CHAPTER NINE: homecoming

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JENSEN GILBERT HAD BEEN ANNOYED TO DISCOVER THAT THE OTHERS HAD DAGGERED REBEKAH. "The guy is an abusive father. Are we sure the rest of the Mikaelson family deserved to die so we can have Klaus dead?"

Damon groaned, annoyed. "Don't tell me you actually care about Elijah."

"Aye, let's say that Mikael followed Elena and Jensen in here. He tried to grab both of the , so he could use them as bait," Stefan suggested.

"And you what? Vervained him?" Elena asked Stefan.

"No, we vervained him!" Damon speaks. "This guy is an Original. To make it realistic."

"If we wanted to make it realistic, we would call everyone else. I still think Mikael would be able to kill you both, vervain or not. Sorry, Stefan," Jensen spoke.

Damon looked offended and annoyed.

Stefan sighed. "Okay, fine. We vervained him, and in the process discovered that he had a dagger."

"Which he planned to use on Rebekah, but instead..." Elena says.

"We drove it through his heart," Stefan finished.

"And what happens when he asks to see Mikael's body?"

"Good point!" Damon realized. "You my brother have been compelled to do what Klaus says. So the idea is to lure him back here and kill him...last thing we need is you getting tripped up and tongue-tied."

"Well, don't look at me. I am just in charge of getting him back here."

"Klaus is smart. And paranoid. If we tell him that Mikael is dead, he'll want proof," Jensen says.

"Then I shall be dead," Mikaelson spoke, entering the room.

"What if he wants to see you in person?" Elena asked.

"Well that means our plan is working. Klaus will absolutely want to see my body. You lure him here, and I will kill him."

"With what?" Stefan questions. "Those daggers won't work on him."

"Well, I'm in possession of a stake fashioned from the wood of the ancient white oak tree. The one that left these ashes when it burned."

"Where is it?"

Mikael dipped a dagger in the ashes of the white oak tree. "Not here. The knowing of its location is my insurance policy."

"Against what?"

"You leaving this in my heart. You see, a vampire can't dagger an original without dying. So...it falls to you." Mikael looks at the twins.

"Y...You want me to actually dagger you?" Elena asked.

"Klaus will leave nothing to chance- especially when it comes to trust."

"Give me that," Jensen huffed, taking it.
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Stefan had called Klaus, Jensen sighed. Rebekah stood a few feet away from the group.

"I'm getting a drink," Jensen announced lowly.

"Stay away from-" Damon started.

"You don't tell me what to do," Jensen told as he headed towards the bar.
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"Your father is dead." Stefan told Klaus. He stayed silent as Klaus questioned him. "Oh, my mistake. Not your actual father and not dead. Mikael. Daggered. What do you want me to do with the body?"

"It's true. I saw it with my own eyes," Stefan says. He glanced over at Rebekah. "That's not a problem. She is right here."

Stefan hands over the phone to Rebekah.

"Hello Nik." Rebekah says.

"It's true. He's finally out of our lives for good." She was silent for a moment. "I miss you. I'm miserable here."

"Good. I'll see you then, brother." She hangs up the phone and turns to the others. "He bought it. He's coming home."

Damon smiled. "Now- was that easy or what?"

"Let's just get this over with," Elena sighed as she pulls the dagger out of Mikael's chest.
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Jensen was going through his closet, looking for something to wear for the homecoming dance. Caroline dragged him back to his room when he said he had nothing to wear so he wouldn't go.

"Oh, look at this!" Caroline cheered as she picked up a blue button up.

Jensen groaned, flopping back onto his bed. He glanced over at his phone, seeing that Stefan was calling.
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"I don't see why I have to go! Look, I've got nothing to wear!" Jensen says. Caroline had laid out two outfits for him, then suggested that he could go check if either of the Salvatore brothers have something he could borrow.

And it wasn't that Jensen didn't trust Caroline's taste in outfits and everything.
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"Hey, Damon, if you want to be a good person, and make up for-" Jensen starts.

Damon groaned. "All you ever do is ask me for something. Or stab me. What do you want?"

"You've got a button up shirt I could borrow? The ones I have I've already worn to the other events in Mystic Falls."

Damon gestured for Jensen to go into his room. "Don't touch the grenades!" He yelled out.
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" You've been ignoring my calls," Stefan says.

"You know all the places I hang out. Which isn't much. You could easily track me down." Jensen replied. "Damon's letting me borrow one of his shirts. Think I can take a tie without him noticing?"
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Apparently, the gym had been flooded. Which had Tyler suggest to move the party to his place. When Jensen arrived, he didn't recognize anyone. "Who the fuck is everyone?" Jensen asked.

"There you are!" Caroline huffed out.

"Finally someone I know," Jensen smiled, pulling the blond-haired girl into a hug.

"That isn't the outfit I chose for you." Caroline says.

"Yeah. Damon let me borrow a shirt. I took a tie." He says.

"Come on," Caroline drags him over. "Klaus is here."
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Caroline had found Elena and Matt. "Klaus is here." She immediately says.

"What?"

"Yeah! Apparently our sired hybrid-friend Tyler thought it would be okay to let his master throw a party!" Caroline paused, waiting for the reaction from Elena. "I expected more surprise!"

Jensen tilted his head.

"I've learned not to be surprised by anything Klaus does. I'm gonna go find Bonnie." The doopleganger replied.

"I'll be right back," Jensen says as he followed her. "Katherine." He spoke. "Thought you left Mystic Falls."

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The two had gone in search of Bonnie, walking into the backyard. The two glanced around. "Can't believe this is happening."

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They had all been in the backyard, mostly ignoring Klaus. Jensen had snuck vervain into his drink. He brought one up to Katherine, obviously not with vervain.

"Anyone know who half these people are?" Jensen questioned Matt and Elena, glancing over at Caroline and Bonnie, who had all been less then a foot away.

"Nope," Matt answered.

Katherine shook her head.
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Jensen stayed by Katherine's side, as the vampire had said it was a better idea for him to not accidentally bump into Klaus.

But, Klaus walked up to the two. He looked at Katherine. "Where's your date?"

Katherine inhaled deeply. Jensen wasn't sure if that was her own fear, or her pretending to be Elena. "Getting me a drink."

Klaus held out the beer bottle. "Well, seems I have you to thank for Mikael's demise."

"He came at me. I didn't have a choice," Elena says.

"Still I'm impressed. It's not easy for a human to dagger an Original."

"It wasn't the first time. Not like she did it alone," Jensen speaks.

"Right. Elijah." Klaus looked around. As did Katherine and Jensen. "You seem nervous."

"Gee, wonder why. Not like the man who killed my aunt and tried to kill us both is standing right in front of us," Jensen sarcastically replied.

"I'm not nervous. I just don't like you," Katherine says instead.

"Let's get straight to the point then, shall I, love? People have been after me for 1000 years. And I am always one step ahead. So whatever it is you're thinking of trying, go for it, give it your best shot. You won't succeed."

Katherine took Jensen's hand, pulling him along with her. "It won't be for lack of trying," she muttered.

Klaus stepped in front of them, stopping them. "And you'd be smart to tell Damon to mind his manners tonight, because if I die, I've already ensured that he'll die along with me! Even in death my hybrids have their orders. So, you kill me you're killing him too."

Jensen glared at the hybrid.
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Jensen had smiled when Klaus was a far away distance. "Think he knows I drugged the rest of the drinks with vervain and wolvesbane?"
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"You are a fucking stupid, bitch ass, brain dead, easily manipulated-" Jensen ranted to insult the hybrid as she pulled both Katherine and himself to the front of the house, in front of Mikael.

Mikael grabbed each of their arms.

"I'm so fucking over being abducted," Jensen says.

"Come out and face me, Niklaus," Mikael says. "Or they die."

"Go ahead. Kill them."

"No, Klaus. He'll do it," Katherine shook her head.

"If they die, this lot will be last of your abominations,"  Mikael says.

"You better fucking succeed in killing me," Jensen threatened.

"I don't need them. I just need to be rid of you." Klaus told Mikael.

"To what end, Niklaus? So you can live forever, with no one at your side? Nobody cares about you any more, boy! What do you have other than those whose loyalty you forced? No one. No one."

Klaus's eyes start tearing. Jensen looked at him, slightly shocked. He hid it.

"I'm calling your bluff, father. Kill them," Klaus speaks.

"Come outside and face me, you little coward. And I won't have to."

"My whole life you've underestimated me. If you kill them you lose your leverage. So go ahead. Go on. Kill them. Come on, old man. Kill them. Kill them!"

Mikael laughs. "Your impulse, Niklaus. It has and will forever be the one thing that keeps you from truly being great." Mikael stabs Katherine with a dagger and pulls it out. She falls to the floor.

Mikael laughs as Klaus looks on shocked. Jensen ran to Katherine's side. Damon rushes up behind Klaus, twists him around and stabs the White Oak Tree dagger into his stomach.

Katherine gets up from the floor, pulling Jensen to her side.

"Katherine..." Mikael realized.

Katherine smiles, turning around to the hybrid army, she holds two wolfsbane grenades in her hands and throws them at the hybrids. "Kaboom."

Meanwhile, Damon is about to stake Klaus, when Stefan knocks him off of Klaus and holds him down. The stake is on the floor.

"What are you doing?" Damon glared at his younger brother.

Klaus takes the stake jumps at Mikael and drives it through Mikael's heart; he screamed in pain, as he then bursts into flames and dies.

"We need to leave," Katherine tells Jensen.

"What the hell did you do?" Damon asked Stefan.

Klaus walks back into the house,, standing behind Stefan. "He's earned his freedom."

Stefan stops clutching Damon, realizing what Klaus has said, he gets up and faces Klaus.

"Thank you my friend. You no longer have to do as I say. You're free." Klaus says, un-compeling Stefan.

Damon grabbed Jensen, speeding away.
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Damon had dropped Jensen off at the Gilbert residence.

"Elena!" Jensen called out. Jensen had no clue that Rebekah had been daggered.

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