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16. 1912
After realising there was still a weapon out there in Mystic Falls that could kill the originals, Rebekah and Lily immediately set to work, they wanted to find the tree before any of the Mystic Falls people found about it and tried to use it to kill the Mikaelson's, and Klaus, trusting that the two girls had this in control, took a step back, only after Rebekah and Lily assured him multiple times that they knew what they were doing.
Currently, Lily and Rebekah set up a meeting with Carol Lockwood, the current mayor of Mystic Falls, at the Mystic Grill, hoping she as the mayor, knew something about the old white oak tree.
"Thank you for meeting with us, mayor" Rebekah said, "I figured as head of the preservation society you'd be a good person to ask about the oldest trees in this community".
"A long line of Lockwood women used to keep those records" Carol informed, "Back before any of them had actual jobs".
Lily gave Carol a small smile, "Actually the reason we called you here was because me and Rebekah already check the founder's archive, but the specific tree we're looking seems to not be in any of the records".
"It probably got cut down" Carol said, taking a sip of her coffee, "Big old tress built half this town in the 1900s".
"Do you happen to know who kept the milling ledgers during that period?" a curious Rebekah asked.
"Back then, all the logging mills were owned by the Salvatores" Carol revealed.
Rebekah and Lily immediately looked at each other, both the girls realising that their job had gotten much harder.
***
Damon and Stefan sat at the bar in Mystic Grill, getting drunk and trying to figure out a way to find the serial killer loose in Mystic Falls and prove Alaric, who was currently in police custody, innocent.
"So, what does a medical examiner, Bill Forbes and Alaric Saltzman have in common?" a curious Damon asked, but Stefan ignored him and kept tapping his ring on to the bar, "Come on, knock it off" Damon said, immediately stopping Stefan's tapping, "You know, quitting blood cold turkey after a ripper binge probably not the best approach, every time you play that all or nothing game, you eventually leave a trail of bodies, so I'm thinking now is a good time to pay our old friend moderation a visit".
"They were all on the founder's council, Damon" Stefan said, changing the subject, the last thing he wanted right now was a moderation lesson from Damon of all people, "That's what they have in common".
"But why them, huh?" a confused Damon asked, "Brian Walters and Alaric weren't from founding families, I mean, hey, if you gotta slaughter council members, go A-list, at least in 1912, they killed a Salvatore".
"Which Salvatore would that be?".
Damon and Stefan turned around and their eyes landed on Rebekah, and behind her stood Lily, who had no hope in this plan of Rebekah's, the only reason she was here was because Rebekah wouldn't let her leave, she knew if she tried to leave, Rebekah wouldn't mind dragging her infront of everyone, and right now, Lily really didn't want to be dragged, but that didn't mean she was happy being shoved into the company of the two Salvatore's.
***
"So, Zachariah Salvatore was your nephew?" Rebekah asked, sitting next to Damon, while Lily sat next to Stefan, both best friends felt very awkward being near each other after their last altercation where Stefan tried to drive Lily off of Wickery Bridge.
"Yeah, how does that work, exactly?" a confused Lily asked, "I thought you two were the only Salvatore's remaining".
"Well, our father knocked up one of the maids during the civil war, she had a son" Damon revealed, "But as far as everyone else knew, Stefan and I were dead, the family name had to go somewhere".
"And your family owned the logging mills back then?" Rebekah asked, trying not to seem too suspicious, on the other hand Lily tried her hardest not face palm, Rebekah was being too obvious.
"You're full of a lot of questions" a suddenly suspicious Damon observed.
Lily gave Rebekah, I told you this wouldn't work look, but Rebekah ignored it, "Just researching the town history, I grew up here, after all" Rebekah defended.
"You know, you don't have to disguise your true motives, bonny Beks" Damon said, "If you want more sex, just ask for it".
Lily, who had just taken a sip of the drink she poured herself, immediately started coughing hearing Damon while Rebekah face palmed, knowing now she wasn't going to hear the end of this.
"You okay?" a concerned Stefan asked, rubbing Lily's back.
Lily ignored Stefan and after catching her breath, she turned to Rebekah, "Him?!" she asked, pointing towards Damon, "You slept with him?! What is wrong with your taste?!".
"Hey!" a offended Damon said, wondering what was so wrong with sleeping with him.
"I mean, keeping the whole he teamed up with your mother to kill you thing aside" Lily started.
"I didn't know that then" Rebekah interrupted.
"This man has slept with probably the whole of Mystic Falls, do you even realise how many potential STD's he could have?" Lily asked, immediately causing Stefan to start laughing while Damon glared at Lily.
"He's a vampire" Rebekah reminded.
"That's why I said potential" Lily retorted, "Oh my god, Kol is going to have a field day with this information".
"You are not telling Kol" Rebekah protested, Lily knowing was one thing, but if Kol knew as well, she was utterly screwed.
"Uh, yes I am" Lily said, grabbing her phone from the bar and jumping off the bar stool.
"Lily!" Rebekah yelled, but Lily ignored her yell and quickly rushed out the Grill to inform Kol about this new piece of gossip she just received.
"Since when is Lily so close to Kol?" a slightly upset Stefan asked, all of a sudden feeling like his place in Lily's life was being taken away, usually whenever Lily had the rare moment of wanting to gossip, he would have always been the first person she would gossip with.
"Since the moment you tried to kill her" Rebekah stated, "She needed someone to fill in the place of her new best friend and my brother Kol just so happened to be that person", while Stefan looked down at the drink in his hand, Rebekah turned to Damon, "So did they ever catch the killer?".
"Nope, wrote it all off on the vampires" Damon replied.
"Maybe it was a vampire" Rebekah said, taking a sip of her drink.
"Yeah" Stefan said, looking at his brother, "Yeah, maybe it was a vampire, Damon".
"Don't think for a second you didn't cross my mind too, brother" Damon said, "But these murders weren't your style, were they? Plus there were no other vampires circulating then".
"Well, there was one other vampire" Stefan reminded, as Damon downed his drink, "Do you remember Sage?".
"Oh, right" Damon remembered, a smirk forming on his face, "Sage, speaking of great sex, whew".
"I knew a Sage once, trashy little thing" Rebekah said.
Damon ignored Rebekah and looked towards his brother, "You really think it was Sage killing all those founders back then?".
"Town questioned every grown man in Mystic Falls" Stefan said, "It probably never occurred to them that a woman could have done it".
***
After talking to Kol, Lily decided instead of going back to the brothers and Rebekah, she wanted to play darts, however her peaceful playing was interrupted when the two Salvatore brothers ditched Rebekah and came over to her.
"Mind if we join?" Damon asked.
"Yes" Lily said, hitting bullseye with her dart.
Damon ignored Lily and simply snatched a dart from her hand and hit the dart board, Lily smirked seeing him not hit the bullseye, "Shut it" Damon said, seeing Lily's smug look.
"You're terrible" Lily taunted.
"You have beginners luck" Damon retorted.
"I'm not a beginner" Lily informed.
"Guys" Stefan warned, stopping Damon and Lily's argument before the two decided to attack each other with the darts that were in their hands.
After giving Lily one more glare, Damon turned to his brother, "So let's just say Sage was killing everyone in 1912" he said, "Who the hell is doing it now? It's not that psycho Dr. Fell, she's a woman, there's no way she could stab three grown men".
Lily glared at Damon, "That's sexist, give a woman a good enough motivation and she can easily murder a man".
"I agree with Lily" Rebekah said, walking over to the trio, "A woman could easily kill a man".
"You just don't give up, do you?" an annoyed Stefan asked.
"Why are you so grumpy?" a curious Rebekah asked.
"You'd be grumpy to if you had a brother like Damon" Lily taunted, taking a sit next to Stefan and giving Damon a mock smile.
"I hate you" Damon told Lily.
"Back at ya" Lily said.
Damon rolled his eyes at Lily before turning to an amused Rebekah, "He's on a master cleanse" he informed, "Trying to be a better man and all".
Lily looked at Stefan, "Trying to be a better man for a woman who might have feelings for your brother, really?" she asked.
Stefan let out a small chuckle, "Leave it up to you Lily to say everything to my face".
"That's because you're my friend" Lily stated, "Yes currently I'm mad at you but you still are my friend, and as you're friend it's my job to tell you how it is, frankly I think you're wasting your time, Elena isn't the one for you".
"Then who is?" Stefan asked.
Lily shrugged, "That's for you to find out, but you're not going to find the one you're truly made for if you keep chasing after a girl who has feelings for your brother".
Stefan sighed, "It's not that easy".
"From what I've seen and read, love isn't suppose to be easy" Lily said, "Sometimes to find the one you're truly made for, you have to make some hard decisions, like letting go of a person whose doing nothing but hurt you".
"I hurt her as well" Stefan whispered.
"Exactly" Lily said, "Both you and Elena are hurting each other, is the love really worth all the pain?".
"When you're in love, the pain is worth it Lils" Stefan said, "You'll understand that once you fall in love".
After hearing Stefan's words, Lily looked down at her glass of bourbon, if Stefan had said this before, she would have straight up told him she could never fall for anyone, but recent events have told her that turns out she is very much capable of having feelings for someone, but now Lily wasn't afraid of having feelings, she was now afraid of getting hurt by the one person she let in.
"You know, you were a lot more fun in the 20s" Rebekah told Stefan, bringing Lily out of her thoughts and back to reality.
Damon nudged Rebekah, "Don't rile him up, he's testy when he's being self-righteous".
"I'm not being self-righteous, Damon" an annoyed Stefan snapped, as Damon took the bottle of bourbon and poured himself a drink, "I'm just not interested in slaughtering innocent human beings".
"Oh, okay, fair enough, my mistake" Damon said, pulling one of Stefan's journal from his jacket, "You used to be self-righteous, dear diary, Damon has lost his way, though I have pulled my own life together, he continues to waste his".
"Ouch" Rebekah said, snatching Stefan's diary from Damon, "His bitterness consumes him, he is nothing but blackness and bile, ooh, judgey".
"I agree with every single statement in that diary entry" Lily informed, making Stefan chuckle.
"And here I thought I couldn't hate you more, but then you go and open your mouth" Damon said.
"You don't have to open your mouth for me to hate you, the second I look at you my hatred increases" Lily informed, making Damon roll his eyes in annoyance.
"You know, if I'm being honest, you didn't seem like much fun either Damon" Rebekah told Damon, cutting his and Lily's back to forth, "I wasn't, the woman I was in love with was stuck in a tomb and she wasn't getting out for a hundred years, I wasn't having any fun at all".
***
"That was Sage alright" Rebekah confirmed, after Damon finished telling the group about Sage telling him to feed on women for pleasure not just to kill them.
"How did you know her?" a curious Damon asked.
"She was obsessed with my brother Finn over nine hundred years ago" Rebekah revealed.
"What?" a shocked Damon asked, "Creepy suicidal guy?".
"Okay, what's with the tapping?" a confused Lily asked Stefan, who had once again started tapping his ring on to the table.
"All right" Stefan said, standing up from his seat and grabbing his jacket, "I need to, I gotta get out of here".
"Sure" Damon said, "First, admit you're jonesing".
"Damon, I'm not--".
Damon interrupted Stefan by speeding over to him and grabbing him by the the collar of his jacket, "Admit it".
Stefan grabbed Damon's arms, "Okay fine, I'm freaking out, I'm ready to eat the entire wait staff, why do you need to hear me say it?".
"Because I'm feeling a little self-righteous too" Damon stated.
Stefan shoved Damon away from him and walked out the Grill, Lily let out an annoyed sigh, before getting off her seat and following after Stefan, she hated that despite everything Stefan did, she still cared for him.
***
Lily quickly rushed out the Grill and caught up with Stefan.
"You realise you can't survive without blood right?" Lily asked Stefan.
"I can't hurt anymore innocent people" Stefan stated.
"So instead of learning how to control your hunger, your solution is to starve yourself?" Lily asked, "That's stupid, Stefan".
Stefan opened his mouth to say something, but he closed his mouth when the sound of someone feeding reached his ears, turning around he was furious seeing his brother feeding on someone, without wasting a moment, Stefan rushed over to them and separated Damon from the girl.
"Stop!" Stefan yelled, as Rebekah caught the girl before she could fall, "Stop".
"Sorry, brother" Damon apologised, wiping his bloody mouth, "It's dinnertime, have a bite".
Stefan looked at the bloody neck of the girl, "What are you doing?" he asked, his breathing very heavy.
"Tough love, Stefan" Damon said, "You're not gonna survive this cold-turkey thing, you never do, it's time to get that monkey off your back".
"No" Stefan whispered, shaking his head.
"Feed" Damon demanded, walking over to Rebekah and the girl, "Or I'll let Rebekah have her way with her, you know she'll kill her".
"Oh, I will" Rebekah confirmed, behind Stefan, Lily shook her head at her friend.
"Then her blood will be on your hands" Damon told his brother, "Or you can just have a little drink and save her life, come on, Stefan, you were the one who said you didn't want more innocent lives slaughtered", Damon walked over to his brother and put his hand on his shoulder, "Save her, go on, have a bite, I snatched, you eat, I'll erase, hell, I'll even heal her for you when it's over".
Stefan shoved Damon away from him, "Why do this?! You know what blood does to me".
"Because you let it control you, you always have" Damon stated, "I'm just here to help you learn how to fight it".
"This is rubbish" Rebekah said, running out of patience, she went to bite into the girl, but Stefan quickly speeded over to her and shoved her away.
Stefan looked at the girls bloody neck, he tried to fight it but it was proving too hard.
"That's it, Stefan" Damon urged, as veins started appearing under Stefan's eyes, after a little bit more of fighting his instinct, Stefan finally gave up and bit into the girls neck, while Damon looked at Rebekah, "I got it from here, go ahead".
"The night's just getting started" Rebekah complained.
"Scram, no one likes a lurker" Damon taunted.
"Rebekah, let's go" Lily said, she knew once Stefan stopped feeding on the girl, he wouldn't want her and Rebekah to be here to see his guilt, Lily didn't stop Damon from shoving the girl in Stefan's face because first of all, if Stefan didn't feed he would desiccate, something Lily didn't want, instead Lily wanted Stefan to learn control, something, as much as Lily hated admitting it, only Damon could teach him.
"You're a real ass, you know?" Rebekah told Damon.
"So I'm told" Damon said, as Rebekah and Lily walked away from the two brothers, leaving Damon to help his brother fight his hunger.
***
Klaus stood infront of the fireplace at his place, he looked towards the entrance of the living room and a smile formed on his face seeing Lily enter the room.
"How did it go?" Klaus asked.
"Not well" Lily replied, walking over to Klaus, "The information we need, the Salvatores have, and it's not easy to get information out of them without making them suspicious".
"I could compel it out of them" Klaus suggested.
"Vervain" Lily reminded.
"Torture?" Klaus asked.
"Let's try my civil method before going to your more violent one" Lily said.
"Fine" Klaus chuckled, he then looked at Lily, and for a moment just stared at her.
"What?" a confused Lily asked, wondering if there was anything on her face.
Klaus didn't say anything, just grabbed Lily's waist and pulled her towards him, causing Lily's eyes to go wide, but before she could say anything Klaus had placed his lips on to hers, and after getting over her shock, Lily gladly kissed him.
After a heated kiss, Lily broke the kiss and attached her forehead to Klaus's, "Oh, you are so going to hurt me".
Klaus placed his hand on Lily's cheek, "And if I don't?".
Lily opened her eyes and looked at Klaus, "Someone told me that where there's feelings there's pain".
"Sometimes pain can be good" Klaus said.
"That's stupid" Lily chuckled.
"Just go with the flow Lily, don't overthink this" Klaus said, before pulling Lily into another kiss.
***
Presenting 2x16 of Fire & Flame!
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