. He tried to grab him so he could use him as bait." Stefan says. "And you, what? Vervained him?" I ask. "No, we vervained him. The guy's an Original. Make it realistic." Damon says as I look at him. "Ok, fine. We vervained him, and in the process discovered that he had a dagger." Stefan says as I look at him. "Which he planned to use on Rebekah. But instead--" I say. "We drove it through his heart." He says. "And what happens when he asks to see Mikael's body?" I ask. "Good point. You, my brother, have been compelled to do what Klaus says. So the idea is to lure him back here and kill him, the last thing we need is you getting tripped up and tongue tied." Damon says as I look at him, and back to Stefan, and nod. "Well, don't look at me. I am just in charge of getting him back here." He says. "Klaus is smart. If we tell him that Mikael is dead, he'll want proof." I say. "Then I shall be dead." Mikael says as we look at him and walk over to him. "What if he wants to see you in person?" I ask. "Well that means our plan is working. Klaus will absolutely want to see my body. You lure him here, and I will kill him." He says. "With what? Those daggers don't work on him." Stefan says. "Well, I'm in possession of a stake fashioned from the wood of the ancient White Oak tree. The one that left these ashes when it burned." Mikael says and picks up the vial of ash with his left hand. "Where is it?" Damon asks and Mikael picks up the dagger. "Not here. Knowing its location is my insurance policy." He says and dips the dagger into the ash. "Against what?" Stefan asks and Mikael puts the vial down, and approaches us with the dagger in his right hand. "You leaving this in my heart. You see, a vampire can't dagger an Original without dying. So.. it falls to you." He says, offering me the dagger and I take it with my right hand. "You. You want me to actually dagger you?" I ask. "Klaus will leave nothing to chance. Especially when it comes to trust." He says.

It's the present time, as Stefan is on the phone with Klaus, his phone in his right hand. "Well, he's here. Come by whenever. It's true. I saw it with my own eyes. That's not a problem. She's right here." He says and walks over to Rebekah, and hands her the phone, and she takes it with her right hand. "Hello, Nik." She says and looks at me, and I nod. "It's true. He's finally out of our lives for good. I miss you. I'm miserable here. Good. I'll see you then, brother." She says and hangs up, and hands them phone back to Stefan, who takes it with his left hand. "He bought it. He's coming home." She says and turns around, and walks off. "Now was that easy or what?" Damon asks, smiling as I look at him, and sigh. "Let's just get this over with." I say and walk over to Mikael's body, and crouch down, put my right hand on the dagger, and pull it out.

It's the next day as I'm at the Salvatore Boarding House in Damon's bedroom, as he's in the bathroom, preparing weapons. "We can't trust Rebekah not to turn on us." I say. "Oh, really? Because these Original vampires are usually so reliable." He says, sarcastically. "Bonnie was right. Rebekah may be mad at Klaus now, but.. he is her brother." I say and walk towards him. "Her lying, mama killing, dagger happy brother. The Wolfsbane's ready." He says and I sigh. "There are too many things that can go wrong with this plan. Too many people that can make it go wrong." I say. "Well, I am formulating a secret contingency plan." He says. "Really?" I ask and we look at each other. "What is it?" I ask. "Well, if I told you, then it wouldn't be a secret." He says, smiling and tilts his head to the right, and I turn around, and see Stefan. "I need to borrow a tie." He says. "You have your own ties." Damon says as I look forward. "I'm a hundred and sixty two years old and I'm going to a Homecoming Dance. I need better ties." Stefan says and I look at him. "You could not go." I say and he smiles. "I'm compelled to protect you and Elena. And if I look at your track record at high school dances, it's pretty tragic." He says, pointing at me with his right index finger and puts his hand down. "With my luck you'll go and get yourself murdered by the Homecoming Queen." He says and walks off, and I sigh, and look forward, and pick up a Wolfsbane Grenade, and Damon hits my right hand. "Ah, no." He says. "I know how to do it. Alaric taught me. And I've made my own before, remember?" I ask and he takes it from me as I'm looking at him. "Adam, if this thing blows up in our face just remember only one of us heals quickly." He says and we hear footsteps, and stop talking. "Ah, please tell me that you have a better plan than Wolfsbane Grenades." Stefan says as Damon fills up another grenade. "Never your mind, brother. The less you know the better." Damon says and  hands me the grenade, and I hand him another one to fill up. "My freedom from Klaus rests entirely upon you two executing your plan perfectly. So, excuse me if I'm a bit cynical." Stefan says and begins to walk off, and I turn to him. "Your the one that we should be worried about." I say and he stops, and looks at me. "If Klaus asks you one wrong question, whole thing falls apart." I say. "You do have reason to worry, but if I look back in our history of epic plan failures, it's usually because one of us let our Humanity get in the way. Upon taking odds on how this thing goes down, it's certainly not gonna be me who screws it up. I'll see you at Homecoming. I can't wait." He says, pointing at me with his right index finger and puts his hand down, and turns around, and walks off, and I look forward.