𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟖❦

We didn't choose this life, we're just living in it -Five Hargreeves

Katherine and Dorian were sleeping in bed, after saying goodbye to Enzo they had stayed outside with Lyra and Elijah for a bit before going to bed.

Their peaceful sleep was interrupted by Dorian's phone ringing, They both groaned and Dorian moved to answer it "Hello?"

"Dorian, Hi" Stefan's voice was heard through the phone, which made Dorian and Katherine share looks as they both sat up a bit straighter.

Dorian gave Katherine a sleepy grin as he replied "Well hello Handsome, to what do I owe this early call?"

Stefan's breath hitched as he heard Dorian's morning voice, it almost made Stefan's knees buckle. But he kept himself composed and explained "I have a favour to ask" At Dorian's humming, he continued "The others decided that Elena needed a break and 'ordered' me to go with her to her families lake house, I want you to go with me."

Dorian furrowed his brows and looked at Katherine, she just shrugged and laid back down. Dorian rubbed his forehead as he asked "Why would you want me to go with you and your ex?"

"Because it's already awkward with me and Elena because of the breakup and I don't wan't it to be even worse if we are both together at a vacation house"

Dorian sighed and started to get out of bed "Fine, but if Elena does something or starts to get bitchy. I will set her ass on fire."

He hung up before Stefan could say anything else. When he turned to Katherine, she had a raised eyebrow while remarking "You're gonna leave me here to my lonesome?"

"Sadly yes. Elijah and Lyra all left for the history high tea thing and I'm leaving so you are all alone, but in the meantime you can do some research for us?" Dorian asked as he started to put on some clothes.

Katherine leaned against the headboard as she questioned "Research what?"

"A certain dick, Lucien Castle" Dorian revealed as he moved towards the bathroom and started to brush his teeth.

Katherine frowned as the name sounded familiar "I know that name from somewhere..." She now moved off the bed and grabbed a robe "Isn't he one of those who claim that they were one of the first turned?"

Dorian looked at her as he finished brushing his teeth "Yep! But he doesn't claim to, he is."

Katherine hummed and nodded "I'll try my best."

Dorian walked towards her as he gave her a kiss on the lips and walking out the room "Do it at your own time, love you!"

Katherine blinked and stared at the place he just stood, did he just say...

"This is all... really pretentious" Lyra commented as they walked inside Lockwood mansion.

She had her arm looped through Elijah's as they walked through the house, to be honest the house looked bigger on screen.

Carol Lockwood approached then and held out her hand "Hello, you must be Elijah Smith. Is this a family member of yours?"

Lyra looked at her wide eyed and started to deny "Oh no, no I'm-"

She got cut off by Elijah, who proclaimed with a wide smile "No Carol. this is my Fiancé , Lyra Hawthorne."

Lyra's widened even further as she looked to Elijah, who didn't look back and just continued to have that cheeky smile fo his. Carol frowned and apologised "I'm so sorry, you didn't really look like a couple."

Elijah just waved it off "It's fine Carol."

Carol just smiled and started to ask questions while Lyra mostly zoned out.

She looked around and noticed Jenna talking to some people she didn't know, Carol asked a familiar question "Have you spent much time in Richmond for your book? There's such a wealth of history there."

"No, I'm focusing mostly on the smaller regions of Virginia. Lots of research. Strictly academic" Elijah replied and Lyra smirked at the lie.

"That's fascinating" Carol nodded and Lyra's attention was taken by Damon Salvatore entering the mansion. He looked their way and she could see him asking himself why she was with Elijah.

Lyra kept her eyes on him as he walked towards them, stopping to talk to Jenna and Andy, and Carol greets "Damon."

"Carol" Damon greets back with a nod and looks to Elijah.

Carol says with a bit of shock in her voice "What a surprise."

Damon responds with a short, but simple "Hi."

"Hi" Carol once again greeted and turned to Elijah "Elijah, Lyra, I want you to meet Damon Salvatore. His family is one of Mystic Falls' founding families."

Damon hummed and held out his hand towards Elijah "Such a pleasure to meet you."

Elijah gave him a tight lipped smile and shook his hand "No. Pleasure's mine."

Damon turned to Lyra this time and gave her a 'seductive' smile while grabbing her hand and laid a kiss on it while saying "Nice to meet you beautiful."

Lyra grimaced and pulled her hand out of his while remarking "It's my displeasure."

His smile turned into a fake smirk and turned to Carol while asking "May I borrow Mr. Smith and Ms. Hawthorne for a moment?"

Carol smiled and gave a nod before walking away.

Elijah sighed and held a hand out for Lyra while saying "Let's take this to somewhere more private."

Lyra smiled and grabbed his hand as they both walked towards a study, Damon was following behind them while rolling his eyes.

Dorian was walking around the Gilbert Lakehouse.

He drove separately towards the house because he didn't want to be stuck in a car with his soulmate and his soulmate's ex.

When he arrived, Elena was surprised to see him and also slightly glared. But he ignored her and went into the house, Stefan welcomed him and he just gave a nod. He just dropped his bag on a random bed in the first room he entered.

He started to wander around, searching for the master bedroom. Considering Stefan and Elena broke up, that means they won't find the weapon room because they won't make out.

When he finally found it, he stepped inside and scanned the room incase Elena was there. When he found no-one he started to walk towards the closet. When he held out his hand to grab the handle of the door, he felt something grab his waist.

He could smell Stefan's cologne as Stefan whispered against his ear "What are you doing Handsome?"

Dorian blushed as he could feel Stefan's warm breath on his ear, he was very aware of how close their bodies were and his skin tingling of Stefan's touch.

"I am just looking around" Dorian mumbled and Stefan turned him around so they were facing each other.

Stefan looked at him with a raised eyebrow and asked in disbelief "Looking around in a closet?"

Dorian stuttered to find a response because of how close Stefan was "U-uhm I- We- Yo-" Stefan cut him off by starting to kiss his neck.

Stefan smirked against Dorian's neck as his breath hitched. He whispered in his neck "Were you misbehaving?"

Dorian let out a desperate whine as Stefan sucked on that particular spot. Stefan stopped as he heard some noise and opened the closet door, manoeuvring them inside and closing the door.

Stefan pushed Dorian against the closet wall, but stopped as he heard the hallow noise. Dorian frowned a bit as this was almost the exact way Stefan found it in the series, except that was with Elena.

Stefan knocks onto the wall and comments "It's hallow inside."

He starts breaking off all the panels while Dorian just watches as it reveals a door. They share a look as Stefan breaks the lock and opens it, Stefan grabbed a string that turned a light on.

To Stefan's shock it revealed a room full of weapons, weapons that are specifically made to kill vampires.

Lyra stays close to Elijah as he asked "What can I do for you, Damon?"

Damon turns away from the window he was looking at and said "I was hoping we could have a word."

"Where's Elena?" Elijah questioned and Lyra rolled her eyes while moving away slightly. Elijah noticed the movement and frowned a bit, before straightening up and focusing on Damon.

"Safe with Stefan. They're laying low, you know, bit of a werewolf problem"

Lyra commented with a slight smirk "Oh, yeah, we heard about that."

Damon looked at Elijah while replying "I'm sure you did since it was Elijah's witch that saved the day" Then he turned to Lyra and asked "Didn't know you were friends of Elijah's considering you were kidnapped to be a snack for him."

Lyra looked at him dead in the eye and taunted "Well we're new friends and wasn't my kidnapper your dearest Rose? My condolences by the way, I heard about her death and it must have been so horrible to see her losing her sanity bit by bit."

Damon glared at her and moved to speed to her, but Elijah stepped in front of her and warned "I suggest you wouldn't do anything you will regret. My witch saved you, but I can take ur life faster then u can blink."

Damon gritted his teeth and looked towards Elijah while questioning "You're witch saving us adds to my confusion on exactly why you're here?"

Lyra refrained from rolling her eyes as Elijah responded " Why don't you just stay focused on keeping Elena safe and leave the rest to me."

Lyra and Elijah moved to exit the room, but Damon speeds in front of them while stating "Not good enough."

When Damon reached out to grip Lyra's wrist, Elijah grabbed him by the neck and slammed him into the wall. Damon, in retaliation, grabs Elijah's throat. Elijah grabs Damon's hand and easily pulls it off of his neck, making sure to crush Damon's hand as he does so.

Damon groans in pain as Elijah comments "You young vampires, so arrogant" Lyra couldn't stop staring at Elijah, nasty thoughts corrupting her mind. Elijah noticed it and slightly smirked as he continued "How dare you come in here and challenge me?"

Damon groaned out "You can't kill me, man. It's not part of the deal."

"Silence" Elijah commanded and stabbed a pencil into Damon's neck. He let's go of Damon as he let's out a yell of pain while grabbing the pencil, Damon stumbles into the desk to pull the pencil out while Elijah grabs a handkerchief and wipes the blood of his hands "I'm an Original. Show a little respect. The moment you cease to be of use to me, you're dead, so you should do what we say. Keep Elena safe."

Elijah holds out his hand towards Lyra to take and when she does, he leads them out of the room.

They make their way towards the exit of the mansion and Lyra leans towards Elijah to whisper "That was one of the hottest things I have ever seen."

Elijah just gave her another smirk and kept walking.

After finding the room, they took a journal that laid inside and gave it to Elena. Much to the protest of Dorian, but Stefan argued that it was her families house. Now they stood in the living room while Elena flips through the journal.

Elena concluded while looking up at them "These must be the other Johnathan Gilbert journals. Jeremy had the one, but John said that there were others."

Stefan nodded and looked at Dorian who was looking at the pictures on the fireplace. Stefan noticed that the wasn't on, so he stated "I'll go get some firewood."

Dorian and Elena nodded and he went outside, Elena was reading the book while Dorian was staring at a picture of a young Elena, Bonnie and Caroline.

Honestly he sort of missed James and Reggie, but not the people they are now. Just the people they used to be, before the first argument that created a small tear in the friendship of the group.

Lyra slammed a New York newspaper on the table as she pointed at it and yelled "What the hell is this?"

Dorian, James and Reggie looked at the newspaper as it said "James and Reggie, the famous band members of Broken Melodies, spotted kissing at the famous french restaurant 'Mon amour' Are the two dating? And if they are, why would they have kept it a secret?"

James and Reggie shared panicked looks as Dorian also looked at them wide eyed. James held up his hands and started "We can explain-"

"Explain?!" Lyra exclaimed "Yes, please do explain why you two were kissing and on a date apparently? James, you told us you were visiting your family for two days and Reggie, you told us you were visiting some friends and wanted to have a fun night out."

"Why wouldn't you tell us you guys were dating" Dorian asked, his face looked absolutely heartbroken. They always shared everything, no secrets they promised each other at the start.

Reggie scoffed "Oh, well maybe it's because you Lyra is so goddam controlling all the time and Dorian you would go blab it off to everyone in the world!"

Dorian glared at him and sat up straighter in the chair he was sitting in "Excuse me? I have never ever told anyone a secret that I wasn't allowed to tell."

"Oh please, you got the same mouth as your mother. Just can't keep it closed for more then a few minutes" Reggie spat out as he got up and got close to Dorian.

Lyra stormed in front of him and shoved him away a bit while yelling "What the hell is wrong with you Reggie, how could you say that? You know what his mother did to him and if I recall, he was not the one who blabbed to everyone about my home issues."

Reggie groaned and argued "That was one time and the other times don't even count because that was to the others in the band."

"One time too many and I didn't know that Evy was apart of our band?" Lyra accused and glared at him with an anger that they all hadn't expected.

Reggie opened his mouth to counter back, but James yelled out "HEY!" They all looked at him as he got in between "Stop arguing. We are supposed to be a band, did me and Reggie hide that we are dating? Yes and was it wrong? Yes. But we all make mistakes, we are sorry for hiding it."

James nudged Reggie to apologise as well and he reluctantly muttered out a small "Sorry."

"Now, no more secrets. We deal with everything together" He held out his hand "Live fast?"

Dorian, Lyra and Reggie all put their hands on top of James's hand and replied in sync "Die young."

They all looked each other in the eye and nodded, but deep down inside they all knew it wasn't going to be the same like it was before.

Dorian is snapped out of his flashback as Elena shouts out "Are you growing the trees out there?"

He snaps his head towards her and furrows his brows as he knows what's going to happen next. He slowly walks towards the door while ordering Elena "Stay there, I think something is wrong."

Elena fearfully nodded, Dorian steps outside, despite him knowing what's about to happen, and calls out "Stefan? What are you doing out there?!"

He feels someone approach and turns around. Brady, he remembers from the show, stand behind him and Dorian pushes him to the ground while yelling "Elena get out of here!"

Elena does so without looking back, which makes Dorian internally scoff but he focuses back on Brady.

Brady starts to get up, but Dorian had other ideas as he focuses on Brady's heart that crushed while he slowly clenched his fists. Brady groaned and fell back down as he held his his chest. When Dorian's hand were fully closed, Brady let out on last yell before falling dead on the ground.

Dorian stares at the body in shock, he just killed someone for the first time. When his eyes caught Brady's dead ones, he knew that those cold dead eyes would haunt him for a while and the blood tainting his hands will never wash away.

He sits down on the porch stairs and kept staring at Brady until he felt a hand on his shoulder, looking up his eyes connected with Stefan's concerning gaze. Dorian immediately leaped up and pulled Stefan in a hug, he glanced at Tyler who was shuffling awkwardly, but Dorian mostly ignored him as he focused on Stefan, his mate.

Eventually Elena walks outside and gasps at Brady's dead body, she frowns at the sight of Stefan and Dorian hugging. But quickly notices Tyler and muttered "Tyler?"

Tyler looked even more awkward now as he confessed "I didn't know what they were gonna do to you. I didn't. I just...I don't want to be like this anymore" Elena gives him a sympathetic smile and walks over to embrace him in a hug, he hugs back and apologises "I'm sorry Elena"

"It's okay" Elena soothed, but rolled her eyes at him. She only hugged him so she didn't look bad in Stefan's eyes and maybe that could still give her a chance with him.

Jules is standing in front of a tied up Damon with some other werewolves standing at the side, one of them was holding a chain that lead to an impaling choker that Damon was wearing.

She leaned against a shotgun as she taunted "You know what the great thing about buckshot is? It scatters through the body. Maximum damage" She pointed the shotgun at him and demands "Where is the moonstone?"

Damon almost scoffs as he looks up at her "Get over it, honey. You're never gonna get it."

"You looking fo this?" a voice called out and everyone turned towards it, just to see Elijah leaning against a banister with the moonstone in hand. He walks down the stairs and lays it on top of a table while backing away "Go ahead. Take it."

One of the werewolves immediately speeds forward to grab it, but Elijah was faster as he rammed into the werewolf and drove his hand through his chest. He dropped to the ground while Elijah held his heart in his hand.

The other two werewolves tried, but got the same result as Elijah held their hearts in his hand too. Jules speeds away while one was left and he was bending down trying to hide himself, he stood up as Elijah got close and asked "What about you, sweetheart, hmm? You want to take a shot? Yes? No? Yes? Where's the girl?"

Damon holds out his hands and frowns "I don't know."

Elijah smirks as a thought reoccured and shrugged it off "It doesn't really matter" Elijah punches the werewolf in the face and he drops to the ground, Elijah then remove step chains from Damon and states "So you realize this is the third time I've saved your life now?"

Damon doesn't respond and just stares up at Elijah. Noticing he wasn't going to get a response, Elijah turns around and leaves with the moonstone in hand.

Meanwhile Jules was escaping, she stopped to look back and see if Elijah had followed her. Noticing no-one behind her, she tries to continue to run, but was stopped as Lyra appeared in front of her.

Jules looked at her in confusion while Lyra just gave her a grin "Hi" Then waved her hand "Goodbye."

That was the last thing Jules saw before her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she fell unconscious.

Lyra heard someone speed behind her and ask "Why is she necessary to be kept locked away until necessary?"

"She will be very important in the future to keep some people safe" Lyra confessed as she turned towards Elijah, who was looking at her in confusion.

Elijah raised an eyebrow as he inquired and moved to pick Jules up "Where will she be kept hidden?"

"Basement" Lyra simply answered "The spell I used will put her in a magical coma until I want her out of it."

Elijah huffed as Jules laid over his shoulder and held out a hand for her, Lyra took it and he sped them away.

After Tyler left, Dorian went to take a shower which left Elena and Stefan alone. Elena wanted to talk to Stefan, but his blood was boiling after he figured something out.

"Stefan wait, can we talk?" Elena stopped him from leaving and he sighed as he waited to hear her out "Now that the threat of the werewolves are gone, can we maybe try to fix our relation-"

Stefan looked Elena in the eye and cut her off while demanding "Where were you?"

"What do you mean?" Elena asked as her eye were filled with confusion and she pouted a bit.

"Why did you leave Dorian out here alone? If he hadn't had his magic then he could have died" Stefan continued to spew out as his eyes held burning fire.

Elena opened her mouth and quickly excused "Dorian told me to run-"

"But you could have gone upstairs and gotten the hidden weapons to help him, but no you just stayed upstairs. Safe and away from it all, again you leaving us alone to deal with the consequences" Stefan argued and Elena was left speechless "You are so selfish sometimes, now if you don't mind. I am going to take a shower with my soulmate, who could have died today."

Stefan left the room, leaving an upset Elena behind.

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚

James and Reggie watched as the two caskets were being lowered into the ground, Lyra's and Dorian's family surrounding them including some of their own.

They both wore all black suits, Reggie looked at the now buried caskets without any emotion while James was crying silent tears as they dripped down his face. Both of them stood side by side and didn't know how much time went by as everyone slowly left the funeral.

When they were alone, James muttered bitterly "This is our fault."

Reggie looked at him in confusion and questioned "How? We could not have stopped them from being poisoned by food."

"Yes, we could have" James gritted out as more tears leaked out of his eyes "If we hadn't started the rift that eventually broke our friendship, then they would have said yes to eating with us."

Reggie looked angered as he defended "Hey! We didn't start that rift, they did when they pushed us away."

"And why do you think they did that? Because of us, because we were afraid and we took that out on them. Especially you!" James accused as he now fully turned to Reggie.

"What?" Reggie scoffed and threw his hands up.

James started to push his finger into Reggie's chest while continuing to accuse "You were afraid that the public would find out, so not only did you force me to keep it a secret from them. No, you started to hurt them with your mean words and ur spiteful behaviour. You pushed them away and I was just trying to stay Switzerland, keep the band civil atleast."

Reggie clenched his jaw and stayed silent, James scoffed and walked away from him as the tears couldn't stop pouring.

Now left alone, he turned to the buried grave and go ton his knees as the tears appeared. His mask slipped and he cried out "I'm sorry! I am so sorry, I should have never done everything I said and did. How are we supposed to go on, without your stupid jokes Dorian? Or your motherly concern about us Lyra?"

He stayed there until he was forced to leave. Broken Melodies was officially broken, it was before but now its official.

A/N

Hi!

So James and Reggie are officially being more involved then I originally had planned, but I have great plans and I cannot wait!

The next chapter, Dorian and Stefan will be barely mentioned, because most of the episode with Stefan was him and Elena talking and bonding and ugh.