❪ 𝓢𝑰𝑿 𝓕𝑬𝑬𝑻 𝓤𝑵𝑫𝑬𝑹 ❫ ⚰️ ˖ ׁ ⁩ 𓂃
𝚃𝚅𝙳  ⸻  ✸ 🔮⭑.ᐟ
❝ 𝖫𝖨𝖳𝖳𝖫𝖤 𝖶𝖠𝖱𝖱𝖨𝖮𝖱 ❞

✦ ╮ 𝟑𝟖. ❝ 𝖳𝖧𝖤 𝖫𝖠𝖲𝖳 𝖣𝖠𝖭𝖢𝖤 ❞ ── .✦

𝗞𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗦/𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗖 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗦 the closet, "Oh! Who is this guy, Safari Sam?" He pulls out two shirts before he turns around to face Katherine, who is now tied up to a chair in the middle of the room, "Okay, bad, or badder?"

"The dark colors suit you better." Katherine tells him.

"Oh, thank you, honey." Klaus/Alaric throws one shirt onto the bed while pulling the other one on, "Okay, pop quiz. The dagger and white ash are in the Salvatores' possession, correct?"

"The dagger was used to kill Elijah. You'll find him in the basement of the Salvatore house." Katherine says.

"Okay, that dagger needs to stay exactly where it is. The last thing I need to do is resurrect Elijah. Oh, that guy is a buzzkill."

"Don't forget your on the outs with your girlfriend Jenna."

"Right. Elena's aunt." Klaus/Alaric says, "For all the lies about Isobel. What else?"

"That's it."

Klaus/Alaric get closer to her and touches her face. "Oh, so jumpy."

"Please, just....kill me. I've told you everything that I know." Katherine begs him.

Klaus/Alaric puts his hands on the arms of the chair that Katherine was placed in, looking her in the eyes. "You see, I believe that you believe that, but what would you not know? What could they be keeping from you? Hmm? Anything? Tell me." He compels her.

"They were trying to see if Bonnie could find a way to kill an Original without a dagger." Katherine tells him.

"Bonnie the best friend? I thought you said she didn't have her powers anymore."

"She doesn't or didn't." Katherine said, "I don't know. You kidnapped me, remember? I'm kinda out of the loop."

"Well, we'll have to get to the bottom of that."

"Please, just kill me, Klaus, and be done with it." Katherine begs him once more.

"And show you kindness? I've searched for you for over five hundred years." Klaus/Alaric tells her, "Your death is going to last at least half that long." He takes a single-blade pocketknife from his pocket, opens it, and holds it out or Katherine. "I want you to take this knife....and stab yourself."

Katherine takes the knife from his hands and stabs herself in the leg.

"Now take it out." Klaus/Alaric commands and she does as told, her leg healing. "Now while I'm gone, I want you to do that over and over again and if you get bored, switch legs.

"Where are you going?" Katherine asks him.

"I'm gonna go lay eyes on my precious doppelganger." He kisses her forehead, "Oh don't look so glum, Katerina. The if is just beginning. Again."

Klaus/Alaric leaves the apartment, leaving Katherine compelled to stab herself in the leg, repeatedly.

彡☆

"YOU REALLY THINK BONNIE CAN TAKE ON KLAUS?" Damon asked as him and his brother stood outside the house, his daughter sitting next to him with an annoyed look on her face.

"She said she could channel enough witch's power to kill him." Stefan said, "Elijah thought that would work and he was an Original, so...,""

"We just need to find him." Damon said.

"Yeah."

"Could she do one of those witch tracking spells?" Damon asked, looking down at his daughter.

"No. She would have to have something that belonged to Klaus." Stefan said, "Believe me, I already asked."

Anastasia, listening to the conversation between her father and uncle, she subconsciously brought her hand up to the daylight bracelet that rested on her right wrist, one that Klaus had given her.

"Do you think he killed her?"

"Katherine?" Anastasia asked, "Hopefully."

"It's not like she had it coming." Damon says just before Elena opens the door and the lawyer walks out of the door.

"Thank you, Mr. Henry."

The three vampires walk up to the door, but are stopped by the threshold.

"I'm sorry. I completely forgot." Elena tells the three of them before looking at Stefan, "Stefan. Would you like to come inside my house?"

"I would love to. Thank you." He walks inside.

Elena turns to Damon and Anastasia.

"What are we, twelve?"

"One of us is. If I let-,"

"Elena." Anastasia cuts the human off, "I'm part witch so I don't need to be invited in, in case you've forgotten that small detail, but it's the polite thing to do, okay? I'm hungry, I'm in my fucking pajamas, and I'm still pissed about the whole Elijah thing. I'm not playing your games. Invite me back into my house. Now!"

"Pl - Please, come in."

In a flash, Anastasia was up in her bedroom, getting dressed and the next she was back down stairs. "I'll see you guys at school."

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EVERYONE SITS DOWN IN THEIR SEATS AS THE BELL RINGS.

Elena hold a poster up for the sixties dance towards her boyfriend who shakes his head. The doppelganger then turns to Bonnie and Anastasia, holding the paper towards the two of them.

Both girls turn towards each other before looking at Elena and nodding. Elena turns back towards Stefan, giving him a smug look.

"Hello, class." Klaus/Alaric walks into the classroom. "What are we learning today?"

"With the decade dance tonight, we've been covering the sixties all week." Dana tells him.

"Right. The sixties...." Klaus/Alaric trails off as he takes notice of not only Elena, but Anastasia sitting down as well. "The, uh, ahem....the sixties. I wish there was something good about the sixties, but....Actually, they kind of sucked."

"Hey!" Anastasia protested with a pout, causing Stefan to chuckle at his niece, "I loved the sixties!"

"Of course you did, Little Warrior."

Anastasia freezes, looking up at the man standing in front of the board, "What - what did you call me?"

"Little Warrior...that's what you're middle name means in German." Klaus/Alaric tells her, trying not to draw attention to himself, but he already knew that she had a clue on who he was.

After all, she knew every single one of his tricks.

"I - I gotta go." Anastasia scrambled to grab her stuff, "I just remembered that I forgot to - to feed, uh, Stefan. Yeah, my - my rabbit named St - Stefan."

Stefan, Bonnie and Elena look at each other in confusion and worry as Anastasia quickly rushes from the classroom.

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ANASTASIA PACED AROUND THE GIRLS BATHROOM IN WORRY, RUNNING HER FINGERS THROUGH HER STRAIGHT HAIR, MESSING IT UP SLIGH.

Her mind raced with all kinds of thoughts as became terrified. Her and Klaus were on good terms after Chicago in the 20's, but that didn't mean anything when it came to the Original breaking his curse.

What was she supposed to do? She couldn't let her father and the other's kill Klaus.

She had worked hard to get to where she was, she had worked her ass off in doing everything she could do to get Kol.

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"DID EITHER YOU OR BONNIE TELL ELENA WHAT IT'S GONNA TAKE FOR YOU TO DO THAT KLAUS SPELL?" Jeremy asked his girlfriend as he followed her into the cafeteria where she was supposed to meet Bonnie and Elena for lunch.

"No, and you're not either." Anastasia tells him.

"Well, she's gotta know that neither one of you can do it." Jeremy said as he and Anastasia sit at the table with Bonnie.

"You don't know I can't." Bonnie looks at him offended, "Have a little faith in us."

"That's not fair." Jeremy looked between the two of them, "Neither of you can harness the power of a hundred witches. It'll kill you."

"Shh. We don't know that for certain." Bonnie said, "You promised to keep my secret, I'm trusting you. I'm going through with this, and if you tell anyone, I swear....,"

"What? What are you gonna do?" Jeremy asked.

"Hey, Jer." Elena walks up behind them, "How are you doing? Are you okay at the house alone with John?"

"It's not ideal." Jeremy stands up.

"You haven't heard from Jenna, have you?"

"It looks like she's staying on campus. Look, I'm...I'm late for class." He tells his sister, leaning down to kiss Anastasia before walking away.

"What's going on?" Elena asked as she sits down.

"He's pissed because I told him that he had to dress up tonight."

"Oh."

"Hey, Elena, there you are." Dana walks up to the table, "Okay. This is going to sound freaky, but this totally hot guy just asked me to ask you if you're going to the dance tonight."

"Tell him she has a boyfriend." Bonnie says.

"You could at least meet him. He'll be at the dance tonight. Look for him. He's name is Klaus." Dana tells them.

All three girls tense up.

"I'm sorry, what did you just say?" Elena asked her.

"His name's Klaus. I know the name's stupid, but I swear he's hot." Dana says, causing Bonnie to look around them.

"Where is he? Is he here?" The Bennett witch asked.

"I don't know."

"She's been compelled." Elena stated.

"But he wants to know if you'll save him the last dance. How cute is that?"

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"SO WE GO TO THE DANCE, WE FIND HIM." Damon says as everyone now stood in the Boarding house.

"Really? How are we going to do that?" Stefan asked his brother, "We don't even know what he looks like. The only person who's seen his is Anastasia."

"Something tells me he's not gonna be sixteen and pimply." Damon said.

"Try a curly haired blonde, British dude with blue, and annoyingly calls people "love" twenty-four seven." Anastasia rolled her eyes with a huff as she crossed her arms over her chest.

She knew that she should tell everyone that Klaus was possessing Alaric's body, mainly because she knew every single one of his tricks, but what was the point?

Everything was bound to blow up in their faces at one time or another.

Anastasia wasn't about to let the fact that Elena could possibly die get in the way of her true nature of keeping Klaus' identity a huge secret - she just wanted to be able to see Kol again.

She wanted to be able to hear his voice, she wanted to hear him laugh at whatever stupid thing they think of. She wanted him to be able to make her laugh, and she wanted to hear him teasingly call her "darling" as he had always done.

"He could be anywhere at any time. He compelled somebody at school." Stefan says as he looks towards the three girls. "I guess it's not as safe as you guys thought, huh?"

Someone knocks on the door, Anastasia tensing up as Klaus/Alaric walks through the door.

"There you are." Damon greets him.

"Sorry I'm late." Klaus/Alaric tells them, closing then the door and smiling warmly towards Anastasia.

"Hey, I need you to put me down as a chaperone at the dance tonight, Klaus made his first move." Damon tells him.

"Okay, so we find him and then what, hmm? What's our plan of attack?" Elena asked them.

"Me." Bonnie speaks up. "I'm the plan. He has no idea how much power I can channel. If Anastasia can point him out, I can kill him."

"That's not going to be that easy. I mean, he is the biggest, baddest, vampire around." Klaus/Alaric says, causing Anastasia to roll her eyes.

Of course, he's in another body and he still manages to brag about himself.

"Alaric has a point." Damon says, "I mean, what if he...." He rushes at Bonnie but she throws him on the other side of the room with her powers without even touching him.

"Hmm, my little witch is growing up." Anastasia teases Bonnie, causing the Bennett witch to push her with a smile.

"Well, I was impressed." Stefan smirked.

"It doesn't matter if he's an Original. I can take down anyone who comes at me." Bonnie says, "I can kill him, Elena. I know I can."

"And Anastasia can help you if you can't." Damon shrugged.

"What? No! Okay, I've tried to kill Klaus before. And you wanna know where that got me?" Anastasia looked around at everyone in the room. "That got my best friend daggered, and I was on the run until the 20's!"

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"WAIT." JEREMY STOPS ANASTASIA AS THE TWO OF THEM WALK TOWARDS THE DANCE, TAKING HIS RING OFF OF HIS FINGER. "Look, I, um, I want either you or Bonnie to have this."

"If you're asking me to go steady, that was the fifties." Anastasia tells him. "But that ring won't work on either of us, Jeremy."

"But it was made by a witch." He says.

"To protect from the supernatural, not for someone who is." Anastasia said.

"Well, I have to do something. I can't just....I can't just let you and Bonnie get yourselves killed."

"Just because a bunch of dead witches gave Bonnie a warning doesn't mean she's going to die." Anastasia said, "Neither of us will die tonight when I help with the spell."

"What? You said that-,"

"Hey, you two." Elena greets her brother and Anastasia as she, Stefan and Bonnie walk over to them, Damon passing them all up and heading inside. "Oh, you look nice. This is what you looked like in the sixties?"

"Hmm, she had a blonde hair faze in the sixties." Stefan smirked.

"Shut up! We don't talk about that."

"You guys ready to dance?"

彡☆

"THANKS FOR BEING HERE EVERYBODY." Dana stood up on the stage, everyone cheering for her. "We have a special shout-out tonight. This is for Elena. From Klaus."

Elena looks at the others stunned as a slow song starts to play.

"That was a lame, cheep shot." Damon tells them, "He's just trying to bait us."

"I know everyone here." Elena tells them.

"Do you see him?" Bonnie looked over at Anastasia, who had her eyes locked on Klaus/Alaric.

"No. I don't see him." Anastasia denied.

"Maybe he's not here. Just wants us to believe that he is." Stefan tells them.

"It's a party, people. Blend. Let him come to us." Damon said.

"Good idea." Anastasia smirked, grabbing her boyfriend by the arm and pulling him towards the crowd of dancing teens.

"No, no, I really don't feel like dancing." Jeremy protested.

"That's just too damn bad."

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"WHAT ARE THEY UP TO?" Elena asked as she walks over to her brother, finding Bonnie, Damon and Anastasia talking to one another.

"Who knows?" Jeremy shrugged his shoulder, upset with the fact this his girlfriend and Bonnie didn't know if they would come back or not after using the spell to try and kill Klaus.

"Is there something going on, Jer? You okay." She asked.

"Fine. I'm fine." Jeremy walks away.

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"JEREMY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? ELENA THINKS WE SHOULD STICK TOGETHER." Stefan chases after his niece's boyfriend as he's walking off towards the bathroom.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I've got my ring." Jeremy turns to look at him. "It's....Stacie, and Bonnie."

"What is it? Hey, you got something on your mind, spit it out." Stefan tells them.

"f Bonnie and Anastasia takes on Klaus, channeling all that energy's gonna kill both of them."

"What?" Stefan looks at him in shock.

"But neither of them want Elena to know, 'cause if Elena knows, she's gonna try to stop her." Jeremy said. "And it's Elena that could turn up dead, so...what am I supposed to do?"

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"HOW COULD NEITHER OF YOU TELL ME?" Elena stood outside of the dance with Anastasia and Bonnie, away from prying ears.

"'Cause we knew how'd you react." Bonnie tells her.

"No. No way, it's not an option." Elena shakes her head.

"It's our only option." Anastasia crossed her arms over her chest.

"Then we'll find another way, okay? Bonnie, Stacie, you're not dying to save my life." Elena looked between the two of them.

"I'm not dying for you, Elena. I don't care enough about you to die for you." Anastasia bluntly told her, "But I will die to make protect your brother."

"I have the power to save you! If I don't use it and something happens, that would kill me more." Bonnie tells her lifelong friend.

"I can't let you, either of you."

"Just answer one question.....if the situation was revered, would you do it for me?" Bonnie asked her, and Elena stays quiet. "So you know why I have to."

"No. No!"

彡☆

"ELENA!" KLAUS/ALARIC RUNS UP TO THE THREE GIRLS STILL ARGUING OUTSIDE.

"What is it?" Elena asked him.

"He has Jeremy." Klaus/Alaric tells them.

"What?"

"What?"

"You've got to be fucking kidding me."

"Yeah, Klaus has Jeremy. Come one." Klaus/Alaric leads the three girls through the side down and into the hallway, Anastasia glaring at the back of his head as she followed.

"Okay, so where are you taking us?" Elena questioned.

"Just a little further."

"Wait....something's not right." Elena says as she looks over her shoulder.

"Where's Jeremy?" Bonnie asked.

Klaus/Alaric stops walking, letting out a laugh. "I just had to get away from that dance. The sixties, ugh. Not my decade." He laughs, "I mean whose call was that, anyway? I much prefer the twenties. They style, the parties, the Jazz."

"Alaric. Are you on vervain?" Elena asked.

"Now why would you ask me that question, Elena?" Klaus/Alaric asked her.

"He's being compelled."

"Nope. Try again."

"Nope. That's Klaus." Anastasia huffed.

"What gave it away? My hatred for the sixties, or something else, Little Warrior?" Klaus/Alaric smirked at the green eyes Salvatore girl.

"No, it's not possible." Elena denied.

"Just relax, Elena. I'm not here to hurt you. You're not on my hit list tonight." Klaus/Alaric says before turning to Bonnie, "But you are."

He starts to make a move towards Bonnie, but she throws him up against the wall with her powers.

Klaus/Alaric gets up, "Now, did I mention that I knew a witch? You're gonna have to hit me a lot harder than that."

He rushes over to her, but Anastasia speed in front of him, pinning him against the hallway floors.

Anastasia turns her head to look at the two girls, "Go. Run! Find my dad and Uncle Stefan!"

"What will they think, Anastasia? Hmm?" Klaus/Alaric looks up at her with a smirk on his face, "When they find out that you've known about the doppelganger for thirteen years? That you've been watching her since because you want your precious little Kol back?"

Anastasia stands them both up, using her strength to throw him into the display cause, shattering the glass and sending him to the ground. Walking towards him, Anastasia kicks him in the ribs, not caring if it was Alaric's body.

Landing on his back, Klaus/Alaric looks up at her as she brings her foot up, resting the bottom of her shoe against his neck, "They won't. Because if you tell them, I still have nifty little dagger designed just for you."

彡☆

DAMON AND BONNIE LOOKED AWAY FROM ELENA'S RETRIEVING FIGURE AS FOOTSTEPS GET CLOSER TO THEM, BOTH SIGHING IN RELIEF WHEN THEY NOTICE ANASTASIA WITH A CLENCHED JAW.

Klaus had pissed her off.

"I have a plan of my own, but you need to be one hundred percent sure that your up for what I'm about to tell you, both of you."

彡☆

BONNIE WALKED WITH DETERMINATION DOWN THE HALLWAY.

Walking through the cafeteria, she finds Klaus/Alaric sitting in a chair, a knife before his fingers.

"What took you so long?" He asked. "Now, do you want to do this the easy way or the hard way?"

She breaks his wrist with the hand that was holding the knife with her powers. The knife drops onto the floor as he grabs his hand jerks it back into place.

"The hard way. Got it." Klaus/Alaric stands up, only for Bonnie to break his shoulder. "What? You'd kill your favorite history teacher?"

"It's what Alaric would want. And he'dwant you to suffer first." Bonnie tells him as blood drips down one side of her nose.

"Look at you."

Bonnie wipes at her nose

"Is that all you got?"

"Let's find out."

Elena and Stefan ran down the hallway, Damon and Anastasia walking out of a door in front of them.

"There you are."

"What are you doing? Where's Bonnie?" Elena looked between the father and daughter.

"She's doing what she had to do." Anastasia tells the two of them.

"What?"

"Where is she?" Stefan asked.

"Stefan, let her do this." Damon stops his brother from moving.

"Damn it, Damon, Anastasia. Where is she?!"

Bonnie is still fighting Klaus/Alaric with her powers, breaking his leg. The lights flicker and a gust of wind sends paper flying. Her nose is bleeding a lot but she keeps going, breaking Klaus/Alaric's foot and he falls to the ground.

Elena and Stefan arrive at the open doors, but Bonnie shuts the doors so that they can't come in.

"Bonnie, no!"

Klaus/Alaric crawls on the floor as lights start bursting from above,, sending a shower of sparks raining down. Elena screams as Stefan tries to open the doors but he can't.

Bonnie looks over at Elena with a smile. Klaus/Alaric gets up from the floor and Bonnie turns to him. With a sudden jerk of her body, she bends back and falls to the floor. Finally, the doors are able to come open once more, and Elena and Stefan rush over to her body.

"No! Oh! Bonnie! Bonnie. Bonnie! Bonnie! Hey, hey!" Elena cradles her best friends body as Stefan looks around, finding no sight of Klaus/Alaric anywhere in the room.

"Stefan, she's not breathing!" Elena starts to cry, "Stefan! Stefan, I can't find her pulse! Stefan! Do something, please! Stefan, please! Just give her blood do something, please!"

Stefan slowly looks up at his girlfriend, "It's too late. I'm sorry."

Elena continues to cry, "No! No, no, no, no, no, no! Bonnie! Bonnie, please, no! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!"

Damon and Anastasia walk into the cafeteria.

"Dad, Uncle Stefan, get Elena out of here." Anastasia jerks her head towards the door, "I'll deal with the body."

"What do you mean, deal with it?" Elena looks up at her.

"The Sheriff can't know about this." Damon says as his daughter walks towards Bonnie's lifeless body. "Last thing we need's another mysterious death."

"This is Bonnie!"

"Get her out of here before I clip her vocal cords." Anastasia gives her dad and Uncle a sharp look, "I'll clean this all up."

Anastasia watched as her father and uncle pull Elena from the room before she pulls out her cell phone and pressing it against her ear. "Jeremy? Hey, I need you to meet me in the cafeteria. And bring another broom."

彡☆

"HEY. HERE, DRINK THIS."Stefan hands Elena a cup as she sits in front of the fire place with tears in her eyes, Damon standing a little bit away with his arms crossed over his chest.

"This is my fault." Elena starts to cry before she starts to drink the tea.

"No, no, no, no, no, no. No. Hey. This was Klaus. Listen to me. Klaus did this." Stefan tries to reassure his girlfriend just as the front door opens and in walks Anastasia and Jeremy, after they left Bonnie at the old witches house.

"What did you do with her?!" Elena stands up.

"Will you please calm her down?" Anastasia asks her uncle.

"Don't talk like I'm not standing right in front of you." Elena snaps as Jeremy crosses his arms over his chest as he waits by the stairs, overnight back in hand.

Anastasia gives her a sarcastic smile, "Please, calm down."

"You knew! Didn't you? You knew that if she harnessed all that power, that she would die, didn't you?" Elena demanded.

"Yes. Yes, I knew."

"Elena!" Jeremy exclaimed as he watched his older sister slap his girlfriend.

Anastasia swallowed back the anger that bubbled inside her chest, "You need to listen to me, and prepare for what I'm about to say. Bonnie had to die. Klaus using Alaric's body was a total surprise to everyone but me. She wasn't prepared for that. And he wasn't going to stop, and we weren't going to be able to stop him until he knew she was dead. He had to believe it. She cast a spell. Bonnie's okay."

She turns to walk towards her boyfriend, who held out his free hand for her, before she turned back around to face Elena.

"And for the record," Anastasia paused, letting Elena look back at her with puffy and red eyes, "Don't ever touch me like that again. Human or not, I will break your wrist."

彡☆

ANASTASIA LOOKS UP AS SHE HEARS SOMEONE WALKING DOWN THE STAIRS, CATCHING ELENA ABOUT TO GO DOWN TO THE BASEMENT WHERE ELIJAH'S BODY WAS ATILL LAYING. "What do you think you're doing?"

"Uh, I'm - I didn't think you would-,"

"I've been thinking about doing the same thing that you are right now." Anastasia stands up from the couch, throwing the book she had in her hands to the couch. "Come on."

Both girls walked down the the basement and into the cellar where Elijah's burnt and dead body laid.

Elena looked over at Anastasia.

"Well? You're the human, pull it out."