Rekindle - Klaus Mikaelson

Chapter 16; Horrible day

Lilly

Yesterday Katherine turned up at the boarding house for no reason at all, well she claimed the reason was for Stefan but I call bullshit, but we did get a bit of information out of her before she decided to escape the chains Stefan got her into after vervaining her, turns out the b***h had been sipping vervain for the last 145 years meaning it didn’t affect her, she just faked the whole weak thing to spend time with Stefan.

She told him that the Lockwood’s carry the werewolf gene, like George Lockwood did, but they’re not all wolves, and there are more families with the gene but not as many since they’re basically extinct thanks to other vampires hunting them down, which we already knew.

She basically spent the day re-living 1864 with Stefan going on about the founders ball, she told him how she spoke to George Lockwood telling him that she knew what he was, turns out he had been using the vamps to cover his tracks, but he was willing to strike a deal with Katherine to rid the town of vampires, and to help her fake her death, which basically went t**s up when my idiotic brothers went to try and save her, getting the 3 of us shot along the way.

So while the 3 of us was lying on the floor dead, she was escaping to save her own life, we basically died for nothing, but I’m not complaining the pros way out the cons of being a vampire. I’ll always look young, I’m away from Giuseppe, I’m stronger, I’m free, I’ll see the world changing. The only downsides really are that I no longer have my magic, I have to live with the memories of my childhood forever and been alone.

George was only willing to help fake Katherines death for a price which we never found out what it was, but I’m positive we’ll find out soon, Katherine likes to play games, it’s her thing.

“Lilly, are you ready?” Damon called through my bedroom door bringing me out of my thoughts. “No, I’ll meet you there” I spoke as I walked into the bathroom getting a quick shower before getting ready for the Historical Society Volunteer Picnic that my brothers had so kindly asked me to go to.

Who am I kidding? I basically had no choice, not with werewolves lurking around town, plus with the mess Damon got himself into yesterday with Mason Lockwood, trying to kill him with a silver knife, I needed to make sure he didn’t get into anymore.

Once I deemed myself ready to walk out into the public, I rushed off to where the new public park would be to meet up with my brothers, but as I arrived I spotted Mason who was unloading his truck.

I smirked knowing this would be the best chance I got to give him a warning to not try anything, I didn’t particularly want to be bitten by a vengeful werewolf when the next full moon rises, plus I needed to make sure he’d keep our secret, if not I’d have to kill him.

“It’s Lilly Marie, right? One of the other Salvatore’s” Mason asked as I walked over to stand at the side of his truck. “That would be me… Look, I want to offer you an apology for what my idiotic brother did yesterday” I tried but he shook his head. “I’m not interested”

I chuckled shaking my head as he went to pull another box towards him but I shot my hand out stopping him. “I think you should be, if you 2 keep going at each other someone’s going to get hurt and I can guarantee that it won’t be me or my brothers… So why don’t we quit this whole Alpha male thing you and Damon seem to be having and call a truce?”

“You know, I made the same offer to him, he turned it down, with a knife” Mason glared at me as he pulled the box towards him, making my lips twitch. “Yeah, that’s Damon for you, always causing trouble no matter where we go” I shrugged. “Tell your brother to watch his back” Mason glared at me as he went to walk off with the box in his hands, but I wrapped my hand around his arms stopping him.

“Did you just threaten my brother?” I asked as I pushed him back a bit making him stumble a little but he caught his footing before he could go falling to the floor arse first. “That was a stupid thing of you to do, I wouldn’t threaten me or my family you flea-bitten-runt-of-a-poodle, I tend to retaliate, which leads to a lot of people dead. And, if my memory serves me right, you werewolves only have your supernatural strength on a night of a full moon, unlike me and my brothers who have it every day and night” I smirked as I took a step closer to him. “Remember, there’s 1 of you and 3 of us, what do you think the odds are of you coming out alive? Just accept the truce and then we can all get on with our lives”

Lucky for him he decided to accept the truce, otherwise I would have ripped his heart out, there wouldn’t be any surviving that.

I watched as Mason walked away with the box in his hands, I was gonna keep my eye on him, truce or not I wasn’t gonna trust him. I decided to go look for my brothers to see what trouble they were causing.

I found them stood on some decking near the lake, Mason walking away from them. “Please tell me you were just bonding” Stefan spoke as he stood next to Damon. “When does Damon ever do bonding?” I asked as I walked up to them.

“Very funny sister” Damon gave me a sarcastic smirk before looking at Steffie. “So what’s up with this fraud drama in your relationship Stef?” Damon asked him raising his eyebrows, making me look between them confused.

“What are you talking about?” Stefan asked him and I could tell that he was acting dumb, he knew what he was going on about, I’ve known him since he was born, I’m not stupid. “Oh come on, you and Elena don’t fight, especially over me” Damon smirked at him. “Drop it”

I rolled my eyes as I looked around not wanting to listen to their conversation about Elena. “Would you like some lemonade?” A little girl asked, holding out a plastic cup towards me. I smiled at her. “Thank you sweetheart”

She gave me a wide smile which I gladly returned before turning my back to her and looking over at my brothers who was still going on about Elena. I rolled my eyes before having a drink of the lemonade, only to start choking as I spat it out. My mouth was burning, but thanks to me being a vampire it started to heal itself, but the vervain taste was still there, along with the burning sensation.

“Lilly?” Damon asked as he and Stefan came over to me making sure I was okay. “What’s wrong with you?” Stefan asked as Damon sat me down on a bench as I struggled to breathe thanks to the vervain. “Vervain” I coughed out before looking up, grabbing the water Stef was holding out towards me.

I stood up and swirled my mouth out with the water before spitting it out into the lake that was behind the decking. Having another mouthful, I turned towards them both. “Mason Lockwood is as good as dead. No more Miss nice girl” I growled my eyes running over everyone who was about looking for the werewolf, but Stefan stood in front of me blocking my view, pushing me back down on the bench. “Move Stefan”

“We were ready to play nice little brother, but he did this, so let her do what we should have done the moment we found out he was a werewolf” Damon spoke up, seeing it my way making me smile. “Okay, I don’t like it, he’s making threats, he could expose us, we need to put him down”

“Glad you see it my way” I smirked at him before standing up too look for the wolf. “Woods, trash duty, let’s go” I spoke as I started to walk over to the woods. It didn’t take us long to catch up to him, supernatural speed and all that.

“Don’t look so surprised” Damon spoke as Mason looked at the 3 of us. “You knew this was inevitable… spiking the lemonade with vervain, trying to expose us” He carried on as the 3 of us surrounded the wolf.

“Go ahead, run, I like the chase, but believe me when I say I will kill you” I told him, but instead of taking a run for it, he bent down onto the floor just as a couple of wooden bullet was shot into my stomach making me drop to the floor. “Ugh!” I groaned as I laid on the floor.

Looking up I realised it was Liz and 2 of her deputies that shot the 3 of us. I guess they cats out of the bag now, so much for keeping our secret from the council. My eyes followed the 3 of them as the deputies walked over to Damon and Stefan injecting them with vervain, while Liz walked over to me stabbing the needle into my neck.

I swear when I get out of this mess I’m gonna kill Damon for giving Liz vervain.

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“This is how it’s going to work, answer me and you don’t get shot, do you understand Damon?” I heard Liz ask as I finally started coming around. Opening my eyes I realised the 3 of us was here, meaning we’re totally screwed, there was no one else to help us.

Even after my little nap I still felt weak, I’ve had 2 doses of vervain in my system all thanks to Mason. When I get my hands on him, I’m gonna kill him, painfully.

“How many of you are there?” Liz asked him. “Liz, please” Damon gasped out, but she shot him making him groan, I tried to move so I could kill her, she knew about us now, she was a risk, all it took was for her to tell the rest of the council and we’re f****d.

As I moved I was shot in the stomach again. “Argh!” I groaned not having much energy. “How did you fool us? How do you walk in the sun?” She questioned but neither of us answered her, she pointed her gun towards Stefan before shooting a wooden bullet into his chest, just missing his heart. “I will drag this out painfully” She warned. “But you’re my friend” Damon gasped out thinking that would work.

I couldn't talk. My mouth was dry. I was weak and I don't like being weak, it can end up getting you killed, Just like now.

“Our friendship was a lie… Answer me and I’ll kill you fast” Liz spoke as I looked around my surroundings, but I couldn’t really tell where we were since it was all blurry. What am I supposed to do? I need to get out of here, feed- preferably off the 2 deputies and Liz – then get my brothers out of here.

“They’re not going to tell us anything, kill the 3 of them… let’s do this, all of them with a stake in the heart” Liz ordered making me realise I needed to get out of here now. Something squeaked making them stop before they even took a step towards us, hopefully someone’s coming to get us out of here. “Go check it out” Liz ordered one of the deputies.

I turned my head just as Elena came running in after knocking the deputy out. “Elena? What are you doing?” Liz asked confused still holding the gun up. Are you kidding me? The help we get is a weak human? “You can’t kill them, I’m not gonna let you” Elena told her before the deputy got up and pushed her into the room, just as the gate slammed shut, someone speeding around the room, someone with speed. Caroline.

Thank god, someone who can actually help us, even if she is a baby vamp, it’s better than a weak human. Caroline sped around the room biting into the 2 deputies, while Liz tried to shoot her but Caroline was too fast. Once both the deputies were down, Caroline came to a stop staring at her mother, who seemed to be in a state of shock seeing her daughter as a vampire. “Hi mom”

Elena woke Stefan up as me and Damon pulled ourselves over to the 2 deputies, feeding off them to build our strength up, before pulling out the wooden bullets. “You need some deputy blood” I told Stef noticing he was still in pain and not healing as fast as he should be. “No, I’m gonna be fine, it’s just gonna take a little bit longer” Stef spoke lifting his head up a little. “She’s right Stefan, if there’s ever a time to break your diet…” Caroline trailed off. “He said he didn’t want it, okay?” Elena snapped glaring at her best friend.

“Eugh” Damon groaned pushing the deputy away from him. “This is the most unfortunate situation ever” He grumbled standing up. “Tell me about it, 2 deputies dead, and the sheriff who now knows about us” I spoke looking over at Liz wondering what to do with her.

“You” Damon spoke looking over at Liz as well. “What are we going to do with you?” He walked over to her, as she sat against the wall with tears in her eyes. "You won't tell anyone will you mum? ... Mum? ... Mum please... Look I know we don't get along and that you hate me, but I'm your daughter, and you'd do this for me... right? ... Mum please... He will kill you" Caroline spoke, but Liz couldn't look at her.

“Then kill me” Liz spoke up looking up at me and Damon. “I can’t take this, kill me now” She cried as Damon walked closer to her. “But you were going to drag it out so painfully” Damon whispered staring at her before grabbing her by the arm pulling her up. “Damon, don’t!” Stefan shouted making me shake my head.

“Relax guys, no one’s killing anybody” Damon told Stefan, Elena and Caroline before looking back at Liz. “You’re my friend” He told her before letting her go. “We’ve gotta clean this mess up” I spoke looking down at the 2 dead deputies.

After getting everything cleaned up we had Liz stay down in the basement cell back at the boarding house until the vervain cleared out of her system so we could compel her to forget everything she saw today, so this horrible day can be put behind us and never to be spoken of again.

We couldn’t leave the sheriff walking around town knowing what we are, especially since she tried to kill us, and she would’ve succeeded if it wasn’t for Caroline.

After getting myself a bloodbag, having a shower and changing into some sweats I walked into the parlour where Caroline was sat on her own. “Where’s Elena and my brothers?” I asked her as I sat down with another bloodbag.

“Damon’s with my mum and Elena and Stefan are somewhere” She mumbled as she stared into space, I guess revealing to your sheriff mother that you’re a vampire will make you think about all your life choices.

Using my senses I listened out for Elena and Stefan wanting to know what they were upto, something was going on between them and I wanted to know what it is. "I told you I'll find a way to stop Katherine, didn't I? Well this is it, this is the only way because she's stronger than me. And unless that changes this, I can't protect you" I heard Stefan, and I was confused so I decided to keep listening. "Can we talk about this later?" Elena asked. "They can hear us wherever we are because they drink this. This is... this is the only thing that can help me!" Stefan snapped. "Are you serious? Are you pretending to fight? Because I can't tell if..." Elena started but Stefan cut her off. "No, this is real. No more pretend"

My eyebrows shot upto my hairline as I realised they were talking about Stefan drinking human blood, and I think it’s a good idea, he needs it to survive, I mean look what happened today, he was too weak to do anything, after the first bullet he was down.

“Can I take you home?” I snapped my head to the right looking over at Elena who was talking to Caroline who shook her head. “I can’t go home” I stared at her confused. “Why not?”

She sighed before flicking her eyes over to Elena. “Katherines going to be there and she’s gonna want me to tell her everything that happened today. She told me I had to spy on Elena and Stefan and report back to her” I stared at her, anger running through my entire body. Katherine!

“I know” I snapped my head over to Elena who was looking at her best friend. “I’ve been so mad at you, but then I tried to put myself in your position so that I could understand why you would do this to me and to Stefan because he’s been such a friend to you”

I knew what the b***h had done straight away, she wanted Elena out of Stefan’s life so she could jump back in and ruin my brothers lives all over again. “Who did she threaten, Caroline?” I asked her. “Matt, she threatened Matt and I’m so scared of her”

“And so you should be, we all should be” Elena told her as she sat down next to Caroline, making me chuckle. “I’m not scared of the b***h, I could kill her with my eyes closed”

“Why is she doing this? What does she want?” Caroline asked making me shrug. “That’s what we all want to know” I told her as I stood up throwing the empty bloodbag in the bin. “You can stay here for the night if you want to” I told her as I walked over to the mini bar we had pouring myself a drink. “Thank you” She smiled at me.

I headed up to my room to get her a blanket, but as I came back down I realised she was already asleep, I threw the blanket at Elena who placed it over Caroline as I grabbed the glass of whiskey I poured for myself. “I’m not one to be giving advice or anything, but Stefan needs to drink human blood, Elena, and deep down you know that too” I told her before having a mouthful of the whiskey.

“But the last time-“ She started but I cut her off. “He can build up his tolerance to it, Elena. Katherine took a little of vervain every day to build up her tolerance, just help him through it” I told her before walking up to my room for the night.