WARRIOR QUEEN • N. MIKAELSON [1]

Chapter 18

Alaric dipped the cloth that was in Caroline's mouth into a beaker of vervain. The skin around Caroline's mouth is very red and appears to have peeled away. Alaric walked back to her.

"No, no more, please, no more!" she groaned.

Elena got up.

"Alaric stop!" Elena cried.

Alaric pushed Elena back into a seat.

"Sit down! This keeps the vervain in her system. It's like inhaling razorblades with every breath."

Alaric put the cloth back in Caroline's mouth. Her skin began to smoke and burn. She cried and screamed in pain. Elena touched her arm.

"Why are you doing this?"

"To make it easier on you when you put her out of her misery."

Alaric picked up the white oak stake and walked towards Elena.

"What?! No!"

"Isn't this what you wanted, Elena? For me to teach you how to kill a vampire?"

Alaric holds out the white oak stake towards her. "Well, here's a vampire, Elena. Kill her."

"This isn't what I want."

"Of course it is. All those hours you spent training, getting stronger, you could be a hunter, Elena. But you've never actually staked a vampire through the heart."

He persistently held out the stake. Elena stared at it.

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Meanwhile in Alaric's teacher room...

Ok this was my time! I need to escape from here now!

I mustered all my strength to pull my right hand out of the stake. I groaned and cried in pain. Coming out as a muffled scream due to the gag on my mouth. Slowly I moved my hand forward and forward until it was out of the stake.

With a shaking hand I uncovered myself from the bloody gag. Pulled out the many stakes from my stomach in one swift move, I bit my lip to hold the scream coming out of my mouth. I did the same to my other hand and thighs. I dropped to the ground with a thud. I groaned in pain from the contact.

I grabbed one of the stakes and stumbled my way out of the room. 

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Meanwhile on the other side of Mystic Falls High School...

Jeremy was sitting on a table outside looking at his ring. Bonnie and Damon walked over to him. Bonnie showed Damon something on her phone.

"I just got this. It connects me to Caroline and Elena through our phones." Bonnie turned on the app and it located Caroline and Elena. "They're in Alaric's classroom. You should go in from the south entrance."

"Digital locator spell. Why the hell do we need you then?"

Damon and Bonnie walked over to Jeremy. Damon held out his hand.

"Hand it over."

"I'm not giving you my ring. Let me do this."

"By my math, you've already bit it once, this will be twice, wearing that thing and if for some reason, Bonnie can't restart your heart and you do indeed die, then before you know it, we have another psycho alter ego case on our hands, which is bad so give me the ring."