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09. O Come, All Ye Faithful
The sun peeking through the window woke Caroline up from her sleep, opening her eyes she realised she was sleeping in Brayden's bed, with the middle Salvatore laying next to her, her back to his chest, and his arm wrapped tightly around her waist.
Caroline tried to get out of Brayden's grip, but his grip only got tighter and he pulled Caroline more into him, "Sleep" he mumbled into her ear.
"We have to get up" Caroline whispered.
"No" Brayden said, placing a kiss on Caroline's shoulder.
Caroline turned around and face Brayden, "Today's the winter themed party, will you be there?".
Brayden finally opened his eyes and looked at his girlfriend, "Will you?".
"Of course, it's a party, I don't miss a party" Caroline retorted.
Brayden let out a small chuckle, "Then I'll be there" he assured.
"You aren't going with Elena to her family's lakehouse?" Caroline asked.
Brayden groaned in annoyance and turned to lay on his back, "Can we not talk about her first thing in the morning?".
"I'm just saying, she texted you last night after she left" Caroline said, crawling over Brayden to grab Brayden's phone from his side table, opening it she read the text Elena sent Brayden, the text she saw last night, "Going with Bonnie to the lakehouse to teach Jeremy how not to kill me, wanna come?".
Brayden snatched his phone from Caroline and started typing out a reply to Elena, "Sorry can't come, planning to spend the day with my girlfriend at the winter themed party", after sending the message Brayden looked at Caroline, "Happy?".
Caroline sat up on the bed and looked at Brayden, "You can't avoid her" she said.
"Of course I can" Brayden said, stepping out of bed and walking over to his dresser.
"No you can't" Caroline retorted, "You're going to have to deal with Elena being in love with you one day".
Brayden looked at Caroline, "She's not in love with me, she's sired to me".
"Like Elena told you, according to Tyler, the sire bond doesn't effect the way you feel, only the way you act" Caroline argued.
"Well I love you, so sucks for Elena really" Brayden said, opening his dresser and grabbing a t-shirt.
Caroline stood up from the bed and walked over to Brayden, "I hate this" she stated.
Brayden looked at Caroline in amusement, "Really?" he asked, "I couldn't tell".
Caroline lightly shoved Brayden, "Don't make fun of me Brayden".
Brayden grabbed Caroline's wrist and pulled her towards him, "I'm not making fun of you" he assured, removing Caroline's hair from her face, "I'm just laughing at how it's always us who end up in weird situations like this".
Caroline put her head on Brayden's chest, "Looking back at it I see how it's funny, but in the moment I want to kill you".
"Me?" an amused Brayden asked.
"Why do you have a face that makes everyone fall in love with you?" Caroline complained.
"Says you" Brayden retorted.
Caroline lifted her head up and looked at Brayden, "Whose in love with me?" she asked.
"I'm the only one in love with you" Brayden said, "But the dickhead hybrid does have a thing for you".
"And his brother has a thing for you, so we're even" Caroline said.
"No" Brayden stated, suddenly throwing Caroline over his shoulder.
"Brayden!" a shocked Caroline yelled.
Brayden ignored Caroline's yell and threw her on to his bed, he then hovered over her, and smashed his lips on to hers.
***
"What are you doing?" a confused Brayden asked, entering the library and seeing his brother surrounded by books.
"Research" Stefan replied simply.
"About the hunter's mark?" Brayden asked, Stefan nodded his head in confirmation, "Where's your research buddy?".
"Your girlfriend took Fae with her to the party since you forced both Damon and Kaitlynn to go to the lakehouse with Elena" Stefan replied.
"I didn't force anyone" Brayden defended, making Stefan give him are you sure look, "Okay so I might have forced Damon but no one told Kaitlynn to follow him, she did that on her own", Brayden's phone ringing caught both the brother's attention, taking it out of his pocket he realised Caroline was calling, "I know I'm late, I'll be there soon".
"You brothers really need to work on your punctuality" Caroline said, her phone on speaker so Fae can also speak.
"Tell me you're with Stefan" Fae said.
"I'm with Stefan" Brayden assured, putting his phone on speaker.
"Stefan, you and Brayden need to get here now, we have a crisis" a slightly panicked Fae informed.
"What's wrong?" a concerned Stefan asked.
"Tyler is a dumb ass martyr" Caroline stated.
"Why the hell are you two still at the house?" a confused Fae asked, "You are supposed to be here right now".
"I was waiting for Stefan" Brayden defended, "Whose busy doing research".
"Seriously?" an annoyed Caroline asked.
"Seriously" Brayden replied.
"I got Klaus to tell me a little bit more about this Hunter's Sword" Stefan revealed, gaining the trio's attention, "You know that map in Jeremy's tattoo? The sword decodes it, it's literally the key to finding the cure".
Fae and Caroline exchanged worried looks, "Klaus told you this?" Fae asked her boyfriend.
"Yeah" Stefan confirmed.
"What's with the worried tone?" a curious Brayden asked Fae.
"Did Klaus happen to hand over the sword for safekeeping?" Caroline asked, confusing the brothers.
"Uh, what do you think?" Stefan retorted, making Caroline let out a sigh.
"Guys, seriously, what's wrong?" Brayden asked.
"We need to get that sword from Klaus" Fae stated, "Today".
"Tyler and his hybrids are taking out Klaus tonight" Caroline informed.
***
"I hate this idea" Brayden stated, walking into Klaus's house after receiving a text from Caroline.
"I gathered from the time you punched me for telling Caroline to keep Klaus busy" Stefan said, opening Klaus's safe.
"Please tell me the sword is in there so I can go and get my girl" Brayden stated as Stefan looked in the safe.
A worried Stefan turned to his brother, "The sword's not here anymore Brayden".
"Dammit!" Brayden yelled, kicking a nearby table.
***
"Well, he's not walking around with it, check the rest of the house" Damon said through the phone.
"We are, but we haven't found anything" Stefan informed.
"Try the sock drawer" Damon suggested, "People leave the sketchiest stuff in sock drawers".
"Can we keep the shit ideas to the side for once?" an annoyed Brayden asked, "We need real ideas here Damon".
"Fine, here's two, kill Tyler before he goes to Klaus or since Klaus has suddenly become MVP in our relay race for the cure tell him about the hybrids, he'll kill Tyler" Damon suggested, just as Stefan opened box and saw letters addressed to all of Klaus's victims.
"Nobody's killing Tyler" Stefan stated, as Brayden kneeled by him and reading some of the letters.
"Talk about morbid" Brayden commented, realising what these letters were.
***
Caroline and Fae walked over to Brayden and Stefan who were waiting for them in the alleyway on the side of the Grill.
"Hey" Caroline greeted.
"Hey" Brayden greeted back.
"Please tell me you guys found the sword" a concerned Fae said.
"Nope" Stefan informed.
Caroline let out a sigh, "What are we gonna do now?" she asked confused.
"We need to save Klaus's life, again" Brayden replied, hating this idea, "He is the only one who can lead us to this supposed cure to vampirisim, we need to him stay alive at least till we get this cure, meaning Tyler has to call his little plan of killing Klaus, off".
"Well, that's not gonna happen" Tyler stated, appearing on top of the stairs, he then looked at Caroline and Fae, "You two told them? I've had twelve hybrids sworn to secrecy for a month, I have Hayley and a witch risking their lives, and you two are blabbing my plan to these two?".
"Look, all we're asking for is a little bit of time, okay" Stefan defended as Caroline and Fae looked down with guilty expressions forming on their faces.
"How long?" Tyler asked, "An hour? A day? Because every minute that goes by that we don't do this, they're at risk, you and Klaus already served one of them up for Jeremy to kill", Tyler glanced between Brayden and Stefan, "I don't owe either of you anything".
"And guess what Tyler?" an angry Brayden asked, "We don't owe you anything either".
Before his brother or the girls could stop him, Brayden had shoved his hand into Tyler's chest.
"Brayden!" Fae, Caroline and Stefan yelled in shock.
"Correct me if I'm wrong but you aren't unkillable like Klaus, right?" Brayden asked, "One tug and you're heart will be in my hands and you will be dead, so call this off Tyler or I will kill you, because see like you said I don't owe you anything".
Tyler glared at Brayden, "Go to hell" he spat out after much difficulty.
"First you" Brayden retorted.
"Brayden don't do this!" Fae yelled.
"Why not?" Brayden asked, "You're one the one who wants the cure, and he's not going to let you have it, so I say we kill him, whose going to miss him anyways?".
"Brayden, he's my friend you can't kill him" Caroline stated.
"Friend?" Brayden asked his girlfriend, "When has he ever acted as your friend, while you've always been there for him, he's never been there for you".
"Brayden we don't need to kill anyone" Stefan said.
"I think we do" Brayden said, he turned back to Tyler, "So, are you calling this off or am I killing you?".
Before Tyler could reply, Kim, another of Klaus's hybrids, speeded behind Caroline and shoved her hand into her chest, gaining everyone's attention.
"Let of Tyler or your girlfriend dies" Kim threatened, as hybrids surrounded the group.
Fae realising they were surrounded, quickly tried to use her magic, when another hybrid speeded over to her and snapped her neck, but before she could fall to the ground, Stefan grabbed her.
"Let her go" Brayden told Kim, glaring at her.
"Let go of Tyler first" Kim retorted.
Brayden finally let go of Tyler and shoved her towards Kim, who then pushed Caroline towards Brayden.
"You okay?" Brayden asked Caroline.
"We are so screwed Brayden" Caroline whispered, looking at all the angry hybrids, causing Stefan and Brayden to exchange worried looks between them.
***
"Tyler" Caroline called out as he locked the group of four vampires up in the Lockwood cellar.
"You seriously gave me herbs to stop my magic?" Fae asked, glaring at the Lockwood hybrid, "I really hope killing Klaus is worth losing your friends Tyler".
"Keep them down here until we're ready to bring Klaus in, use these if you have" Tyler said, ignoring the girls and handing the hybrids some chains.
"Come on Tyler, this is bigger than you, it's about more than revenge for us" Stefan tried to reason.
"I know what it's about for you, Stefan" Tyler snapped, "It's about the cure, you know what happens to a hybrid when he's cured of being a vampire? We go back to being werewolves, turning on every full moon, we could give a rat's ass about the cure".
Suddenly Brayden stated laughing, confusing everyone.
"Has he officially lost his mind?" Fae whispered to Caroline.
"I have no idea" Caroline whispered back to the heretic.
"What the hell are you laughing about?" Tyler asked, glaring at the middle Salvatore.
An amused Brayden stopped laughing and looked at Tyler, "Do you realise how many times we've tried to take Klaus down?" he asked, "Even his mother and father tried, but we all failed, I hate the guy with everything I have, but even I can't deny that killing him is impossible, before you even touch him, he's going to kill you and all your hybrids".
"No one is truly invincible, Brayden" Tyler stated.
"Fine" Brayden said, "Go attack Klaus, but I guarantee you, but the time this night ends, you and your hybrid will all be dead".
***
"This is ridiculous, we are not hostages" Caroline snapped, glaring at all the hybrids who were keeping an eye on the four vampires.
"Sure you are, sweetie" Kim taunted.
Caroline glared at Kim, she then speeded infront of her but before she could say anything, Brayden's phone started ringing.
"Come closer and I will rip all of you apart" Brayden threatened, veins appearing under his eyes as the hybrids took a step toward him, he then took his phone out of his pocket and realised Damon was calling him, "Yeah?" he answered.
"Don't ask how or why or who" Damon said, "But I just found the answer to your Tyler problem, turns out Klaus isn't the only who can lead us to the cure, creepy professor Shane, he also knows how to get to the cure".
"Got it" Brayden said, he hanged up on his twin and turned to his other brother, "So turns out, we don't need Klaus's sword after all".
***
After being released by the hybrids, Fae and Caroline decided to go talk to Tyler about his plan, while Brayden walked in the town square, that's when his eyes landed on Klaus having what looked like to Brayden a pretty serious conversation with Hayley, confusing Brayden who was wondering why Hayley, the woman who was helping Tyler with her plan to kill Klaus, was currently talking to him.
"She doesn't like me much" Klaus told Brayden, after Hayley walked away and Brayden walked over to him.
"Does anyone like you?" Brayden retorted.
Klaus shook his head at Brayden's comment, "Where's your brother? Haven't seen him all day".
"Which one?" Brayden asked.
"I'm not interested in vagaries, Stefan's been dodgy, and Caroline's been lovely which I recognise as a tool of distraction" Klaus said, "Now, do you have something to share with me or should I compel it out of you?".
"Compulsion won't work, been drinking vervain" Brayden informed, "And to answer you're question, me and my brother have been busy trying to break into your safe to get that damn hunter's sword".
"Why?" Klaus asked.
"Are really asking that?" Brayden asked, "Isn't it obvious? Neither of us trust you".
"I showed your brother the sword, I explained its value" Klaus reminded, "I've been on you three brothers side the entire time, what do you want from me? A secret brotherhood handshake?".
"You only want the cure for your benefit, turning Elena humans means more hybrids for you, let's not for a second pretend you're doing this for our friendship" Brayden stated.
Klaus opened his mouth to say something else to Brayden, when his eyes landed on one of his hybrids standing behind Brayden, who gestured him to follow.
Klaus nodded, he walked away from Brayden while Brayden watched with a unreadable expression on his face, not wanting to believe that he did feel a bit bad seeing Klaus walking towards his death.
***
"Matt can't find April, Fae can't reach Tyler, this is a disaster" Caroline stated, entering the library where Brayden was sitting, Caroline sat next to her boyfriend, waiting for his comment but to her surprise it never came, "Is this you in crisis mode? Cause it's a lot more stealth than mine".
Brayden sighed, "I just realised something" he said.
"What?" Caroline asked curiously.
"That I don't hate Klaus for what he did to me, I hate him for having a thing for you" Brayden said, "But the thing is, I'm not surprised he has a thing for you, I mean, who wouldn't want you? You're amazing, I guess that's why I wasn't happy seeing Klaus walk over to get slaughter, surprisingly I felt kind of guilty".
"Yeah, you and me both" Caroline whispered, "All day I've been trying to remind myself of all the horrible things he's done".
"But we've all done horrible things, haven't we?" Brayden asked, "All of us supernatural creatures have some pretty hideous skeletons buried in our closet, it makes you wonder how are we any better than him".
Caroline looked at Brayden, "I can't speak about others, but I can speak about you" she said, grabbing Brayden's arm and putting it around her, she then placed her head on his chest, "I think you are better then a lot of us".
"That's not true" Brayden whispered, pressing a kiss on Caroline's head, "I think I'm the worst of them all".
"You need to learn to give yourself more credit Brayden, unlike a lot of us, you have the strength to say the truth, you have the strength to say what a lot of people are too afraid to say, you're always there when someone needs you, and once you make a friend, once you start caring about someone, you will do anything to keep them safe, even if it means putting yourself on the fire line" Caroline said.
"You're just saying all this cause you love me" Brayden said.
Caroline looked at Brayden, "I do love you" she confirmed, "But I didn't say those things because I love you, I said it because they're true".
Brayden removed Caroline's hair from her face and tucked it behind her ear, he then placed his hand on her check and placed his lips on hers, after breaking the kiss, he stared at her for a moment, "You should know, that you are the one who helps me be the better version of myself".
Caroline smiled at Brayden, she then straddled him, "Back at you" she whispered against Brayden's lips.
Brayden smiled, he placed his hands on her waist and pulled Caroline against him and then smashed his lips on to Caroline's.
***
Presenting 4x09 of They Don't Know About Us!
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