"Well, well, well, there's our girl!" Kol says to Rebekah while his arm hangs loosely around my shoulder as I explain to him how to use a phone.

"Out all night. What a scandal! I trust you did better than that commoner? Matt, was it?" Klaus huffs at the mention of his name but then turns it into a smirk after seeing the expression that Rebekah pulled.

"If you don't shut your mouth, the next thing to come out of it will be your teeth," Rebekah snaps. "Don't start, Nik!"Rebekah snaps again, seeing the smirk on Klaus's face.

" I didn't say anything" Klaus raises his hands in defence as I scoff... He might not have said anything but he was definitely thinking something.

"I'm bored. Our sister is a strumpet, but at least she's having fun. I need entertainment."Kol says, turning towards me expectantly.

"What are you waiting for? Go on, have at it" Klaus says, as I turn my phone off, handing it to Kol to have a go with.

"It's not fun to go alone. Join me, Nik! It's the least you can do after sticking a dagger in my heart. You too Evie, because I'd rather have you there than have Nik talk about how amazing you are." Kol says. I smirk, turning to look at Klaus who's cheeks are now tinged with red. He smiles at me sheepishly.

"Okay. Why not? I didn't have nearly enough to drink last night, what with you trying to murder Rebekah's date. Evie, you are coming whether you like it or not." He says, standing up.

"So controlling." I mutter under my breath as Kol grins.

" Yes, please go, this house has enough men rolling around it in." Rebekah says, giving me one of those looks that says she feels sorry for me.

"Just like you, Bekah"Kol says, ducking a shoe as we all exit Klaus's mansion.

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"There are no other suspects. It's the obvious conclusion." Alaric's new slut says as we wal up behind them, I smile at Alaric as he notices my presence.

" Oh come on now. Let's not go blaming the new family in town just because you lot have got yourselves a killer at large. Don't mind us. My brother and I are just here to let off some steam, Evie is here because I am, right Kol?Evie?" He asks us, as if he needs proof.

"Right"Kol says, eyeing Meredith with a look that suggest they know each other.

"Come here, love." Klaus says, pulling me into his side and placing a chaste kiss on my forehead. I giggle at his cuteness.

"I remember her from last night. She looks like a tasty little thing."Kol says. I frown annoyed, Klaus clearly noticed so he decides to stand up for my friend, after all, Caroline is one of the few people in Mystic Falls that has never betrayed him.

"Say another word and I'll tear out your liver. Caroline!" He says, calling her over for me. I smile at him gratefully, kissing his cheek.

"Evie."She smiles at me.

"Join us for a drink?"Kol asks her, smirking.

"With you?Mmm, I'd rather die of thirst. But thanks. But Evie, yes I will join her for a drink2 I smirk at her.

"Love you too Car."

Caroline squeezes my shoulder and then leaves.

"Isn't she stunning?"Kol asks, clearly wanting in her knickers.

"She certainly looks good walking away from you." I smirk at him, he merely sticks his tongue out at me as Klaus guzzles my drink without me knowing... Again.

"Seriously?" I ask him. "You already have a drink." I point out.

He shrugs cutely. "But everything that your lips have touched tastes better." I smirk, kissing Kol's cheek.

"Are you going to drink Kol now because my lips have touched him?"Klaus glares at me as Kol fist bumps me. Elijah really is the only grown up sibling. Well- there's Finn but he gives me the creeps.

Klaus then takes my hand, dragging me outside to the back of the grill, probably to teach me a lesson for teasing him. He snakes his arm around my waste, pushing me up against the wall to make sure that I do not escape him.

"Love, you are such a bad girls." He says, biting his lips as he leans in towards me, abruptly, he pulls back, clutching at his heart.

"What is it?" I say, staring at him concerned as I put my hands either side of him, steadying him.

"What have they done?" He asks, sounding extremely annoyed.

"Klaus?"I ask, but he just repeats himself again.

"Kol!"Klaus exclaims, throwing me over his shoulder and vamp speeding off to the alley way next to the grill.

Damon and Alaric stand in the alley with Kol daggered on the floor.

Klaus rushes over, undaggers Kol and knocks Alaric against the wall. Stefan tries to attack Klaus but Klaus knocks him out too, somehow, holding me securely over his shoulder whilst doing all of this.

" I should have killed you months ago "Klaus spits at Damon as he tightens his hold on me

"Do it. It's not going to stop Esther from killing you.2 Damon snarls back as the air gets stuck in my throat.

"What?2 I ask, immediately growing concerned for Klaus.

" What did you say about my mother?"Klaus asks, not sure whether he heard the older Salvatore correctly.

"You didn't know I was friends with your mummy? Yeah, we have a lot in common. She hates you as much as I do."

I growl in annoyance, I knew that witch bitch would become trouble eventually. I was hoping later rather than sooner.

Klaus is about to attack Damon when Elijah appears at the top of the stairs.

" Leave him! We still need them, Niklaus. And for heavens sake, put Evie down before sh gets a head ache from being upside down for so long."Klaus hesitantly sets me back to my feet, however, he still holds me extremely close to him, challenging Damon to take a single step closer.

" What did mother do? What did she do, Elijah? "Klaus asks,burying his head into my shoulder from behind, using my body smartly to relax himself and cool down.

" You tell me where the witches are or I'll have my sister kill Elena right now." Elijah says, walking down the steps with his phone in hand, taking slow steps closer towards Damon.

"You told me we had until after nine"Damon frowns as I sigh dramatically. Elena this- Elena that. Don't get me wrong, I love Elena but there are so many times that you can hear a persons name.

" I'm sure Rebekah will be more than happy to start her work early" Lijah shrugs.

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"That's lovely. We're stuck out here, while the favourite son plays sacrificial lamb. How pathetic you are, Finn." Kol says as Klaus holds me behind him protectively. He didn't want to bring me here knowing that it would be dangerous, but he wanted to make sure that his Mother was stopped but he thought it would be more dangerous to leave me on my own with the lingering thought of Finn.

"Be quiet, Kol. Your brother knows virtue you cannot even imagine." Esther snaps as I snort.

"Whatever you think of us, killing your own children will be an atrocity." Elijah says, taking my hand that Klaus is not holding behind him. Klaus smiles at his brother, knowing that his brother also wants to protect me.

"My only regret is that I did not let you die a thousand years ago."

"Your Mother sounds like Mother Gothel." I whisper into Klaus's ear, he snorts, lightly squeezing my hand.

"Enough. All this talk is boring me. End this now, Mother, or I'll send you back to Hell." Klaus snarls.

"For a thousand years, I've been forced to watch you. Felt the pain of every victim, suffered while you shed blood. Even you, Elijah, with your claim to nobility, you're no better .Evie may bring out your humanity, Niklaus, but you're still a monster. All of you. You're a curse on this Earth. Stretched out over generations. If you've come to plead for your life, I'm sorry, you've wasted your time." She trails off.

"No! Sisters! Do not abandon me!" Esther cries out, for the first time tonight, she sounds frightened as Finn grabs her hand, saying her name in a worried tone.

The torches flare up unnaturally as Finn grabs Esther. The other brothers cower from the flames, all three of them shielding me. After a moment the torches die out. Elijah, Klaus, and Kol stand around in shock as Finn and Esther disappear. Klaus places his lips against my forehead, allowing them to stay there for a moment before removing them.

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I sit on the floor at Klaus's feet, my head resting on his knees as I read my book, he stares into the fire, twiddling some of my hair around is finger, every now and then he smiles at me.

"I thought you'd have gone by now. Elijah's leaving. Kol's fled. Esther and Finn are gone too." Klaus says as Rebekah enters the room.

"I hated you when I learned you killed our mother. But I realise now that after a thousand years together as a family, you're the only one who never left me."Rebekah finishes, sighing.

"Well, aren't we a pair." Klaus says, focusing on my hair that is looped around his fingers.

"There's something I need you to see."She says, pulling out her phone and handing it to Klaus.

He shrugs at her,"Come to brag about your skills as a torturer?" He asks,boredly.

" Look at the images on the wall behind Elena. The Natives told the story of our family history, look at the images on the far wall" She says, exasperatedly. As Klaus looks down at the phone, she stares at the casualness of our positions and the love expressed and shared between the two of us, sighing quietly.

" What is it?" Klaus asks, pausing the video.

" A Native worshipping at the Great White Oak tree." Rebekah says as Klaus releases my hair from his hand, instead, lifting my entire body onto his lap as I yawn, closing my eyes and burying my head into his chest.

" And? We burned that tree to the ground." He says, stroking my hair,

"Look at the markings that precede it. That's the native calendar"

"This can't be right."Klaus grumbles.

"A White Oak tree, three hundred years after we fled back to the Old World. There must have been a sapling, a new tree to replace the old. That tree could kill us. It's not over, Nik."

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