❪ 𝓢𝑰𝑿 𝓕𝑬𝑬𝑻 𝓤𝑵𝑫𝑬𝑹 ❫ ⚰️ ˖ ׁ ⁩ 𓂃
𝚃𝚅𝙳  ⸻  ✸ 🔮⭑.ᐟ
❝ 𝖦𝖮𝖤𝖲 𝖳𝖧𝖤 𝖦𝖸𝖬 𝖢𝖫𝖮𝖢𝖪 ❞

✦ ╮ 𝟒𝟕. ❝ 𝖳𝖧𝖤 𝖱𝖤𝖢𝖪𝖮𝖭𝖨𝖭𝖦 ❞ ── .✦

❝𝗜 𝗖𝗔𝗡'𝗧 𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗩𝗘 all of you dragged my old ass out of my bed to vandalize the high school." Anastasia mumbled as she helped Elena, Caroline, Bonnie and Tyler set up traps in one of the classrooms.

"Oh, come on, Ellie. Your old ass is fine as hell." Tyler smirked, laughing loudly as she shoves him with her shoulder, "You know I love you."

"Yeah, yeah." She rolled her eyes playfully, "Care, control your dog."

"Tyler is right, Anastasia." Caroline grinned, "You're ass is fine."

"Both of you, shut up!" She exclaimed just as the lights turned on in the classroom they were in, "We've been caught! It was their idea! My fine ass is innocent!"

"It's just Matt." Tyler laughs.

"Ooh! Oh, come on! Seriously! Do you know how long it took for us to set all this up?!" Caroline exclaimed to Matt, who had triggered all of the mouse traps they has sent the last half hour setting up.

Tyler smirked, "Forgot about senior prank night, huh?"

"Clearly."

"How could you forget?" Caroline asked him, "We've only been waiting for this since like freshman year!"

"Yeah, Matt." Elena stands up, "If I'm doing this, you're doing this."

"I'm kind of surprised that any of you are doing this." Matt said before looking at Anastasia, "Except you. I expected this out of you."

"What?!" Anastasia throws her hands up before turning to Tyler, "You tell him about pranking one mean ass teacher at my old school, and suddenly I'm the bad influence?"

Tyler chuckled, wrapping an arm around her shoulder and pulling her into his side as she crossed her arms over her shoulder with a pout on her lips.

"Caroline's making us."

"We're about to be seniors. These are the memories that will stay with us forever, and if we don't....,"

"And if we don't create these memories now, then what's the point of it all?" Elena finished for her.

"Go ahead and make fun, I don't care."

"You're all lame. And I've got ten more classrooms to prank." Tyler says, taking his bag and leaving.

"Come one." Elena grabs Anastasia's wrist, pulling her towards the door.

"Hey! Where are the two of you going?" Bonnie asked.

"To superglue Alaric's desk shut. I'm making memories." Elena smiles.

"I love the two of you!" Caroline smiles back.

The two girls walk out of the classroom to find Tyler giving instructions to some other students.

"Get the faculty toilet seats." Tyler hands them rolls of saran wrap, "And Dana needs bodies in the gym. Let's go."

The two laugh at the Lockwood boy before Elena opens a set of double doors, only coming face to face with Klaus.

"Awe, shit. I knew this night was too good to be true." Anastasia scoffed, crossing her arms over her chest, already knowing that there was no use in running.

Klaus smiles at Elena, "There's my girl."

"Klaus!" Doing the opposite of Anastasia, Elena turns around to run, but Klaus is already in front of her.

"You're supposed to be dead." Klaus tells her, "What are we going to do about that?"

── .✦

ONCE AGAIN, STEFAN wakes up with a start. Only this time it isn't Klaus standing in front of him, it's Rebekah.

"Oh, he lives."

"What happened?" Stefan asked.

"You took a beating. My brother's been breaking your neck all afternoon." Rebekah tells him, "Quite the temper."

"Why did he bring us back to Mystic Falls?" Questioned Stefan.

"You can stop playing dumb now. It didn't take him long to figure out what you've been hiding."

"I'm not hiding anything. I've done everything Klaus has asked me to." Stefan tells the blonde, standing in front of him.

"No, you just failed to mention that the doppelganger's still alive."

"Where is Klaus now?" Stefan asked, more fear filling his body for his niece than there was for Elena at that moment.

"With any luck, ripping that cow's bloody head off."

Stefan rushes as her, causing them both to fly out the back of the truck and onto the ground, him on top of her, "Where is she?"

"You really do love her, don't you?" Rebekah gets up and pushes him against the truck, punching him in the face before taking a crowbar and putting the hook behind his neck, pulling him towards her, "Consider me jealous." She drives the crowbar through his stomach.

"Not..Elena." Stefan groans as blood pours from his stomach, "My niece...where's my niece?"

── .✦

"YOU PUT A rather large kink in my plans, sweetheart." Klaus tells Elena as he marches her down the hallway, Anastasia following behind the two of them with a bored expression on her face. "The whole point of breaking the curse and becoming a hybrid was to make more hybrids. I haven't been able to do that. Now my bet is, it has something to do with the fact that you're still breathing."

"If you're going to kill me, just do it!"

"Not until I know I'm right. But I do have ways of making you suffer." He pulls her into the gym where a few students were setting up pranks, Klaus switches his voice to sound American, "Attention, seniors. You have officially been busted. Prank night it over. Head on home." "You two. I remember you." He looks at Dana and Chad.

"I'm sorry, who are you?" Dana asked.

"Oh, don't worry, I wasn't in my right head last we met. Lift your foot up, please. Dana." Klaus compel's her before turning to Chad and doing the same thing, "If she drops her foot, Chad, I want you to beat her to death. Understood?"

Chad nods.

"Don't, Klaus. You don't have to hurt anybody." Elena tells him.

"Oh, come on, love. Of course I do."

── .✦

"WHY ARE WE stopping?" Katherine questions Damon as he pulls the car he was driving over.

"I thought we might want to stretch our legs. Take a break from the sexual tension." Damon tells her as they both get out of the car. "I'm tired of driving. It's your turn."

"Fine."

Damon holds the car keys out in his hands for Katherine to grab, but when she goes to reach for them, he suddenly throws the keys with his vampire strength.

"Hey! I....,"

"We're not going anywhere until you spill your guts." Damon stated.

"Fine." Katherine takes the necklace belonging to Elena out of her pocket and shows him. "Do you recognize this, hmm? A little birdy told me that Klaus wants to get his hands on it."

"Why would Klaus want Elena's necklace?" Questioned Damon.

"Does it matter? He wants it, and I have it. It's leverage, Damon. Always stay one step ahead of your enemy."

"I'll keep that in mind."

"But more importantly, when I stole the necklace from Bonnie, I found something else...something better." Katherine tells him as she starts to walk to the back of the car, leaning her hand and weight on the trunk.

"Oh, yeah? What's that?"

"Are you willing to do whatever it takes to stop Klaus? No turning back?"

"I'm not turning back."

"Good. Because this isn't going to win you any points back home." She tells him as he comes to stand next to her, and she pulls the trunk open.

Inside, lays a very unconscious Jeremy.

"Jeremy? Really?" Damon looks towards the vampire next to him with a blank face, "Anastasia learns about this, I'm pointing her in your direction."

"Oh, please. She's too worried about being able to get Klaus' brother back at the moment."

── .✦

"WHY AREN'T YOU doing anything?" Elena whispers to Anastasia as Klaus is talking to Dana.

"I learned a long time ago that you do not cross Klaus." Anastasia spoke in her normal voice, not really caring. "I'm just just going to stand here, and keep my pretty little mouth shut."

"Where's Stefan?" Elena turns her attention to Klaus, "What did you do to him?"

"Stefan's on time out." Klaus said as the gym doors open and Bonnie and Matt walk inside.

"Bonnie, get out of here!" Elena yells to her best friend.

Klaus speeds in front of the witch before she can make a run for it, "Ah, I was wondering when you'd show up. Now we can get started." He turns to Dana and Chad, "Ah, Dana, why don't you relax? You and Chad sit tight." He looks at Bonnie, "I assume you're the reason Elena's still walking around alive? Anastasia knows not to cross me, in fear that she won't get my dear brother back."

"That's right. If you want to blame someone. Blame me." Bonnie tells the hybrid.

"Oh, there's no need for blame, love. Just your withcy interference seems to have caused some undesirable side effects. And since you caused the problem, I'm going to have you fix the fix."

Rebekah comes into the gym with Tyler.

"No!" Anastasia cried out, moving to run towards the two, but Klaus held her back.

"Now, don't do anything stupid, Little Warrior." Klaus tells her.

"Get off of me!" Tyler yells at the blonde, struggling to get out of her grip.

"I'd like you all to meet my sister Rebekah. Word of warning....she can be quite mean." Klaus tells the group.

"And a bitch." Anastasia threw out there with a sticky fake smile.

"Don't be an ass, either of you." Rebekah warned, throwing Tyler into Klaus's arms.

"Leave him alone!" Elena yelled to the hybrid.

"I'm going to make this very simple. Every time I attempt to turn a werewolf into a vampire hybrid, they die during the transition. It's quite horrible, actually." Klaus bits into his wrist, forcing Tyler to drink his blood.

His hands move into position to snap the werewolf's neck, but Anastasia's voice catches all of their attention.

"Her blood!"

Everyone turns to look at her.

"What was that, love?" Klaus questions as he turns to look at her fearful face where her eyes were locked on Tyler's.

"Elena's blood is what completes the transition for your hybrids! Just....Just don't kill him. Please, don't hurt him, Nik."

Klaus's face softens a bit at the use of the old nickname that only his family and Anastasia called him.

Because once upon a time, she and the entire Mikaelson family - excluding, Finn, Esther, and Mikael - were close with one another.

Until she and Kol betrayed them.

"And how would you know that, sweetheart?" Klaus tilts his head to the side, hands still around Tyler's neck.

"I'm a witch, Klaus! I know, they told me!" Anastasia begins to panic, "Just don't hurt anyone. Nobody has to get hurt."

"Hmm, you see, Little Warrior, I'm just not sure I believe you." Klaus tells her before snapping Tyler's neck.

"No!" She screams, falling to her knees and crawling her way over to Tyler's dead body. "No, no, no. Tyler, come on. Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Please, just wake up."

Klaus turns to Bonnie, "If what Anastasia says is true, I want you to find a way to save my hybrids. Contact your little withcy friends. And for Tyler's sake....you better hurry."

── .✦

"HE KILLED HIM." Matt stares at Tyler's lifeless body, and at Anastasia who has Tyler's head in her lap, brushing his hair back as she silently cried over his body.

"He's not dead." Elena tells her ex-boyfriend, "Klaus's blood will turn him into a vampire."

"And if Bonnie's successful and Anastasia was telling the truth, he'll live through his transition. Go on, then. Go and fetch your grimoires and enchantments and what-not. I'll hold on to Elena...for safe-keeping."

"So, this is the latest doppelganger." Rebekah looks at Elena after Bonnie and Matt leave the gym, "The original one was so much prettier."

"Enough, Rebekah. Take the wolf boy elsewhere, would you?" Klaus tells his sister.

Ignoring the sight of Anastasia crying, Rebekah grabs the dead boy by the arm and begins to drag him out of the gym.

Klaus looks down at Anastasia, who is looking up at him and Elena with tears still streaming from her eyes, and his own soften. "Go on, then. Go be with your werewolf friend before I change my mind, Anastasia."

"Stacie, please don't leave me with him." Elena begs as the Salvatore hybrid begun to get up from the floor.

Anastasia ignores the please of Elena wanting her to stay with her, and instead made a dash for the door so that she could find where Rebekah had taken Tyler.

"Ah, I guess she's not much of your friend after all." Klaus smirks at Elena, "After all, I've only ever known her to get along with boys more than your kind."

── .✦

"I'M LISTENING." DAMON tells Katherine as he lays Jeremy on top of the picnic table outside the car, both of them sitting down as the boy is still laid unconscious.

"What if I told you there was a way to kill Klaus? And not dagger dead. Dead dead." Katherine says.

"I'd say you were desperate and lying. Or drunk." He pauses, "Or desperate, lying and drunk."

"Do you remember my friend Pearl?" Katherine asked.

"Vividly."

"Centuries ago, she told me about a vampire who knew how to kill Klaus. Then she wouldn't tell me anymore." Katherine tells him.

"Well, why not?"

"Because it was her leverage. She knew it was valuable information, and wouldn't share it with me."

"Well, this is all great...but she's dead." Damon says bluntly.

"Which is why I never brought it up. Because she only ever told one other person."

"Who?"

"Her daughter, Anna."

"Also dead."

"Which brings us right back around to...," Katherine trials off.

"To me." Jeremy groans as he wakes up, "Back around to me."

── .✦

"THIS ISN'T GOING to work." Jeremy tells his girlfriend's father, and the vampire that his sister resembles.

Katherine's cellphone vibrates, causing her to pull it out and look down at the messages, one from Anastasia and the other from Bonnie, both asking where he was. "I think that your girlfriend and the Bennett witch with the crush on you-,"

"She doesn't have a crush on me!" Jeremy throws his arms up.

"Yes, she does." Both Damon and Katherine say in sync.

"Stop with the teenybopper drama. Focus." Damon tells him.

"I'm not helping them." Anna appears behind Jeremy on the picnic table.

Jeremy turns his head to look at her, "No, it's okay to help. They're looking for a way to stop Klaus."

"I don't care." Anna tells him, "Katherine is not a friend to you. Neither of them are."

"What's she saying?" Damon asked.

"Well, she doesn't want to help you." Jeremy tells him.

Katherine looks at Damon, dropping her voice down to a whisper, "My advice? If you want to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs."

Damon walks up to Jeremy, "Jeremy, I just want you to know, it's nothing personal." He grabs the boy's head and hits it against the table.

"Ow! What the hell?!"

"Jeremy!"

"Anna, I know you can hear me. Tell us what you know." Damon talks into the air, "The sooner, the better!"

"They're looking for Mikael."

"Mikael!" Jeremy yells.

"Mikael. Is that his name?" Katherine walks over to the two men.

"Who's Mikael?"

"The vampire who hunts vampires. You don't want to wake him. He will kill all of you." Anna tells Jeremy.

"What's she saying?" Damon lightly taps Jeremy on the back of the head.

"Hello!"

"He's a vampire and a hunter, and you guys would be idiots to wake him." Jeremy looks to Anna, "What do you mean, wake him?"

"It's time to find the keys." Damon tells Katherine.

"Jeremy, I'm serious. You cannot wake up Mikael." Anna says in a rushed voice, "The very first person that he'll go after will be Anastasia!"

"What? How do you know that?"

"Because she's associated with his children, with Kol." Anna tells him, "Anastasia is the one who helped Klaus put him away."

── .✦

"WE DIDN'T HAVE mobile telephones in my day." Rebekah speaks as Caroline starts to wake up, "Would have made life a whole lot easier, I suppose." She snaps a photo of herself.

"Where's Tyler?"

"He's dead. Ish." The blonde Mikaelson tells her.

Caroline turns her head to find Tyler and Anastasia laying motionless on the floor. "What did you do to them?!"

"Think if it as he's taking a nap. When he wakes up, he'll be a hybrid." Rebekah states, "As for Anastasia, we don't get along so I snapped her neck."

Caroline puts her ear to Tyler's chest to check for a heartbeat while Rebekah is swiping through the pictures on Caroline's phone, stopping on a photo of Stefan and Elena.

"Ugh. Vomit." She zooms into the picture, more specifically around Elena's neck, "Is that my neck....Why is that doppelganger bitch wearing my necklace?"

── .✦

ANASTASIA NOW STANDS with the others in a classroom, her arms crossed over her chest as she looks down at Tyler with a worried expression on her face just as he gasps awake.

"Where am I? What happened?" Tyler asked, looking around him, "Ellie!"

"Hey, I'm right here." Anastasia walks forward, placing a hand on his shoulder, "I'm right here, Ty."

"Tyler." Caroline looks at her boyfriend.

"Don't be shy about it." Rebekah buts in.

"Klaus is turning you into a vampire." Caroline tells him, "A hybrid. You're in transition."

"Don't leave the hard part out, sweets." Rebekah grinned, "You'll only survive if the other witch is successful and if Anastasia was telling the truth. If not....you're pretty much dead."

"You're going to be okay. Okay?" Caroline says, "It's going to be okay."

"I wonder how she's doing." She looks down at the time on Caroline's voice, "Tick Tock goes the gym clock."

── .✦

"WELL, THE VERDICT'S in." Klaus walks into the classroom where everyone was. "The original witch says the doppelganger should be dead."

"Does that mean we can kill her?" Rebekah asked happily.

"No, I'm fairly certain it means the opposite." Klaus tells his sister, "Anastasia was correct."

"What?!" Rebekah exclaimed.

Anastasia turns to her with a smug look on her face, "I was right, bitch! Need me to spell it out for you since you were daggered for ninety something odd years?"

Klaus holds up a test tube with Elena's blood inside, "Elena's blood. Drink it."

"No!" Caroline exclaimed, "No, no, no, Tyler, don't!"

"If he doesn't drink it, then he'll die." Anastasia tells her, "Ty, you need to drink the blood."

Klaus holds the tube towards Tyler, a smirk on his face, "I would listen to the lovely lady, Tyler. Unless, you want to die."

Tyler glances between the tube in Klaus's hand, the look on his girlfriend's face, and the pleading look on Anastasia's face before he grabs the tube and drinks Elena's blood.

"There you go. Good boy."

Tyler lets out a cough, rolling over the desk and falling to the floor while he screams and holds his head as he face starts to change. His eyes glow their yellow color, and veins appear under his eyes.

"Well, that's a good sign."

── .✦

"HEY, HAVE SOME bourbon." Damon tells Elena as he hands her a glass, Anastasia sitting on the couch with her legs pulled up to her chest, her chin resting on top of her knee.

Elena slowly takes the glass from his hands and takes a sip.

"Yeah, it's strong. You know I can help you forget, too." Damon says, "At least the memories you don't want to keep."

"No. No compulsion. I need to remember all of it." Elena tells the vampire, glancing over at Anastasia who had been quiet ever since they got to the house.

Damon holds up Elena's necklace, "I stole it back for you."

"He's really gone this time. I watched it happen. After everything that we went through to get...to help him. Now he's just...gone." Elena said.

Damon puts the necklace on the table beside them.

"Where were you, Damon?" Elena asked as he put a hand on her leg.

"I shouldn't have left. I promise you...I will never leave you again."

Anastasia closes her eyes as a tear rolls down her check at her father's words.

"Well, isn't this cozy?" Stefan's voice startled this niece, causing her to shoot up from the couch as Elena and Damon turn to look at him.

"What are you doing here, brother?" Damon asked him.

"Last I checked, I live here." Stefan tells him as he watches his niece wipe a tear from her face. "Klaus is gone, but he's asked me to keep watch on you until he returns. From now on, you're under my protection." He holds up his glass to Damon as he glances between the two of them. "Mm, by all means. Carry on."

"I'm going to bed. I have to call Dylan and see if he made it back to New York." Anastasia tells them as she makes her way up the stairs.

"Anastasia." Damon speaks, causing his daughter to turn towards him. "I love you."

The green-eyed girl lets out a dry laugh, looking down at her feet before she looks back up at him, "Yeah, I'm sure you do, Dad. I'm sure you do."

── .✦

BARE FEET PADDED against the hardwood floors of Stefan's bedroom as Anastasia creeped inside, gently closing the door behind her. Moving swiftly in the dark, she crawls into the large bed of her Uncle's and gets under the blankets.

"What are you doing?" Stefan croaks out, the movement causing him to wake up.

"I didn't want to sleep alone." She whispers out, pulling the covers up under her chin. "I know you don't have your emotions, but I just....I wanted to be close to you after so long."

Stefan doesn't say anything, he only moves to wrap his arm around his nieces shoulder and pull her closer to him until her head is resting on his chest.

Neither of them said anything as they both stared out into the darkness filling the bedroom, both of them with a thousand thoughts twirling through their minds.

Stefan may not of had his emotions, having been compelled by Klaus to flip his switch and completely turn them off, but he was always going to have a soft spot for his niece deep down inside.

And not one person was going to change that.

AUTHORS NOTE 🦋💕🤍

ONLY 5 CHAPTERS UNTIL
OUR KOL AND ANASTASIA
REUNION!