Chapter 12: Big Happy Family

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Mikaelson Mansion

Klaus is packing up things around the house while Rebekah talks to him.

" Alaric Saltzman just tried to kill me."

"Alaric Saltzman is supposed to be dead."

"Well, he's not and he's a vampire thanks to mother's spell with a white oak stake that can't kill him. He's strong, Nik. Too strong."

"Where is he now?"

"He's stuck at the school without a daylight ring, but as soon as night falls he'll come after us. We need to leave now."

"Fine. I'll collect Elena, we'll be on our way."

"Forget Elena! You don't need any more stupid hybrids!"

"What I need is protection from Esther's continued assaults against us."

"We'll protect each other, like we always have. Always and forever, Nik."

"I'm not leaving without her."

"I'm leaving now. You can either walk out that door with me or you are on your own." Klaus looks at her but says nothing.

"Fine. Trust your hybrids over your family. Let your spite be the death of you, see if I care."

"Rebekah walks out of the room, walking into Tyler on the way out.

"Move it, sire boy!"What's her deal?

Klaus stares at him and Tyler continues on into the room. Ophira comes down the stairs with a backpack over her shoulder. "Klaus I'm ready when are we leaving."

"Well we need to go get the doppleganger love."

"Do we really need the annoying doppelganger." Ophira said crossing her arms.

"Yes now come he will swing by the Gilbert House and then we can be on our way." He grabs her hand and they start heading to the car. 

"Fine but my room better be far from her."

Klaus gets out of the car, "Ophira stay here." Ophira nods.

The doorbell rings at the Gilbert house. Jeremy answers the door. Klaus is outside.

"What the hell do you want?"

"Now is that any way to treat a guest?" Stefan comes up behind Jeremy.

"What are you doing here, Klaus?"

"Well, for starters, young Jeremy here could show some manners and invite me inside." Damon walks over to the door. Stefan moves in front of Jeremy.

"Why don't you go up to your room?" Damon looks at Jeremy.

"Now." Jeremy sighs and walks up the stairs.

"Hm, poor lad. Loses one questionable father figure only to be replaced by the likes of the two of you."

"Yes Ophira is so lucky to have you as a father figure." Damon says sarcastically and Klaus growls.

"Yeah, about that. Something happened."

"Oh, I know all about my mother's invulnerable little creation and that's why I'm here. Ophira and I are leaving town, just need to pick up a few road trip necessities. Spare tire, flashlight, doppelgänger."

"Can't help you there." Damon claps Stefan on the shoulder, pulls him back, and shuts the door on Klaus. Damon moves into the living room and Stefan goes towards the stairs.

"Elena!" Stefan yells

Outside, Klaus paces the front porch. He stops and picks up the newspaper by the front door. Inside, Stefan walks up the stairs and into Alaric's old room. Jeremy is here continuing to paint, but Elena is nowhere in sight.

"Where is she?"

"I don't know, she was just here a few minutes ago." Stefan walks out of the room and down the stairs where he meets up with Damon.

"Where is she?"

"She's not here."

"What do you mean she's not here? Where did she go?" Bonnie walks into the living room.

"What's going on?" Damon looks out the blinds and sees Klaus pacing with the newspaper still in his hands.

"Klaus wants in, we have to keep him out." Damon sees Klaus pull back his arm and throw the newspaper at the window with vampire strength.

"Ah, duck!" The newspaper smashes through the window and flies into the living room. Damon ducks down. Stefan grabs Bonnie and they both duck.

Klaus is still outside, waiting. "I think you're probably gonna want to let me in!"

Klaus walks over to a neighbor's house with a white picket fence. He places his hands on the fence and looks around. He sees a soccer ball and smiles. Back in the house, Bonnie, Jeremy, Stefan, and Damon are standing in the kitchen.

"Elena's car is gone.""Why wouldn't she tell anyone where she was going?"

Suddenly, the front door bursts open and the soccer ball flies in. Klaus walks up the porch with two fence pickets in his hands. He hurls one of the pickets into the house and it narrowly misses Damon's head and gets stuck in the wall behind him. Stefan grabs Jeremy and Bonnie and pulls them down.

"Get down!"

"Missed me!"

Damon pulls the picket out of the wall and throws it back at Klaus. The picket just grazes over his shoulder. Klaus breaks the other picket in two and throws half of it at Damon again, but instead he hits a picture and it breaks.

"Missed me again!" Klaus aims the last picket into the house. Stefan's phone rings and he answers it.

"Alaric." Klaus comes back up to the house with a propane tank and a newspaper "torch". Stefan comes up to the front door.Ophira sees the fire and runs out of the car, "Put it out."

He turned to Ophira and said, "I told you to stay in the car."

"In a shocking turn of events I ignored you."

Klaus turned back to Stefan "Come outside and make me." Stefan steps outside.

"Elena's not here. Alaric has her and Caroline and he's gonna kill them both unless you turn yourself over to him." Klaus throws down the newspaper and drops the propane tank.

"Now, I know you're not asking me to walk into a certain death."

"I really wish we could. But unfortunately, if Alaric kills you there's a one in four chance that we die too." Damon walks out with a picket over his shoulder.

"I'll take those odds." Stefan looks at Damon.

"And a hundred percent chance that Tyler dies."

"I'm good with that too."

"Why don't we just figure out a way to put Alaric down?" Klaus and Stefan are pacing outside and Damon is leaning against the picket. Klaus stops and turns around.

"Okay, how about Damon sneaks in and distracts Alaric, while Stefan grabs Elena and carries her to safety?"

"Huh, that's a great idea. What's to stop me from getting killed instantly?"

Ophira thinks about it and says, "Nothing."

"Caroline's in there. Don't you have a thing for her? Or did she just reject you too many times?"

"This isn't really helping too much." Bonnie walks out of the house.

"I might have an idea. My mom used a desiccation spell on Mikael that immobilized him for over 15 years. If I can get it, I might be able to use it on Alaric."

"If and might?" Ophira questioned.

"Your words inspire such confidence." Klaus continues.

"I'll get it. But even with the spell, we'll need a lot of vampire muscle to take him down. Including yours." Klaus turns around.

"Just so we're clear, the sun sets in about eight hours. If we don't succeed before then, Elena will be dead, we will be gone, and the rest of you will be left to fend for yourselves."

Stefan and Klaus pull up to the school's parking lot in Klaus' car. They get out and Stefan receives a text.

"Abby just showed up."

"Good. Perhaps this plan won't be an epic failure after all. You know, if this does go off and we drop the history teacher in the Atlantic, I'm still leaving with Elena."

"I'll go with you."

Ophira scoffed annoyed, "More vampires, great!"

"Really? What's the catch?" Klaus said ignoring what Ophira said.

"There's no catch. I'd turn my back on everything here to make sure Elena's safe."

"And that is what makes you her better option. It's a shame it's not easier for Elena to see that, I mean, personally, I think she's wasting her time with Damon."

'Personally I'm a Delena shipper.' Ophira thought

"You know, all this time and energy you've spent trying to get me and my brother to hate each other. It's actually had the opposite effect."

Klaus laughs. "Has it? Has it really? Well then, perhaps I should let Elena decide which Salvatore joins us, being as you and Damon are so close."

"Ah, go for it. Damon and I have been through a hell of a lot worse than you." Stefan walks away.

Klaus and Stefan walk up to them.

"Look at this, one big, happy family." Ophira mocks. Bonnie pulls out a small vial with her blood.

"Drink this. It's my blood. It bridges us all together so that when I stop Jeremy's heart, you'll have the power to stop Alaric's. You need to make a physical connection to his bloodstream; a vein, artery, something connected to his heart." 

Damon drinks some blood out of the vial and hands it to Stefan."If one of us gets a clean shot, take it, the other two: hold him down." Stefan takes a swig of the blood and passes it to Klaus.

"Before we all walk through these doors, let's get on the same page, shall we? I was the one who created your vampire bloodline, therefore I am responsible for your lives and Tyler's life, Caroline's life, and of course, Abby's life, should anything go wrong."

"Or you're just lying to save your ass."

"I'm not lying. But go ahead, call my bluff, let the teacher kill me. You'll all be dead soon thereafter."

"Also if your not I'll kill." Ophira warns. Klaus drinks the remainder of the blood.

"Let's just get this over with, shall we?"

Stefan, Damon, and Klaus all walk to the school. Ophira waited in the car she cast a spell so she was able to see what was going on inside. 

Alaric grabs Klaus and throws him against the lockers. He flips him over and is about to stake him with the white oak stake, but Klaus fights back. A struggle ensues where Alaric continues to try to push the stake towards his heart and Klaus tries to push it away. Suddenly, Elena yells at them.

"Stop!" Elena yelled. Alaric looks up at Elena. Elena has a knife to her throat.

"Let him go or I'll kill myself."

"Put it down, Elena."

"Why? Because you still need me alive? There's a reason why Esther used me to make you, isn't there? She didn't want you to be immortal, so she tied your life to a human one. Mine. That way you have only one life span to kill all vampires and then you'll be gone. So, when I die, you die too. That's it, it has to be!"

"You're wrong."

"Am I?" Elena begins to cut her throat open.

"Stop! STOP! STOP! STOP!"

In his moment of panic, Klaus seizes the chance and throws Alaric off of him. He rushes towards Elena, grabs her and leaves. Alaric gets up and realizes that they're both gone. Klaus got in the car put a knockout Elena in the front seat. "Are we leaving?" She asked.

"One more stop and then I will take you anywhere you want." She smiled.

The nurse switches out the filled blood bag for a fresh one. Elena is becoming weaker.

"What about your hybrids? You'll need more than this to create your army." Klaus takes one of the blood bags from the nurse.

"These last few liters will have to suffice. You see, by attempting to kill us, my mother strengthened the bond between my siblings and I. I don't need hybrids. I have my family."

"If you believe that, then why take my blood at all? You want a backup family. You know that your siblings will never trust you again."

"You know Stefan blames me for trying to tear him from his brother, but I think we both know who really came between them. You. That's why you won't choose. You know once you pick a Salvatore, you'll destroy their bond." 

Klaus moves closer towards Elena."Consider this me doing you a favor. Once you're dead, you won't have to choose. No broken hearts. Their family stays intact. But just between us girls, who would you have picked?"

"Rot in hell."

"You're welcome. Sweet dreams, Elena. It's been fun."

Klaus walks past Elena, grazing her neck with his fingers and leaves the room. Elena struggles to get out of the chair as she grows weaker and weaker from the loss of blood. Elena is starting to fade away. Tyler quietly comes into the room and undoes the ropes tying Elena to the chair.

"What are you doing?"

"Shhh."

Ophira walks in, "What are you doing?" She asks Tyler.

"Sorry Kid," Tyler says as he knocks her out.

Klaus attempts to grab Tyler's heart out of his chest, but Tyler twists his arm around. Stefan and Damon come into the room. Damon grabs Klaus' other arm and Stefan puts his hand into Klaus' chest, causing Bonnie to feel the connection once again.

Klaus' heartbeat begins slowing down and he begins to desiccate. Damon moves away from him and goes towards Elena, who is waking up. He grabs her gently.

They grab Ophira and put her in the car with Damon and Stefan.