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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD13KJXZ26h
Jeremy stood by a table that had chairs on it, watching him, Matt and April behind him.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS3bIVdUG7l
"What are you doing?" Jeremy asked.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd5mpygemcT
"If anything walks through that door, it'll get a spurt of the werewolf poison."685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkaJwiau3aK
"Those are our friends out there," Jeremy protested.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6PHBSPU1S
"No they're not."685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87wFyQeuPe
"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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ86KkRwFdOj
"If you want to learn how to kill vampires, you have to do it my way."685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡObZLKtUMyD
"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."685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKIzpRnsOLk
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX5g7UR8ncG
Ric walked over and broke the set up with a dagger he had in hand.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1yoPc6ogI
"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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDhUwsFeGm1
"You should get out of here," Ric advised Matt, April, and Jeremy.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobhuhNGK16
"There's an escape route in the back room," Damon told them.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhekcXLavNw
They started to go.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ22hLYb0SC9
Conner grabbed Jeremy, knife to his throat.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdHeDZxyZR
"Don't come any closer," he warned. He then added in warning, "And you two aren't going anywhere."685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7xl2fviPk
April and Matt stopped a distance away from them.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkwIFPYtkp
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMDrWBdM5f
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR119VtiGfA
"Jeremy, drink; you need to heal."685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs9k7zQTqNP
He looked at her for a few minutes, before he drank, knowing he could trust his sister, no matter what she was.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqz3g0J0CZS
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqEeu1RTq1T
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEFaf0xypN
"No," he protested.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4Lh0PSyLE
"You're dying, Alaric. You have to."685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIRt2YpsJzQ
"I don't have to do anything."685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWWwNqkUUdJ
"I don't want you to die," she told him.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGUxHovIfgY
He looked at her and she did likewise with him.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP15IlEbQzn
"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."685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0p0zHKmDts
Katherine's eyes shone with sadness, giving away her feelings. Then she got to her feet and turned her back to help out.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEtDb9Zlqz
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD6TgR53K5b
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhWW98h2Wsk
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbd2lZ1270b
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBKxDpKcAv2
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0S1xF2y9wN
Damon painfully got to his feet. Then he through Conner off Elena and twisted his arm behind his back, making him drop the stake.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSuAmJKB3u
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ojLHEq1sv
Matt looked at April.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcyo7O5AT0n
"Go out the back and get home. I'll explain everything later. We all will," he said, wanting her out of the mix.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsX1y7MGtvO
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVy2hyQSKdP
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9lnMdmvL2
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVUhyyaPWM
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQUQTcnUOhi
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0p60Bs9Lw
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx8hMHXmZjo
"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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6kdyXGtDcJ
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLw5i1RVl02
"Are you okay?" he asked her.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEjF9hHo9ju
"I'm fine," she said, sitting up. "Tyler, what's going on?"685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmaHQQRk9On
"I didn't ask."685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw5h2HqqOxB
They got to their feet and walked over.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyInehS0jNN
"What happened?" Caroline questioned.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz1NpXlVk6C
Ric looked up at her.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK7zas5KBFp
"She was stabbed with Conner's knife. Now she's dying. Somehow he got a hold of some werewolf poison."685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKsTwR9Cy6O
"Then we need Klaus," Caroline answered.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡABZoL0ecrV
"It's Katherine. He won't do it," Damon implied. "I might have some leftover at home, though."685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIiOJFUVczk
"I'll take her there while you clean up," Ric volunteered.
"And I'll go with him," Elena told Damon.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ04tpUISxj
Ric gently picked Katerina up in his arms and got to his feet, heading for the door.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeaJN3j2nfz
Damon watched as Elena followed Ric out the door.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡerNlIxHIze
"We should go home. It's late," Caroline said.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKXTHt82pFn
He watched silently, as Tyler and Caroline left hand in hand.
As Ric headed towards the boarding house, Katherine blacked out.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqhQjtfrSeC
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcOQWdtJVV
"Thanks," the vampiress said to Elena.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVTtU1ltev
"You're welcome."685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKxHDjvkXxp
"I guess I get to say welcome to this side of life," Katherine replied to Elena.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuO4rMIpVan
"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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZLcPj2AQ9p
Kat sat up.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo2T34azcM2
"Rebekah. I should probably kill her one of these days for that."685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWBLSgTWbu
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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