Light In Your Eyes

[BeautifullyxMad]

Lacey looked to Emerald and shrugged. "I haven't seen her all night. I have been looking. I'll shoot her a text."she said and she quickly pulles out her phone amd asked if she was alright, that things fell through. After getting she was alright back, she looked to Emerald. "She's fine. Let's go."

"And where would you be going in such a hurry?"Klaus' voice came before he placed a glass scotch in Emerald's hand. "I was just getting ready to celebrate the successful kill of my longest enemy. And I was so hoping to have a bit of help with that. Emerald was so nice to me earlier. I would invite you too, but I have a strict one girl per celebratory drink."he said to her, and Lacey looked to Emerald. "I'll tear out your heart if you don't leave."

Lacey gave a glare before a sympathetic look to her sister as she headed out. "She's not fond of me, is she? But no matter, I am in a good mood, and humans are boring. So why not honor me with a dance and then you can leave."he told her with a twisted smirk, and when the band changed songs, he offered a hand to her, and spoke again. "I won't bite."

-

Lacey was angry with what was happening between her sister and the hybrid. She walked out and she spotted Stefan near a large semi trailer. "And what are you doing?"she asked and Stefan looked to her. He moved to hurt her and she quickly flipped him on his back. "Don't mess with me. Just tell me.what you are doing."

"Stealing coffins."he answered and she let him up. "I could use a hand if you got some time. Klais took everything from me, and now I'll take it from him."

Lacey nodded. "Need more help?"

"You can't tell anyone yet. We have to get them out of here first."he told her and she nodded. She was in an impulsive mood anyway. And soon she was helping move the coffins about.

[Forevveru]

Emerald stood there nervously as she waited for her sister to text Elena. It felt like forever before Lacey got a response back and then she said that their friend was fine. "Yeah let's get out of here," she agreed and started to move before a voice caused her to stop dead in her tracks. A glass was placed in her hand what seemed like faster than her mind could process.

A not to happy look crossed her face when he threatened her sister. It angered her more that she couldn't do anything about it because he could kill her in the blink of an eye or her sister. Feeling helpless was not something she liked very much. If only she could run fast enough and get out of there.. But there place wasn't safe since any vampire could come in so even if she did get away it wasn't like she had somewhere safe to go.

"Well of course not when your threatening to kill her," she said trying to keep her temper in check and not do something stupid that she would end up regretting. The way he smiled after saying about a dance did not make her feel any less tense. Listening to as the song change and looking at the offered hand, "I'm a horrible dancer. You'd be better off with someone who doesn't dance like they have two left feet." Of course it was a lie but he didn't need to know that.

~~

Damon was soon back at his home in the solar and Elena was there as well. "It was perfect. We prepared for everything that could have gone wrong. We switched Katherine with you so you wouldn't get hurt," he rambled on before throwing his glass into the fire. They were screwed. There was no other weapons they had that could kill Klaus and Elena was dead set against Bonnie using magic to kill him since it would kill her as well.

Elena tried to calm him down and put a hand on his shoulder. "Where's Katherine."

"She took off, and who can blame her? Klaus would have tore her to shreds." It was then that his phone went off and it was none other than the vampire that they were just talking about. "Katherine."

"What can I tell you Damon you had a good plan. That's high praise coming from me."

"That's not making me feel better Katherine."

Soon enough they hung up after she said about how she was putting many miles between herself and this place. They were even civil enough to tell each other to take care of themselves. He still didn't have a clue what went wrong with the plan.

[BeautifullyxMad]

Klaus fixed Emerald with a look, but he ignored her comment about her sister and at her refusal to dance he shook his head. "Then I'll just teach you."he told her, forcefully pulling her with him to dance. He placed his hand on her waist and took one in his other hand. "Just relax, love. If I wanted to hurt you I would have already."He informed her.

Soon Mindy came up and Klaus sighed, "But since you are a terrible dancer, you should leave."he told her as Mindy stepped between them. "I'll be seeing you, love."He waved to her and when she was out of ear shot, he looked at Mindy. "Have you found out what they're up to yet? I doubt this was the end to their plan."

She shook her head. "Nothing has turned up."she answered and he nodded.

"Thank you, Mindy. Now go get me some more scotch."he ordered her.

-

Lacey sighed when theu finally got the coffins moved to a house out of town and into the basement. "So, do you have any real plan?"she asked him, and Stefan remained silent. "If you don't tell me, I'll talk."she warned and he looked at her.

"We now have leverage."he told her, "I know I messed up a stellar plan, but Damon would have died."

Lacey nodded. She could respect his perspective. "Well I have to go. Tell my sister I'm okay. Keep in touch."

She walked out and texted her sister saying she was alright before she headed over to the Salvatore boarding house amd knocked at the door. Elena opened and looked at her. "Lacey? What are you doing here?"

"Damon here?"she asked. Call her two-faced but she saw problems with this.

"Yeah, come in."she waved her inside and Lacey looked to Damon.

"A word?"She asked him.

[Forevveru]

Emerald hadn't expected it to be that easier as he easily countered back that he would just teach her. She wasn't happy about being dragged out onto the dance floor and didn't know how she was going to get through a whole dance. It didn't make her feel any better when he said if he wanted her harmed it would have happened already. Well that just made her more worried for her sister since he was already threatening Lacey.

Her prayers seemed to be asked because someone came up and he clearly didn't want her hearing the conversation. Calling her a terrible dancer when he didn't even know her or anything would have offended her if she hadn't been so relieved to get away. Trying to walk at a human pace she ignored when he called out about seeing her around. Not if I can help it, she thought.

Once outside and out of sight she quickly took off at vampire speed to her house and felt safer there even though she shouldn't. In response to her sisters text she merely responded back that she was at home.

~~

Damon was still in what one might have called a livid mood. Now they still had an annoying original to deal with. At least Rebekkah had a dagger in her back so she wouldn't be a threat to no one. Maybe they could use her as some sort of leverage if worse came to worse. They needed to come up with some sort of plan but at the moment he really couldn't think clearly since he still wasn't over the fact they lost this time when it had been a seemingly perfect plan.

Hearing as Elena opened the door he recognized that it was one of the sister vampires; Lacey. He stepped out into the hallway and nodded. Honestly he had half expected the two to take off and certainly hadn't thought one would show up here tonight. Well it had to be important.

"Let me guess you've come to complain about how the plain failed too?" It was easy to tell he was just being his usual Damon self and he really didn't think that's why she had come over.

[BeautifullyxMad]

Lacey looked to Damon and shook her head when Elena walked out. "You had a good plan, its not why I'm here. Trust me, its both good and bad news."She answered and she sighed. "Stefan has hijacked Klaus' coffins, its good for leverage, bad if he gets violent. Just a warning, I'll give you more details later. I have to check on my sister. That filthy mongrel threatened my life for a dance with her. I'll be in touch."

She went to walk out the door when her phone buzzed and she got the message her sister was at home. That sent a wave of relief over her, and soon Elena came back in the room. "Lacey?"she asked, and Lacey turned back. "Send Emerald my wishes. Bonnie just told me that Klaus has been bothering her tonight."

"You weren't there?"she asked and Elena shook her head. "Damn. Stefan really messes up a good plan then."

She was gone in a flash after that. When she got home she hugged her sister. "Thank god you're alright."

-

Klaus looked about the party when he was through dancing and drinking, and once he was changed his phone vibrated as he went on his way over to the truck trailer. "Stefan? What are you calling for?"he asked and as the conversation progressed, he opened the back of the trailer and found the coffins with his family gone. It didn't take long for anger to quickly wash over him and he let out a disgruntled sigh when he hung up.

Mindy walked.over. "what do I need to do?"she asked.

"Send the others out. Find my coffins, and tell Tyler to bring me Jeremy Gilbert. If they want to play dirty, we'll play dirty."he grumbled before getting in his car and heading off.

[Forevveru]

Emerald took a long hot shower and really felt in need of one after all that had transpired that night. Part of her wanted to just take her sister and get out of town fast but knew that they couldn't and Lacey wouldn't be for that idea anyway. Once out she had changed into a pair of shorts and a shirt. Since she didn't feel like wearing sweats or pajamas to sleep, shorts were always the best option.

Lacey was soon back and she was relieved to see her sister alright. "I'm fine," she said hugging her back. "Thankfully one of his little minions came up an interrupted before the dance even started," she told her. "I wish we hadn't been given this task. I don't want to have to keep dealing with him," she admitted but really didn't see any way around that except if they were to leave.

~~

Damon was kind of surprised to hear about what Stefan did. "I'm almost impressed," he admitted but he could see so many things going wrong with it. At least this meant there was leverage over the hybrid for the moment but with Stefan's humanity off who knew if he would do something to screw it all up. At least they could possibly still use Rebekkah if needed.

"He probably didn't want you to tell me?" He inquired with a smirk but didn't really need to ask since he knew that had to be true. He hadn't expected to hear about the threatening to have a dance with the sister. But after the initial bothering earlier he shouldn't have been to surprised.

Watching as she left he decided he wouldn't let on about knowing anything just yet. First seeing how this played out was what he would do.

[BeautifullyxMad]

Lacey was glad to hear her sister was alright and let out a long breath. Good. It was all she could think at the moment. "Thank god. Sorry I'm just getting home, needed to blow off some steam, check on Elena. She wasn't even there tonight. It was Katherine. She was never in any danger tonight."she said as she pulled off her dress before heading up to her room and pulles on a t-shirt and before she could get her pajama pants on, her phone rang.

"What is it?"she asked.

"Come to the coffins. I need help."Stefan said, and Lacey grumbled pulling on her jeans.

"I'll be there soon. I have to tell Emerald."she hung up and pulled on her shoes and headed down stairs. "Em, Stefan needs my help hiding coffins. I know its suicidal, but keep it quiet. Please."she said before she headed out the door.

-

Klaus was angry. Beyond angry. How could Stefan do that? And how did he do it alone... he had to have had an accomplice. He wouldn't believe it any other way, but who? He was sure Damon was with Elena, and there were very few others that came to mind. When he got to where he decided to mark his claim, he got out and soon Tyler came in with Jeremy. Klaus slipped off Jeremy's bracelet amd compelled him before he let Tyler go off with him again.

Things were going to get messy, and soon. He needed a.drink too, so without much other thought he went to the Grill.

[Forevveru]

"Really? Wow.. Stefan really screwed up a good plan," Emerald commented. It seemed like that saying was the theme for the night. It had never occurred to her that they would bring in Katherine to make sure Elena didn't get hurt. Better yet they knew she would want Klaus dead as much as the rest of them so she would obviously agree to help. It made her wonder just why Stefan would screw everything up. Hadn't he wanted his freedom back that was stolen from him?

"What?" She asked in shock. "This is crazy you know," she called after her sister as Lacey left but had still agreed to keep quiet. At least Lacey hadn't told her where so there was no chance she could blab if compelled to tell where they were. The female had a major headache coming on. Alcohol, that's what she needed and lots of it.. Good thing he had a stash in their kitchen as well as the good stuff she hid in her room. Taking one of the bottles downstairs she poured herself a tall glass.

~~

Damon was pacing back and forth in his room trying to figure out what he could do to his advantage with this information. Klaus was bound to find out soon so hopefully his brother had a plan and was hiding them very well. Elena had no clue about any of this and it was probably best that it remained that way. At least for now.

Elena had headed back home to her place and probably just wanted to see her brother after everything had gone so horribly. Some fresh blood sounded good right about now and so he wanted to go find someone to feed from. The Mystic Grill was the best place for that or if he just went out and about. He decided to just go wherever his feet would take him.

[BeautifullyxMad]

Lacey sighed. It was going to be a long week, she could already feel it in her bones. This little coffin-jacking heist was going to be the end of her, and she wasn't afraid to admit she knew that. Of course, she would be taking necessary precautions to assure Elena's safety as well as her sister's, and then if she had time she would worry about her own. That was how she always was though, she put things before herself. She and her sister were assigned this task and that had to be kept, so it took priority over her... And her sister was her sister... She would always protect her, even if she was mad at her. She was the only person she had left anymore.

With a sigh she walked into the old, rundown house where she and Stefan had stashed the coffins to find he was there with Bonnie. "What's going on? You told me not to tell anyone." she nearly spat, but Stefan gave her a look.

"Bonnie is going to help us hide them, along with the witch spirits. They hate Klaus nearly as much as we do." he informed her and she nodded, shooting him an odd look.

"Then what did you need me here for?" she asked, and he sighed.

"Klaus knows we took his coffins. Well, more me than you." he said and Lacey closed her eyes.

"Don't you think it will look shady if I don't appear around town... If I act like I'm hiding? Think for a moment on these things Stefan, and then proceed to act." she said, and when she went to move, he ran in front of her. "I'm older and stronger than you, I don't think that it's wise to get in my way."

"You need to stay here, I need to get a few things and Bonnie shouldn't be here alone." he said, and she sighed.

"Fine. Go." she hissed before she leaned against the wall, looking at Bonnie. "Pushy much?"

"Very." she nodded.

-

Klaus sighed, sitting at the Grill with a glass of scotch in his hand and the bottle it had come from before he let out a long disgruntled sigh. What kind of game did Stefan Salvatore think he was playing? What did he think he would get from this other than pain and anguish? Still, Klaus couldn't help but admire the sheer viciousness of the attack. He had taken the one thing he knew Klaus held dearest to him... His family. That just meant his strike back would have to be harder and heavier than what Stefan was doing. But what could he do?

Hurt those he loved? That seemed overly done, and he needed some of the people that Stefan loved alive. Violence always seemed to work with this lot, but where would he start? Well, he already had that figured out, and with Jeremy Gilbert in the palm of his hand he knew that it would be his first strike. It wouldn't be long before he snapped and used that against. Hurt those dearest to his beloved.... That would work.

Elena was never at a loss for loved ones. Her compassion was crippling even to him, and a satisfied smirk fell over his face as he continued to drink. Then the door opened and there was Damon Salvatore. He would ignore him for now... Things would get interesting later.

[Forevveru]

Despite the fact that it was hard for vampires to get drunk, Emerald could definitely feel a buzz. After everything that happened and how bad things were going to get, it was very much needed. Even though she worried for herself she was more concerned for her sister and Elena. If it was found out Lacey helped then he could very well be attacked and Elena was going to be hurt because she was in the middle of all of this.

'How long will you be?' She texted her sister. Perhaps it was best she didn't know the details. Yes, she didn't want to know any details since it only put everyone in more danger if to many people knew to much. Did anyone else know? That was the question. All she knew was she was going to kill Stefan if he caused anyone she cared about to get seriously harmed.


~~

Damon ended up at the Mystic Grill and low and behold, Klaus was there. Alric was as well. Oddly enough the history teacher had mind of became his friend of sorts and usually drank with him. Decidedly he ignored the hybrid for the moment and really didn't have to much to say to him. What was there to say? He knew Lacey kind of well but he didn't know her sister very well to care that Klaus was bothering her. There was the thought of poking fun at him about it. Damon was definitely the type to do something idiotic like poking a bear, and especially when the bear was furious.

After a moment that seemed like an idea for later, right now he wanted something to drink. Both alcohol and otherwise. "I'm surprised your not at the Gilbert house," he said taking his usual seat at the bar where Alric was. "No one was there and I needed to get out," was the response.

After a few shots Damon went on his rant once more about Stefan. "When I see my brother, I'm going to kill him." Part of that was for affect and to also mess with anyone who might very well be listening. Despite what his brother was doing he still wanted to kill him for having screwed everything up in the first place.