• • • •

"I'm sorry you couldn't attend the dance," Faith smiled, apologetic at the female Mikaelson as they went around the cafeteria picking up the mess from the dance. "And about your mother. We both had terrible mothers, but they were still our mothers."

"Thank you," Rebekah smiled, softly at the siphoner.

"How about after we're done here, we go drinking or whatever you do when you're mad or want to be alone?" Faith suggested before turning around at the blonde. "What do you do? Drain the blood of innocent victims? Kill a whole town of people?"

Rebekah only rolled her eyes at the siphoner at her teasing as she continued to pick trash from the cafeteria table. Faith turned around at the cafeteria doors opening to reveal Caroline. "Where's Matt?" She asked.

"He bailed. Got called into work at the last minute," Rebekah explained.

"Are you kidding me? So, it's just us?" Caroline questioned, walking closer to the other two girls.

"Yes, and you're late," Rebekah countered. "The cleanup committee started at eight o'clock."

"It's like 8:02," Caroline defended.

"I'm gonna go check if there are any other bags for the rest of the trash," Faith quickly excused herself, not wanting to hear the two blondes bickering. She shot Caroline an awkward smile before leaving the cafeteria.

The siphoner walked down the school hallway passing by Alaric's classroom. She paused at the doorway. Despite not being close to the teacher, Faith actually liked him. He was a bit awkward but meant well. She took one last look at the teacher's desk before turning around. She was met with something hitting her face. "Sorry-" Faith began, thinking it was Rebekah or Caroline as she looked up.

Her eyes widened at the sight of Alaric standing in front of her. Before she could react, the history teacher swung his arm forward, knocking Faith against the lined up desks. The back of her head hit the corner of a desk as the pain began to set in from crashing into multiple desks. Her head hung to the side as she lost consciousness.

• • • •

Faith blinked rapidly as she began to regain consciousness. She let out a groan of pain as she sat up from the desk. "People have got to stop knocking me out. At this point, I'll get brain damage."

"Good to see awake, Faith," Alaric looked at the siphoner.

Immediately, Faith tried to move from the desk but she was tied down by her wrists and ankles. She soon noticed Caroline tied up in the desk next to her while crying. A bad feeling settled inside of her as she began to have bad memories. Being tied up always did that to her. It brought back all those bad memories that caused Faith to freeze in fear.

"Oh, you have nothing to say?" Alaric mocked. "You know you're the worst of them all. Your boyfriend was the one who killed Jenna. He caused all these problems. And you're with him! You're as much of a monster he is!"

"Fuck off," Faith mumbled as tears began to well up in the corner of her eyes. "You don't fucking know me."

The lights flickered in the classroom and immediately, Alaric rose from leaning against his desk and slammed the wooden stake against Faith's hand. The siphoner let out a scream of pain, causing Caroline to turn her head away. Everyone knew about the siphoner's past, so the blonde held in her tears at Faith's pain. She was probably reliving every horrible thing her mother did to her.

"Try to escape and I'll break your other hand," Alaric threatened.

Faith whimpered in pain as tears trailed down her face. "Stop, please," she begged.

"See, I can't do that," Alaric said. "You're the only person other than his family that cares about, Faith. I need to keep you here if not, he won't come to rescue you."

• • • •

"Right on time," Alaric said to himself.

Soon after Elena arrived at the classroom to see the blonde vampire and the raven-haired siphoner being held in the classroom. "Caroline, Faith," the brunette looked at Alaric. "Let them go, Alaric!"

He calmly pointed at them. "Free them yourself."

Cautiously, Elena walked over to Caroline. She glanced at Faith in reassurance before looking up at the blonde. She started to gently pull the wooden pencil out of Caroline's hand, but Alaric slammed back down. The vampire let out a painful scream as Faith jumped at the sudden motion with closed eyes.

Elena got up from the ground and began to back away from the history teacher. "You said that you would let them go!"

"How many times do I have to tell you, Elena?" Alaric demanded. "Stop trusting vampires!"

• • • •

Klaus walked up to the Gilbert residence with a propane tank and a newspaper lit on fire. As he was about to throw the newspaper torch, Stefan came out from the house. "Put it out," Stefan told him.

"Come outside and make me," Klaus provoked.

Without hesitation, the vampire walked outside to the porch. "Elena's not here. Alaric has her and Caroline and he's going to kill them both unless you turn yourself over to him."

Klaus only smirked. "Then I guess they die."

"He also has Faith and he already broke her hand," Stefan finished.

The hybrid paused. Rebekah had told him about the history teacher turning into a vampire but she never mentioned Faith being captured. His sister told her she left before they were attacked by Alaric.

Klaus threw the lit newspaper to the side and turned his full attention to the vampire with his yellow-amber eyes filled with red with the vampire veins shining with pure anger. "Now, I know you're not asking me to walk to certain death."

• • • •

"Why are you doing this?" Elena questioned from next to Caroline as Alaric paced around the front of the classroom.

"Because you need me," Alaric turned to the brunette. "Because you're an eighteen-year-old girl without parents or guidance or any sense of right and wrong anymore."

"Look at you," Elena countered as she pointed at the tied down vampire and siphoner. "How is this right?"

"She's a murderer," Alaric began as he pointed the end of the stake at Caroline. "She told me she killed someone and liked it."

"And don't get me started with her," Alaric pointed at Faith causing her to flinch and stiffened at the sudden motion. "She's in love with the monster that killed her mother and Jenna. I wouldn't be surprised if she killed someone with her own bare hands. Now how is that right?"

He walked up to the doppelganger. "Listen, Elena, your parents led the council. It was their life's mission to keep this town safe. They weren't dead six months before you undid it all."

"You don't know anything about them," the brunette defended.

"Why, am I wrong?" Alaric asked. "Do you actually think that they'd be proud of you? If you don't side with the humans, you're just as bad as them. Now kill her or I'll do it for you and I'll make it hurt."

He grabbed Elena forcibly by the arm, pulling her up from the desk, and made her stand in front of Caroline. He handed her the stake and backed away a bit. The brunette stood with the stake in her hand for a moment before she turned around and tried to stab Alaric. He grabbed her wrist before she could, "I thought I taught you better than that."

Elena quickly glanced at Faith.

"You did," she said before grabbing the beaker filled with vervain on the desk the siphoner was tied to and smashing it against Alaric's face. In that instant, Elena set Caroline free and Faith managed to disappear from the classroom.

Faith only managed to appear again in the school building a few hallways away from the classroom as she cradled her injured hand to her chest. She glanced back but was quickly grabbed from behind. On instinct, she began to siphon the magic from the person holding her.

"Shhh," came a familiar voice next to her ear. "It's okay. It's me."

A huge wave of relief came over the siphoner as she turned around and hugged Klaus while being careful of her hand. The hybrid held the siphoner close to his body as he also felt relief at the sight of her. As Faith began to pull away from him, Klaus pulled her close again, but this time to kiss her.

His hands were on either side of her face as he held her close, gently. He held her close but gentle as if he was going to break her. They pulled away and Klaus wiped her tears with his thumbs. "Go straight home and stay inside, do you understand?" Klaus asked her.

Faith nodded. "Be careful. I love you."

"I love you, too," Klaus whispered before the siphoner vanished from his sight.

• • • •

Faith rolled her wrist in a circle after her hand had healed. She chanted a healing spell to heal her hand. She sat on a couch in the living room of the almost packed up mansion. The siphoner looked up at the sound of footsteps to see Klaus with two glasses of whiskey in hand. He handed her one before sitting down next to her as he watched a nurse inserting a needle into her arm to take her blood.

Apparently, Elena's life is tied to Alaric so if she dies, the history teacher dies as well.

"What are you doing?" Elena asked the nurse.

"Draining you of all your blood," Klaus spoke up, catching the brunette's attention.

Her eyes darted between the hybrid and siphoner before realizing she was tied down to the chair. Blood began to flow through the tube into the bag as Tyler walked into the room with a box. He stopped in his tracks at the sight of the doppelganger. "Elena?"

"Tyler, help me!" Elena pleaded.

"He can't," Klaus ordered. "He needs to go fetch me more empty blood bags. About three liters' worth, please Tyler."

"Tyler please," Elena said, weakly. "Get Stefan, please."

"No, Tyler, get the bags," Klaus repeated, getting angry. Tyler glanced at the couple at the couch before trying to get to Elena but was stopped by the hybrid. Klaus held him by the neck, "forget the girl and get the bags. Now."

Tyler looked at Elena for a moment before reluctantly going away.

Elena struggled to get out of the ropes tying her down to the chair. "So that's it? You're just going to bleed me dry?"

"Yes, but don't worry it'll be completely painless," Klaus reassured. "As the last drop is drawn, you will simply fall asleep."

"What about your hybrids?" Elena said as the last bag is placed. "You'll need more than this to create your army."

"Well look who has gotten smart," Faith stood up. "You actually know how to make a decent deal now. Sadly, the last few liters of your blood will have to do."

"I saved you," Elena seethed.

"And I will be grateful until your dying breath," Faith remarked. "But you see, you are the main reason I'm always so close to dying or hurt. You make one smart choice and now you want me begging at your altar. No thanks, you already have the Salvatore brothers doing that."

"Rot in hell," Elena said to which the siphoner smirked as the couple left the dying doppelganger.

"Likewise."

• • • •

"Tyler..." Elena trailed off as her eyes were sent on the couple at the doorway as the hybrid ripped the ropes from the doppelganger's wrists.

"So much for that sire bond," Klaus commented.

"I'm not your little bitch, anymore," Tyler remarked.

Faith scoffed in amusement before using magic to pin the hybrid against a wall. Tyler struggled against the magic as the couple walked inside the room. Before Elena could escape, Klaus pushed her down, hitting her head against the ledge, knocking her unconscious.

"How did you break the sire bond?" Klaus asked the pinned hybrid.

"By breaking every bone in my body a hundred times for the girl I love."

"How romantic," Faith rolled her eyes before stopping herself. Her eyes met Klaus' eyes who was already looking at her with amusement. "Right. I forgot for a second."

Klaus turned his attention back to Tyler. "You know, you should be thanking me. I gave you a gift. I took away your misery."

"You didn't give a crap about me!" Tyler yelled. "You just didn't want to be alone!"

With fury, Klaus grabbed the brown-haired boy by the neck and Faith released her magic from the hybrid. "Goodbye, Tyler," Klaus dismissed and he attempted to grab Tyler's heart, but he twisted his arm around.

Faith's arms were held behind her back by an arm before her nose and mouth were covered by a cloth. Her eyes widened at the sight of Stefan digging his hand into Klaus' chest before she passed out.

Klaus' body begins to desiccate as Damon places Faith gently on the ground next to the hybrid. He glanced at his brother before looking back down at the siphoner. As much as Damon wanted to protect her, he couldn't with her being on the side of the enemy, especially when she was in love with her. As back up, they decided to place Faith in a coma-like state, knowing if she knew about Klaus, she would want to kill everyone for hurting him.

Klaus and Faith were placed into coffins before being loaded into a car where Stefan and Damon drove in.

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It's the last chapter of season three!! I'll be publishing season four here as well. I'll publish it on Thursday.