CHAPTER FIVE: MALIVORE

it had been a day since the incident and dana's death and the student of the salvatore boarding school stood in the grand hall for an assembly with alaric at the front, while emma stands on his right. "given recent events, some students have expressed concern that I am not allowing you to have a say in the decisions that affect your future..." he trailed off looking at his daughters and henrietta in the front row as usual who smiled at him shyly. " and I agree. if you are expected to abide by this school's policies, it's only fair that you have a voice in how those rules are made." lizzie stuck her hand out to the two girls beside her getting low high-fives before they turnt their attention back to the front.

"so, I am forming an honour council. one vampire, one witch, and one werewolf—each elected by their peers, along with emma, whose vote will represent the younger students." alaric announced causing mg to smile at his fellow vampires behind him as they spoke about him. charles patted his shoulder gently as an attempt to calm him.

"mg is such a narc" one the students say making mg frown and turn back to the front. "who said that?" katherine asked harshly turning around from her seat near the front. all of the vampires in the school had come to respect and admire the declare siblings since they had arrived.

they all stayed silent making katherine roll her eyes out of annoyance before turning to mg with a smile. "now, I have to go off-campus. in the meantime, i expect you to make good decisions and to vote wisely. that's all. you're dismissed" alaric said before grabbing a duffel bag on the side of the room and leaving, letting the students discuss amongst themselves possible candidates.

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alaric is about to enter his suv until the door is telekinetically shut by hope making him yelp in surprise before turning to the girl. "are you kidding me?" she asked in annoyance, alaric can't help but laugh at the confrontations he just had with mg, rafael and now hope.

"am i under assault today?" he asked laughing, hope stands in front of him not amused.

"you get to interrogate a tree nymph, and I have to run landon's 23andme?"

alaric sighs impatiently before replying " first of all, it's a dryad, not a tree nymph. second of all, i need a witch to run the testing spells." alaric explained thinking it would give him enough time to escape.

hope gives him a hard look before saying "get emma to do it" alaric impatiently explains his reasoning, ready to get to dorians cabin

"she can supervise, but she's busy managing the school in my sure unbearable absence." alaric smirks smugly at his reason. "plus, if landon can convince you that he belongs, he can convince anybody." alaric added on.

hope rolled her eyes "you're enjoying this" she pointed out.

he smiled patronisingly " i am" he nods along.

"i left you instructions in my office. try not to kill him" alaric warned before jumping into the suv and driving off.

"hope!" katherine called from behind the girl shes grown to call her friend, hope turned around, still annoyed.

"yes katherine?" she asked impatiently, katherine noticed her stressed demeanor and decided her question could wait.

"are you okay, you seem stressed?" she asked out of pure worry, hope smiled slightly seeing the girl was worried.

"im fine, i just have to figure out what creature, landon is" she explained. katherine smirked at this before grabbing the girls hand.

as they began to move into the school, hope felt tingles moving through her hand from where katherine was holding it, she felt as if she was being tickled with a feather and it made her stomach feel weird. she wanted to retract her hand, but at the same time she didn't because she didn't want to lose the warmth, katherine provided. "let's find landon" katherine said as she led hope through the library in search of landon. she passed her younger brother on the way who eyed the girls hand in confusion but with a little hint of a smile.

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josie, henrietta and lizzie are in their dorm room, where lizzie, is wearing a stark white business suit with a cloak-esque jacket that compliments her newly-dyed platinum blonde hair, and is standing in front josie who's laying on her side on the carpet and henrietta who's on her back on the bed. there are posters scattered amongst the floor reading 'im with her' being inspired by hillary clinton's 2016 election posters. after a moment, lizzie sighs impatiently. "josie, ria, focus" she demands to her sister and bestfriend.

josie looks up at lizzie and gives her a look that says im focusing well henrietta doesn't even bother to look but puts a thumbs up. lizzie sighs before looking back in the mirror, and changing her outfit to a lavender colour before groaning in frustration. "none of this is working" lizzie says as josie looks over the posters once more trying to keep the frustration out of her voice.

"you know, you're not going to lose the election over an outfit" josie pointed out.

"i know that, but sebastian will see me" lizzie said being honest, causing josie to feel a pang at her heart, which she didn't know why and for henrietta to sit up.

"you want to impress my brother?" she asked with a humourless chuckle, lizzie turnt around with an eyebrow raised as if it were obvious. "i love my brother, trust me i do. but he doesn't do relationships, the last time he did was in 1967 but that ended with his bloodlust taking over and him sucking her dry. he's just horrible at them." henrietta explained, not wanting lizzie to get her heartbroken, or ripped out.

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it was mid-day at the salvatore boarding school; katherine and hope were helping landon, henrietta, josie helping lizzie and sebastian hanging out with mg and theo, charles and victoria lay in his bed underneath of his covers.

"toi et moi" he whispered gently to her as he raked his fingers through her hair, with her head resting on his chest.

"tell me about her" victoria whispered as her soft breath hit his chest. "celeste, tell me about celeste" she clarified, worried for how he would react. he looked down at her with a glimmer of love in his eyes and a small smile before placing his head on the pillow and looking up.

"she had a subtle charm that could take over the world, she was precious. she was different though and she was beautiful. the kind of beauty not everyone would be able to recognise, the kind many didn't get the pleasure of knowing and the kind not everyone was blessed with. she made life worth living" he described the girl as if she were the sun and he were the moon.

victoria listened to every word he said and the way he said it, if he were to whisper her name or if her were to mumble the way she smiled. she wasn't jealous, she was far from it. she wanted what he had, she wanted it with him. she wanted to be happy, grow old and get married to charles. she wanted him. and he knew for sure he wanted her.

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penelope is holding court with her witch cohorts, all of whom are drinking iced cappuccinos, on the staircase in the great hall, where she's trying to convince them to vote with her in the honour council election. "lizzie saltzman only cares about lizzie saltzman. if your interests don't line up with hers, you're witch non grata. i personally believe that you deserve a better candidate." katherine and josie are lured into the grand hall were josie's ex/katherine's best friend is giving out a speech against lizzie.

"so, you're running for honour council just to spite her?" josie asked making all the witches around penelope sit on the steps, far away but close enough to hear all the drama.

"that's low penelope, even for you" josie said making penelope smirk and causing katherine to laugh a little.

"you used to like it when i went low" penelope pointed out causing josie to stand there flustered when a pang of hurt for the girl comes through.

"walked into that one jojo" katherine sympathised with the girl patting her on the shoulder.

"you know what I mean. you don't even like extracurricular activities, let alone anything that involves a moral compass." josie argued making penelope scoff at her hypocrisy, before walking over to one of lizzie's posters and holding it up.

"oh, and your one-witch ethics committee is okay with double plagiarism?" penelope asked, acting dumbfounded.

josie unable to argue with penelope's point knowing lizzie is not exactly her first choice either, looks at penelope blankly before snatching the poster out of her hands. "it's not like hope was an option" josie said making katherine frown. katherine gives penelope a hard look, annoyed at this point.

"i love you and everything park, but lizzie wants this, so you should stop trying to ruin everything for her" she said before storming down the stairs out of sight back to hope and landon.

"i will crush you" josie threatened. 

"oh honey-you crush on me" penelope corrected.

penelope's expression turned to a serious one instead of a mock one before trying to push the truth out of josie. "and deep down, you know i'm right. your sister's unit for office" penelope then walks away leaving josie to contemplate her decision.

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the salvatore school werewolf pack are in the gym, where they're hanging out in small groups. some are exercising, others are simply talking to each other, while others still are sparring. In the centre of the room is jed, who is fighting against one of the other wolves. when the wolf swings a punch toward jed, he blocks it before yanking his arm behind him and throwing him across the room, where he knocks over a nearby sawhorse. looking bored, jed glances around at his pack mates.

"all right-i got a medieval history paper due at two o'clock. who's on that?" he asked his pack mates, rafael who is on a near wall raises his hand.

"i'll do it. but i need a favour." jed scoffs at his pack mate incredulously.

"you've been in the pack for five minutes and you want a favour from your alpha" jed said with surprise.

"you're obviously gonna be elected for the honour council" rafael pointed out, causing jed to roll his eyes knowing where he's going with this.

"if it comes down to it, will you do what you can to keep landon in?" jed sneers at rafael sarcastically.

"that's a great idea, foster kid. i'll bring that up at the first meeting... so I can make sure your boy gets the boot." rafael angry and hurt by this comment tries to plead his case.

"why? i joined the pack! yo, i'm following all the stupid rules that-" rafael yells before jed cuts him off.

"well, consider that punishment for not respecting my authority when you got here. the rule is this—what the alpha says, goes. and I say landon goes." jed gives rafael a look that feigns empathy before clapping him on the arm and walking away.

"but you know, if you want to help me out. you can get me a date with henrietta declare" jed said spinning around on his heel to face rafael with a grin, knowing this would annoy the boy. rafael only growled at the boy for this, not wanting any of the declare girls to get involved with him.

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in the school's yard, hope and katherine are testing landon to see if he is supernatural. katherine tied a handkerchief to a high tree branch and is waiting for landon to get it down as he tries to jump and catch it. after basically a dozen tries, landon begins to grunt from exertion as he tries and fails to grab the handkerchief, and hope makes an unimpressed face when it becomes very clear that he has no superhuman agility.

the next test is for landon to do a handstand, after a few tries he finally does "hey, i'm doing it! now what?" he asks in excitement, katherine smiles in sympathy for the boy.

"hold it for ten minutes" katherine says, landon falls after hearing that "agh, what?" he lands right on his back failing this version of the test.

the next test is for landon to pick up a huge tree stump of the floor, he's able to pick up a few inches but not the whole thing. after a few minutes, hope, embarrassed for him, calls it. "you can stop. you failed. you have no supernatural strength." hope says as though it's obvious, making landon even for determined for the next task.

"what's next?" katherine smiles at landon proud of the boy, as hope looks at him with an incredulous look.

"next? you failed the vertical climb, the long jump, and you straight-up refused to swim across the lake..." landon offended at hope's tone, scoffs as he pants for breath.

"yeah, well, excuse the foster kid for never having swimming lessons" landon takes a step up to katherine ready for the next task.

"i like you and everything kid, but i don't think there are any more tasks" she said, messing up his hair.

"look, i might suck at-at... everything, apparently... but i only have to pass one test to stay, so i'm not giving up yet." he says turning to hope now. just then, emma who had been watching across the yard, walks up to the trio.

"how's it going?" hope looks at landon and holds up her timer.

"landon was about to sprint to the lake and back" hope starts the timer, and landon, without even questioning her orders, begins to sprint to the lake. emma turns to look at hope and katherine with a curious look, causing katherine to put her hands up in surrender.

"what are you testing for, exactly?" hope smirks, a little, at the thought of getting revenge on landon.

"his ability to get away from me as quickly as possible. if he's gonna stay in this school, it's a must." emma and katherine give hope a look to say, they both are a little amused too.

"did you run the lineage spell i left you?" emma asked hope. hope nods in conformation,

"yeah, first thing. zero magic in his bloodline" emma hums in surprise.

"hmm?" katherine asked copying emma.

"most humans have some trace of magic in their veins from a far-flung ancestor" hope both intrigued and concerned by this response asks.

"so what does that mean?" she turns to emma, but before emma can reply, katherine beats her to it, knowing the answer 

"we need to learn more about landon's past"

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katherine, hope and landon are sitting by on the dock overlooking the dock. hope sets a magical orb on landon's jacket next to them, as she demonstrates how it works. "what's your name?" she asks, as an easy question.

"landon kirby" landon answers simply, watching as the orb glows bright blue. katherine smiles in awe at the object.

"see? that's the truth. now, lie. what's your favourite food?" she asks expecting him to answer. 

"rabbit" landon answers chuckling.

they look at the orb and it's glowing bright red "so, it's a supernatural lie detector" katherine asks, making hope look at her with a fake smile.

"pretty much landon's worst nightmare" landon takes the insult in stride and stares hope in the eyes with a defiant expression.

"bring it on, girls" he orders, wanting to prove he was good.

"where were you born?" katherine asks with a serious tone.

"i don't know" the orb then glows blue, meaning he was telling the truth.

"who are your parents?" hope now asks.

"my mom's name is seylah. that's pretty much all I know. she gave me up for adoption when I was young." the orb continues to glow blue.

"what about your dad?" katherine asks, pushing the thoughts of her own father away.

"never met him" he said simply, the orb still glows blue, and hope bored changes the subject.

"why can't you be compelled?" landon laughs nervously at the question. 

"i have no idea. a couple days ago, i didn't even know what compulsion was." he answered, honestly. 

katherine now taking this as an interrogation asks "why'd you take the knife?" she asked leaning forward. hope grabs her shoulders, pulling her back to sit straight.

"i don't know. i remember doing it, but i don't remember why." landon say finally getting defensive with his answers. hope sighs in frustration when the orb is still blue

"it's not good enough. If we can't figure out what you are, then you can't stay at this school." landon now looks overwhelmed, as does katherine.

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henrietta makes her way towards lizzie and josie's room with sebastian by her side, as they arrives she see's rafael with his hand on josie's hip and lizzie already staring at sebastian. sebastian a little bit angry by the position josie and rafael are in, rolls his eyes which henrietta notices.

"lizzie, hey. you got a sec?" rafael asks, now moving to lizzie. sebastian ad henrietta walk in the room, each on a side of josie.

"i have lots of secs" lizzie says, realising it sounds like she says she has lots of sex, corrects her mistake. "i mean 'time'"she answers, as josie leans her head on sebastian's shoulder, watching the scene play out.

rafael takes a deep breath before making his request " the honour council might get to decide if landon can stay. emma won't say how she's gonna vote, but I talked to mg, and he's the only vampire running, and he's on board. and, because everybody knows that you're gonna get the witch vote-"

lizzie cuts him off as she is overwhelmed with happiness, that he thinks she is going to win. "say no more. i know how much landon means to you, and i would be happy to help" she answers, seeing an opportunity to make sebastian jealous.

"i mean, all right.... thank you! seriously" rafael begins to leave until lizzie speaks up seeing in opportunity in favour.

"oh, if-if you would, um... be happy to be my date to my birthday party on friday...?" she asks, keeping her eyes on sebastian the whole time. henrietta and josie drop their mouths open, as josie sighs momentarily dropping her books on the floor, making rafael and lizzie look at her. 

"are you... blackmailing me?" lizzie's eyes widen, as she had only good intentions that benefit her, but not hurt him. sebastian's hands start shaking out of anger, josie noticing this grabs his hand to calm him down.

"no, silly! i'm black-tie-ing you. it's totally different" lizzie smiles innocently, as rafael looks a bit conflicted. henrietta annoyed at how lizzie was playing her brother, scoffs before storming out of the room away from her bestfriend.

rafael realizing it was worth-it to keep landon finally agrees "sure... whatever" josie laces her fingers with sebastian, as he begins to shake again out of pure annoyance and anger. he looks down at her, to realise she isn't even looking at him. lizzie squeals in excitement as rafael leaves, before turning to sebastian with a smirk, not noticing his intertwined hands.

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mg vamp-speeds down to the cellar, where he stops just outside of kaleb's cell, already seeing henrietta sitting beside it. kalebs sitting on the floor, leaning against the wall beside the door, as henrietta does the same on the other side. mg tries to play it cool as he greets his incarcerated friend without annoying him, henrietta sends him a comforting smile, as kaleb scowls at him.

"hey henrietta, what up, kaleb?" kaleb looks him dead in the eye, making mg squirm under his gaze.

"the hell you want, man?" it's clear by the sound of kalebs voice, hes not pleased to see him.

"i, uh... i-i copped this from the kitchen..." mg reaches through the bars and passes it to kaleb.

 "isn't that nice kaleb?" henrietta asks, trying to make mg more comfortable.

"i thought you might be hungry" mg says making kaleb scoff and roll his eyes.

"sure it's nice, but im not hungry for bunny blood" mg sighs, not wanting to get into an arguement.

"it's the only blood in school, man..." kaleb shrugs nonchalantly.

"then hunger strike it is, i guess" they're all silent for a long moment until henrietta let's out an unnecessary comment 

"insert awkward silence" which causes both boys to look at her, wondering how she can find something so funny as she starts laughing.

"I'm sorry that you're in here, but let me make it up to you. dr. saltzman is starting an honour council, and if I get elected I can change things around here, starting with getting you out of this cell." mg speaks up in an apologetic tone.

kaleb hums before responding flatly to show mg he is still not forgiven him "mmm. you'd do that for me?" mg looks offended that kaleb would think otherwise, henrietta smiles in amusement at the situation.

"yeah, of course!" kaleb nods, even though his voice is still flat and emotionless. "well, all right. send the vamps my way. i'll get 'em in line." kaleb agrees.

mg jumps on his toes in excitement "thanks, man. hey, you won't regret this!" mg replies appreciatively before vamp speeding out.

henrietta turns to kaleb with a judgemental look "what are you playing at, kaleb?" she accuses with narrowed eyes, he just chuckles at her not giving her an answer.

she rolls her eyes, before sitting back down against the wall" please, don't hurt mg. you're his friend..." she sighs before shutting her eyes. kaleb sighs at this.

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hope is standing on the dock next to katherine with a preoccupied expression when suddenly, landon, carrying the orb and his jacket, walks over to confront them. "you said you would help me get answers!" landon yells towards the girls, katherine turns around shocked at his outburst. 

"what are you on about?" katherine asks puzzled, landon rolls his eyes at the girl.

"don't act like you don't know" he yelled, getting more frustrated that she was lying to him. hope runs next to katherine, placing both hands on her lower arm before speaking up.

"she had nothing to do with it" she admitted, before looking at katherine with an apologetic look.

"i didn't even want to do this. don't blame me because you're not special." hope's expression is bitter as she replies to his first comment.

"i apologised to lying to you. i explained why i took the knife. why are you still mad at me?" he asked, knowing there was more to the coldness that meets the eyes.

"i'm not mad, i couldn't care less" hope's frustration then get's the best of her. the orb then starts glowing red, showing hope is lying.

"fine. it's easier to be mad" she admitted, looking away shamefully. katherine backs up a bit, not knowing what was going on.

"why?" landon asks weakly. 

"because it always is" katherine says for hope, knowing how the girl is feeling. hope looks at her with a thankful look, before turning back to landon.

"or maybe it's because you feel like if you stop being mad, you're letting your guard down... and the legendary hope mikaelson couldn't possibly do that." landon said, losing his patience with the situation.

hope glares at landon angrily "when i let my guard down, people disappoint me" the orb now glows blue, showing hope is telling the truth.

landon takes a moment before deicing to open up to the girls in front of him, about what's been happening the past few days. "growing up in the foster care system... every time I got sent someplace new, i'd hope that this would be the right place. you know, like, uhhh, 'click your heels three times' "no place like home"-kind of stuff. just somewhere I actually belonged. but it never was, you know? and you can only hold out hope for so long and-and be hurt by so many people before it starts to seem impossible to trust someone new—especially when they lie to you." landon admits, taking a deep breath.

"you two are so young, so innocent" katherine mutters under her breath with a shattered look in her eyes, but both teenagers heard her.

"innocent, me the daughter of klaus mikaelson, innocent" hope yells at her, getting more frustrated than she already was.

"you have no idea, of the dangers that truly hide. i know niklaus was dangerous, but he was good to you, he truly was good. your whole family was, and you have yet to learn of what is waiting for you out of these walls" katherine argued, thinking back on her times still human, and how the world had hurt her then.

hope and landon are both left speechless realizing neither one of them truly know about her life before she came to the school, not bothering to figure out. "i have been broken, and had nearly everything i love taken away from me. so stop arguing and sort this problem out before you lose everything" katherine said in a now calm voice, before vamp-speeding away. the orb then began to glow blue, making hope and landon look at eachother with worried expressions.

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landon after finishing his conversation with hope, was on his way to find katherine, to apologise. he saw jed ahead who had a hoodie on, covering his cheek from his earlier fight with rafael. he looked angry and needed to take it out on someone.

"oh... hey, jed" landon said, knowing this wasn't going to be good.

"you don't belong here." jed scowls at him, still embarrassed from earlier with rafael.

"yeah, everyone keeps saying that..." landon said still exhausted from earlier. jed takes a step closer to landon, before he realises they're about to fight "wait! wait!" he shouts

when jed swings his arm toward him, landon, in a surprising twist, manages to grab him by the forearm and flip him onto his back, demonstrating an intuitive fighting skill that surprises both himself and jed. jed, now flat on his back in the grass, musters up the strength to kick landon so hard in the abdomen that he flies backward and tumbles down the nearby hill.

landon rolls all the way to the bottom of the hill, landing on his back just as jed leaps the same distance with his werewolf agility. the wolf stalks toward landon, grabbing him by the front of the shirt and punching him with such force that his nose and mouth instantly become bloodied. he ends the fight with one last kick to the abdomen, causing landon to spit a mouthful of blood onto the grass before the former alpha walks away.

landon lays on the grass trying to catch his breath which he couldn't seem to find, henrietta who just left the cellar walks across the field and see's landon lying on the ground injured. "landon?" she asks not really knowing who it was. "landon!" she yells running up to him, she turns him on his back and picks up his head. "what happened?" she asks stroking his hair back to see his face clearly.

"jed" was all landon said, before passing out.

"dickhead" henrietta huffed,wanting him truly to be good. she smiled down at landon, whose head was in her lap "let's get you cleaned up" she sighed before grabbing him and helping him stand, bringing him inside the building trying not to hurt him more than he already was.

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henrietta sits on landon bed with hope as they clean him up, before katherine and rafael come storming in, just hearing about what happened. "im going to kill him!" katherine grunted, looking over landon.

"no, you're really not" hope said, turning to katherine with wide eyes.

"neither are you" she said again turning to rafael with a warning look.

"well we have to do something, he could've killed him" henrietta argues standing up, causing the cloth she was holding to fall flat on landon's face.

"you want to do something to help him? take a walk to the herb garden and get me some hazelwood root" hope grits her teeth to emphasise her argument.

rafael still angry, turns around and leaves without another word. "what does hazelwood root do?" landon asks curiously to the girls left in the room. 

"it's not real" katherine says as if it's the most obvious thing in the world.

"gives you time before he realizes you made it up" henrietta adds on. 

"how'd you know?" hope asks turning to the girls.

"my ex- fiance was a warlock" katherine explains, both her and henrietta sigh with tears in their eyes.

"arthur..." henrietta mutters under her breath, remembering the boy she saw as another older brother.

"you were engaged?!" landon exclaims in shock.

"we were starting a family, we'll we had a family..." katherine explains, as her eyes began to glisten.

"until that bloody bastard ruined it all!" henrietta spat in anger, before storming out of the room, not before forgetting to slam the door, causing the whole room to shake. which was not normal. landon and hope stared at her, before looking back at katherine.

"trust me when i say, we had a bad relationship with our father" katherine chuckled emotionlessly. landon not knowing what to say, stays silent.

"katherine, what did he do?" hope asks, telling the girl needed to be comforted.

"he took them from us" katherine mutters, staring blankly at the wall reliving the horrific day the tragedy occured.

"who, who did he take?" hope asks, walking up to her placing a hand on her shoulder.

"our family" katherine says before going to sit on rafael's bed.

"but you have your family" landon says thinking of her siblings.

"no! the rest of my family; my fiance, my bestfriend, he took my baby!" she repeated, whispering the last part. 

"my baby!" katherine repeated becoming overwhelmed, causing the ceiling to shake. hope found this unusual seeing as she was just a vampire and this shouldn't be happening. her mind went back to how henrietta caused the room to shake.

the lounging area ceilings began to shake slightly, victoria who sat with theo heard katherine's scream and they both exchanged looks before running off to the room. theo saw henrietta storming through the corridors, deciding to let victoria go ahead.

"what's wrong, why are you crying?" he asked grabbing her shoulder, so she was forced to look at him.

"i can't do this anymore" she tried to say, but the knot in her throat stopped her from doing so. 

"shh, it's okay" theo said, not really understanding the girl but wanting to help her. he pulled her into his chest as he soothed her, rubbing her back. she broke down in his arms, falling to her knees, him going with her. he pulled her to the side of the wall, into his chest to cry as he held her close. 

"i need charles" she cried into his shirt. he nodded his head, before getting up promising he'll be back before running off to find the boy.

"katherine!" victoria yelled, running into the room. she saw hope and landon backing away from her, with slightly scared expressions on their faces.

"i just wanted my baby!" katherine sobbed, holding the bed sheets tightly trying not to explode. victoria ran up to her, grabbing her cheeks to look at her. 

"look at me!" victoria called towards her. she pulled the girl forward, so she could cry on her shoulder. "he's gone, he can't hurt you" victoria whispered calmly towards katherine, already knowing of everything that happened to her and her family due to charles. hope looked ready to cry, and landon had silent tears streaming down his face.

"charles!" theo shouted rushing into his room, with a panicked look on his face, charles looked up from his book shocked that he barged in.

"what do you want?" sebastian asked walking out of the bathroom in his pyjamas.

"henrietta and katherine, something's going on" he explained quickly before motioning with his hands for them to follow. charles and sebastian shared a worried look before running after him.

charles saw henrietta on the floor outside of her room crying, and rushed up to her pulling her into his embrace.

sebastian ran ahead to landon and rafael's room seeing victoria holding katherine as she too cried. "kathy" he sighed, as she looked up at him. he rushed to her and grabbed her hands trying to get her to calm down. he lead her out of the room to charles and henrietta knowing there older brother would know what to do.

"she had a child?" hope asked, as victoria started walking out of the room wiping her eyes. she turned to her with a sympathetic look

"she had two" was all victoria said before leaving the room. hope turned to look at landon, who had his mouth slightly ajar at the recent event.

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kaleb stands up feeling the ceiling shake slightly before smirking seeing mg walk down the stairs with the keys to his cells in hand. "let me guess... there's been a mistake. i won the popular vote, but not the electoral college" mg who is still upset from losing, shakes his head.

"no. you won fair and square... besides the part where you stabbed me in the back" kaleb stands to his feet, making a mocking face.

"ooh, doesn't feel to good, does it?" kaleb mocked.

"emma sent me to come get you" mg explains, annoyed at this point.

"okay..." kaleb draws out, waiting to be free. mg opens the door, with an apologetic look despite all that's happened between them.

"i only wanted to be elected so i could fix things between us" mg says being honest.

"you did! now we're even" kaleb says cheerfully. he begins to walk away before turning around confused.

"where's henrietta, she said she'd be here when i get out?" he asked concerned.

"something happened with her and katherine upstairs, they caused a mini earthquake" mg explained, confused to why kaleb was so concerned.

"is she okay?" he asked lowering his voice slightly, mg nodded. kaleb began to walk upstairs before mg stopped him.

"why are you so worried about her?" he asked, confused not thinking they were that close. kaleb turns around with a sigh. 

"because that girl and her family have been through too much, and i refuse to let her get hurt again" he explained before walking upstairs to find henrietta.

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hope opened the sliding doors to the ballroom behind the grand hall, where emma, josie, kaleb and rafael are waiting. "sorry im late, there was a situation with the declares" hope apologised, hope took a seat at the table as they all gave her confused looks. 

kaleb speaks up "hold up- who voted her?" 

hope shrugs "i ran unopposed" she explained.

"are sebastian and the others okay?" josie asked concerned for her friends, who she began to really like having around. hope nodded silently.

after arguing whether or not to let landon stay in the school , with one to stay and two to go, josie was the only on left to vote deciding landon's fate at the salvatore school. "i will protect him" rafael argues, needing his brother to stay.

"and where were you an hour ago? if henrietta didn't find him, he could've gotten seriously hurt" hope argues making rafael look down.

"that the point if he stays, it's on all of us. It is all of our responsibility to protect him. can we honestly say we believe every one of us can handle that kind of responsibility?" she asks turning to the others who all look grim, even rafael.

"it's up to you josie" kaleb announces 

after hope speaks up "and our hands are already full with he declares, there's something different about them" she explained making them all look at her with confused looks. "they're stronger, there's something dangerous about them" she says making kaleb sigh, not wanting henrietta to leave. josie looked down, knowing this puts everyone's fate's on the line.

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hope has just dropped landon off at the bus stop, making sure he got there safely after josie voted for him to leave. lizzie and sebastian just had sex in the gymnasium. katherine and henrietta fell asleep in their rooms after their brothers carried them. victoria and charles slept in her room as sebastian had brought lizzie back to his room.

somewhere in the town of mystic falls, an inaudible gasp is heard from underneath of the tombs. a young woman with brown wavy hair sits up almost falling off her tomb from how quick she rose. she gasped for air as she grabbed her chest trying to process where she was and what she last remembered. her lips were plump and her figure was slim, she hard chocolate brown eyes and a button nose. she was dressed in vintage clothing. they looked rich and so did she as she had a diamond tiara rested upon her head.

"katherine!" she called out as she tried to stand, she shook a little before regaining her balance. "charles! henrietta!" she called out again need some sort of reply "sebastian! seb!" she yelled one more time, before looking around in fear. "arthur, i swear if you do not come out this instant je te tuerai!" she swore, her throat burning. she felt as if she needed to settle her thirst.

she began to emerge from underneath of the tomb to realize she was no longer in france, but some advanced magical kingdom with glowing signs and moving carriages without horses. it was still dark outside as she held her black and gold dress high trying not to dirty it. "any one, some one?" she called trying to find some help.

"are you okay?" a man asked walking up to her with a worried look in her eyes, black veins started to crawl underneath of her eyes as he came closer. she didn't know what was coming over her and she didn't like it.

"i do not know what is going on but je suis désolé de ce qui va se passer" she apologised before speeding forward and sinking her fangs into his neck, she drained him until there was nothing left to drink, letting his body hit the floor gently.

"katherine!" she gasped as memories from 1913 came back hitting her like a brick, she placed a hand on her heart to steady herself before tears came to her eyes. she started to cry in the middle of the park, falling to her knees not being able to handle everything that happened at once. "sirius , mary" she sobbed as she held her dress, thinking of the babies that he took. no one knew where they were, if they were still alive, if they lived, if they had a happy life. and no one could handle that.

after crying for around 5 minutes, she recollected herself with red puffy eyes and began to walk around the town trying to find someone to help her. after walking for a hour she came upon the salvatore school. she pushed the gates open with one hand before picking up the end of her dress and making her way down the drive towards the front door.

she opened it gently before wandering in, she was startled by mg who dropped his bag of blood seeing her. "ahhh!" he shrieked, not knowing the girl.

"can you tell me where the bloody hell i am?" she asked in a thick french accent, confused on why he was wearing such ridiculous clothes.

mg grabbed his phone quickly, dialling alaric's number "mr. saltzman, we have a problem"