Rekindle - Klaus Mikaelson

Chapter 12; Isobel

Lilly

Turns out Stefan wasn’t ‘fine’ at all, in fact he was passed the normal for a vampire, he’s been causing us a bit of trouble, robbing the hospitals blood bank and near enough killing a teenage girl at the Miss Mystic Falls pageant.

Elena didn’t like seeing her boyfriend struggling so she wanted us to put him down in the cell and that’s exactly what we did, we had enough to deal with John Gilbert, adding an unstable Stefan to the whole situation would just make it harder.

Elena injected him with vervain before Damon put him down in the cell, while they were doing that, I was outside getting a device off Pearl. John Gilbert had come to the boarding house wanting a device that the 1864 Johnathan Gilbert made, which Pearl had.

None of us have a clue as to what the device is and I didn’t like that at all, I like to know what I’m dealing with, especially if it’s a Gilbert device, the last one was the compass that detected vampires.

Alaric did some digging on John with some help off his friend and found out that he was getting calls from the same number Elena used to try and get in contact with Isobel, but now the number has been disconnected, but fortunately for us there was another number that was tracked to an apartment in Grove Hill.

Damon kept me updated with what was going on while I was left at the boarding house to keep my eye on Stefan and Elena who had been staying at the boarding house since the night we put Stef in the cell.

Turns out that the number belonged to Harry, one of the tomb vampires, who was helping John keep an eye on the other tomb vampires who’s still wanting revenge on the founding families, and in return John was helping him adapt to this century.

“Oh god, you’re still here?” I snapped my eyes open to see Damon walk into the room. “Unfortunately” I grumbled as I had a drink of the whiskey. “Were you expecting anything else?” Elena asked.

“Nope” Damon spoke as he lifted her legs up so he could sit down placing them on top of his knees. “So, how was the errand?” Elena asked closing her book as Damon flicked his eyes over to me before looking over at her. “Futile” Damon groaned. “Although I think I witnessed the teacher having an existential crisis”

“Stefan eaten yet?” He asked looking over at me. “I thought you didn’t care” Elena spoke up making us look over to her. “Chalk it up to morbid curiosity” Damon shrugged. “I think he’s getting there, but he’s got a lot of guilt that he has to deal with, and it doesn’t help that you’ve both spent the last 145 years punishing him”

I stared at her shocked. “Hold on a minute, you’re blaming this on us?” I asked as I stood up going to pour myself another drink. “You’ve both made it your life’s mission to make his life miserable” I chuckled shaking my head. “You know nothing, Elena”

She knew nothing, both me and Damon had our reasons, one of the reasons been the same. “Let me ask you this, in all of this important soul searching and cleansing of the demons of Stefan’s past did you ever manage to get the rest of the story?” Damon asked her making her stare at us both shaking her head.

“Well let me tell you the story of how I actually became a vampire. I’m sure Stef told you it was our father that killed us, but when I woke up at the quarry Damon nor myself wasn’t going to complete the transition. Damon because of Katherine, myself because I had nobody, my whole family hated me-“

Elena cut me off. “Why did they hate you?” I chuckled looking off at the wall but not really seeing anything. “I was a disgrace… I stopped my parents from taking the only thing I had away from me, Damon and Stefan because I had something they didn’t plus Steffie was up Giuseppe’s arse… they both stood by, not doing anything while my so called father beat me black and blue”

I flicked my eyes towards her as I downed my drink pouring myself another. “Anyway to cut a long story short, Stefan went to our family home killing Giuseppe, completing the transition…” Damon trailed off staring at nothing. “What happened next?”

“He told us how different he felt, how exhilarating it was before forcing human blood into my mouth, I couldn’t do anything, he was a lot stronger than me, I was slowly dying… Once I tasted the blood, I couldn’t stop until she was dead” I told her having a drink before looking back over at her.

“He was right” I shrugged. “It was exhilarating… After he finished with me he did the same to Damon while I finally realized what he had done. So I promised them both an eternity of misery” I told her masking my emotions. Remembering that night brings back at lot of memories I don’t want to remember.

“The moment Stefan had his first taste of human blood he’s a different person… I suppose I should thank him, it’s been one hell of a ride” Damon spoke holding up is glass in cheers.

Elena realised that, that was why Steffie wasn’t feeding and ran back down to the basement, only he wasn’t in there since the human i***t decided to leave him his daylight ring and the cell door open.

“He’ll be at the quarry” I told her laying down on the couch waiting for my little brother to come back, I can’t be dealing with an unstable Steffie along with a bunch of revengeful tomb vampires.

A while later Stefan came back apologizing for forcing me to complete the transition, and for not been the brother he was supposed to. “Eugh, yeah, whatever. Long as your back on your Stefan diet and not causing trouble” I patted his shoulder before heading up to my bedroom for the rest of the night.

***

“GET UP!” I snapped my eyes open looking at Damon who was stood at the bottom of my bed. “What the hell, Damon!” I snapped glaring at him. “We’re needed at the school”

I rolled my eyes as I threw the covers off me climbing out of bed and making my way into my closet so I could quickly chuck some clothes on and a bit of makeup.

As I walked into the classroom where Elena, Stefan and Rico was waiting for us, I could tell that there was something going on. “Thanks for coming” I looked them over wondering what was had happened. “Sorry we’re late, I had to get this one out of bed and that’s just impossible”

I glared over at Damon at his little comment before looking back at the 2 humans and Steffie. “What’s with the furrowed brows?” I asked not liking to be kept in the dark. “I saw Isobel last night”

I snapped my head over to Alaric scrunching my eyebrows together. “Isobel’s here?” I asked confused, what the hell is that woman up to? Getting a nod from him I looked over to Elena to see how she was taking the news.

“What does she want?” Damon asked making me look over to him. “She wants to see me” My eyebrows shot up to my hairline as I heard the words leave Elena’s mouth.

“Alaric’s supposed to arrange a meeting, we don’t know why, or what she wants” Stefan spoke up making me flick my eyes over to him noticing he looked a bit better than he did last night. “You don’t have to see her if you don’t want to” Damon told her.

“I don’t really have a choice” Elena snapped making me look at the 3 of them confused. “She’s threatening to go on a killing spree” Alaric explained noticing the looks on mine and Damon’s face.

I stared at them not understanding what the big deal was. “I’m taking by the looks of it, that’s something none of you are okay with” The 3 of them glared at me while Damon looked like he wouldn’t mind helping Isobel kill a couple of the residents.

Of course Elena had to be the martyr and meet Isobel at the grill, and I slightly felt sorry for her, emphasised on slightly, after all she is meeting her vampire biological mother for the first time, not something that happens every day.

Turns out that Katherine found Isobel after I turned her, and that the reason she was in town was for the invention, the same invention John wanted, and if she didn’t get it then the blood was on Elena’s hands.

So here I was now, sat in Isobel’s new home drinking her out of alcohol while I wait for her to get back. I wanted to know what the hell she wanted with the device and what was so special about it.

“Lilly” I looked over at her as she slammed the door shut behind her. “It’s good to see you Isobel, I’m sorry to say that I kinda’ drank you out of booze” I smirked at her.

“How did you find me?” Isobel asked making my smirk grow noticing we were getting straight down to business. “Oh you know” I shrugged as I stood up walking around the room. “I searched all the neighbourhoods’ biggest foreclosures and found the most expensive one”

“I should have known… you were the one who taught me that. What are you really doing here?” She asked making me look over at her. “You’ve caused a bit of a stir up the way you came in to town” She smirked at me. “I’m so sorry” She rushed over pushing me against the wall making me chuckle. “Did you bring the device?”

I grabbed her wrist squeezing down on it as I pulled her hand away. “Remember, I’m older, which means stronger” I spoke emotionless as I pushed her away from me. “Why would I come and give you what you want? I learnt that mistake once already” I told her before I sat back down in my previous seat.

“Now, it’s my turn to ask questions, how do you know John Gilbert?” I asked raising my eyebrows wanting to know how far their relationship went, I have a feeling there was something going off between them. “We dated a few times when we were young. He was a bit in love with me”

I rolled my eyes at her as she poured herself a drink with what little she had left. “Now the next question, this invention, what do you want with it?” I asked raising my eyebrows

“Me personally? I don’t want anything with it, I’m just doing as I’m told” I stood up staring at her. “For who?” I asked taking a step towards her. “Katherine. She wants John to have the device, and I think you know that what she wants she gets and if she doesn’t she isn’t happy”

I laughed shaking my head, I should have known the b***h had to be involved, she’s involved in everything. “I never took you to be the one to do someone else’s dirty work… why?” I asked confused. “Don’t kill the messenger… we both know that you can’t control Katherine, she does what she wants”

“And so do I” I stated before I rushed over to her, wrapping my hand around her neck and slamming her back against the floor. “Now that I’ve got your un-divided attention, listen up. Leave my family alone or I will kill you, again, only this time for good… do you know why? I do believe in killing the messenger, because it sends a message” I smirked down at her before lifting her head up a little only to slam it onto the floor.

I gripped her chin making her look at me. “If Katherine wants something, tell the little slut to come and get it herself”

I brought her into this life, I could easily take it away from her, all it takes is her heart to be ripped out.

***

Turns out that the device that Pearl gave us is a weapon against vampires, leaving us with one question, what the hell does Isobel, well Katherine, want with it? She wanted it for a reason and she wasn’t going to leave without it.

She went to the school where the kids were setting up for the parade, showing Elena how easy it was to hurt people by breaking Matts arm and kidnapping Jeremy in exchange for the weapon.

Of course Elena managed to get Damon to hand it over to her, after Bonnie said she would remove the spell that Emily Bennett placed on it, so here I was stood with Damon and Stefan waiting for Isobel to show up with Jeremy.

“This feels like a bad idea” I mumbled as we watched from afar. “Stop complaining” Stefan mumbled just as Isobel showed up behind Elena. “Where’s the device?”

“Where’s my brother?” Elena asked not answering her question. “This isn’t a negotiation, where’s the invention?” Isobel asked staring at Elena who crossed her arms over her chest acting brave. “Where’s my brother?”

“Do you really think I came alone?” Isobel smirked just as 2 of her minions stood behind Elena. “Do you really think I came alone?” Elena asked looking back at Isobel before looking over at the 3 of us.

Isobel looked behind her, giving us a smirk before looking back at her daughter. “For god sake, call home” Isobel told her making me flick my eyes over to Damon silently telling him I told him this was a bad idea.

“What?” Elena asked confused. “Call home, ask to speak to your brother, Jeremy” Isobel told her, making Elena call him and he was at home. “You were never gonna hurt him” Elena stated.

“No, I was gonna kill him” Isobel spoke in that annoying whiney voice of hers, Elena stared at her birth mother in shock. “Don’t look for any redeeming qualities in me. I don’t have any” Isobel spoke noticing the look she got from her daughter.

“But you took a risk with Damon, how did you know that he was gonna give it to me?” Elena asked her. “Cause’ he’s in love with you” Isobel smirked at her, I flicked my eyes over to Damon before looking at Stefan who was looking down at the floor, already knowing that it was the truth.

What is it with these girls? There’s nothing special about them, they’re plain, ordinary. Brown hair, brown eyes, as thin as a twig, she’s human, a b***h. The list goes on.

Isobel held her hand out for the invention, while Elena stared at her before pulling it out of her pocket and slamming it in Isobel’s hand. “Thank you” She spoke staring at Isobel. “For what?”

“For being a monumental disappointment. It keeps the memory of my real mother perfectly intact” I had to admit I WAS IMPRESSED WITH Elena, she might actually have a backbone. “Goodbye Elena. As long as you have a Salvatore brother on each arm, you’re doomed. Katherine was smart, she got out, but we all know that you’re not Katherine” Isobel stated before walking off leaving the 4 of us stood here.

Stefan walked over to Elena while I rushed back to the boarding house for a glass of whiskey, I needed something strong, knowing Isobel saw the love Damon has for Elena made it all the more real and that didn’t sit well with me, there’s gonna be more tension between them both now.

“So when are you gonna tell Elena that John is her biological father?” I asked as Stefan came walking into the parlour. “What are you talking about?” He asked confused as Damon came walking into the room with a bloodbag.

“Come on, am I the only one with a brain around here? Isobel and John used to date and she ends up pregnant at 15 and ends up at doctors office of Johns brother” I stated wondering if he’d actually get what I mean now.

“You think John is her biological father?” He asked staring at me. “That’s exactly what I’m saying” I smirked at him before going to head up to my room. “Night” Iso