It's a beautiful day, as I walk through a meadow talking on my phone with Elena and Ric.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSK0mm9GPgV
"So you're the prime suspect, huh?"399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lJkcT55P4
"She doesn't think that I did it. She's just trying to find out why somebody used one of my family weapons to kill a council member," Elena replies.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2RwUBXCSUG
"Well why don't you just ask Ric if his dirty little doctor had access to the weapons," I say.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vOSheOFxt
"You're on speaker phone, dick," Alaric interjects.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIu4CrFZyCk
"I'm just saying first suspect she's the right one. Don't get so defensive," I explain.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHNgxZZkbZv
"Brian Walters was killed days ago, right? I didn't show Meredith this stuff until last night!" Alaric says.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy2ZFC6jXSE
"It wasn't Meredith," Elena says.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVELtF7uLD3
"But Brian Walters was her ex-boyfriend and Ric saw them fighting that night," Damon replies.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdPqmiIDB0
"It's not Meredith! Okay? I refuse to believe that your luck with women is that tragic," Elena responds.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhViQE0EasD
"Who else knows about your secret slayer stash?" I ask.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡseK0I3apoU
"A dozen. I got weapons everywhere, here, the school, my loft, your car."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWtylfeeZl9
"It's Klaus. It has to be, he's screwing with us," I reply.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD0IhSGptm8
"What if it was Stefan?" Elena asked. "He was crazy that night, and you know he was trying to get under Klaus' skin, he was capable of pretty much anything."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPLE57KLKVR
"Ahh, makes me nostalgic for the time Stefan was a bunny snacking pacifist, anyway got to go, tomorrow later."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7UsySe4BV9
"Hey, where are you?" Alaric asks me.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0F180jUAT
"Tea with an old friend," I reply.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkSkXNNyILJ
I hang up.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6AIqN9CMBq
"Elijah, my favorite Original, back from the dead. Clean up nice," I greet him, as he walks towards me.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyKYlwbjLyT
We stop when we stand not far from one another.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqUuDuhomJe
"You left something in my jacket pocket," Elijah says, a piece of paper in hand.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT46iXgtslb
"Oh, yeah, "Dear Elijah, let's get together, thought of the destruction of your brother, XOXO."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRBDb8diYep
"Damon."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz914l9H6X2
"Was I right to undagger you or do we have a problem?"399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbglxd0EagP
"I'm here, let's talk."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CrUr0S5ER
"I'll start with an easy question, any idea why Klaus' killing weapon would be magically sealed in a mystery coffin?"
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Elijah opens the door to Klaus' house, me and Stefan with him.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbzV77HehT
"Niklaus, our guests have arrived," Elijah announces.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeNzQdOVak8
"Damon. Stefan. Elijah tells me, you seek an audience. Very bold. Let's discuss the terms of our agreement like civilized men, shall we?"399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3bKOfH4IT
"It's better to indulge him," Elijah tells us.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAiGbfV1cTR
"I didn't come here to eat, Klaus. Fact, I didn't want to come here at all. But I was told, I had to 'cause you would hear our sound," Stefan tells Klaus.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zeWIJ7SWk
"Well, we can sit and eat or I can reach down your throats and pull out your insides. The choice is yours," Klaus replies.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPgCnUcNhpz
Everyone except Stefan eat at the table.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1CiMp148Nk
"You lost your appetite," Klaus says.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANvVHRQzUD
"Eat. I thought we agreed to leave grumpy Stefan at home," I say.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZ8zhkvxAi
"Isn't it nice? The four of us dining together? Is that what you had in mind when you pulled the dagger from my brother?" Klaus says.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmegzfqXbvl
"Oh no...I felt about you so...I figured the more the merrier!" I rejoindered.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡViuRZrUH69
"Elijah and I we have our quarrels over the centuries, but we always make it through."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPwxL054pV
"Kinda like you and Rebekah, right? Where is she by the way? Last I checked she was daggered because you were afraid to face her," Stefan retorts.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnDUjLNLPok
"If you are referring to the fact that Rebekah knows that I killed our mother, I've already come clean to Elijah."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmSXe7quCQ2
"Hey Stef, remember when you killed dad? Might wanna doubt on the judgment desert," I tell my brother.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2JIsDAViSA
"We're here to make a deal, Damon. That doesn't mean we have to kiss his ass for seven courses."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTPS9ddCFf
"I'm just saying we have a long evening ahead of us, face yourself," I answer.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdjnx4Xq4J
"Stefan, where is the lovely Elena tonight?" Elijah asks.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjbXdrXBNqU
"I don't know. Ask Damon."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJw8U28rZg7
Klaus laughs.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFCSbD0xP50
Elijah looks surprised.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRGYxyKSoFr
"I'm sorry. You missed so much. Ahh...trouble in paradise."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡblbDp2kBff
"One more word about Elena and this dinner is over," Stefan comments.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFuo9GzXrM
"You know what? Probably it's best just to keep Elena in the Do Not Discuss pile," I interject.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡscU6fpJK8w
"You're probably right," Klaus agrees. "It's just the lure of the Petrova doppelgänger is still so strong. What do you say, brother? Should we tell them about Tatia?"399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4kUretknMT
"No, why should we discuss matters long since resolved?"399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXOvnDj3Obd
"Oh, give them both a shared attraction for Elena and Katerina, I think they must be curious to learn about the original of the Petrova line."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZorklYEIG1
"We're not going anywhere, Elijah. Please! Do tell," I rebut.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQmmxUXwtC
"When our family first settled here, there was a girl named Tatia. She was an exquisite beauty. Every boy her age desired to be her suitor; even though she'd had a child by another man. And no one loved her more than Klaus," Elijah explains.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQTomCqf6Xu
"Ah, I said there's one who loved her just as much."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO17ieda23X
"Wait a minute, so you both loved the same girl?" Stefan asks.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡECFplS4t2Q
"Our mother was a very powerful witch," Elijah explains. "She saw our love for Tatia and she took her. Klaus and I would later learn that it was Tatia's blood that we consumed in the wine of the night when our mother performed a spell which turned us into vampires. Tatia wouldn't make a decision between the two of us so for a time Niklaus and I grew estranged harsh truth traded we even came to blows. Didn't we, brother?"399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG9KmKdvuAO
"But in the end we recognized the secret bond of family."
"Family of paver," Elijah says, raising a glass.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoobwIDiUSc
"Family of paver," Klaus echoes.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMGZANJsYj
"So what do we look at this evening along, and discuss the terms of this proposal," Elijah announces.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAUlJTH7LWR
"That's very simple. Klaus gets his coffin back and in exchange he and the original extended family leave Mystic Falls forever. Me, Stefan and Elena live happily ever after. No grudges," I reply.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR10B71Fah5
"Sounds fair," Elijah comments.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡITlhrep30r
"I don't think you understand Elena's doppelgänger blood ensures that I will always have hybrids to fight those that abode me. I will never leave her behind. Well say I do leave her and you protect her and what then? How long until one of you turns her into a vampire? Or worse. How long before she dies? Count between you two. You see each one of you believes that he is the one that can protect her. Nice simply at the illusion. Gentlemen. The worst thing for Elena Gilbert is the two of you."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCgLMiXeAOd
"I'm gonna get some air," I say.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEyhBRLO08v
"I'll deal with this," Elijah responds.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kAyOxMVzd
"And this talk has made me thirsty. What do you say Stefan? Can I interest you with my love to do a drink?" Klaus asks, as Elijah and I step out.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5tvlrxdeR
"What's wrong?" Elijah asks.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyC12PXFOa4
"What do you think?" I reply.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbSoLnfGSL
"The sooner we resolve this, the sooner you two can leave here," he assures me.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fj7ZBhPSn
"I know," I reply to him.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bBPFc22pk
I sigh, before I walk back inside with him.
"What do you say, Klaus? I'm here to put something on the table. We've made our offer. Now you count on," I say, coming back in with Elijah.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdzz9HlW680
"Okay. I offer Elena's future happiness, you see what she needs right now is to be rid of you lot, and to fall in love with a human, maybe that football player."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKcWf1bjSbu
"Matt Donovan? Really?" I say.
"Yeah. Why not? They marry, live a long life and make a family."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCnt2C85rd
"And continue the Petrova bloodline, every few hundred years you'll have a doppelgänger for you to drain and you never run out of hybrids, right Klaus?" Stefan says.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmgFPaZ6bzI
"Consider it a small return on my investment in her well-being. See after you hand me back the coffin, I'll ensure her safety for the rest of her natural life, you know it's what's best for her."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwvWlkPJ8L5
"So what do you say, Stefan? Do we have a deal?"399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUIq8MqlPcn
They walk towards each other.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVBxVM9ycLn
Klaus holds his hand out and Stefan takes it.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18rInossDh
"Nice try, Klaus, but no deal."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0tjPRRWSA
Klaus grabs Stefan's arm and holds his hand in the fireplace in the fire and his hand starts to burn.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEcrJbtBdRm
"What are you doing?" I ask Klaus.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8lSXLkooDi
"Bring me the coffin, or he dies."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYY98XxKooZ
Just then, Elijah comes back in the room with an undaggered Esther, Rebekah, and Kol.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYc9VA0WPkx
Esther walks up to Klaus.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDm847nqpd2
"Do you know why I'm here?" she asks him.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC5EGgZsnSg
"To kill me," Klaus replies.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvab2dWERDE
"You are my son, Niklaus. I'm here to forgive you," she answers him.
It's a dark night, as Stefan and I walk through the woods.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNwbQhEZG8
"You could've just left me to die there and you would've had Elena all to yourself. Why didn't you?" Stefan says.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd5eKFkLHDv
"I didn't do it on your account."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Eg0GDVv9C
"I love her, Damon."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo9kB7Hha6l
"So do I."399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKMspjEj7I0
I look at him and then walk away.
