Chapter 29: 2.14

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Caroline and Arielle were about to knock on the Salvatore's door. Elena had texted Caroline and asked her to come over; after much debating, they decided to see what she wanted.

"Caroline!" she said surprised, as she opened the door.

"Hi." she said lowly.

Elena opened the door furthur so the sisters could walk in. Arielle walked in and made herself comfortable on the coach, while Caroline stood next to the couch.

"Why'd you call?" the blonde asked.

"Klaus ran over Alaric."

"Is he okay?" Caroline asked worridly.

Elena shook her head, "We thought he was, but...he started coughing up blood, and we had to take him to the hospital."

"How did that even happen?"

"Klaus actually compelled Jeremy to stand infront of the car, but Alaric pushed him out of the way before he could get hurt." she explained.

"Is Jeremy okay?"

Elena hesitated a bit before answering her, "I had Damon compel him to leave town."

"You what!?- you know what? Your family, your business." the blonde said before sitting down next to her sister.

Elena went to say something but someone knocked one the door. She turned around and went to open the door. Klaus smiled as Elena opened the door.

"Thank you for coming." she said as the man walked in.

"I trust you have news on Stefan." he said. The Forbes gave eachother a confused look, wondering what was going on.

"I couldn't find him." she admits, "But I have something else...which is why I invited you two."

Arielle looked at her in intrigue, "What is it?"

Elena signalled for them to follow as she started walking; they all gave eachother an unsure look before following after the girl.

She led them to the basement and then to a celler, which had Rebekah laying daggered. Caroline stepped infront of Arielle as Klaus said, "My poor sister. I can't turn my back on her for a moment."

"You have Rebekah. A deal is a deal!" Elena said nervously.

"The life of my sister in exchange for your brother? Yeah, I'd say that's a bargain." he told her, making Arielle scoff, "Consider him spared."

"You should know, I was the one that daggered her. When she wakes.....she'll come after me-"

"And I'll probably be right behind her." Arielle muttered, although everyone heard clearly.

"I can control Rebekah." Klaus said, "Besides, I still need your help finding Stefan."

"I told you, I don't know where he is." she said, as Klaus bent down, and removed the dagger from Rebekah.

"You're lying." he said simply, "Fortunately, you have no shortage of loved ones. If I don't find my family, the question you should be asking yourself is, who's going to die next? Bonnie? Alaric? Damon?" he listed off, "It's only a matter of time before Stefan gives me what I want."

"He doesn't care about me any more. You made sure of that. You turned him into a monster. Now he's your problem." she said, "And just so you know, I'm not the only one Rebekah wants dead. She knows what you did to your mother. She knows that you killed her. You three can let yourselves out." as soon as she finished her sentence, she rushed out of the basement.

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Arielle walked into school and saw Elena at her sisters locker. She walked up to the girl, confused to what she was doing.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

Elena slightly jumped when she heard her voice, "God! You scared me."

"I could tell." she said, "But that doesn't answer my question; what are you doing?"

"It's Caroline's birthday." she stated, going back to decorating Caroline's locker, "I'm decorating her locker."

Arielle stood there with a deadpanned look, "You do realize Caroline isn't talking to you?"

Elena shrugged, "She's still my friend. Even if she's being manipulated to being friends with people who are going to ruin her life."

Arielle laughed humorlessly, "Unlike you Elena, I don't manipulate my siblings. I have 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 compelled Caroline, can you say the same about Jeremy?"

Elena stayed quiet, "That's what I thought." she snarked before walking off, "And Caroline's not coming today."

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Arielle walked out of school and saw Caroline talking to Tyler. She thought about interfering, but she knew her sister needed to have that conversation. So she sat down and went on her phone.

"Hey, Ari." Marcus said as he sat next to her.

"Hey Marcus." she said, setting down her phone.

"Can you do a locator spell for me?" he asked.

Arielle gave him a confused look, "On what?"

"On who." he corrected, "Rebekah."

This made Arielle even more confused, "Klaus has Rebekah." she said, "He got her back last night. I watched him undagger her."

"Does it take them this long to come back to the living after being daggered?"

"I don't think so." she muttered.

"Do you think shes mad at us?"

"No. I think Klaus did something." she grabbed her phone and got up with Marcus following after her.

They walked up to Caroline, who was staring at a bracelet, "Hey. How'd that conversation go?" her sister asked.

Caroline looked up at them, "Good." she said, "Hey Marcus."

"Hey Care. Happy birthday!"

"Thanks." she mumbled.

"We're gonna go get Rebekah, wanna come?" her sister asked.

Caroline smiled, "Yes! Anything but school or having to be remembered it's my birthday every two seconds." she exclaimed.

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Arielle and Marcus quietly made their way into Klaus' property. They heard the hybrid talking to Stefan. They made their way upstairs, as quiet as they could.

They hid themselves behind a wall when they saw a hybrid walking out of a room. Once he left the two walked into the room. They saw Rebekah's coffin and Marcus immediately rushed to it and removed the dagger.

"Try to not be excited." Arielle whispered sarcastically.

Marcus rolled his eyes and threw her the dagger. The girl caught it as Marcus picked up the original and started walking out of the room.

The pair kept quiet as they walked back down the stairs and out of the house. They sped to Caroline's car, hoping to get out there as quick as possible.

"Go!" Marcus yelled as soon as he sat down.

The blonde looked back at him with a glare, "Shut it or I'll throw you out myself."

"Sorry." he said as Caroline drove out the driveway.

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Arielle held the door as Marcus walked in with Rebekah and Caroline walked in behind him with his bags.

Marus walked into his living room and set Rebekah down on the couch, "Now what?" Caroline asked setting down the bags.

"We should get blood bags to speed up this process." Arielle suggested.

"I'll go get them." Marcus said, standing up and walking out of the room.

He came back with a couple blood bags and set them down on the floor. He knelt down and opened one of the blood bags before setting it to her mouth.

He repeated the process until all the bags were done. The three could see the color slowly coming back to her face. They stood there for about twenty minutes, until Rebekah opened her eyes.

"Bloody hell." the original blonde muttered as she sat up with Marcus' help.

"Welcome back to the land of the living." the hybrid said.

The girl looked between the trio, "What happened?" she asked.

"Elena daggered you on homecoming night." Marcus said.

"And they kept you locked in the Salvatore basement, but Elena gave you back to Klaus."

"But Klaus kept you daggered, so we rescued you." Caroline added to her sisters sentence.

"Those bloody bastards." she mumbled angrily, "I'm going to kill my brother and that doppleganger bitch."

"I'll help!" Arielle piped up.

Rebekah smiled towards her, "Although, I will need to shower and change first."

"You can borrow some of my clothes, until we can get you your own." Marcud said. Rebekah nodded and the pair went off.

Caroline sighed as she sat, on the now empty couch, "How long do you think it'll take Klaus to realize Rebekah's gone?"

As Arielle went to answer ber phone rang; she took it out and showed her sister Klaus' contact name, "What do you think?"

She pressed answer and put it on speaker, "Hello?"

"Ah, Arielle! You mind telling me what you have done with my sister?"

"What do you mean?" she asked innocently.

"You know exactly what I mean."

"I really don't."

"I mean the fact that I don't see my sister anywhere. What have you done?"

"Well, Rebekah is a grown woman. Maybe she left because she didn't want to be with you anymore."

"That's not possible since I never undaggered Rebekah."

"We know." Caroline spoke up, "Which is why we did it ourselves."

"How lovely it is to hear your voice. Now bring my sister back before she awakes."

"Way to late for that." Arielle laughed.

"Consider it...a birthday gift. From you, to me." the blonde said before ending the call.

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Hey everyone

This chapter is a bit longer then my last few chapters so I hope you enjoyy