[Episode 40 - Klaus - 1]

I wake up to see Stefan sleeping in the armchair before. Dang, I think to myself, I always wanted such a scene in my life! But then all the things of yesterday night flash by me. Taking in a shaky breath, I tip-toe out of the room, and check damon's.

Someone should tell him he drools. Rolling my eyes, I speed downstairs as I palm the vial of important blood in my fist.

No one else is home. Good.

I go down into the cellar where the first cell houses the one vampire I needed right now. 

Elijah Mikaelson, the suit-wearing Original, lies desiccated on the musty floor - his clothes burnt because of Damon's flamethrower experiments and the dagger jutting out noticeably from his chest.

I sit down beside him, opening the vial again, I dip it over my finger to drop the blood over them while I take hold of Elijah's dry ones in my other hand. "Phesmatos tribum nas ex viras vinculo mortis" I keep chanting and watch as a part of the red liquid evaporate into the air, leaving behind dark blood.

Scrunching my nose up, I gulp down the filtered blood.

"Let's do this" I sigh. 

And pull out the dagger from my ex-husband's chest.

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I'm not an easily terrified person by nature, but even I have my moments. 

Wondering why I'm justifying myself? Blame Elijah and his gasping entry into the land of the dead-living.

I jump from my knees as his widely opened eyes glare at me in breathless betrayal "Letta!"

"Hey hey!" I hold him by the shoulders with guilty eyes "It's alright, I wasn't the one who daggered you! Elena! It was Elena!"

"I can't-I can't breathe!" he gasps "What's happening to me?"

"Oh my God, you're not invited in..." I breathe in and out - shallow breaths matching with Elijah's. "Then get me out of here!" he rushes, right into a wall and slides against it, finally speeding out.

I rush after him, upstairs and find him recovering breath outside the threshold "What happened?"

"Shh!" I widen my eyes in warning as I point upstairs "I'll tell you. Not here"

He glares at me "Can I trust you?"

I sigh, stepping out and handing him the dagger "I wasn't the one who daggered you. Elena was..." 

He hesitates, but takes my peace offering.

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I floor my car away from the boarding house into the forest when Elijah starts questioning me

"Where did you get the dagger?"

I roll my eyes "I'll tell you everything. But we have to work together, Elijah. I need your word"

"Your sister has manipulated me enough" he states blandly "Your ability to make demands has long passed"

"Look" I sigh at my fate "No demands. I'm offering you my help. And in return, I want yours"

"And why should I even consider this?"

"Elijah..." I stop the car and gaze at him with a knowing look "I got my memories back, I remember everything"

Silence rings through the air until my phone rings.

Stefan calling...

"Hey Stefan"

"Where are you? Are you okay?" I can practically hear his anger through the line and Elijah freezes, looking at me with an unreadable expression. I shrug to him in a 'what?' gesture and go back to answering to my best friend.

"I'm fine, please don't be angry" I cringe.

"Where's Elijah?"

I purse my lips and look to Elijah Mikaelson, the Original vampire rummaging through my boot for blood or clothes "Well, he's right here with me"

"Where? I'm on my way" I hear shuffling on the other end and I jump up from my feet, startling Elijah "Stefan Salvatore! You take one step out of that house I'll come vervain you myself!"

"I don't want you near him Viv! So you get your-"

"Choose your next words very carefully" I growl into the phone. What's his problem? He was okay with me getting my memories back, and figuring out a way to kill Niklaus, but now he's acting like he doesn't want me out at all.

He sighs "He can't be trusted Viv! He'll just use you to get to Klaus"

Pouting, I see Elijah's pale skin and irritated face. Well, to hell with it, I think. And I offer him my wrist. He hesitates but looks around and sinks his fangs into my wrist, making me skip a breath.

"You have to trust me. You made a mistake by daggering him in the first place. Elijah was helping all along" the said vampire looks up to me with a raised eyebrow and I sigh "You know what? I need information from him. It can save us"

"Bu-"

"Keep your anger reserved for when I come home... I'm finding a way to kill Niklaus - and the last time I checked, Elijah was Niklaus' family" So was I. But totally off the point isn't it?

"You can't do this alone" he grits out.

I look to Elijah wiping his lips and tilt my head in question. He shakes his head "I'm sorry Mr. Salvatore, but no one can accompany us after your group's last antics..." he pauses for a while before taking a shallow breath "Don't worry, she's in safe hands"

He cuts the call and motions to the car with pursed lips. I frown but get inside and start driving aimlessly.

"You should know..." I start "That your brother is one nasty bastard"

Elijah looks to me as if to annoyedly ask 'What did he fucking do now?'

"He's possessed my step-father's body"

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"So I have some questions if we're going to do this thing" I ask from the corner of the wall, turning about so that I don't see Elijah changing clothes. 

A minute full of ruffling clothes later, he emerges from the corner with a new suit on "I assumed as much"

"First... Do you still have the elixir?"

"Yes"

"And it can be used on my twin sister, correct?"

He nods "Yes" We get into my car and start driving towards the Lockwood mansion as directed by him.

"Second..." I clear my throat "Do you still have the ring I gave you?"

Silence follows for a while and I take my eyes off the road for a second to glance at the Original. He's looking straight ahead and even I can see his jaw held tight to his teeth. Sighing, I decide to take another topic to exploit.

"Okay, don't tell me" I stop in front of the Lockwood lawn, "Can you revive locked memories?"

Mrs. Lockwood opens the door with harried air "Elijah! Oh Kat! What are you doing here?" her wide eyes bounce from me to him.

"Hello Carol" he smiles, looking into her eyes creepily "-why don't you head out for the day... Give us some space"

Um, today is Sunday. 

But Carol smiles widely, snatching her purse off "Of course Elijah, bye Kat" she waves and rushes off to her car.

"How did you know she's not on vervain?" I step inside and walk towards the kitchen.

"'Cause I'm the one who got her off it" Elijah states bluntly "Right before you and your friends killed me. Twice" I cringe.

I set up for some tea for us as Elijah comes to terms with the present conditions.

"So I assume that the Martin witches are no longer with us"

"No... He tried to hold me hostage, so Katerina killed him" I sip.

"Katerina?" his brows go up into his hair "How did she come out of the tomb?"

I smile with a tilted head as the only explanation and he scoffs "Of course, you always were a concerned sister"

"Well" my smugness fades when I remember how Katerina went missing "-not so good a sister, because Niklaus has her captive"

"Is that why you pulled the dagger out Kat?"

Listening to my present name from his mouth makes me rethink everything. But no. Elijah is the key.

"No" I shake my head "I know you have the elixir to save Elena's life, that's why I removed it" I take a small breath and confess "That, and... You didn't deserve to be daggered"

"Thank you" he sips his tea with a small smile.

I mentally prepare myself for the next few days. Niklaus has found a way into my circle, and he has Katerina whom he won't kill. She spoiled his plans along with me. But he has to kill me for the sacrifice. He will collect. And he can enter houses without having to be invited in - that's a problem.

"So, um, you said that..." I start "-that Niklaus will be vulnerable after his sacrifice, so what was the spell that made me live after?" Elijah gulps, getting up and offering me a solemn hand "I need some air. I'm still feeling a tad...dead. Come"

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Violetta folds the ribbon from her hair and looks over in the mirror to see Elijah come up "Special day m'lord?"

He smiles, the happiest man in the world, yet the guiltiest "The most special" his arms loop through her waist "Two more days, and the world can know you are my wife". A blue diamond glints orange from the fire in the lamp.

"Every second is taking an eternity to pass, could we dive into the future?" she giggles, kissing his chiselled jaw.

He gently withdraws from her lips, guilt and pity pouring from his mellow brown eyes "I'm afraid Letta..."

She looks down in calm and rewraps her fingers around her love's trembling palms, leaning her curly head onto his heart "We shall get through this, love... When all of the ritual is completed, Rina and I will be alive, and everything evil will be rid of. Do you trust me?" she smiles sadly.

He blinks through his worried tears and shakes his head "No I don't, I will trust you with any life except your own. Letta please... Come with me... I'll protect you... My brother... patience and love isn't his virtue, ple-"

"Shh" she places a faint finger on his lips to stop his worry "Everything will go well, I will come back to you... I will always come back to you, here..." she takes off her ring despite Elijah's shaky breath and reaches for the silver chain around her neck.

Smiling, she loops the token of love through the chain and turns around, arms around her husband.

"See this?" she holds it up with a brave smile "This is our love, something I have vested in you m'lord... Tomorrow, when the sacrifice happens, I need you to hold onto this very tightly... Because your love is what will bring me back Elijah... I will come back, for this" she kisses the ring, her dilated eyes never leaving his.

He kisses her as if it was for the last time he would get to. 

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"Darling" she hears her husband's voice ring through the halls of the mansion.

Rina looks at her with wide eyes, still pleading for her to run away with her. Violetta shakes her head with a sad smile as she steps in front of her twin just when the doors open to reveal the Mikaelson brothers. 

"Yes m'lord?" they curtsy to the nobles, but it doesn't escape her notice that three soldiers come around them.

"My dear sister" Niklaus begins with a smile "I'm sorry for having lied to you... In truth I'm a vampire"

Perhaps he expected a gasp from the sisters, but all he gets is a gulp from Katerina and a familiar nod from Violetta. Smiling amusedly, he lets his eyes turn red, baring his fangs for an introduction "And I have to kill you"

The moment he pounces with the rest of his vampire soldiers, Violetta chants "Invisique"

Now invisible to the non-magic supernaturals around them, Letta speeds her sister out into the woods, all the while casting a cloaking spell on her. "Rina" she kisses her cheek "I need you to run, okay? Do not accept anyone's help, and I will find you, obitcham te Rina (I love you Rina), run. Run!"

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For the next few hours, Violetta led them all astray, scattering them about in illusions and hexes as she reached the forest to await her arrangements. She waits. And waits.

She paces till it is night, near her carriage. Elijah comes out of the edge of the forest, arresting her in a kiss and a hug "Please don't go Letta" he holds her face.

She smiles sadly, tears in her eyes "I can't let him do this Elijah, I'm sorry, but I have to do this... He'll come running for me... My lord, you are going to let your brother do it, you're going to let him kill me... I love you" she kisses him and gets into the carriage, whipping the horses and hurrying into the dark.

But just as she reaches the other town, a young girl stops her with a panicked face "Oh kind madam - are you the noblewoman who wed our lord Elijah?"

"I'm sorry" she prepares her whip to command the horses "I can-"

"Ah Sha Lana"

The powerful chant has the Guardian losing consciousness forthwith.

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She wakes up after what seems an eternity but when she does awaken, she doesn't feel the light shining as bright as it used to, or the world being as noisy as it used to be.

"You know" Niklaus' voice rings clear but not loud "You should have known better than to run from me Violetta"

"What did you do to me?" she gasps, feeling no strength in her as she looks upto the full moon trying to reach it's peak. 

"I was aware of your supernatural predisposition sister, and when I will kill you, you will stay dead" he chuckles "that sounds so good"

"No..." she crawls back on her elbows "I'm your family Niklaus, would you not stop at even that for yourself?"

He snarls, stomping to her "I won't hesitate to do anything!"

He snarls, hitting her so hard that blood oozes out of her lips. She sits there, eyeing the witch who entraps her in a circle of fire. 

"Well well well, it appears as if Katerina's gone for a spin" Nikalus smirks "-not to worry, one doppelganger is enough to draw the other one in, your husband is on his way"

The witch at the front of the altar of fire smiles devilishly, standing in the middle of a howling man-wolf and an unconscious vampire.

She chants, eyes glowing white, and extends a hand towards the vampire. Niklaus rips the heart out mercilessly, never taking his eyes off Violetta's wide ones.

Next comes the werewolf.

"Brother..." Elijah rushes from the clearing "Katerina has escaped, but here is her blood, fallen over rocks" he hands Niklaus a glass vial, half filled with red liquid.

Gulping it down hurriedly, the Original turns to Letta "Lift the barrier"

The fire goes out, and the moment it does, he stands beside her, sinking his eager fangs into her bare throbbing neck.

As her eyes blur, the girl's lips turn up into a smile. Niklaus Mikaelson just made a very big mistake.

It's almost dawn when she comes back into the land of the living. She gasps upright, eyes glowing golden, same as the sun behind her.

Niklaus shouts, holding her up "What have you done? What have you done?!"

She smirks, wiping off the blood on her lips "You shouldn't have killed me Niklaus" she taunts, fire sprouting from her fingertips, stance oozing with the power of the Bond of her afterlife. Her eyes turn pitch black, blood flowing in two streaks.

She wipes the red off and pins Klaus to the wet ground "Qui lupum occidere custodem vocant, Qui lupum occidere custodem vocant, Qui lupum occidere custodem voc-" her words come to a gasp and morph into a groan.

Pain stumbles through her back as she falls down into Elijah's bloody arms behind her "I'm sorry..." he cries, driving the stake deeper into her back. She gasps, eyes blurry and clouded.

No... Elijah...

Falling on her chest, she cries into the ground "Me too!" she groans, getting up an inch from the earth and aiming her hand at the other Mikaelson "c-cus-cust-todem-m vo-c-an, anh" Niklaus pushes the stake deeper into her back with his broken leg.

The last thing she sees is her ring around her husband's neck.

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I gasp out of the vision, giving Elijah a betrayed glance. He looks ahead, refusing to meet my eyes in guilt.

"Why did you kill me?"

"Niklaus is obsessive about keeping our siblings out of the land of the living... And he threatened to have them killed if you didn't die"

I would've slapped any other man in Elijah's place right now. But I leave my notions to a simple twitch of my hand as I flinch.

"Do you know the spell that made me powerless?"

"No"

"Do you have my ring?"

"Letta..." he sighs. I know why he's hesitating but I don't understand it. I came back to life last time because of the ring. It is the one jewel that the Original witch created as a loophole for defeating an Original. It helped me come back to life with the power of a hundred witches. But it also made me mortal when resurrected. Elijah doesn't want me to die or manipulate that much power - but why now?

"Elijah" I warn "You say you want to kill Niklaus but you always take his side. You know he wouldn't hesitate to kill you or your siblings if he knew you were standing in his way to power. I just" I grit my teeth exasperatedly "I want my sister to live too, along with yours to die, so help me God, or I'll go look for it myself"

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Just as we enter the boarding house, voices bombard me, making me frown and cringe at the same time.

"There it is" Stefan chuckles "You know, you can be in love with them all you want, if that means you'll protect them. But I have the one thing that you never will"

Elijah raises a brow at me as if to say 'your Salvatores?'. I huff and rush towards their voices.

"Oh, yeah? What's that?"

"Their respect"

Crashes sound and when I next speed into the library, I'm met with disarray in one corner of the room with the brothers at the centre of it - at each others' throats.

Growling, I jump down and hold them back together, throwing them both in opposite directions of the hall with an angry wave of my hand"Stop it!" I'm risking my sanity for the town and here they are, fighting over girls and their respect.

"Now you've invited him into the house?" Stefan glares at Elijah, standing by the banister leading down to where they stand. 

I roll my eyes "He was being more helpful than you both were, seriously! Fight when you're dead dude!"I glare to punctuate the seriousness of my exasperation.

"So what now? You're all buddy-buddy with traitor Original over here?" Damon scoffs.

"Elijah and I have renewed the terms of our deal..." I shrug to said Original who explains.

"The two of you will come to no harm at my hands. I only ask for one thing in return" he raises his head in dominance.

"What?" Damon asks with an unbelieving gaze.

"An apology"

"A what?" both the brothers narrow their eyes.