Chapter 22: 𝟐.𝟕

Arielle spent the entire car ride thinking about Rebekah's words that she hadn't realized she was back home.

The girl sat up and looked over at Klaus in the drivers seat, "What are we doing here?" she asked.

"The doppleganger is alive." he said while a smile crept onto his face, "We're going to pay her a small visit."

Arielle scoffed, "And kill her, right?" she asked, already knowing the answer.

"Exactly, love." Klaus confirmed what she already knew, "She's the reason I can't make anymore hybrids, if I kill her then I'll have my hybrids."

"You're sick."

"Actually I feel fine, how about you?"

Arielle scoffed once again. She looked around and when she didn't find what she was looking for she breathed in before asking Klaus, "Do you have any water?" she asked.

Klaus reached down to the drivers door and handed her a water bottle. She muttered a '𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴' before drinking it.

Arielle thought the water tasted weird but still drank it, "Never buy this brand ever again." she told him, clearly disgusted with how it tasted.

"It's not the water, love." he told her with a smile.

Arielle was confused and then a wave of realization flashed over her, "What the fuck did you put in my drink?"

"Nothing that'll cause permanent damage." he assured.

"I'll make sure to cause permanent damage to your damn dick." she yelled. She took off her seatbelt and opened the door.

Klaus thought she wouln't jump but when she went to jump Klaus held her back, "Are you insane?" he yelled.

"Yes!" she yelled back.

"Close the door, love."

"No.

"Close it!"

"No!"

Klaus reached over and closed the door while Arielle tried pushing him off. Klaus sat back and put the lock on the doors.

"What the bloody hell is wrong with you lately?"

"What's wrong with me?" she screeched, "What is wrong with you?"

Arielle could already feel herself getting dizzy but she tried her best to ignore it. She was definitely getting him back after this.

"Oh, nothing, I just needed you out of my way tonight." he answered, "Now what is wrong with you?"

"I'm just-" Arielle passed out before she could answer him back.

Klaus sighed and kept driving, "I'm sorry, love, but's it's better this way."

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Arielle woke in her school parking lot. Caroline had texted her about prank night before they left Chicago, so she guessed that's where Klaus was.

She got out of the car and walked towards the school. She used her wolf hearing to make her to the gym.

When she walked in she saw Marcus and Tyler laying dead, with Elena, Bonnie, Caroline, and Matt hovering over their bodies, with tears streaming down their face. And Klaus and Rebekah were sitting on the bleachers like everything was fine.

She rushed over to Marcus' body and held him, "M, wake up, please, come on." she urged. She knew he wasn't going to wake, but she still kept begging him to wake up, whilst everyone watched.

"He won't wake up." Matt informed.

As if she didn't know

"He killed him." Matt added to what Arielle already knew.

"Shut the fuck up." Arielle yelled, "He's not dead." she told him, "Klaus just had to be petty because he has some unpacked trauma and serious issues." she looked Klaus dead in the eye as she spoke.

"Arielle's right." Klaus spoke up, "They're not dead and if Bonnie's successful, he'll live through his transition." he said ignoring the last part of her statement.

Arielle stood infront of everyone protectively, "I'm going to be solving this, not Bonnie, so let them go."

Klaus smirked, "Really?" he eyed her challenging and she eyed him the same way, just through tears.

"Yes!" she stated confidently, "And if you don't let them go then I'll kill you." she sighed before she added, "And that's a promise."

Klaus seemed to act scared for a minute before he just laughed, "Really good love, you would've fooled me, but when you threaten someone, try not to cry."

Arielle scoffed and turned back to everyone, who had fearful expressions on their faces, "Get out, and take them with you." she demanded

"But what about-"

"Go!" she cut her sister off, with a yell that echoed through the gym.

Everyone flinched back at her tone and Matt and Elena grabbed Marcus, while Caroline and Bonnie grabbed Tyler and started walking out.

"Are you really going go let them leave?" Rebekah asked her brother, in a hushed voice.

Instead of answering Klaus sped to Elena, "You may all leave, but I'll hold onto Elena." a smirk grew on his face as he added, "For safe-keeping, obviously."

Elena gave a nod to her friends and they walked out of the gym leaving the originals, Arielle, Rebekah, and two humans which Arielle didn't notice were there before.

Rebekah went up to Elena and started staring at her as she said, "So this is the latest doppleganger? The original one was much prettier." she taunted.

Arielle clenched her jaw and started digging her nails into her hands, she wanted to say something but Klaus beat her to the punch.

"Enough, Rebekah." he demanded, "Go supervise them." Rebekah huffed and walked out of the gym.

"Just ignore her, petty little thing." he whispered to Elena as Rebekah walked out of the gym.

Arielle used her magic and pushed Klaus away from Elena, "Get the fuck away from her." she told him while walking closer to Elena.

"Thanks." Elena whispered, Arielle only nodded in response. Then Elena walked closer to the two humans who were there.

"You're pushing your luck, little witch." Klaus said walking up to her.

"Hmm, I'll just keep doing that so I can piss you off and maybe then you'll actually realize how fucked you are in the head."

Klaus' eyes flashed with hurt, but then he covered it up with his usual demeanor, "Really?" he tried his best to act as if her words didn't get to him like he did earlier.

"Yes." she started pacing as she continued to speak, "You're spending your Saturday night torturing a bunch of 𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴 because you can't say please. And if you think about it-" she stopped pacing and a smile plastered onto her face before she finished, "It is actually fucking pathetic."

Klaus got closer to her, Arielle could feel his breath with how close he was, "Don't test me love, I could rip your heart out in a split second."

Instead of showing she was scared she tilted her head to the side and smirked, "Go ahead." she said simply, no sign of fear in her voice or face, "Just make sure to contact a couple of people for my funeral, let me get you a list."

"Tempt me further and I will."

"Also make sure I look pretty at my funeral." she added.

"I'll make sure you're the prettiest corpse." he answered sarcastically.

"Thanks." she walked off so she could figure out a way to get Klaus his hybrids and Elena alive.

No pressure or anything.

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Arielle was walking around the gym, so far she has done 8 laps, she needed to get her steps in. And walking helped her think.

She already had a theory of what she needed to do, now all she had to do was see if the theory was right, but she was 92.5% sure it would work, mostly a success rate...

If she was right, Marcus would survive, and Tyler and Elena, obviously. If she was wrong, well Caroline would be attending multiple funerals.

"I got it!" she yelled out making everyone look at her.

"What?"Elena asked.

"I got it." she repeated cheerfully, "I know how to save your life." she told her smugly.

Just then Stefan came into the gym, not looking to hot if Arielle were to give her opinion, but she guessed it wasn't the right time for that.

"Come to save your damsel, mate?" Klaus asked sarcastically, standing up from his spot on the bleachers.

"I came to ask for your forgiveness." he breathed out holding his stomach, "And pledge my loyalty." he added.

"Well, you broke that pledge once already."

Stefan's eyes flickered to Elena for a moment before looking at Klaus again, "Elena means nothing to me anymore. And whatever you ask of me.....I will do."

"Fair enough. Let's drink on it." he then pointed to '𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘯', "Kill them." he demanded and when Stefan didn't answer he grew angrier, "What are you waiting for? Kill them!" he roared.

"Arielle do something." Elena yelled through tears.

Stefan kept looking between the humans and his girlfriend, who yelled at Arielle to do something. Klaus on the other hand was yelling at Stefan to kill them.

Arielle was getting overwhelmed by all their yelling, she was starting to get a headache. She snapped Klaus and Stefan's neck making them fall unconscious.

Elena gasped and ran over to Stefan, "Why did you do that?" she yelled grabbing his face, "You could've just snapped Klaus' neck."

"Atleast I was useful on something that wasn't complaining." she snarked.

The older girl ignored the offended look on the dopplegangers face and spoke again, "Now come on."

"We can't leave them here." she said, referring to the two humans.

"Oh my-" she sighed before muttering a spell making Elena fall unconscious.

She looked around and grabbed a nearby water bottle, then she bit into Elena's wrist and let the blood fall into the bottle. Once she was sure she had enough she said another spell making her writs heal.

"These people are all dumbasses." she mumbled to herself before walking out of the gym.

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Arielle walked along the hallways of the school humming to, '𝘍𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴', by Taylor Swift. She hummed her way into the room she heard her sister talking, "Hey, everyone." she said, as if everything was normal.

Caroline ran up to her and gave her a hug, "Thank God, that psycho didn't kill you." she said, still in the hug.

Rebekah cleared her throat, "Said psycho's sister still here." she reminded making them pull away.

"Yeah, we can talk about the psycho later." Arielle said, pulling out the bottle from her pockets, "I'm almost sure I figured out how to save everyones lives."

Just on cue Marcus shot up, "Right on time, M."

The man looked at her in shock, "Elles?" he questioned, "What are you doing here?"

The girl smiled, "Someone had to make sure you didn't die, right?" she crouched down to his level and offered him the bottle, "Drink or die. Really simple."

He looked at her and drank once she nodded in encouragement. Everyone waited in anticipation, if this works Arielle didn't snap Klaus' neck for nothing.

Arielle took it as a good sign when his eyes glowed yellow. She smiled watching everything go the complete opposite of how it went in the Smoky Mountains.

And that was good.

"Now there's a good sign." Klaus said from the door.

Everyone turned to look at him, Arielle quickly standing over everyone protectively, "And you couldn't figure it out." she said smugly.

Klaus gave her a sarcastic smile, "No, but now that I know how this works.....I can just take the doppleganger and get out of this one-pony town."

Arielle scoffed and started walking out, grabbing Klaus and dragging him along as they walked in the hallway, "You are a complete and total asshole, you do not need to take Elena with you." now that they were far enough, Arielle let him go and stood infront of him.

"But I do, love." he told her, "If I leave her here, how can I be sure those two Salvatores won't kill her in one of their fueds? Or you, because you clearly aren't her biggest fan from what I've heard this summer."

Arielle sighed defeatedly, "I'll put a protection spell on her." she told him, "And I'll make sure she stays out of trouble."

Klaus thought about it for a moment before amswering, "Sorry, love, but I can't trust anyone with this, no matter how powerful you are." he turned around and started walking away but the girls voice cut him off.

"And her being with you is the safest place?" she asked making him turn back around, "What if 𝘩𝘦 comes back and starts hunting you? Will she be-" the girl didn't finish her sentence as Klaus pinned her to a locker.

Arielle expected him to say something, but instead he just looked at her. The look in his eyes just held betrayal and fear, nothing else. The look in his eyes made Arielle's eyes flash with guilt.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-" Klaus sped away without listening to another word. Arielle mentally slapped herself for bringing 𝘩𝘪𝘮 up.

When Elijah told her about Mikael, it was truly hard for him. And she knew Klaus had it the hardest with Mikael, but the words just slipped out.

She sighed before heading back to the classroom where she left her sister.

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Arielle was finally home, Caroline was dropping off Tyler and Marcus. Stefan was turned into a no-humanity asshole by Klaus. Elena was taken to the hospital by Klaus to make a donation, "𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥". And everyone else had gone home.

When she was unlocking her door she sensed Klaus behind her. She turned to face him and saw the expression on his face was the same as she last saw him, "Is everything okay?" she asked.

Klaus looked up at her with fear flooding his eyes, "I'm leaving town." he told her. Arielle's face dropped for a second but she managed to keep a neutral expression.

"Really? Why?" she asked.

"Damon said he knew where....." Arielle noticed his hesitance to speak, she found it weird because he rarely bit his tounge.

"Where, what?" she asked.

Klaus cleared his throat before speaking, "Where Mikael was." he finished with a shaky voice, making Arielle's eyes widen.

"But that's impossible! Nobody knows where that asshole is." she exclaimed trying to process everything.

"He found out, and no doubt he's going to wake him and use him against me. Because he hates me. I'm also leaving Elena here because you were right earlier, no one would be safe with me."

The girls face softened, "I never said that." she told him.

Klaus shrugged, "Perhaps. But it's what you meant." the two stood in silence for a coulpe more moments before Klaus spoke again, "Tell my sister I'm sorry for leaving without her."

Arielle looked into his eyes and saw him in a totally different light then what she'd seen this whole summer. He was scared, his words were hesitant, and he showed actually regret for leaving without his sister. Those were emotions she'd never seen on him before.

She nodded at him, "I will." she assured, "Although, I don't think she'd be any less angry." she said with a small laugh.

Klaus laughed with her, "I don't doubt that." he agreed with her, "But, since you'll be telling her, she might not be 𝘢𝘴 angry."

Arielle shrugged, "Maybe." she hummed. Another comfortable silence overtook them before Klaus spoke once again.

"I have to go, but....I'll see you around, little witch." he told her.

"Bye, Klaus." Arielle watched him speed away but his prescence still lingered in the night air.

Arielle kept replaying his eyes that flooded with fear. It was weird seeing Klaus in fear, since he was usually giving others fear. He looked, almost 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯?

Maybe now that she had seen him in that light she would stop ignoring her feelings that grew everyday, as much as she tried to ignore them she knew that in the end it would bite her in the ass. But, since she was stubborn, she would keep ignoring them.

"No!" she exclaimed snapping out of her own thoughts, "Just because he had one moment doesn't mean it forgives everything else he's done." she muttered to herself going into her house.

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𝐎𝐤, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞-𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩, 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐢 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐤𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫

𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐒𝐒 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝, 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐤𝐚𝐡'𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧.

𝐎𝐤 𝐥𝐦𝐤 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤....