Chapter 3: I Will Never Let Him Hurt You

3x05

Elena laughs and opens some double doors, then finds herself face-to-face with Klaus.

"There's my girl."

"Klaus!" She turns around and tries to run, but he's already in front of her."You are supposed to be dead. What are we going to do about that?"

Stefan wakes up. Rebekah and Ophira are standing near the open back door.

"Oh, he lives." Ophira says

"What happened?"

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

"Well sometimes it was me," Ophira says. 

"Why did he bring us back to Mystic Falls?"

"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."

Ophira looks at him in disgust. "No, you just failed to mention that the doppelgänger's still alive."

"Where is Klaus now?"

"With any luck, ripping that cow's bloody head off." He rushes at her and they both fly out of the truck and onto the ground, him on top of her.

Ophira was about to wave her hand and break his neck. "Don't Ophira."

"Where is she?"

"You really do love her, don't you?" She gets up and pushes him against the truck, punches him and takes a crowbar. She puts the hook off the crowbar behind his neck and pulls him toward her."Consider me jealous." She drives the crowbar through his stomach.

In the Gym

"Where's Stefan? What did you do to him?" the doppleganger asks.

"Stefan's on a time out." Klaus responds. The doors open. Bonnie and Matt enter.

"Bonnie, get out of here!" Klaus rushes over to Bonnie.

"Ah, I was wondering when you'd show up. Now we can get started." 

He looks over at Dana.

"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?"

"That's right. If you want to blame someone, blame me."

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

Rebekah and Ophira enters with Tyler.

"Get off of me!"

"Shut it." Ophira says. 

"I'd like you all to meet my sister Rebekah. Word of warning...She can be quite mean.""Don't be an ass."

"Your not going to introduce me Nik, I'm offended."

"Oh and this is Ophira a distant cousin, a very powerful witch." Ophira smirks, she always loved being a witch. Rebekah throws Tyler into Klaus's arms.

"Leave him alone!"

"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." 

He bites his wrist and makes Tyler drink his blood.

"I need you to find a way to save my hybrids, Bonnie. And for Tyler's sake...You better hurry." He twists his head and kills him. Elena, Matt and Bonnie are shocked. Klaus smiles. Stefan is in the parking lot and has the crowbar in his stomach. He wakes up and removes it. Dana and Chad are sitting on the floor. Matt is next to Tyler's body.

"He killed him."

"He's not dead. Klaus's blood will turn him into a vampire."

"And if Bonnie's successful, 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."

He grabs Elena's arm and looks at her. Elena makes a sign to Bonnie and she leaves with Matt. Rebekah looks at Elena.

"So this is the latest doppelgänger. The original one was much prettier."

"Enough, Rebekah. Take the wolf boy elsewhere, would you?"

Rebekah drags Tyler behind her by his arm and leaves, Ophira followed. Klaus looks at Elena.

"We didn't have mobile telephones in our day. Would have made life a whole lot easier, I suppose." Rebekah says as she takes a picture of herself.

"Where's Tyler?" Caroline asks.

"He's dead..." Ophira says. "Well ish."

 Caroline sees him lying behind her. "What did you do to him?"

"Think of it as he's having a nap." Ophira answers.

"When he wakes up, he'll be a hybrid." Rebekah continues. 

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

"Ugh. Vomit." Suddenly she zooms in and sees the necklace around Elena's neck.

"Is that your necklace?" Ophira asks her cousin. Rebekah gets up and speaks down at Caroline."Why is that doppelgänger bitch wearing my necklace?!"

Caroline, Tyler, Ophira and Rebekah are in a classroom. Rebekah checks how much time is remaining on Caroline's phone and sees there's three minutes remaining. Suddenly Tyler wakes up.

"Where am I? What happened?"

"Tyler." Caroline starts to say

"Don't be shy about it." Ophira says

"What's going on?"

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

"Don't leave out the hard part, sweets. You'll only survive if your witch is successful. If not...You're pretty much dead." Rebekah says.

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

"I wonder how she's doing."

She looks at the clock on the phone and turns it round to show them. There's two minutes remaining.

"Tick tock goes the gym clock." Ophira rhymes.

Matt and Bonnie are in the hallway. "As soon as you're feeling better, I'm going to kill you."

"It worked. I saw her. I saw Vicki."

"You did?"

"She said she had a message for you."

"For me?"

"From the witch that put the hybrid curse on Klaus. She said that Elena shouldn't have survived Klaus' ritual. The hybrids can't transition because Elena's still alive."

"Tyler...""

He's going to die, isn't he?"

"I wouldn't be too sure about that." Klaus says behind them, leaning against the wall. 

"Given the choice, doppelgänger or a hybrid, I go hybrid every time."

Klaus enters the classroom Rebekah, Ophira, Tyler and Caroline are in.

"Well, the verdict's in. The original witch says the doppelgänger should be dead."

"Hate that witch," Ophira muttered under her breath. Rebekah gets up and seems happy.

"Does that mean we can kill her?"

"No, I'm fairly certain it means the opposite."

"What?!"

"She puts her arms around Caroline from behind and pulls her back, restraining her."

"Call it a hunch..."

"He shows a test tube containing blood to Tyler. Rebekah holds Caroline so she can't move."

"Elena's blood. Drink it."

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

"If he doesn't feed, he'll die anyway, love. Consider this an experiment. It's okay." Tyler struggles but he finally drinks it. "There we go. Good boy."

Tyler coughs, rolls over the desk, and falls to the floor, screaming and groaning and writhing. He holds his head and screams and his face finally changes. His eyes are yellow, he has fangs and veins under his eyes.

"Well, that's a good sign." Ophira says.

Klaus, Ophira and Rebekah in front of the hospital.

"So the doppelgänger isn't the problem. Her blood is the solution." Ophira states.

"Seems so little witch."

"How did you know?" Ophira asks intrigued.

"Well, you know how much the original witch hated me. Do you honestly think I would do anything other than the opposite of what she says?"

"A thousand years in the grave and she's still screwing with you." Rebekah says.

"Well, it makes sense if you think about it from her perspective. It was her fail-safe in case I ever broke the hybrid curse. The doppelgänger had to die in order for me to become a hybrid, but if she was dead...""Then you couldn't use her blood to sire yourself a new species."

"Leaving me alone for all time."

"Is that what this is about? Your obsession with hybrids? You just don't want to be alone?" Ophira asks.

"What I want is to take my girl, take my hybrid the hell out of this one-pony town. You know, why don't you, uh, why don't you get the truck? I'll get Elena. Ophira darling come with me" She leaves. Damon arrives."Well, look who finally decided to show up to the party."

"Where is she?"

"Elena? Ah, she's making a donation to a greater cause." Damon goes toward the hospital but Klaus stops him."I'm afraid I can't let you interfere, mate."

"You'll have to kill me."

"Oh, I would love to kill you, but I made a pledge to your brother, and unlike him, I keep my word. Although, you know what, thinking about it now, he probably doesn't care that much anymore." Klaus says

"Motus," Ophira says and Damon goes flying against the hood of a car. Klaus speeds up to him and is about to kill him.

"Don't you want to know about your friend Mikael?" Damon asks and a tear runs down Ophira's cheek. She remember that he was the one that shot her she missed how her life was supposed to be because of him. She was still a 8 year old little witch with a bad attitude and a trouble past because he ruined her life.

"What do you know about Mikael?" Klaus asks.

"Just that he knows you're here."

"You're bluffing." More tears stream down Ophira's face. "Katherine and I found him. Consider it our leverage."

Klaus throws him against another car, and Damon falls on the ground. Klaus grabs Ophira and speeds them away. They stopped far away he puts her down turns towards her, leans down getting to her height and holds her hands. "Is Mikael going to come back?" She asks and Klaus hugged her as she cried. 

"I'm not going to let him hurt you ever again Ophira, I promise." He meant it Ophira was like his daughter. He would never let anyone hurt her ever again. "Come on." He says getting up and holding her hand and they get into a big black car.