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Chapter 43

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At the Gilbert house, Bonnie, Damon, and Stefan are in the kitchen together. Stefan brings Bonnie a towel for her neck wound after Alaric feeding on her to complete the transition.

"What do you mean he turned?" Stefan asks his brother distressed, "I thought you were standing guard!"

"Don't blame me." Damon snaps back, "Blame Bonnie the blood bank. She fed him."

"I had no idea what was happening. Okay, the witches led me there." Bonnie informs the brothers, "They wanted him to feed so he turned."

"So, where's the stake now?" Stefan asks.

"Oh, you mean the white oak one?" Damon rhetorically asks, "The one that can kill an Original and wipe out an entire line of vampires?" He shrugs as he glares at Bonnie, "We don't know."

Bonnie glares back at Damon, "If you are so upset with me, why did you feed me your blood to save my life?"

Damon frowns, "Because I do stupid things, Bonnie. I do things, like let my friend die with dignity when I should have just killed him and letting my sister go off with the hybrid freak."

Stefan sighs, "Alright, so how do we kill him now?"

"I've been trying to figure that out." Bonnie says as she still holds the towel against her neck, "A witch can't truly make an immortal creature, there's always a way to undo a spell."

Damon shrugs his shoulders, "So, what's the witchy work around?"

Bonnie glances between both brothers as she shrugs her shoulders, "That's the problem. I don't know."

Meanwhile, Elena is upstairs painting Alaric's old room when her phone rings. She picks it up and feels her heart drop when she sees the caller ID as Alaric. She grits her teeth as she answers the call, "Whoever this is, it's not funny."

"Well, who else would it be?" Alaric says on the other end of the phone.

"Ric?" Elena says quietly in shock.

"Listen closely, I'm at the school, I have Caroline, and if you want to keep her alive, I need you to get in your car and come down here right away. If you tell anyone where you are going, I will kill her."

Alaric hangs up. Caroline is staked down into a desk with pencils in her hands and a cloth dipped with vervain in her mouth.

Back in the Gilbert house, downstairs the doorbell rings. Jeremy answers the door to find Klaus with a smug smile on his face standing outside. Jeremy glares at the hybrid, "What the hell do you want?"

Klaus laughs slightly, "Now is that any way to treat a guest?"

Stefan comes up behind Jeremy, "What are you doing here, Klaus?"

"Well, for starters, young Jeremy here could show some manners and invite me inside."

Damon walks over to the door as Stefan moves in front of Jeremy, "Why don't you go up to your room?"

When Jeremy doesn't move, Damon glares at him, "Now." Jeremy sighs and walks up the stairs.

"Hm, poor lad." Klaus taunts, "Loses one questionable father figure only to be replaced by the likes of the two of you."

"Yeah, about that." Damon pipes up, "Something happened."

"Oh, I know all about my mother's invulnerable little creation and that's why I'm here. I'm leaving town, just need to pick up a few road trip necessities." A smirk grows on Klaus' face as he glances between Stefan and Damon, "Spare tire, flashlight, doppelgänger."