Rekindle - Klaus Mikaelson

Chapter 18; Masquerade

Lilly

I was just stepping out of the shower when Damon shouted both myself and Stefan downstairs sounding like it was urgent. “Let me get dressed” I shouted as I walked into my closet so I could get some clothes on, whatever it was could wait, it was no doubt an Elena problem, it’s always an Elena problem in some sort of way.

After getting ready I made my way downstairs, grabbing a vial of vervain on my way as I went down to the basement to grab myself a bloodbag and a glass before walking into the library where Damon, Stefan and a shook up Caroline was waiting. “What’s up with blondie?” I asked looking at my 2 brothers, walking over to sit down, pouring the blood into a glass, adding the vervain to it, I needed to build up a tolerance for it.

“Go ahead, tell them” Damon told her before looking at a confused Stefan and myself. “You’re gonna love this” I raised my eyebrows looking over at Caroline who took a breath. “I saw Katherine today” She started. “Where?” Stefan asked her.

“At the grill, I just stopped by to gawk and quasi-stalk Matt” She started before going on to tell us how he noticed her asking her if she needed a table, but she used the excuse as to needing the toilet. I rolled my eyes as I had a drink of the blood, only to hunch over having a coughing fit. “God damn vervain” I mumbled as I looked back up only to realise Caroline was still talking. “Enough with teen drama” I groaned.

“So I had to pretend to use the bathroom even though I didn’t really have to go because I’m a doofus… I was washing my hands when she came in, I acted as if I thought it was Elena before trying to make a quick escape but she stopped me” She looked at me and Stefan. “She asked me to deliver a message”

I raised my eyebrows wanting to know what the message was. “Which was, what?” She looked over at me, the glass of blood still in her hand. “Tell the Salvatore’s I want the moonstone or I will rip this town apart until it rains blood, tonight at the masquerade ball” She quoted.

“She wants to do it in public, what you both did to Mason threw her off guard” Stefan spoke crossing his arms over his chest. “She’s running scared, what she did to Jenna was desperate, she’s out of tricks” Damon added. “I say we go to this masquerade ball and kill the conniving b***h once and for all” I added putting the glass to my lips having another drink, having another little cough because of the vervain.

“Can’t we just give her the moonstone so she’ll leave?” Caroline asked looking at the 3 of us. “No, Katherine getting nothing apart from her spine ripped out and shoved down her throat” I told her, Katherine was getting nothing from us, hasn’t she got enough already?

“You’re not gonna kill her” I snapped my head towards Stefan raising my eyebrow, challenging him. “Don’t give us any of that goody, goody crap” Damon spoke rolling his eyes. “Neither of you are killing her, because I am” Stefan smiled making me chuckle knowing he’d back out of it sooner or later. “We do it together” Damon smirked.

Stefan had Jeremy, Bonnie and Alaric come around to the boarding house so we could come up with a plan to finally end Katherine’s petty life, Alaric brought his hunting weapons which we were gonna use, well I was just gonna rip her heart out, but they all thought we needed weapons to be on the safe side.

The plan was to have Bonnie isolate the b***h in a room at the Lockwood’s home so no prying humans would see the s**t go down, we didn’t need to cause a scene. “Are you sure you guys don’t want me there tonight?” Ric asked as we stood around the large table where his weapons were scattered about. “No, I need you to stay with Elena, I don’t want her to know about this” Stefan told him making me roll my eyes, of course, Elena.

“Okay, well I’ll make sure she doesn’t leave my sight” Ric nodded. “If anyone wants to back out, now’s the time” I looked at the group, particularly Stefan and Damon, I had a feeling they wouldn’t go through with it, they loved her at one point, and no matter how much Stefan denies it, he still loves her, he’s dating her doppelgänger for crying out loud, if that isn’t proof that he still loves her I don’t know what is.

“Yeah, cold feet speak now, I don’t want this going wrong if someone chickens out” Damon spoke looking at them all, his eyes landing on Blondie. “Caroline?”

“I won’t” I snorted, she was scared of the b***h, she was the other I was worried about messing this up, she was after all Katherines little minion. “Look, she killed me, fairs fair. As long as there’s no werewolf running around” Caroline spoke looking at us 3 Salvatore’s.

“Don’t worry, I took care of Mason, he won’t be there to cause any problems” I smirked reassuring her there was no werewolf to worry about, well not one that had triggered the curse. “As long as Tyler doesn’t kill anyone he won’t turn” Jeremy added.

“Bonnie, are you with us?” Stefan asked her making us all look over at her. “But no one gets hurts” She spoke looking at us all giving a little nod. “Except Katherine, tonight she gets a stake through her heart” Damon nodded.

Once we had it all planned out everyone left to get ready for the masquerade ball, I grabbed myself another bloodbag before going to jump in the shower to freshen up before getting ready.

By the time I was ready Damon and Stefan had already left, meaning I had to make my own way to the Lockwood’s, which was okay for me since I liked to make an entrance.

As I walked in to the Lockwood’s home, I looked around to see if I could find my brothers in the crowd of people who was stood in the house but I couldn’t find them, so I made my way out to the back grabbing myself a glass of champagne on the way.

They were stood on the steps outside looking over everyone, no doubt looking for Katherine. “Hello brothers” I smiled as I stood in between them both, my eyes scanning over everyone. “Hello sister” Damon smirked at me. “You look lovely” Stefan complimented. “Of course I do” I smirked as I flicked my hair over my shoulder before growing serious. “Are you sure you both can do this? Don’t want you ruining this”

“Of course, the b***h deserves it after I spent the last 145 years looking for her when she didn’t want to be found, the b***h dies tonight” Damon spoke keeping his eyes on the crowd before we both turned to look at Stefan. “Don’t worry I’m not going to hesitate”

I nodded before looking around the crowd, still not seeing the slag. “Message me if you find her” I told them before walking off, the glass of champagne still in hand.

I walked around for a while not seeing her anywhere, until I bumped into Stefan who was holding a limp body, no heartbeat coming from the teenager. “Let me guess, Katherine says hello” I grumbled as I grabbed the teenager out of his arms since he seemed paralyzed from shock, he looked like he was ready to back out of this whole thing.

“Go on brother, I’ll put the body in Damon’s car until we can dump her body” I told him before rushing away with the body to Damon’s car not wanting her in my car, no way in hell.

Once I hid the body I made my way up to the room where everything was going to take place tonight hearing Stefan pace around the room. “This is exactly what I didn’t want to happen” I rolled my eyes as I stepped into the room with no way out until Bonnie drops the barrier spell. “She was collateral damage” They both looked over to me. “Right, which is why we need to call it off” Stefan spoke as he carried on pacing pointing over at me.

“What?! Who’s hesitating now?” Damon asked scrunching his eyebrows together before walking over to Stefan. “Hey, don’t do this to me, this girl runed our lives, she destroyed us! Tonight it ends, we can do it together, the 3 of us, we’ve got your back, all right?” Damon told him placing his hands on our little brothers shoulders. “All right”

I sighed shaking my head. “Can we just get this going already?” I groaned. “Good idea” Damon smirked pulling his phone out to message Jeremy to lt him know we was set for the plan to go into action and for him to do his job, all he had to do was throw Katherine off by asking her to meet us at the lake for the moonstone before getting Caroline to do her job, bringing Katherine to us knowing Katherine would go straight to Caroline thinking that she’d tell her what we were planning.

Thankfully everything went to plan and Caroline led her into our trap. “Which room is it?” I heard Katherine asked as we all hid so she didn’t see us straight away. “It’s that one” Caroline cried making me roll my eyes, gotta give blondie credit, she sure knew how to act.

I peeked around the corner a smirk appearing on my lips as I watched Katherine step into the room, now trapped with us. “Where is she?” Katherine asked looking back at Caroline who had now stopped her crying and started laughing. “I did it, I actually did it, I didn’t think that I’d be able to fool you, but I did it” Caroline cheered like she was cheering on her school’s football team.

Katherine tried to rush towards her but thanks to Bonnie she was stopped. “What the?... Stefan” Katherine sighed as Stefan stepped behind her with a stake in his hand. “Hello Katherine” He spoke as she turned around to look at him. “Goodbye Katherine” Caroline smirked before heading back downstairs.

“You don’t really think that you can kill me with that now, do you?” Katherine asked walking towards him, her hands on her hips. “No” Stefan shook his head as Damon walked out of the closet holding one of Ric’s stake gun things, shooting her in the back with it, before Stefan rushed over stabbing her in the arm with his stake.

“Geez, just let me kill the b***h already” I spoke as I walked out from behind the corner, Damon and Stefan moving away from her as she turned towards me pulling the stake from her back, a little bit of fear in her eyes. “Hello Katherine” I smirked before I rushed over to her pinning her against the wall, knocking the stake out of her hand.

She tried to push me off her but unfortunately for her I was stronger. “Have fun in hell” I whispered before raising the stake I had above her heart, her eyes widening finally realising that this was the end for her. “Stop! You’re hurting Elena! Everything you’re doing to her is hurting Elena” Jeremy shouted as he stood at the door.

“The b***h dies tonight, no matter what!” I gritted out as I still held the stake above her heart putting a little pressure on it, I didn’t really care for the b***h or her doppelgänger so I wasn’t going to stop, but unfortunately both my brothers loved Elena so they pulled me off her.

She pushed away from the wall smirking. “You think you 3 are the only ones with a witch on your side?” She asked looking at my brothers and myself who was still ready to lunge at the b***h and rip her heart out. “Wrong and something tells me that my witch is better thank your witch”

“Jeremy, go check on Elena, make sure she’s okay. Go!” Stefan ordered looking over at him. “Let’s all make sure poor Elena’s okay, just a little bit more pressure” She pressed one of the stakes down on her hand. “Jealous much?” I smirked as Stefan slapped the stake out of her hand, but she only grabbed another stake. “This is really gonna hurt” She smirked going to stab herself in the stomach. “Wait!” Damon stopped her which is exactly what she wanted.

She sat down on the small couch, the stake still her hand and a smirk on her face thinking she won, but she never really thought about the hate I really had for her, I could easily rip her heart out right now. “Okay, so how about that moonstone?” She asked looking at the 3 of us.

“You really think you’re gonna get s**t? Once the linking spell’s been removed I’m gonna happily rip your heart out with a smile on my face” I smirked at her. “Well this is different from the old times, the brother who loved me too much, the one that didn’t love me enough, and the abomination of the family” She smirked trying to rile me up and I hate to admit this but it worked.

I rushed over to her pinning her against the wall my hand shoved through her chest gripping on to her heart. “LILLY!” Damon and Stefan shouted but I ignored them both. “And then there’s you, the evil slut vampire who only loved herself” I smirked at her before pulling away keeping her heart in her chest, I wasn’t gonna give her the satisfaction, I had a funny feeling she would be happy as long as Elena was dead.

“Why don’t you 2 stop antagonizing eachother?” Stefan asked looking between us both. “Where’s the moonstone?” She asked as she walked around me and sitting back down on the couch. “What do you want with it?” Stefan fired back, but she ignored him and looked over at me, her smirk still plastered on her face.

“You know they’ll only forget about you again Lilly, they both care for Elena more than you” I chuckled shaking my head. “Is that really the best you’ve got?” I asked raising my eyebrows. “I heard about what happened in 1858, poor girl”

I glared at her ready to rip her head off but Damon walked over to me wrapping his arm around my shoulder keeping me back. “That was a cheap shot, even for you Katherine”

“You know the whole Mason thing has me confused” Stefan started making me look over at him. “Why a werewolf? The moonstone can break a curse that’ll help them destroy all vampires, so what’s in it for you?” He asked crossing his arms over his chest. “Yeah, sorry about your wolf boy toy” I smirked a her. “He’s not the only wolf in town” She shrugged sending me a glare. “Tyler”

That little conniving little b***h no doubt had a plan for him to break the curse, I’m gonna have to keep an extra eye on that kid.

“Where’s that witch?” Damon groaned as he walked over to the door trying to push his hand through the barrier. I sat down on one of the other couches thinking about everything Katherine has said over the past couple of weeks. She struck a deal with George Lockwood for him to help her fake her death, and in return she gave him something he needed, he was a werewolf… “You bargained the moonstone”

Katherine smirked at me while my brothers looked at me confused. “Stefan told me you struck a deal with George Lockwood, and in return you gave him something he needed. The moonstone” I raised my eyebrows. “Very good Lilly, 2 plus 2, it would have worked except people found out that I wasn’t in the tomb, thanks to you Damon by the way. Have I mentioned how inconvenient your obsession with me was?” Katherine asked looking over to said brother. “You and me both honey”

“Why do you need it back? Why did you have it?” Stefan asked putting the conversation back on track. “Unless it wasn’t yours to begin with. In 1864 you faked your death… who are you running from?” Stefan asked putting everything into place. She went on to tell him how she had been watching him over the years, always keeping tabs on him like she didn’t have anything better to do with her pitiful life.

“Enough of the useless chit chat, who are you running from?” I asked her standing my and crossing my arms over my chest. “Someone who most people run miles from” As she spoke about whoever this person is I could clearly see the fear in her eyes, but there was also something else like she was hiding something. “A name would be nice”

“Have you ever been to New Orleans Lilly?” She asked smirking at me. “Nope” I looked at her confused, what the hell does New Orleans have to do with it? “It was a beautiful city, well that was until it was burnt down. I’m surprised you don’t remember, after all you were their queen” She smirked making me even more confused.

I’ve never been to New Orleans so how the hell could I have been their queen? “It’s a shame what happened to you in 1919 Lilly. You’ve had a tough life haven’t you?” She tormented making me roll my eyes. “I have no idea what you’re talking about, in 1919 I was in Chicago relishing in blood, so stop with the bullshit”

As she spoke to Damon and Stefan I blanked her out as I thought about everything she just said, was she telling the truth? As far as I remember I was relishing in blood, most of it’s all black.

“Katherine” I snapped my head towards the door, my eyes landing on a witch who was stood at the door not walking through the barrier. “The spells been lifted, you’re free to leave” She spoke as she stepped over the room threshold. “Thank god” Katherine walked over to her. “Once I hand this over my debt to you is over” The witch spoke holding out the moonstone.

“Done” Katherine agreed but we all knew it was bullshit. “I owe you nothing” The witch clarified. “I said done, now give it” Katherine spoke holding her hand out for the moonstone. “I wouldn’t do that” Damon told her as he watched the witch hand it over, but unlike Katherine planned she fell to the floor gasping for breath making a smirk appear to my lips, the witch got one over the b***h.

“You should’ve told me another witch was involved. She’s a Bennett witch, Katherine, but I’m sure you knew that” The witch spoke watching as Katherine dropped to the floor.

“Wait Elena!” Stefan shouted looking over at the witch. “Elena’s fine, the spells broken, she’ll heal quickly, Bonnie’s with her, I apologize for my involvement” She looked at the 3 of us, then down at Katherine before turning around and walking out of the room.

I shared a look with dumb and dumber before looking down at an unconscious Katherine. “What do we do with it?” I asked as I kicked her leg making sure she was still unconscious. “Put her where she was supposed to be” Damon shrugged as he picked her up going to walk out of the room. “Don’t forget about the dead body in your car” I reminded him smirking, I didn’t particularly fancy burying a dead body tonight.

Stefan went off to check on Elena leaving me to clean up the mess we left behind, thankfully it didn’t take me long thanks to my vamp abilities. Once it was done I made my way downstairs and out to my car getting ready to head on home, but stopped when I spotted Elena just a few cars up getting ready to leave herself.

“Elena!” I shouted, I kind of felt sorry for her, because of Katherine she nearly died tonight and even though I don’t like the girl nobody deserved to die because of Katherine, I’ve been there, got the t-shirt, it’s not fun.

“How are you?” I asked as I joined her using my speed. “I’ll be okay once I get home” She nodded looking at me like I grew a second head. “Look, I’m going to say something and it doesn’t happen often so take it and never expect to hear it come from my mouth, ever again, and if you repeat it to anyone I will deny it… I’m sorry for what happened tonight, Katherine-“

“Lil-“ Elena cut me off but I didn’t hear the rest as I felt a needle being stabbed into my neck, someone grabbing her and shoving a cloth against her nose and mouth knocking her into a deep sleep, Chloroform.

I struggled in the persons arms trying to get out of this situation. “Geez, you’re strong” The man grunted as I booted him with as much force I could which unfortunately wasn’t much thanks to the vervain he was currently injecting into my system. My tolerance wasn’t the best as I’ve only been drinking it for a couple of days.

“You chose the wrong vampire to mess with mate” I slurred before I was sucked into darkness.