The Vampire Diaries

"Don't you have anything on you?" Kol grimaced.

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The hunter gasped loudly as she moved, dropping his phone and ultimately being too slow to stop her as he fell down dead, eyes open in horror.

Astrid instantly snatched up his phone and scrolled through the contact history, texting the person he had discussed killing Adam and Adrian with; Circumstances have changed. Leave both boys be for now. Before looking through the old texts etc. for any indication to where they had just been could be as she turned around and walked into the direction she came.

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"Nothing,"

Kol sighed deeply at that, "We're gonna have to watch her die then..." he said mournfully.

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Charlie's already on a date with the geeky one though, if she doesn't check her phone then she may well already be in the process of killing him.

"It'll crush Hen, he's already lost the kid he can't lose her too. Not in one day, he wouldn't be able to take it." Klaus grumbled, glancing around for something to either get out or that he could roll over to Dakota.

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Astrid cursed, putting Adrian's number into the hunters phone and calling him.

"Well there's nothing else we can do." Kol sighed, cringing when Dakota started to shriek due to the hallucinations, earning her a stake through the leg from a hunter that came in.

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"Uh, hello?" Adrian's voice came through almost towards the end of the ringing. "Whoever it is, can you call me back, I'm in the middle of something."

"Rian it's me, it's important okay. So important. The person you're with, the girl, don't trust her. Charlie, is it? Don't trust her. Get as far away from her as you can okay? Right now."

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Klaus grimaced at that.

"Mum?" Adrian said, clearly confused. "We're in the middle of a project, she's helping me with like fifty percent of my grade." he added, before pulling the phone away from his ear and murmuring a quiet "I'll be right back," to the girl he was with before heading out of the room. "What's wrong with her? Why aren't you using your phone?"

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"Only thing I can think of is provoking them to kill her now rather than extend her torture, Nik..." Kol frowned.

"She's working with hunters, or she is one," Astrid replied sharply, "Just trust me and get away from her. Ask to change partners, lock your door at night… be safe." she told him before explaining quietly, "We just have a bit of trouble down here that's all. I'm not using my phone because I had this one in my hand so it was easy to ring off of this."

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"We can probably find something to put my blood in and roll it over to save her."

"Like what Nik?! There's nothing, we'd be best putting her out of her misery. Will Henrik want to know that she suffered the last hours of her life?!"

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"Mum, she's not even on vervain, I doubt she'll be working with hunters...."

"I'm not lying Adrian," Astrid replied sharply, "Just trust me, please just trust me and get away from her, sweetie? Please."

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"You do it then!" Klaus hissed.

"I will do, as soon as we manage to get their attention I'll make them kill her!"

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"Okay mum, okay." Adrian nodded with a sigh.

Klaus don't silent then, continuing to glance around silently.

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"Thank you. I love you, okay? I'm so proud of you too. Good luck with everything, I'll phone you when everything is sorted here, Rian. Have a good day, look after yourself, be careful." She whispered before hanging up.

After a few hours, Tatia was heard groaning from her cell as she came around.

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"Love you too mum," Adrian whispered before she hung up.

Klaus glanced across the cells to Tatia.

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After another twenty minute walk, changing direction every so often and then bak tracking, Astrid finally wandered into a large building. Ducking her way past hunters and silently knocking the ones she couldn't get past out without being seen. Wandering around in search before finding stairs down to the cells.

"Nik?" Tatia whispered, rubbing the back of her head with a whimper.

"He's here T, don't worry."

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"Right here Tat," Klaus called over gently.

"Just like I am, with keys to get everyone out too." Astrid whispered after making sure the close was clear. Grabbing keys from her pocket she'd taken from one of the hunters and unlocking the cells, entering Kol's and crouching beside him. Wrapping her arms around him and whispering, "Let's get out of here."

"Okay," Tatia mumbled, chained up and sounding too exhausted to do anything as she curled up best she could against her chains.

Kol hugged her back tightly.

"Wh-when I was trying to get away h-he told them to kill the boys. Told me how they were going to aswell…. I grabbed his phone when I killed him, text the person to stop it and they put back it might of been too late for Rian but I phoned him and warned him to stay away from this girl they were on about…" Astrid told him shakily, burying her face in his shoulder and brushing her fingertips through his hair, "Are you okay, pretty boy? Have they done anything else to you?"

Klaus yanked his free after a few tries and stumbled to his feet, going into Tatia's cell and freeing her. Lifting her up into his arms.

"I'm fine I'm fine," Kol hummed, kissing her head, tensing a little when she mentioned the boys.

Tatia winced a little, the movement jolting her head a little.

"You should of stayed home," Klaus sighed softly to Tatia before calling over to Kol, "Get up, let's go."

Astrid pulled back from the hug and offered Kol a hand up quietly.

"I told you to," Tatia mumbled, resting her head against his shoulder.

"Heal Kota first." Kol pointed out before getting up.

"Obviously," Klaus grumbled in reply to Kol, walking to Dakota and biting into his wrist before putting it to her mouth. Whispering to Tatia, "And I told you to stay at home first,"

Astrid watched Klaus quietly before sliding her arm around Kol when he was on his feet. Murmuring quietly, "I don't like hunters, especially not these ones. These ones are everywhere…"

"I left first," Tatia mumbled, though she sighed resignedly, too weak to carry on arguing.

Dakota drank eagerly, looking relieved as her body started to heal before slinking back into unconsciousness.

"We'll move soon, don't worry my love."

"You'll have to take Dakota, Kol," Klaus called over.

"I wanna go straight home though," Kol sighed, but walked over and picked Dakota up from the ground as gently as he could, holding her close once he'd picked her up.