chapter fourteen
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Alex gasped for air and sat up, feeling the spot where she literally got stabbed in the heart by the man she still loved. she hears heartbeats and looked around her. she was on a bed in a cell, and a group of Klaus' hybrids surrounded her.
"my god, my surrounded by Niklaus'," she deadpanted. the hybrids just stared at her, "either you lot are stalking me due to my brothers orders or I'm in a nightmare"
Klaus and Tyler entered the room. Alex rolls her eyes, "yep. definately a nightmare"
Klaus looks over at his hybrids, "leave us"
they leave, leaving the two hybrids and the heretic in the room.
Alex sighs, "what is the meaning of this, Niklaus?"
"call it an intervention... you're not yourself right now, Aleksandra. and this is the only way to help you"
Alex nodded towards Tyler with a glare, "did you have to bring him here?"
"you have a soft spot for him," Klaus shrugged. he then pulled out a dagger, the only weapon that can keep her down without killing her. the one spelled to keep her asleep for a hundred years, "you're not yourself right now, sister, and we want to help you. but if you don't cooperate... we'll have to keep you from destroying the state"
Alex laughed with a wicked grin, "you can't save me this time, Niklaus. they won't allow it"
"who's they? this has happened before?" Tyler was confused with this whole situation.
"the ancestors, wofie. you see, they may hate me for my power, but they need me," Alex tried to stand up but realized her hands and feet were chained to the bed, "now is this really necessary?"
Klaus smirked, "safety first. I'd rather you not slaughter the poor innocent lives of Mystic Falls. and the two of us in here"
Tyler furrowed his brow in shock and confusion, "what happened last time?"
"story time!" Alex sang while giggling.
Klaus look at his sister with sadness in his eyes, she was slowly going back to the way she was last time.
he then gestured for himself and Tyler to leave, and shut Alex's cell.
"no, stop! Niklaus please don't leave me in here! Tyler!" she screamed as they walked back to the parlor.
Klaus grabbed two glasses and filled them with bourbon, handing one to Tyler.
"France, 1557. Aleksandra was living in the royal palace. she met a man, Lucien, the first human I turned and the first human to ever be turned. he had always had a dark side to him, and my sister had been a slightly new heretic, only turned 60 years before, so he had an heavy influence on her. by 1560 her bloodlust was stronger than anyone I had seen before, and on top of that, she was influenced with black magic. the two of them together was worse to Europe than the plague"
Tyler stood in shock, not even taking a sip of his drink, "well what did they do?"
"first, they slaughtered nearly everyone in French Court. their hunger for blood was intense, and to see their victims suffer brought them joy. they made their way through Europe and terrorized the continent. those who survived feared them with their lives and fled from their homes. Lucien and Aleksandra were horror legends, spreading havoc wherever they went for sport"
Klaus swallowed his bourbon and then refilled his glass, "she claimed it was for love. that she did all of those things with him because he made her happy, that he showed her who she truly was... how to indulge in everything being a vampire has to offer"
Tyler remembered the one night she came to his house, a couple days after he had just become a hybrid, "she told me that before. when I was a new hybrid"
"Lucien was her first love, he had an influence over her like no other," Klaus narrowed his eyes and clutched his glass harder, "If I hadn't have let her go, If I just made her stay with Elijah and I..." the glass shattered in his hands "...maybe she wouldn't have become that person. the darkness wouldn't be there. she would've stayed my little Aleksandra"
Tyler felt a small bit of pity for him. Klaus obviously cared for Alex more than the rest of his siblings, more than Rebekah, and seeing the darkest part of her slowly come back hurt him. but he felt the most pity for Alex. she had told Tyler a lot about her past. how her twin was killed by wolves, her mother tried to 'save' her siblings but instead made them vampires, and she was the only one who couldn't turn. how after that her coven put a sleeping spell on her because she would be too dangerous as a heretic, and when she finally turned 500 year later, she became a monster. her sibling hid things from her, compelled her, and treated her like a child. she lost more than she gained.
Katherine was her only constant for a time, then she was forced to leave her. same with Lucien and Stefan. he didn't only feel sorry for her past, but for what he did to her. everyone she cared about ended up leaving in some way. and he knew she cared for him deeply.
"It's not your fault," Tyler spoke after some silence, "like you said, she was surrounded by negative influences, it was inevitable. but she doesn't have all of that now, we can save her"
Klaus chuckled, "you're foolish for thinking it's that easy. the first time it took 100 years. our brother Kol and many witches helped to contain the black magic, and we had to even undagger Finn to attempt control her ripper side. she didn't even turn her humanity off, she never has, this was her. the only one who can save her is herself, all we are is just voice telling her what to do in order to stay alive"
Tyler huffed and slammed his glass onto the table, "I don't care how long it takes, Klaus! we need to help her! we can't just give up!"
"you clearly care for my dear sister, and I am grateful for your concern , but I wonder how Caroline would feel that you ditched her in order to find a way to help Aleksandra?" Klaus smirked at his hybrid. he knew about Tyler and Aleksandra's history, and he also knew that Caroline hated their connection, so getting under the boys skin was entertainment to him.
Tyler narrowed his eyes, "Caroline doesn't need to know," his phone then rings, Elena was calling, "look, as much as I want to help right now, I need to leave"
Tyler starts to walk out, but Klaus stands in front of him, "I need to make a quick trip out of the country, so I trust that you will watch over my little sister for me"
"I'm not sired to you anymore, Klaus. I don't need to do anything for you," Tyler pushes past Klaus and walk off.
"you care about her, correct?" Klaus smirks. Tyler stops in his place, "then I suggest you make sure she doesn't get out of that cell"
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Tyler thought about Alex all day and night for 5 days, trying to figure out a way to save her from becoming this dark person. the dark ripper, as Klaus called her. when he was helping the other free his friends from the vampire hunter, when he tried to free the other hybrid from the sire bond, and even when he was with Caroline, he thought about the Mikaelson girl.
on the fifth day, he watched Klaus compel one of his human helpers to give Alex some blood to keep her alive, and then remembered that Klaus can compel other vampires. he could compel Alex to siphon the black magic somewhere and compel her to control her ripper side.
he barged into Klaus' art room with a grin, "I know how we can get Alex back"
"well speak then," the original hybrid says, gesturing for the younger one to continue.
"you can compel other vampires, right?" Klaus nodded, "then you can compel Alex. she was turned 500 years after you"
Klaus thinks for a moment it was a good idea, but there was one slight problem, "she takes vervain. we'd have to drain that out of her before we do anything else"
Tyler nods understandingly, "leave that to me. you just figure out what you want to say and I'll deal with the vervain problem," he turns to leave for the cellar when Klaus stops him.
"thank you," Klaus clears his throat, "for, um, trying to help Aleksandra"
Tyler smiles sadly, "I left her and I hurt her... I'm not doing that again"