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⤿𝘐 𝘕𝘌𝘝𝘌𝘙 𝘚𝘛𝘖𝘗𝘗𝘌𝘋🪦 ˖ ࣪. ࿐
𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 ┆𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦
❪ ﹆ ━ 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭 ⋆⭒˚.⋆ ❫

"𝗝𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗬, 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗨𝗧𝗘 that you get this cal me!" Elena spoke into her phone before hanging up, "Unbelievable!"

"You are feisty when you are mad." Damon tells the Gilbert girl as Anastasia throws the dart in her hand towards the dart board, hitting right in the middle.

"It's not that I'm mad. I'm just -- I'm worried." Elena said.

"But why? He lost his job at the Grill. He can survive, Elena." Anastasia shrugged her shoulder.

"He is spiraling. Ever since you broke up with him, he is moody, he is not really talking to anyone." Elena tells her.

"That's not my problem."

"It's a typical teenager." Damon tells Elena.

"Who's seeing ghost and has lost everyone that he cares about."

"Not everyone. He still has you." Damon shoots his last dart before moving to pull them from the board.

"You okay?"

"What makes you think I'm not okay?" Damon asked her.

"Well, you're day-drunk. It's not exactly your most attractive look."

"Hmm, what is my most attractive look?" Damon moves closer to her, making Anastasia roll her eyes as she starts to gather her stuff.

"Ah, ah. I'm not saying you have any attractive looks. I'm saying this is my least favorite one...," Elena said.

"Noted. See if I can make any improvements."

"Don't mind me." Klaus walks up to them.

"You gonna do this in the Grill? In front of everyone? It's a little beneath you, don't you think?" Damon asked the hybrid.

"I don't know what you are talking about. I just came down to my local pub to grab a drink with a mate." Klaus says as one of his hybrids walks up behind him, Elena looks at him in shock. "Get a round in, would you Tony?"

"I'm surprised you stuck around town long enough for happy hour."

"My sister seems to be missing. Need to sort that out." Klaus tells him.

"Cute blonde bombshell, psycho. Shouldn't be too hard to find." Damon tells him.

"Truth is, I've grown to rather like your little town. Think I might fancy a home here. Oh, I imagine you're wondering how does this affect you." Klaus said, "The answer is; not in the slightest. As long as I get what I want and everyone behaves themselves you can go on living your little lives however you choose. You have my word."

"What more could you possibly want?" Elena asked.

"Well for starters, you can tell me where I might find Stefan."

"Uncle Stefan skipped town the second he saved your ass." Anastasia tells him.

"Well you see that is a shame." Klaus tells him as he throws one of the darts. "Your uncle stole from me. I need him found so I can take back what's mine."

"That sounds like a Klaus and Stefan problem." Elena said.

"What -- what did he take?" Anastasia asked.

Klaus turns to Anastasia with a smirk, "He took the one thing I was going to give you back, Love."

A small gasp leaves the hybrid's lips before she rushes out of the Grill, pressing her phone up against her ear.

"Hello?"

"Uncle Stefan, where the hell are you? And where did you take Klaus' coffins?"

"I'll send you my location."

𑁍˚⸝⸝ --

𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗔 𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗞𝗦 𝗨𝗣 at the witches house, a heavy feeling in her chest as she walks up to the door and goes inside, "Uncle Stefan?"

"In here!"

The green eyed girl walks in the direction of his voice, coming to a room in the house where he and Bonnie stood with four coffins. "What's Bonnie doing here?"

"She's going to help me hide the Originals." Stefan tells her, "I figured I owed you to come down and take a look for a few minutes."

Anastasia looks up at him for a moment before she drags herself in front of the one coffin she had memorized in her head for years, lifting the lid up to revel the grey and veiny face of her best friend.

"So that's what Kol looks like." Bonnie says as both she and Stefan come to stand on either side of the hybrid.

"Yeah, he looks better with all of his color." Anastasia mumbled as she brought her hand down onto his chest, a spark shooting up her arm as she touched him.

Bonnie watches the many emotions pass through the vampire's eyes, mouth parting in shock and realization, "You were in love with him."

"I never stopped." Anastasia whispers, bringing her hand back to her side and closing the coffin.

𑁍˚⸝⸝ --

𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗖 𝗟𝗔𝗬𝗦 𝗢𝗡 the couch, still dead as Damon enters the house by himself. "How is he?"

"He's dead, but he had his ring." Elena tells him, "Klaus' hybrid hit him. Now we just wait."

"Jeremy, why aren't you wearing vervain?" Damon questions his daughter's ex-boyfriend, "Where is your bracelet that Anastasia gave to you?"

"I don't know."

"It was Tyler! It had to have been. That's why he was hanging out with you. To get you off the vervain." Elena tells her little brother who sat on the floor, his back leaning against one of the walls. "Where's Anastasia? I told you to bring her with you."

"Anastasia ran off after we saw Klaus in the Grill. She won't answer her damn phone." Damon tells her, "Klaus is trying to send us a message. He wants us to find Stefan who stole his coffins full of his dead family members."

"Coffins?"

"Yep! So all we have to do is find four coffins and voila! No one else on your family's Christmas list needs to die!"

"Wait -- that's your big plan?" Jeremy questioned as he stood up from the floor, "To steal back for dead originals so that this evil hybrid doesn't kill me and everyone else we know?"

"You got a better idea?"

"Yeah! Let's get the hell out of here! Pack our bags and go!" The Gilbert boy exclaimed.

"Hey, Jeremy, calm down." Elena stands up.

"No, no! I'm not gonna calm down, Elena! This happens every time, no matter what we do!" Jeremy yells, "Get on my case about school and work....who cares? None of us are gonna make it out of this town alive!" He leaves.

"He said he wants his family back." Elena looks at Damon.

Damon turns around to face her, "No! No! I know what you're thinking. The answer is no!"

"If we give him Rebekah....,"

"Yeah, then Klaus undaggers her, first thing she does is kill you! Frying pan, fire. Not an option!"

"Klaus' coffins...how many did you say they were?" Elena asked.

𑁍˚⸝⸝ --

𝗗𝗔𝗠𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗔 walk towards the old witch house. "I thought Bonnie said this place lost all its mojo."

"The dead witches were angry at Anastasia from bringing Jeremy back to life. I guess now they have something they want Bonnie to know." Elena tells him.

"I hate witches. So fickle...Passive-aggressive...," The two enter the house.

"Stefan? Anastasia?"

"Come on, you two. Olly olly oxen free." Damon walks straight into the sunlight, only for his skin to start burning, "Aaah. Ow. Ugh." He rushes to a shaded corner, "Really?! Still?!"

"What?"

"Witchy spirits aren't a big fan. And they use their juju to screw with my daylight ring."

"Then wait outside." Elena tells him.

"Elena!"

"I'm not leaving until I know if they're here." Elena moves further into the house as Damon rushes outside. "Stefan?"

"Go away!" Stefan leans up against the wall. "You shouldn't be here, Elena."

Damon listens from outside as Anastasia suddenly appears next to him, arms crossed over her chest and a far away look on her face, both of them listening inside.

"Stefan, I need your help. Bonnie said that you would be here."

"Well, Bonnie sucks at keeping secrets." Stefan tells her.

"Listen, you need to give Klaus his family back." Elena said as they stepped closer to each other.

"Oh, really? Is that what I need to do?"

"Klaus compelled Jeremy to stand in front of a speeding car. Don't you get it?" Elena questioned, "Stefan, he's not gonna stop until he gets what he wants."

"Elena, stop talking. I'm not giving Klaus anything." Stefan said.

"Are you listening to me? He's gonna kill Jeremy!"

"Not really my problem." Stefan tells her, "It's kind of what he deserves after breaking my niece's heart."

Elena slaps him, "And you can go to hell!" She walks out of the house as Anastasia speeds back into the house and down to the basement.

"That didn't go over well." Damon tells her.

"Don't even start, Damon!" Elena said, "Where's Anastasia? She wasn't there."

"She went back inside when you walked out." Damon says, "Let me talk to him."

"You can't get in! The witches won't let you!"

"Here. Take my car keys. You go deal with your brother, I'll deal with mine and my daughter." Damon gives Elena the keys to his car, and then rushes into the house, running from shady spot to shady spot so that he didn't get burned until he got down to the basement where Stefan sat in a chair, and Anastasia sat on the floor next to him.

"Wow! That was impressive." Stefan said to Damon, standing up and letting his niece sit in the chair, "But the coffins aren't here, so...you can go away now."

"I don't care about the coffins. We need to talk."

"Okay, let's talk."

"Nothing's ever easy with you, is it?" Damon asked before attacking Stefan, throwing him out of the witches house and kicking him in the stomach.

Anastasia slowly walks out of the house, watching as her father breaks off part of a tree and stabs her uncle with it in the stomach.

"That is for screwing up my plan! You stop me from killing Klaus and you steal his family! Why?? Doesn't make sense! Answer me!"

"Piece by piece, Klaus took everything from me. I'm doing the same to him." Stefan said.

"But I had him, Stefan! Why did you screw it up?"

"I did it to save you!" Stefan throws Damon off of him before sitting up and letting Anastasia pull the stake from his stomach.

"What?? No. No way! You didn't do this for me." Damon said.

"He was one step ahead of us. If Klaus died, his hybrids would have killed you." Stefan tells his brother.

"When are you going to get it through your head?" Damon gets up and stakes Stefan once more, "Stop saving me!!"

𑁍˚⸝⸝ --

"𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 know what I can't figure out?" Damon walks up to the house where his brother stood outside of the house. "Why save me? Was it brotherly love, guilty conscience? Is the switch on, is the switch off?"

"You have somewhere you need to be, Damon?" Stefan asked.

"Reflection. That's not gonna work on me! I invented that." Damon said.

"We're done. Can't you just go away?"

"Not until you tell me why you saved me. You owe me that." Damon said, leaning against the tree. "Or why you dragged my daughter into your mess."

"I don't owe you anything." Stefan said, "My niece? I owe her everything."

"Fine. Next question. Why did you steal the coffins?" Questioned the eldest Salvatore.

"Because Klaus' family is one weakness I can use against him." Stefan said.

"Use against him to do what? You're not gonna kill him, you know how I know?" Damon asked, "'Cause there was only one way to kill him and Anastasia blew that so you could save me."

"You're wrong, Damon. Klaus isn't going to just get to live forever." Stefan said, "There's another way. There has to be."

"Fair enough. But whatever you and Anastasia are doing, I want in."

"We don't need your help."

"Really? Last time I checked, you're hiding in a haunted house."

"Anastasia and I are in this alone, Damon."

"You go after Klaus, you have to be cutthroat and devious. I'm so much better at that than you." Damon tells him, "Come on, brother. What do you say? If you're gonna keep saving my life at least make it for a good reason."

"You want in?"

"Yeah."

"Okay. But it's just you, me and Anastasia. Elena stays out of it." Stefan says.

"Deal."

"Follow me."

"Wait. I'm not so.....," Damon trails off, "Welcome in there."

"Don't you worry, Damon. We all want the same thing." Stefan says as the two walk into the house, Anastasia stands to the side, "Take a look."

"What? Klaus is allergic to dust?" Damon questions.

"Look again, Dad." Anastasia's voice catches her dad's attention, and he turns to look around, finding four coffins sitting in the middle of the floor.

"Witch spirits hate Klaus as much as we do." Stefan said, "They're using their powers, along with Anastasia, to hide the coffins."

"So even if he comes in the house....,"

"....he won't be able to find them."

𑁍˚⸝⸝ --

𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗔 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗦 the door to the Salvatore house, being the only one home, to find Jeremy standing there with his hands in the pockets of his jeans, "Jeremy? What are you doing here?"

"I'm not sure. I took a walk, and ended up here knocking on the front door." Jeremy tells her, "Can we -- can we talk?"

Anastasia sighs, pushing the door open some more to invite him inside, "Yeah. Come in. Want anything? Water? Bourbon?"

"No. I -- I, um, I'm going away to Denver for a while to stay with some family friends, and I wanted to make sure everything was okay between us." Jeremy tells her.

"Jeremy....,"

"No, just let me talk. Please." He lets out a sigh, wiping his hands on hid dark colored jeans. "I messed up when I let Anna kiss me. I hurt you, and I never wanted to do that to you."

"You didn't hurt me, Jeremy." Anastasia whispered, tears pooling in her eyes, "You were the first person, the first human, that I got close to after I thought Dylan was dead -- after Klaus daggered Kol -- and I let you in. I let you love me, I let myself love you, and I let you break me. And it was wrong to run to Dylan when we broke up, but I was hurt and I needed to get away."

"I understand that." Jeremy reaches up to wipe her tears away, "And I'm sorry. And I hope that one day, we can get back to where we were."

"Maybe."

"I should go before Elena and Alaric start calling and asking me where I'm at." Jeremy stands up from the couch, and Anastasia follows, keeping the door open. "Can we still be friends?"

Anastasia nods, watching as he turns around and starts to walk away, "Jeremy, wait!"

"Yeah?" The Gilbert boy wraps his arms around her waist tightly as she moves to wrap her arms around his neck, pressing her lips against his as both of them let tears fall.

𝗔𝗨𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗘 :
I FORGOT TO ADD THIS WHEN I PUBLISHED THIS CHAPTER......

ONE WEEK UNTIL KOL AND
ANASTASIA ARE REUNITED!!!