Chapter 9: 𝟏.𝟒

Arielle barged into Alaric's apartment, breaking the door with her magic. Klaus and Katherine turned to look at her.

When Arielle woke up she went into Caroline's room and her bed was made but her phone was on her nightstand. Arielle found it weird and did a locator spell but it came up blank, hence why she was here.

"Arielle," Klaus said with a smile, "Please, do come in."

"Where is she!?" she asked furiously.

"Where's who?" Katherine asked. Arielle ignored her and snapped her neck.

"Who?" Klaus said as if he didn't know.

"You know who, you half-breed dog." she snapped angrily.

Klaus sped her to wall by her shoulders, "I'd be very careful on how you talk to me, little werewitch."

"Why?" she asked tilting her head to side, "Because everyone's afraid of you?" she said sarcastically and he nodded, "Well, I'm not, and you just kidnapped my sister, so-" instead of finishing her sentence she used her magic to throw him to a wall and pin him there.

"Where is she?" she asked again.

"I'm not using her for the sacrifice." he said from the wall.

Arielle was confused but didn't believe him, "Then why kidnap her? For funsies?"

"It's called decoy, love, never let anyone know your true plans." he said.

"You better be telling the truth, because if not, I promise, I will kill you." she threatned, "And I always keep me promises."

She threw him against another wall before walking out of the apartment.

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Arielle had been trying to get Caroline's scent down for hours now and it was already starting to get dark.

She felt herself being drawn to Stevan's Quarry, so she decided to go see what is was. When she got there she saw Elijah with his hand in Klaus's chest. Bonnie standing at the edge of the forest and Stefan standing at some sort of alter set-up.

She looked over and didn't see Caroline's body anywhere causing her to let out a sigh of relief. She then looked over at Elijah who was talking with Klaus.

"I didn't bury them at sea." she heard Klaus say as she got closer to the scene.

"What?" Elijah said confused.

"If you kill me, you'll never find them." he finally said.

"Elijah! Don't listen to him." Stefan yelled out, with desperation lacing his voice.

"I can take you to them." Klaus tried bargaining  with his brother, "I give you my word...brother."

"Do it and I'll take you both out." Bonnie threatned.

"And if you do that, then 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 take 𝘺𝘰𝘶 out." Arielle spoke up making everyone look at her.

Elijah gave her an unsure look and she nodded, knowing how much his family ment to him, "I'm sorry." he said towards Elena's friends before speading.

Both Bonnie and Stefan let out yells of protest before Bonnie turned to Arielle furiously, "What the hell!?" she yelled at the girl making her confused, "We could've killed Klaus, how can you care about him?"

"I don't care about Klaus." she interjected, "I only care about Elijah." she corrected, "And honestly you wouldn't have been able to kill him."

"Yes, I would've." she stated confidently.

Arielle laughed slightly, "Grams kept me updated on how you were doing with magic classes before she passed," she informed, "And if I remember correctly, you weren't able to do simple spells."

"What are you talking about?"

"Bonnie, the spells that took you months to learn took me days." she says with a small smirk, "And the fact that you have to channel power, to even be close, to killing an original says alot."

"You wouldn't be able to kill Klaus with your own power."

The girl shrugged, "Maybe not." she said honestly, "But I've beat Elijah fighting, without my magic." she told her, "And can you even throw a punch?" she questioned jokingly.

When the witches posture shifted she smirked and left without saying another word.

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When she got home Caroline was already home sitting on her bed, "Hey, Care." she said from the door.

The blonde turned her head to look at her and smiled, "Hey." she greeted, "Is everything okay?" she asked seeing her face.

"Yea, Elijah saved Klaus and they ran off together, I'm assuming Klaus completed the ritual because when I got to the quarry it looked all, ritual-ly and sacrifice-y, and Bonnie was-" she stopped once she saw her sister's face.

"Elles, none of that is okay." she said shaky.

"Well, Elijah not killing Klaus is sort-of okay? Right?" she questioned.

"No, it's not." Caroline yelled standing up, "Klaus killed Elena, oh-my, Elena is-, oh my God- Elena is- she's dead." she said with tears coming out of her eyes.

Arielle went closer to her and wrapped her arms around her and let Caroline cry in her arms, "Hey, hey, if your friends listned to Elijah then I'm sure Elena's fine." she said trying to soothe her.

"Really?" she asked still crying.

"Yea." she assured, "Elijah told me he had a way for Elena to stay alive, before Elena daggered him obviously, but I promise you that she's probably fine."

"You think so?" she asked again pulling away.

Arielle nodded, "Call her and see for yourself." she offered.

Caroline nodded and went to grab her phone. She hovered over Elena's contact for a couple moments and Arielle got impatient, so she grabbed the phone and clicked the contact.

The phone rang a couple time before someone finally answered, "𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘩𝘦𝘺." Elena's voice spoke through the line.

Caroline was trying to find the words to say but she couldn't, so Arielle spoke for her, "Hey, Elena, glad you're not dead, Caroline sends her love, bye." she hung up the phone and threw it on the bed.

"Hey." she exclaimed grabbing her phone.

"Told you, she was fine." she said casually.

Caroline sighed going to Elena's contact once again, "I'm gonna call her again, can you please leave?" she asked.

Arielle rolled her eyes and walked out of the room leaving Caroline alone.

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The next day Arielle woke up by Caroline repeatedly knocking on her door. She groaned in annoyance before going to open the door.

"What!?" she exclaimed as she opened the door.

"Can you get ready." she urged, "We have to go help Elena."

"What mess did she get herself into this time?" she asked letting out a tired yawn.

Caroline looked at her bewildered, "Her aunt just died," she reminded the girl, "-Right infront of her." she added.

"Yea, at the hands of my best friends brother." she reminded her sister, "I think I'm the last person she wants to see."

"No, you're gonna be a good friend and help her get through this difficult time." she said sternly, "So get ready." she demanded.

"But-"

"Nope." she cut off, "No excuses." she said walking away.

Arielle sighed knowing she wasn't going to win with Caroline. So instead of fighting her, she did as she said.

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Once Arielle had gotten ready she went to the kitchen to eat breakfast and saw a box on the island.

"What's this?" she asked her sister as she sipped on her coffee and texted on her phone.

Caroline looked up from her phone and set her mug down, "Oh, that came for you early this morning." she informed, "Hurry up, I'll be waiting in the car." she put her mug in the sink and walked out of the kitchen.

Arielle opened the box and saw a letter on top of some spell books. She opened the letter and started reading it.

𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳, 𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦

𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩. 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘴.

𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐'𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦. 𝘐𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴. 𝘔𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵.

𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵. 𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴.

𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘣𝘺𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘺.

𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦, 𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘫𝘢𝘩.

Arielle scoffed and set the letter down in the box before closing it and walking out to meet Caroline.

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𝐖𝐓𝐅 𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐉𝐀𝐇, 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬? 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐭𝐟.

𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩 𝐛𝐜 𝐢 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞

𝐮𝐦𝐦 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐫𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫