• • • •

Faith groaned in annoyance as she was awakened by her phone ringing. She struggled to reach for her phone on the nightstand with arms tightly wrapped around her waist. "Hello?" She yawned, glancing behind her at Klaus.

"Hello, Faith."

Faith sat up at the sound of Rebekah's voice. She grimaced when Klaus shifted around, pulling Faith closer to him. "Who is it?" Klaus asked with his eyes still closed.

"Rebekah, how nice it is to hear your voice," Faith answered to which Klaus opened his eyes only to roll them in annoyance. "Where are you?"

"I know you're with my brother, Faith," Rebekah replied. "So I'll just text you and you can help me with my little class I'm having."

"But it's Sunday," she complained.

"Great to have you onboard," Rebekah ignored her before she hung up.

Faith sighed as she laid back on the bed. She turned to the side, snuggling into Klaus. She smiled, softly as he began to kiss her shoulder. She hummed with her fingers drawing invisible lines on the hybrid's back. "I should go," Faith mumbled despite not wanting to leave the warmth of the hybrid and bed.

"Don't go," Klaus smiled against her shoulder before pulling her on top of him. He smirked at the sight of the siphoner straddling him on top of him. His eyes shined dangerously at her.

Coyly, Faith bent down where her face was only a few inches from Klaus'. "I could just stay," Faith whispered before jumping off the bed. "But your sister would kill me and I prefer to live until graduation. At least."

"Faith," Klaus growled at the siphoner.

She only smiled, teasingly, and winked at the hybrid before she left his bedroom.

• • • •

Blue eyes wandered around the hallways before she turned around the corner into the library. At the sight of the blonde Original, she smiled. "Rebekah," her eyes wandered to Elena sitting at a library table. "I see you've been busy."

Immediately, Faith waved her hand and Elena laid against the table with her neck twisted. Rebekah frowned at the raven-haired girl with hands in her hips. "Why did you do that for?"

"I don't like her," Faith shrugged. "That's reason enough."

"And this is why we're friends," Rebekah smiled, placing her arm over Faith's shoulder.

"So where's April?" The siphoner asked.

Rebekah stepped away and shrugged. "Making sure everyone has left before class starts."

Faith sat down across the table from Elena. "And who else is invited to class?"

"Stefan for stabbing in the back," Rebekah glowered before turning to Faith. "I heard from April, you went back to Klaus after everything that happened."

"He apologized," Faith mumbled, getting a feeling she was about to get scolded by the blonde.

Rebekah scoffed. "That's a first. I don't think I've ever heard Nik apologize to anyone. Not even to us."

Faith looked down at the table. She felt bad that she, someone who wasn't family from blood, was able to get the hybrid to apologize when Klaus has never apologized to his own siblings. She knew Rebekah still felt betrayed by him. Maybe from her as well since she went back to Klaus. And Faith wasn't sure she made a good decision, but she loves Klaus, that's all she knows.

"Everyone has left," April announced as she entered the library. "And I saw Caroline's car in the parking lot."

"You take care of Elena," Rebekah ordered April.

April studied the brunette vampire still dead from her twisted neck on the table. "I thought she already woke up from that."

Faith shrugged, catching the girl's attention. "That was me. Anyway, I'll take care of Caroline. I'd rather have an easy day today."

• • • •

Faith smirked as she knocked against the lockers in the hallway catching the blonde's attention from her phone. She disappeared as Caroline turned around. Quickly, she appeared behind the vampire. Before she could react, she ripped the oak stake away from the vampire.

Caroline's eyes widened when she turned around and saw Faith twirling the stake in her hand. The siphoner smirked at her. "Now will you go peacefully or do I have to snap your neck and drag you to the library? I prefer it if you went peacefully. Dragging across the hall will be tiring."

Just as Caroline was trying to think of a way to escape, Faith spoke up again. "Or maybe I could just drive this stake through your heart and I won't have to bother with you? Really, the choice is yours."

"Fine," Caroline gave up. "I'll go with you."

Faith held out her hand. "Phone, please. We don't want you to give your hybrid boyfriend a call, but then again he might be too depressed with the death of his mother to come to the rescue."

"Bitch," the blonde spat.

Faith shrugged with a smirk. "Thanks for the compliment."

• • • •

The library doors opened to reveal Rebekah dragging Stefan by the arm into the library. Elena almost stood up but Rebekah spoke up. "Did I say you could move?" She walked up to the table where Elena, Caroline, and April sat with, now, Stefan. "Class is in session. You've all been compelled. You know the rules; answer my questions honestly, no disobedience, no one leaves."

Rebekah motioned at April. "April, my sweet, take notes. This is how you get answers in this town. Let's start with a little quiz," she stalked around the table while Faith was seated on one of the bookshelves, observing the whole scene with amusement. "In the year 1114, my brother learned, thanks to yours truly, about a brotherhood of vampire hunters with tattoos that grew with each kill."

"These tattoos revealed what? Elena?"

"A map," Elena said, reluctantly.

Rebekah turned to Caroline, "which led to, Caroline?"

"A cure for vampirism."

"Perfect, so we're all caught up," Rebekah smiled before glancing at the male vampire. "Stefan Salvatore, the last time we saw each other, you had a vampire hunter, but in order to decode the map, you needed the location of the hunter's sword, which you got out of me using some very dirty tricks. Assuming you found the sword, you also found the cure, and yet, you're all still vampires, which means something went wrong."

"What are you doing?" Rebekah demanded as she looked at April writing in her journal.

April looked at the Original. "You asked me to take notes."

Faith jumped off the bookshelf and walked up to April with a smile. She motioned at the teenager at the vampires, "Isn't she just adorable? So innocent."

"Don't gush over the seventeen-year-old girl, Faith," Rebekah remarked before focusing on April. "But now that you mention it, a flow chart would be nice, which means index cards and push-pins. Go, fetch."

April left as Faith took her seat. Stefan then spoke up. "You're wasting your time. We don't know anything. Why don't you ask your friend, Faith?"

"I rather not," Rebekah denied. "It's so much more fun getting it out of you, lot. So, you just gave up? I thought you would do anything to save Elena? Even if it meant taking the cure yourself, so you could grow old and die with her?"

Elena turned to Stefan in shock. Rebekah frowned in confusion at the reaction. "Why do you look so surprised?" Everyone stayed quiet as Faith smirked to herself. "I'm missing something. What is it?"

"They broke up," Faith revealed with a smirk.

"Broke up?" Rebekah repeated with amusement. "Wait, I'm confused. I thought Elena was your epic love, Stefan? I asked what happened and you have to tell me."

"She slept with Damon," Stefan confessed. Elena glanced at Caroline with hurt written over her face.

"Come on, Elena," Faith feigned a pout. "You didn't really think Barbie, here wouldn't blab to Stefan, now did you?"

"So, vampire Elena is a trollop who likes bad boys, which explains why Stefan reeks of alcohol," Rebekah began to pace around the table until she was next to Elena. "But what it doesn't explain is why sweet, loving, innocent Elena could be so heartless towards Stefan. How could she hurt you like that? Answer, please."

Reluctantly, Stefan spoke up. "She didn't know it at the time, but she was sired to Damon."

"A sire bond. That's fascinating. And what do you think about that, Elena?"

"I think you're sad and bored and in desperate need of a hobby," Elena remarked.

Faith and Rebekah glanced at each other in amusement. They both crouched down on either side of the brunette vampire as she glanced at the two friends. "Really now?" Faith questioned. "I'm sure you need one yourself. First, you were all 'you lied to me and I hate your brother, but I still love you' and then you just switched to Damon. Carbon copy of Katherine, but boring."

Faith grinned as Elena glared at her. "You're hiding something. Fess up," Rebekah compelled.

"I didn't sleep with Damon because of the sire bond. I slept with Damon because I'm in love with him," Elena said. She looked surprised by what she said whereas Stefan looked hurt.

"Talk about teen drama," Faith chuckled.

"What does any of this have to do with the stupid cure?" Caroline changed the subject.

Rebekah looked around at the three vampires before agreeing, "You're right. We got off the point. Stefan, how do I find the cure? Unless you'd rather talk about Damon and Elena all day."

Stefan spoke with dread. "There's a professor. He knows where the cure is."

"And how do we find this professor?" Faith asked.