Hunter ~?.?

Chapter four

But, whoever this April girl was didn't stand up. People started to look around, and Nate did the same thing, as the woman at the mic continued to speak. "April? Are you still here, honey? Is there anyone else who would like to share a recollection or memory about Pastor Young?"

No one moved, glancing around the room. And then a girl stood up, long brunette hair. Elena Gilbert, the Grimm hissed.

"Come on up, Elena." The woman smiled. The girl walked in, Nate didn't turn his head when the door opened.  No way was he gonna give up his position as a hunter-a Grimm-if it was a supernatural being.

"I, um," Elena started. "When I talked to April earlier, she was kind of nervous about coming up to speak, and..." she laughed lightly, nervous. "now that I'm up here, I'm kind of nervous, too." She breathed deeply, hands grilling the podium. "The worst day of loving someone is the day that you lose them."

Her face morphed, something was happening. But, the Grimm part of him wasn't warning him. So, either something was happening that it didn't want to stop, or something that was much more powerful and he couldn't be warned. Either way, he didn't like it.
Elena breathed heavily. "I, um..."

Stefan Salvatore walked up to the brunette vampire, wrapping an arm around her. The mic catching him whispering that she was okay. Someone walked up to the mic. "Please turn to page forty-two in your Hymnbook. Let us join together in song."

The choir started to sing.

Elena Gilbert is feeding off of a human.

His head snapped up, catching the sight. But, to anyone looking it would look as if the two were holding each other in grief.

Tyler Lockwood walked up to the podium. "Excuse me...I just wanted to say a few words about pastor Young." Everyone says back down. "Back in first grade, I was a brat who couldn't be bothered with team sports. Didn't care much about anything that didn't affect me. But he was the one who made me understand how important it is to be part of a team; a community. Of giving yourself up for the sake of-"

The teen was cut off as the shot went off, Tyler being jarred back as he fell to the floor. People yelled before running out.

Nathaniel went to the stage, looking up at the woman. He noticed Elena Gilbert and the others. "I don't have time for this," he said, leaning down, and ripping the stake impaled in the boy's chest. "I know you're a hybrid," he looked around. "and that the rest of you are vampires."

Tyler had been grunting and coughing. "I'm gonna kill that bastard." Then. "Who the hell are you?"

Nate saw no reason to lie anymore. The only one he would kill in the building would be Damon Salvatore. "Nathaniel Argent. Who the hell shot you? And don't give me bullshit on you don't know who." He let his eyes turn black.

"What are you?" Caroline asked. Nate heard Stefan say he had gone to stop Damon.

"What about April? And him?" Elena asked.

"I got her," Caroline answered.

"I'm a Grimm. A Hunter who is reborn every hundred years. And you can't compel me."

"I have to call an ambulance." The woman said.

"No, he's fine!" Caroline argued.

"The whole town just watched you get shot. I'm calling an ambulance." She walked off.

Nathaniel looked down at Tyler, as Caroline looked up. Then back at Nate. "Listen," he snapped. "I've got fake IDs, one of which is being a doctor. I can pretend I fixed you up and take you to the hospital."

"How do we know we can trust you?" Caroline said.

Nate looked at her. "Right now, Elena Gilbert-a newly turned vampire is alone with a human who is bleeding out, is now the right time to question me, Caroline Forbes?" Instead of letting her talk, he grabbed the arm Tyler, lifting him. "Just lean on me, in case anyone sees."

"How-"

"If I wanted to kill you, I could have done it right now." He snapped at the teen.   "Here." He said, lifting a knife. He knew that Tyler could smell the wolfsbane on it. "But, I'm not going to kill you."

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Nathaniel had let Tyler run out once it looked like he had put the injured boy into his car, and has spoken loud enough that if the engine was suspicious, they heard him saying he was a doctor.
Which he wasn't.

"Thanks," Tyler said, then ran off.

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