CHAPTER SIX: smells like teen spirit

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DAMON SALVATORE HAD PANICKED WHEN HE HAD GONE BACK TO THE HOSPITAL TO GET JENSEN GILBERT, AND THE OTHER WASN'T THERE. Only to discover that Tyler Lockwood and Caroline Forbes had picked the other up and dropped the other off at his house. 

Now, both Elena and Jensen were following Alaric through the woods, were he would be teaching the two how to fight. Alaric punched the mannequins, making the two stakes sink into the test dummy. "So the pressure of your punch ejects the stakes."

Elena nodded. "Easy enough."

"Woman first," Jensen extended a hand to the dummy.

Elena playfully rolled her eyes, before walking up to it. She throws a punch, but the stakes stay in the sleeve. "That's weird." She throws another punch, it still doesn't work. She tried one more time, before she got the sleeve. "Must be jammed or something."

"You're not strong enough. Better start lifting some weights, put some meat on your bones," Alaric says

"Thanks for not sugar-coating it," Elena moved out of the way as Alaric gestured for Jensen to try.

Alaric reached in his bag as Jensen punched it, hard and making the stakes go into the chest of the dummy.

Alaric had held up a grenade-after saying, the clearly, one of the twins weren't skin and bones-"You know what this is?"

"A vervain grenade. I've used one before," Elena answered.

"Then you know the element of surprise is your only advantage when it comes to a vampire," He pulls the pin out of a grenade and throws it in Elena's hand. "Surprise."

"Oh my god," She throws it in the air and the grenade explodes.

"Okay, so, everyone's gone insane. That's great to know!" Jensen sarcastically replied, after having pulled Elena back as the grenade exploded.

"This isn't a joke to me, Ric," Elena angrily angrily pulls off her sleeve.

"You think I'm joking? Vampires will take whatever they want. They will hurt whoever they want. And they'll do it without remorse. It's their nature." Alaric informed.

Jensen leaned against one of the trees, sighing.

"You don't have to use pronouns. You can say Stefan." Elena told the teacher.

"Look, I get why you're here. Stefan hurt you. You don't want it to happen again."

"But you think that I'm crazy. To believe that I can protect myself from a vampire who's flipped the switch on his humanity."

"I think you found a way to get out of bed this morning. And that makes you the strongest person I know. I think that you can do pretty much anything." He gives her the sleeve with the stakes.

She puts the sleeve back on.
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Elena, Caroline, Jensen, and Bonnie stand in front of the school. Elena has a scarf around her neck. Jensen had taken a jacket with a hood, pulling the hood up, but also having a shirt with a high collar, just in case.

"Here we are. Senior year," Caroline says.

"Anyone else think it should feel slightly more empowering?" Bonnie asked.

"Okay. So prank night was a bust. But we are accepting it, and we are moving on," Caroline declared.

"You're right. I mean, why should I let the fact that my boyfriend is seeing the ghost of his dead girlfriends hinder this experience?"

"Yes! And why should I let the fact that my boyfriend was turned into a hybrid put a damper on an otherwise fabulous day."

"Damn, you guys and your boyfriends are depressing," Jensen comments.

Elena had stopped walking. "Today's our anniversary. Technically, Stefan and I met on the first day of school last year."

"Yeah. You win," Caroline nodded.

"Are you sure you want to be here?"  Bonnie asked the girl.

"I have to be here. I have to put it behind me. New year. New life." Elena walked into the school, leaving the three to glance at each other before following her.
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Jensen jumped, hand curling into a fist and bag killing off of his shoulder when a hand was placed in his shoulder, he pushed whoever it had been straight across the face.

Stefan turned his head, not seeming to care. Jensen then remembered that he didn't have his humanity, Klaus made him switch it off.

"What are you doing here?" Jensen asked.

"Klaus wants me to keep on eye on you and Elena," Stefan answered.

"I need to get to class," Jensen tried, ignoring the fear he felt.

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When Jensen walked into class, he quickly had caught up to Tyler, who was in front of him. "Hey, are you okay?" 

Tyler paused, looking at Jensen's neck. "Yeah. Are you okay?" He quickly asked, as he knew that if he hadn't answered. Jensen would keep asking, dismissing the asked question of him.

"I'm fine." Jensen answers, then the bella rings.

Alaric had written on on the board; 'AP AMERICAN HISTORY' in all capital letters.
"Welcome back, seniors. Let's turn our brains back on, starting with this country's original founders...the Native Americans."

No one had noticed when Rebekah entered the classroom. Only noticing as she walked in, she had raised a question. "What about the Vikings?"

She takes a seat at a desk. Tyler, Caroline and Elena look at her. Jensen sighed, throwing his head back in annoyance.

"There's no evidence that Viking explorers actually settled in the United States. Who are you?" Alaric asked.

"My name's Rebekah. I'm new. And history's my favorite subject."

"Because you lived through more than half of it," Jensen lowly muttered.
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Jensen was annoyed when he had gone to the football tryouts, and has seen the Stefan was following Elena on the court, eyes looking around for Jensen. Because, of course he knew that Jensen would show up there, the other had been on the team last year.

Still, Stefan followed Elena, while keeping an eye on Jensen
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Jensen had gone to the gym, workin out there. He was annoyed when he had-out of the corner of his eye-seen Rebekah. "Pretty sure this gym has a no serial killer's policy."

"I can see why my brother wanted to protect you," Rebekah says.

"Oh, you mean Stefan the guard dog?" Jensen huffed, annoyed when Rebekah was suddenly above him, looking down at him. "If you push this bar on me, I will drop it just so Klaus Will dagger you again."

"So you know about the daggers?" Rebekah asked, removing the bar from Jensen's hands.

"We daggered Elijah at one point. Or, well the others did. I didn't. Can you give me back the barbell?"

Rebekah hummed, as if she was really thinking.
She didn't return the barbell.
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It was now dark, time for the bonfire.  Except, Jensen, Elena, Damon, Caroline and Alaric were all in Alaric's classroom.

"I'll lure Stefan away from the bonfire. Then when he's distracted..." Elena starts.

"I'll shoot him," Alaric says.

"Can't Bonnie just ju-ju him or something?"  Damon raised the question.

"I'm trying to keep Bonnie out of this. I don't trust that Stefan won't hurt her. Caroline, are you covered?" Elena asked the blond-haired vampire.

"Yes! I will make sure that the old Forbes jail cell is prepped and ready."

"We're forgetting a key player here." Damon says. "Rebekah? Wherever Stefan goes, the blonde ponytail tends to follow."

"Which is why it's your job to keep her away,"  Elena tells Damon.

"How?! She's an Original. Last time I checked, we're out of daggers."

"So then preoccupy her with your charm."

"Might have better luck finding the dagger," Alaric joked.

"Or do what you do best, annoy her to the point she wants to kill herself," Jensen says nonchalant, looking up at the ceiling.

Damon mocked him.

"Are you ever not going to be mad at me for a day?" Damon asked. "I've given up on Jensen, at least he stopped stabbing me everyday and made it to a few times a week."

"Doubtful."

"That reminds me," Jensen says but was interrupted when Tyler had walked in.

"Sorry I'm late. What's going on?" Tyler asked.

"We need you to raid your mom's vervain supply. Enough to keep Stefan down for a while." Elena told him.

"You can't do that to Stefan." Tyler says.

"Why not?" Caroline asked

"No one wants to hurt him Tyler, but we kind of have to now," Jensen says.

"Trust me, Tyler, it's in his best interest," Elena tells the new hybrid.

"Yeah. It's not in Klaus's." Tyler says.

"But Klaus is the bad guy, Tyler. You know, why are you acting like some freaky, hybrid, slave minion."

"Uh-oh."  Damon says as he gets up and looks suspiciously at Tyler.

"What?" Alaric asked.

"Klaus made me who I am, Caroline. I owe him everything." Tyler answered.

"Oh, boy." Damon walked up to them.

"Okay, can we cool it on the commentary, please." Caroline snapped.

"What is going on?" Elena asked.

Damon takes a vervain dart off the teacher's desk.

Tyler glanced at everyone. "I'm just going to go."Tyler turns around and starts walking to the door. Damon rushes over behind him and injects him with the vervain dart. Tyler collapses.

"What the fuck?" Jensen exclaimed, moving to grab one of the weapons on the desk. Alaric stopped him.

"What are you doing?" Caroline yelled, rushing over.

"He's been sired," Damon announced.

"What?" Alaric asked, holding Jensen back.

"Sired. He feels loyal to Klaus because Klaus's blood created him." Damon explained.

"Loyal how?" Jensen questioned, pausing in his attempts to use the vervain dart on Damon.

"He'll seek acceptance from his master. It's really rare. But maybe not so much in hybrids."

"You can let me go, I won't kill him this time." Jensen says. "It was reasonable"

"So how do I fix him?" Caroline inquired of Damon.

"Get a new boyfriend."
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Jensen faked a smile when he had seen Rebekah. "Hey. I need to ask you-"

"What are you planning?" She interrupted.

Jensen hummed. "I understand that you've been in a box for the last...couple of years."

"Ninety," Rebekah interrupted again.

"Ninety years," Jensen corrected himself. "But, it's rude to interrupt someone. Actually, I was wondering if you could answer something Elijah told me."

"And what did Elijah tell you?"

"That there's seven Mikaelsons."
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Jensen had been surprised when Rebekah had, indeed informed him about her siblings. And how two were dead; Henrik and Freya. Before they were the originals vampire. The reason their mother had turned them into vampires, when a werewolf killed their youngest siblings; Henrik.

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Jensen felt nothing except for guilt at having to distract Rebekah, especially the way he had chosen to do it. But, he had panicked, not able to think of anything but that.

He hasn't been at the Salvatore house when Elena, Alaric and Stefan all were at the Salvatore house.

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