Summary: Set in S4 when Conner took Matt, April, and Jeremy as hostages in the Mystic Grille. What if Ric was still human and alive? What if Katherine came back to Mystic Falls? What if Stefan hadn't taken Damon's ring? What if Caroling and Tyler were there? What if everyone helped take down Conner? Will anyone get hurt? Will Conner be taken down? Will anyone live? Will anyone die? Read to find out.
It was a beautiful day, as Conner set the stuff up so anything supernatural would get vervained, hurt, or possibly dead if they walked through that door.805Please respect copyright.PENANAFNX0bWoVGc
Jeremy stood by a table that had chairs on it, watching him, Matt and April behind him.805Please respect copyright.PENANAZC3uzEZJnX
"What are you doing?" Jeremy asked.805Please respect copyright.PENANA38MMPQ0HZI
"If anything walks through that door, it'll get a spurt of the werewolf poison."805Please respect copyright.PENANA9nl9gIOi1O
"Those are our friends out there," Jeremy protested.805Please respect copyright.PENANAGGsqWj3tN0
"No they're not."805Please respect copyright.PENANArox8rNq7UN
"Yes they are. I don't care what they've done. They don't deserve this," he said, all the while thinking of Elena, Damon, Caroline, Tyler, and others he knew.805Please respect copyright.PENANAU23PaaaCY1
"If you want to learn how to kill vampires, you have to do it my way."805Please respect copyright.PENANAMRHbXHgGnd
"I never said I wanted to kill my friends. They're like family. They're all I have. I won't let you do this."805Please respect copyright.PENANAi1zYbmwmMn
The front door opened, but nobody appeared until after the stuff had sprayed. Since no one was there, it landed on the floor. When it was done spraying, Jeremy and the others watched as Alaric Saltzman walked in.805Please respect copyright.PENANAnaEnk3PeWt
Ric walked over and broke the set up with a dagger he had in hand.805Please respect copyright.PENANA4zXiEm2kHD
"You know, if you wanted to kill a vampire or two, I know some I could send your way. Ones not includes as friends and family," Ric said, looking at Conner. "Come in. It's done," he added.
Caroline, Tyler, Damon, and Elena walked in.805Please respect copyright.PENANAwskG3fiQB7
"You should get out of here," Ric advised Matt, April, and Jeremy.805Please respect copyright.PENANAMZgS9gJoOo
"There's an escape route in the back room," Damon told them.805Please respect copyright.PENANAbzsItQcYvF
They started to go.805Please respect copyright.PENANAkvZ1N0JfYF
Conner grabbed Jeremy, knife to his throat.805Please respect copyright.PENANA7TjxJqJWEd
"Don't come any closer," he warned. He then added in warning, "And you two aren't going anywhere."805Please respect copyright.PENANAg2W9WCfLE0
April and Matt stopped a distance away from them.805Please respect copyright.PENANAPE1iAVLlJa
Suddenly, at vamp speed, Katherine Pierce was inside and pushed Conner away, from behind. Conner staggered back and Jeremy was thrown, landing by a table. The table fell on its side.805Please respect copyright.PENANA0rIrzG0Elj
Elena went to and knelt by her brother, whom lay on his back. The knife had made a little wound on his neck. She bit her wrist and held it out to him.805Please respect copyright.PENANAwFfbMAswTY
"Jeremy, drink; you need to heal."805Please respect copyright.PENANA2Rah0bNeRO
He looked at her for a few minutes, before he drank, knowing he could trust his sister, no matter what she was.805Please respect copyright.PENANAPNIvy7yLO8
As Elena looked up, she saw Ric and Conner fighting. Ric was soon pinned to a wall and Conner had stabbed him in the stomach with a knife. And even as he did, Damon and Katherine both ran to help Ric at the same time.805Please respect copyright.PENANAGwMdn5OSov
Damon through Conner off, as Alaric slid down the wall. At the same time, Katherine knelt by the dying Vampire Hunter. She bit her wrist and held it out to him.805Please respect copyright.PENANAbntb173G9P
"No," he protested.805Please respect copyright.PENANA45Dd9BkFtS
"You're dying, Alaric. You have to."805Please respect copyright.PENANALensvZl19u
"I don't have to do anything."805Please respect copyright.PENANAadp64qVnNo
"I don't want you to die," she told him.805Please respect copyright.PENANAVfrw1HKUIZ
He looked at her and she did likewise with him.805Please respect copyright.PENANA1jRHqwUwS6
"Fine. Your choice. You want to die and get even more down the dark side? It's your choice. But I won't watch you die. I can't. I've lost enough, Alaric."805Please respect copyright.PENANAGSaFI9i32W
Katherine's eyes shone with sadness, giving away her feelings. Then she got to her feet and turned her back to help out.805Please respect copyright.PENANA5bzRI6a1gb
The elder vampiress saw Damon crash into a table, which broke with his weight. She then saw Tyler and Caroline go for Conner, but he through them one at a time, and they each hit a wall. But even as she saw this, she ran towards him at vamp speed.805Please respect copyright.PENANAhVWManNRwq
Conner turned around and saw her coming towards him. Then, as she arrived just inches from him, he stabbed her with a dagger in her right side.805Please respect copyright.PENANATE2ieo7Lac
As the pain came, she vaguely heard a few voices shout out her name. And the moment when the pain started, she knew there was something on it. She knew it wasn't vervain, because she couldn't smell vervain. That's when she knew she was in danger.805Please respect copyright.PENANArLfCXdF5PZ
Elena saw Conner stab her and her stagger back and grab an edge of the bar. That's when she knew that something was wrong.805Please respect copyright.PENANAgLfK4PwadY
At vamp speed, Elena through him, but he came after her; then they were rolling over and over on the floor, him with a stake in hand, trying to stake her, her with a hand on his hand, trying to stop him.805Please respect copyright.PENANAxvzDmVP1tH
Damon painfully got to his feet. Then he through Conner off Elena and twisted his arm behind his back, making him drop the stake.805Please respect copyright.PENANAQPQfhtWvf9
As Matt watched everything, he wished that he had his rifle about now, to shoot the bastard whom had hurt Alaric and almost staked Elena.805Please respect copyright.PENANAYqN3FFTNvT
Matt looked at April.805Please respect copyright.PENANA6RElWvLe5i
"Go out the back and get home. I'll explain everything later. We all will," he said, wanting her out of the mix.805Please respect copyright.PENANA8xLOJt5Q8s
Without question, April ran towards and inside the big room. She had a million questions, but knew Matt well enough that he would keep his promise. Then she looked for a way out.805Please respect copyright.PENANAHmrypx0aXb
Elena got to her feet and raced towards her Petrova bloodline, but was too late, as Katherine fell and landed on her back, the dagger still in her side.805Please respect copyright.PENANAYiSzmGsINH
When Alaric awoke and saw the shape Katherine was in, he knelt at her side before Elena could arrive. He didn't care about her, but Elena did. He was doing this for Elena. Alaric saw the dagger and pulled it out, tossing it to the floor.805Please respect copyright.PENANAbYJgsnXGOt
When he pulled it out, the vampiress gasped in pain. And then she saw Elena at her side.
"Katherine, can you hear me?" she vaguely heard her ask in a worried tone. Everything was so dim to her and her vision was blurry.805Please respect copyright.PENANAuhisX2PDl8
She felt Ric lay a hand on her forehead and hear him say, "She's warm." And that's when she knew what was wrong with her. She was slowly dying.805Please respect copyright.PENANA1z5cIo0hHd
Damon soon killed Conner and then was kneeling by Kat's head, feeling through the Sire bond that she was dying. Because she had sired him, he felt everything she was going through. After Conner was dead, Matt left.805Please respect copyright.PENANAFB80AtjnLP
"She's dying. And she can just barely hear us. I can feel it," he told them.
Elena understood, as he told them. She realized he felt it because she had sired him. That made her wonder if it was the same with Stefan, since she had sired them both. She also knew what he met by her dying. She had werewolf poison in her system.805Please respect copyright.PENANArvKkIRTQHo
As if to prove that Elena was right, Katherine screamed in pain as pain sliced through her.
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Tyler awoke to see the scene after he heard Katherine scream in pain. But he figured they didn't need him. He then crawled over to where Caroline lay on her back, and knelt by her, pulling her gently into his arms. He needed to make sure she was okay.
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Caroline awoke to see Tyler holding her in his arms and hear Katherine screaming in the distance.805Please respect copyright.PENANAGdIBGqc6vv
"Are you okay?" he asked her.805Please respect copyright.PENANAUPf1kNJlRt
"I'm fine," she said, sitting up. "Tyler, what's going on?"805Please respect copyright.PENANArjsBbcLpst
"I didn't ask."805Please respect copyright.PENANArikWZZnzzh
They got to their feet and walked over.805Please respect copyright.PENANA5KFASBKTWG
"What happened?" Caroline questioned.805Please respect copyright.PENANA1lEiIdpAmD
Ric looked up at her.805Please respect copyright.PENANAl4klLWz2sY
"She was stabbed with Conner's knife. Now she's dying. Somehow he got a hold of some werewolf poison."805Please respect copyright.PENANAQmKOES9Cvd
"Then we need Klaus," Caroline answered.805Please respect copyright.PENANAy48YuWjcjV
"It's Katherine. He won't do it," Damon implied. "I might have some leftover at home, though."805Please respect copyright.PENANAmMPRhfxooS
"I'll take her there while you clean up," Ric volunteered.
"And I'll go with him," Elena told Damon.805Please respect copyright.PENANACiQNbdSvqW
Ric gently picked Katerina up in his arms and got to his feet, heading for the door.805Please respect copyright.PENANAgCxOsL3GeS
Damon watched as Elena followed Ric out the door.805Please respect copyright.PENANAn7NNxNnaLF
"We should go home. It's late," Caroline said.805Please respect copyright.PENANA5ATc5gt2Od
He watched silently, as Tyler and Caroline left hand in hand.
As Ric headed towards the boarding house, Katherine blacked out.805Please respect copyright.PENANAoIoXbMByzN
Elena was worried, as they walked. She didn't look well and she was blacked out. She looked worse than Damon had been when he had been bitten by Tyler. She guessed the knife had been in her long enough to work faster than a werewolf bite.
Katherine didn't know how long she had been out, but when she came to, she felt better. She also saw that her Petrova bloodline was seated on her bedside.805Please respect copyright.PENANAq3Z0QyMZ8W
"Thanks," the vampiress said to Elena.805Please respect copyright.PENANAcgCZyPkaMC
"You're welcome."805Please respect copyright.PENANAqiwdQnvqS7
"I guess I get to say welcome to this side of life," Katherine replied to Elena.805Please respect copyright.PENANADazYWRibH5
"Yeah; I guess Damon's blood made me a vampire. I had it in my system when Rebekah ran me and Matt off the road. Now I'm sired to him," Elena explained.805Please respect copyright.PENANAiQ30UBw20X
Kat sat up.805Please respect copyright.PENANANyxziAVA4L
"Rebekah. I should probably kill her one of these days for that."805Please respect copyright.PENANAeLNRwnACPL
Kat got to her feet and Elena helped her. They then came down the stairs.
The next day at the boarding house, everyone explained everything to April, whom took it very well.
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