Inaction's and Consequences

Chapter 30

Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to The Vampire Diaries, TV show or books. However I decided to have a little play around with the characters (I would definitely like to play with Damon).

Their meeting had been set up for 8pm in the truck stop parking lot on the outskirts of Mystic Falls. Feeling nervous about the encounter, and not knowing what to expect, especially considering their last meeting, Hayley had decided to wait for a little while inside the store and browse that magazine stand. Looking at the clock, she noticed it was two minutes after eight, deciding that she didn't want to be late, she put the magazine down she was looking at and left the store to look for him. She walked out of the store and began searching the parking lot, cautiously looking between two huge eighteen wheel trucks.

Suddenly, she heard the sound of something hitting metal. Stopping for a second, she took a look around, when she suddenly heard the noise again but this time it was from behind her. Hayley turned around and saw a man standing between the two trucks where she'd just been searching. The man vamp-sped over to her, grabbing her by the throat, he slammed her against the side of one of the trucks. Hayley began to choke and gasp for air, as the vampire threw her to the ground and looked down at her, snarling. Suddenly there was a whooshing noise and before the man could do anything to Hayley, the man she was meeting, Klaus vamp-sped up to the strange vampire, grabbed him by his jacket, and spun him around to face him.

"Have a care, mate. That's no way to treat a lady." Klaus said, his fangs extending and his eyes glowing gold.

Klaus grabbed the vampire and bit down on his neck causing the vampire to screams, however Klaus continued to bite down on him. Klaus suddenly stopped draining the vampire and threw him against one of the trucks before the vampire slumped to the tarmac as Klaus looked down at Hayley who was still sat on the ground.

"You came." she said, clearly relieved by Klaus's appearing just in time to save her.

"Well, you did say it was urgent." Klaus smiled, as the vampire that Klaus had just attacked was still writhing on the ground, gripping his neck wound and moaning. Klaus extended his hand towards Hayley, who took it and Klaus pulled her up from the ground. Hayley looked over at the vampire lying on the ground, when he suddenly got up and vamp-sped away.

"Oh, don't worry about him, love." Klaus smiled. "He'll never make it through tomorrow night." he added.

"What if there are more?" Hayley asked anxiously.

"You were foolish enough to make a deal with Katerina Petrova. She used you to find the cure and now you're nothing but a loose end." Klaus told her. "You'll be lucky if she lets you live." he said.

"You said you would protect me." Hayley said angrily as she shoved past Klaus.

"And I will." Klaus said as he turned to face Hayley. "Just as soon as you tell me everything you know about Katerina." he smiled. "I say we go back to my place, it's a little less public. My car is that way." he stretched his hand out as a gesture to Hayley for her to lead the way.

Rebekah arrived back at her house straight from dropping Kol's body off at Klaus's mansion. Klaus had said he would get rid of his body, and although Rebekah and Klaus were angry, they both knew Kol ultimately had only himself to blame with his hair-brained idea's of saving the world from the mythical Silas. Well that's what she would have normally thought, but when she saw Professor Shane lying injured on the island after he'd officially left with the rest of the group, she knew something was wrong and there was a possibility that they were all in grave danger.

Getting in the shower she thought more and more about what the Professor had told her. She realized for the greater good, she would need to tell everyone. Sometimes a common enemy made even the worst of enemies work together, and if what Professor Shane had said was right, they were going to have to work hard. Yes the cure was an option but Professor Shane had suggested a back-up way to destroy Silas, a way that even Silas himself wouldn't know about. She just didn't understand it yet, she needed to search for a prophesy which would tell them how to break the bloodline of which Silas drew his power from. He had mentioned the names Antipatros and Alekto, however he had warned her to be careful who she mentioned this information to. If witches knew she was researching them, his followers would try and find her and thwart her.