Smoky Mountains, Tennessee

Klaus, Natalie and Stefan were walking up the mountains. Stefan had Ray over his shoulders.

"You okay. Is Ray getting heavy?" Klaus ask Stefan

"I'm fine."

"You sure about that? You know we've been walking for quite some time now. If you need some water or a little sit-down..." Klaus says continuing to tease Stefan.

"I need water and a sit down. Why couldn't i just stay in the car. I'm hot and my hair is getting dry, frizzing and sticking to my face."

Harley was having the time of her life in the woods. She had a leash around her neck, with Natalie holding it.

Stefan looks at Klaus and then faces toward again. "You know, I get that we're, uh— we're stuck together, Klaus, but if we could maybe just skip the chit chat, I'd be great."

"So much brooding your self loathing is suffocating you, my friend." Klaus tells him

"This heat is making me suffocate. My feet hurt." Natalie whines

"Maybe it's cause I'm a little tired of hunting werewolves. We've been at it all summer." Stefan says annoyed

"Nik let me get on your back." Klaus sighs and bends down a little. She jumps on his back and he takes the leash.

"Did you have to wear a thin shirt with no bra love."

"Well Nik its hot and I was not going to wear a bra. It was just gonna make me sweat more and make me uncomfortable." She goes up to his ear and whispers, "And don't complain you know you love my boobs pressed to your back."

Stefan says something before Klaus can. "I'm also sick of you guys flirting."

"Don't be jealous Stefan. You'll find some to flirt with. I'm sure someone out there will make you happy like Elena did."

Stefan gives her a tight lip smile.

"Well thanks to our pal Ray, we've found ourselves a pack. There."

Stefan walks up to the campsite and everyone looks up as Klaus, and Natalie are right be him.

Stefan drops the body in front of them. A girl runs to Ray body.

"Ray. Oh my god. Whats going on? Who are you?"

Klaus walks up and speak up as he puts Natalie on the ground. He also hands her the leash.

"The important question is who am I. Please forgive the intrusion. My name is Klaus."

The woman realizes. "You're the hybrid."

He smirks. "You've heard of me. Fantastic."

Natalie rolled her eyes. "You just had to go and make his ego larger." She then smirk when she got a glare from Klaus. She had increased the headache pain. She loved increasing and decreasing the pain.

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Stefan and Klaus were sitting on a piece of wood. Natalie was sitting on Klaus lap because she didn't want to get her shorts dirty. He had his arms wrapped around her waist. Harley was laying down by Klaus feet.

"It's fascinating, actually— a werewolf who isn't beholden to the moon, a vampire who doesn't burn in the sun. A true hybrid."

Ray gasps.

"Excellent timing, Ray. Very dramatic."

"What's happening to me?" Ray asks

"Stefan."

"Are any of you human? Your friend here needs human blood. To complete his transition to vampire. If he doesn't get it, he will die." Stefan explains

Klaus pats Natalie thigh signaling for her to get up. She gets up and so does Klaus.

"Doesn't take much, just a sample. Anyone? A boyfriend, A girlfriend along for the ride?" Klaus turns and looks at a blonde man. "You." He speeds to the man and bites his arm. He shoves him to Stefan.

The girl from earlier tries to interfere but Klaus stops her.

Stefan holds the human down. "If you don't drink it, Ray, I will. Problem is I don't know how to stop."

Ray grabs the arm and starts to drink the blood.

He lets go of the girl. "Who here wants to turn into an hybrid. You won't be a slave to the moon anymore."

Half of the wolves raise their hands. The girl that Klaus was holding looked at them disgust. "How could you want to turn into a vampire."

One of the werewolves speak up. "Just because you hate vampire doesn't mean we do. I'm sick of turning every full moon."

She scoffs and walks off. The ones that didn't raise their hands leave with her. The ones that wanted to turn stayed. Klaus bit into his wrist and feed his blood to the first werewolf.

Klaus breaks the werewolf neck. He looks around with his hybrid face on show and blood on his hand. "Who's next."

Natalie was just staring and drooling. She couldn't keep her eyes off of Klaus when he had his hybrid face on show.

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Klaus feeds the human blood. "There. Good as new. Now you relax, ok mate. We're gonna need you when the rest of them wake up."

Klaus stands up and walk to Ray.

"They're dead. They're all dead." Ray says looking at the wolves that stayed

"Ah, he's through his transition. He should be feeling better soon." He pats Ray shoulder before walking over to Stefan and Natalie.

"So is this your master plan? Build an army of hybrid slaves?" Stefan asks

"No, not slaves. Soldiers, comrades." Klaus answers

"He's not going to treat them like slaves anyway because I won't let him." Natalie says looking down at her phone.

Stefan looks at Klaus. "For what war might I ask?"

"Oh, you don't arm yourself after war has been declared, Stefan. You build your army so big that no one ever dares pick the fight." Klaus explains.

Stefan asks another question. "What makes you so sure that they'll be loyal?"

"Well it's not difficult to be loyal when you're on the winning team. That's something you'll learn once you shake that horribly depressive chip off your shoulder."

Stefan laughs. "That's why you're uh— you're keeping me around? To witness my attitude adjustment?"

"Nik!"

He ignores her. "You'll know why I'm keeping you around when I've decided that I want you to know."

"Klaus!"

He turns to see Ray eyes bleeding.

"Something wrong."

Stefan takes a look. "That shouldn't be happening should it."

"No shit Sherlock."

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"You said it was going to feel better. Why doesn't it feel better?" Ray says while shivering.

"Some master race." Stefan mutters

Klaus snaps "Lose the attitude."

One of the werewolves wake up.

"Derek come feed your friend." He demanded the human

Ray suddenly speeds and jumps over rocks knocking Natalie over in the process. Klaus looks at Stefan as he runs over to her.

"Go get him."

Klaus help her up. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine Nik but I don't have a good feeling about this. I also feel like something bad is happening in mystic falls so I'm gonna go call Caroline."

He nods and goes to find Stefan. She takes Harleys leash and walk a few feet down the path they came up.

She pulls her phone out and dials her number. She places the phone to her ear as it rings. Waiting a moment the line goes to voicemail.

She dials again and does the same thing. Voicemail. She sighs and goes back to the campsite to see Klaus there.

"Something happened to Caroline and I'm worried. She not answering." Natalie says quickly

Klaus walks over to her and hugs her. She places her arms around his stomach.

"I'm sure she's fine love and if she's not I'll send someone to check up on her."

She nods. "Okay."

Klaus places a kiss on top of her head.

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"Bad news, my friend. End of the road for you." Klaus bites into the blondes neck, killing him. Klaus sees one of the werewolves come up to him. Natalie is looking around watching the werewolves walk around like zombies.

She picks Harley up and move to Klaus side. He wraps his arm around her waist pulling them closer.

"Careful love, there's only on alpha here."

He slowly looks around and sees what Natalie sees. "Bloody hell."

All the hybrids start to come towards them. Klaus let's go of Natalie waist and goes to kill them.

Natalie holds her hand out, closed her eyes and mutters a spell. Opening them she sees all of the werewolves dead on the ground with their hearts ripped out.

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Stefan walks into the campsite with an dead Ray on his back. He drops him to the ground.

Klaus is sitting on the wood with Natalie Natalie sitting on his lap. His arms wrapped around her waist and face in her neck trying to calm himself down.

"They went rabid. Natalie killed all of them."

He takes Natalie off his lap and stands up. "In the end... they're all dead."

He throws the bottle he has in his hand at a tree and yells. "I did everything I was told! I should be able to turn them. I broke the curse. I killed a werewolf. I killed a vampire. I killed the doppelgänger."

"You look like hell." Klaus says looking at Stefan

"Last I checked I'm dying... and you don't want to heal me." They look at Ray dead body. "I had to take him out. I didn't have a choice. I failed you. I'm sorry. Do what you have to do."

"It should have worked." He goes a bottle and bites his wrist, letting the blood drip inside the bottle. He hands the bottle to Stefan.

"Bottoms up. We're leaving." He looks around at the dead bodies. "It appears your the only comrade I have left. Along with my soulmate."

Natalie looks at Klaus with sadness in her eyes, knowing how much this meant to him.

She picks up Harley and looks at Stefan before catching up to Klaus. Grabbing his hand she places a kiss on it.

"I'm sorry Nik. I know how much this meant to you."

He squeezes her hand letting her know he was going to be okay.

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Caroline slowly wakes up to see she is tied down to a chair inside some cellar.

"Hello! Mrs. Lockwood!"

She tries to get loose but no use. "Somebody!"

She hears something. "Who's that? Mrs. Lockwood? Please."

The door opens to see Bill. Her dad.

"Hello, Caroline."

"Daddy?"

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Okay it my seems like I'm updating everyday but im not supposed to which shows I don't do my homework🙃. I also got my momma to buy me some books for Christmas that I see on tiktok. I can't fucking wait!!! It's time for me to get a bookshelf in my room.

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Edited 6/25/22