Margot was packing her bags in her room when Stefan entered once again.

"You know, one of these times I'm going to be naked and you are going to be traumatized, dad," She commented when he didn't knock.

"Klaus took Elena- Why are you packing?"

Margot sighed. Instead of looking at him, she stared at the now very interesting floor.

The vampire immediately got nervous as he walked over to her, placing his hand under her chin, and gently lifting her face, "Maggie? What's wrong? Did he do something? Did he hurt you?"

She shook her head, tears threatening to fall in her eyes as she stared into her father's beautiful green eyes. "I'm going with him. After... Everything happened. He's going to help me with my magic and this way he'll be far away from all of you. You won't have to look over your shoulder every five seconds."

His eyes widened, "What? No. Margot, I don't care if I'm hunted for the rest of eternity, you do not need to sacrifice your happiness for us."

"Dad, you sacrifice everything for me. It's time I repay you."

"Repay me? You're my daughter Margot. You don't have to repay me for anything. If you want to repay me just make me another batch of cookies, don't sell yourself to the devil."

"Dad, I'll be fine. Besides, if he does anything wrong, I'll cut his balls off and hang them from the tree as though they are ornaments... better yet I'll-"

"I get it, Maggs," He mumbles, shuffling slightly at her words. He could almost feel the pain.

She grinned, "I was raised by Stefan Salvatore, when he was a ripper at that. I know how to protect myself."

He slowly nodded. He raised her while in 'ripper mode'. He taught her all his tricks and somehow she wasn't a sociopath... yet.

"Fine. Call me. Everyday. If you don't call I will find you and I will not let you have iced coffee for a week."

"Fair."

— — —

Two days had passed. The sacrifice had gone and went. Elena Gilbert was 'dead' and Elijah Mikaelson was a traitor. John Gilbert and Jenna Sommers were dead while Elena lived on, not that Klaus knew that.

So when Klaus came to collect Margot, she felt decently okay about leaving. Stefan and Damon would still have Elena. They would still have a shoulder to cry on.

While she was lounging in Alaric's apartment with Katherine, she didn't know Damon was suffering from a fatal werewolf bite courtesy of Tyler Lockwood.

Klaus had left a few hours prior, wishing to gather Elijah before their departure which left Katherine and Margot to talk about, you guessed it, murder ploys. Sure, the two women didn't like each other, however, one can always bond with another when it comes to killing people.

"Margot," She heard a voice whisper from the doorway. She knew that voice. "Dad?"

"Hey, sweetheart. Do you know where Klaus is?"

Before Margot could answer, Katherine vamp sped him against the wall, putting a finger against her lips, silently telling him not to speak. "Klaus, you're back. Look who decided to come for a visit."

"You just keep popping up, don't you?" Klaus said with gritted teeth while Elijah walked in behind him.

Stefan glanced at Margot before looking at the hybrid, "I need your help...For my brother."

"Well, whatever it is, it's gonna have to wait a tick. You see, I have an obligation to my brother that requires my immediate attention," He answered as he walked into another room, sending a wink to Margot as he walked past her.

"You understand how important family is, or you wouldn't be here. My brother gave me his word that he would reunite me with my own," Elijah explained as Klaus walked back inside only to shove a dagger into his heart.

The Original smirked, watching as his brother's body dropped to the ground before he sped to Stefan, holding him against the wall by his neck. "Now, what am I gonna do with you?"

Margot sucked her teeth, a slight blue mist appearing at her fingertips, "The deal, Klaus. Let my father go, or the deal is off."

Klaus bit his lower lip, tilting his head to face her, as he loosened his grip on the Salvatore, "Of course, love."

"The witches said you had a cure. Make me a deal. Just give me the cure, and I'll do whatever you want," Stefan pleaded as Margot walked closer to him, not liking how unstable Klaus appeared.

"Trouble is I don't know if you'd be any good to me the way you are now. You are just shy of useless. I heard about this one vampire, crazy bloke, always on and off the wagon for decades. When he was off, he was magnificent. 1917, he went into Monterrey and wiped out an entire migrant village...A true ripper. Sound familiar?"

Stefan glanced down at Margot, "I haven't been that way in a very long time."

"Well, that's the vampire I can make a deal with. That is the kind of talent that I can use when I leave this town. If you do what I say, I'll let you come with me and be with your daughter. Katerina, come here."

The female vampire walked over to him only for him to grab her wrist before sinking his teeth into the soft skin. The woman screamed in pain. "No. No...No. No. No."

Klaus only smirked as he bit into his wrist before feeding her his blood, her wound miraculously healing itself earning shocked looks from the two Salvatores.

"You want your cure? There it is."

"Your blood is the cure," Stefan concluded with a defeated look.

"Gotta love Mother Nature," The Original answered, sending a wink to Margot. "Now...Let's talk, you, and I."

— — —

"There it is. You want to save your brother? How 'bout a decade-long bender? And I have big plans for you when we leave this town."

"I'm not like that anymore," Stefan argued. He didn't like the way the hybrid looked at his daughter, not to mention the number of dirty jokes he had made in the span of ten minutes.

"Well, that's too bad. You would have made a hell of a wingman," He said as he poured a vile filled with his blood down the sink.

As soon as the vile was almost half empty he sighed, "Wait."

He smirked, placing the cork back in the jar, "Now that's more like it. I want you to join me for a drink."

Margot glared at him as he threw a blood bag in Stefan's direction. Stefan glanced at his daughter before looking away and taking a sip of the dark red liquid.

"Finish it. All of it. You do everything I say, and I save your brother. That's the deal."

Stefan hurried to finish the blood only for another bag to be placed in front of him.

"Again," Klaus prompted with a smirk.

— — —

Stefan was sitting on the floor, leaning against the cool brick wall as he drank from two more blood bags, twelve empty ones on the floor around him.

Margot felt sick. She hated this. She hated seeing him suffer but she knew she could say nothing. Technically, this wasn't physically hurting Stefan therefore, their deal would do nothing to save him.

"You're very cooperative. It's almost as if you're enjoying it," The Original commented as he moved to sit next to Margot, trailing his hand down her arm as he threw yet another blood bag to the vampire.

"No more," Stefan grunted, pushing the bag away, "Not until you give me the cure."

"Not until we make a deal. It's your choice, Stefan. You can either remain here living your life in Mystic Falls, or you can embrace what you truly are, leave town with me and Margot, and save your brother's life," He offered, kneeling in front of the vampire, holding up the discarded blood bag.

Stefan hungrily grabbed it before sinking his teeth into it.

"That's the spirit," He whispered, his voice seeming proud as he looked at Katherine, "Sweetheart..."

Katherine stood up immediately. It was like she was a robot, complying with his every word.

He held out the vial of blood, placing it in her hands as he compelled her, "Take this over to Damon and come right back."

Her heart skipped a beat. "You want me to leave?"

"No!" Stefan and Margot yelled as the girl sped out of the apartment, taking the cure with her and leaving the father and daughter with hopeless expressions on their faces.

"She'll never take it to him."

— — —

Klaus had taken his new 'comrades' as he liked to call them to a warehouse. He had compelled a few humans on the way there to lug Elijah's coffin into a storage unit where four other coffins sat.

He smirked as he glanced down at his older brother, "I suppose, brother, you've been reunited with our family."

As soon as he closed the coffin he glanced at the compelled humans, "Put him with the others. We're leaving town tonight."

Margot and Stefan stood side by side at the door, leaning against the wall as they read a text from Elena.

'Damon's okay. Where are you?' The message read earning relieved sighs from the pair.

"So...Did Katerina make it in time?" Klaus questioned as he walked over, Stefan quickly turning off his phone as he did so.

"You won't be seeing her again, you know."

"Because she's on vervain? I've been around a long time, Stefan. I rarely get played for a fool. Besides, she won't get far. You'll help me see to that."

"What is it you really want from me?" Stefan asked, still standing slightly in front of Margot.

"All will be explained in time. Once we leave this tragic little town."

"Then are we done here? Can we go?" Margot questioned impatiently.

"Not quite. You see, I have a gift for you, Stefan."

Margot sighed. He had pulled the same card on her the other night, however, her gift was a little... promiscuous... and hot pink.

"Come here, sweetheart. Don't be afraid," Klaus called before a teenage girl walked towards them, slightly shaking as she did so.

"See, I wanna make sure you honour our deal...that you'll be of use to me... I could have compelled her to behave, but a real ripper enjoys the hunt."

Klaus let go of the girl, and she immediately ran only to be stopped by Stefan who quickly bit into her neck, sucking every drop of blood from her body before dropping her to the ground.

Blood dripped down his face, dripping onto the ground as he stared at Margot. He felt disgusting. He felt like he had betrayed her in a sense. He promised himself that while she was alive and breathing he would never become a ripper and here he was, killing a woman right in front of her.

"Now we can go."

A/N

I think we're going to be seeing a lot of this 'hot pink, promiscuous' gift klaus gave margot... soon ;)