Chapter 6

Tyler turns on his phone screen again and sees that it's 3:59pm. He then puts his phone back in his pocket and continues to wait in the formal living room of Klaus' mansion with Elena sitting next to him. Hayley and Rebekah are sitting on a couch across from them and Hope has been restlessly pacing the whole time while they wait for Klaus to return.

The beautiful dark-oak grandfather clock standing in the corner of the room strikes 4 and a few seconds later Tyler hears a car pulling into the driveway. He can hear Klaus and Elijah talking as they approach the front door. This was it he gulped hoping Klaus wouldn't blow up at him.

A few seconds later Hayley gets a text asking where her and Hope are. She responds that they are in the formal living room. Before they know it Klaus and Elijah are walking into the room and Klaus asks, "What's going on?"

As Tyler is preparing to get up to face Klaus, Hope beats him to it and she is standing in front of him before Tyler can even move. Hope with a look of apprehension on her face tells her father, "I may have turned Tyler into a hybrid."

Instead of getting mad at Hope, Klaus directs his anger at Hayley and yells, "How could you let Tyler take advantage of Hope?"

Before Hayley has a chance to explain herself Hope yells back at him, "She didn't. It was all my idea. I wanted to see if I actually could make hybrids."

"So is Tyler sired to you?" Klaus questions his daughter.

"No he's not. We already tried it out. I can't make him my slave if that's what you wanted." Hope responds.

Klaus finally turns his attention towards Tyler and Elena. "Elena still hasn't finished helping me complete our deal, Tyler. I still need 10 more hybrids. I suppose you are both free to go as long as I can take as much of Elena's blood as I want."

Rebekah is the first to respond to Klaus, "No more Klaus. You don't need a hybrid army. Isn't 2 plenty?"

"Don't get involved in this, sister. Remember since you are now a human I can kill you anyway I want." Klaus threatens Rebekah.

Tyler finally takes his turn to talk to Klaus, "Since I have become a hybrid without your help I suppose it's only fair that we help you make 10 more hybrids like we promised."

Elena glares at Tyler before she speaks, "If we had known Hope could make hybrids too we never would've made that deal with you. How about I just leave you a couple vials of blood and we call it good?"

Klaus looks like he's actually considering what she said until he opens his mouth and says, "My final deal is that you will be free to go once I have 10 more hybrids. Everyday you stay I will take a vial of your blood incase I ever need to replace any of my 12 hybrids. Please don't argue with me on this my mind will not be swayed. Starting tomorrow to speed up the process I will have you make 2 hybrids." With that Klaus walks out of the room.

"I'm sorry about Niklaus but you both know how stubborn he can be." Elijah then follows Klaus out of the room.

"So I guess in 5 days we can leave." Tyler says a little disappointed. He wanted to leave now.

On the way to the guest bedroom they've been staying in Tyler and Elena are stopped by Hope. Hope says to them, "Hey guys. Elena I need to talk to you." Tyler tells Elena he will be in their room when she's done.

After Tyler is gone Elena asks Hope what she wants. Hope tells her, "I want to show you something I have in my room. I didn't think it was something Tyler should know about." Elena follows Hope into her room and watches as Hope closes the door behind them.

Hope opens her walk-in closet and pulls a shoebox down from a shelf. She walks towards Elena and hands her the box. Elena is hesitant to open it until Hope says, "I think you might want to see what's in it."

Elena decides she might as well find out what's in the box. She opens it and finds a white oak stake and some ash of a white oak tree in a jar. Elena let's out a gasp and turns towards Hope who is now sitting on the foot of the bed.

"If you guys wanted to leave now we could stake my Dad and keep him in a coffin like he does to my Aunt and Uncles from time to time." Hope tells Elena.

"How did you get this?" Elena asks hoping she doesn't regret the answer.

"I stole it from my Mom's closet. I found it in my parents' room one day when I was snooping through their things. She doesn't know I have it though." Hope explains.

"I'll do it. I'll stake Klaus myself right now." Elena tells Klaus' daughter. Hope gives her the most menacing grin she'd ever seen. She takes the stake and jar of ash out of the box and hides the stake up one sleeve and the jar up another. "You wanna watch?" Elena asks. Hope nods in agreement.

Elena goes downstairs with Hope right behind her. She now takes a moment to dip the stake into the jar of ash and then hands Hope the jar. Elena would need both her hands free. They locate Klaus sitting in the family room watching tv with Hayley cuddling up next to him. Seeing this softer side of Klaus who has a smile on his face causes Elena to realize maybe he's not as bad as she had thought all these years. She turns around to face Hope and tells her, "I can't do it. He looks so content and happy. I also don't want to do anything to upset Hayley. We've never gotten along well as it is."

Hope lets out an exasperated sigh and says, "Fine. If you can't do it I will. I can't stand that man pushing all of us around. We deserve some decades or centuries without him." With that Hope pulls the stake out of Elena's hand and gives her the jar to hold instead. As she walks over to her Dad she hears Elena saying behind her, "Don't do it."

Hope ignores her and begins to approach her parents. Hayley notices Hope and says, "Hey Hope. I thought you went to bed." Hope is in such a trance that she doesn't hear her and when she's in striking distance she lunges at her father and drives the stake hard into his chest.

Hayley watches in horror as Klaus slumps over and his face turns white. "I guess you found my white oak stake. But I'm mad that you used it on your father and my husband."

"I only did it so he couldn't keep Tyler and Elena here against their will longer than they wanted. Can't we keep him this way a while?" Hope pleads to her mother.

"No. But we can do it long enough for Tyler and Elena to leave. They can leave tonight and we will unstake Klaus tomorrow morning so he doesn't go after them tonight." Hayley had been thinking of doing that herself except that she couldn't find her stake. Now she knew why. She looks away from her daughter and notices Elena had been in the room all along.

Elena realizing she had been caught walks over to them and tells Hayley, "I was going to stake Klaus myself but when I saw how happy he was with you I couldn't go through with it. I'm going to go tell Tyler the good news and we'll be out of here.

Hope and Hayley nod in agreement with Elena and she leaves the room to get Tyler. When Elena leaves the room Hope says to Hayley, "I wish I could leave with them. Dad and I don't have a great bond and we've never gotten along well. We fight and argue all the time. When he yells I yell back."

Hayley stands up and gives her daughter a quick hug. "You guys are just too much alike for your own good. But I don't think you leaving is the answer, besides I would miss you too much."

Just then Rebekah steps into the room and sees Klaus laying on the couch with a stake in his chest. "What happened?" Rebekah questions Hope and Hayley.

Hope explains, "I staked Dad, Aunt Rebekah. I didn't want to see Tyler and Elena suffer here longer than they needed to. Mom says we have to unstake him tomorrow. He just needs to be out long enough for them to get out of the city." Hope looks at Rebekah as she waits for her response and is surprised with what her aunt has to say.

"Then I'm leaving tonight also. Ever since I became human again I've wanted to start my life over somewhere else. Maybe enroll in college, meet someone, fall in love, you know just live a normal human life. I've just been too afraid to leave yet since I figured Klaus would kill me if I tried to leave since I promised him a long time ago I would be by his side always and forever. I just never expected to get another chance at a normal life." Rebekah tells Hope and Hayley. "I'm gonna go pack and then we can say our goodbyes."

Hope and Hayley watch as Rebekah happily strolls out of the room and disappears out of sight. "Can I go with Aunt Rebekah?" Hope asks her mother pleadingly.

"Oh honey. Your father would kill me if I let you leave. But if it's what you really want then we can discuss it with her when she comes back. Besides I don't blame you if you wanted to leave, this city isn't a great place to be if you're a supernatural being. Also now that we know you can create hybrids all on your own, no doppelganger required, werewolves, witches and vampires alike will come for you. You know what? I want you to leave. Your safety is more important to me than what your father would do to me if you left. I'll deal with him." Hayley says changing her mind about Hope leaving.

Hope is about to hug her mother when Rebekah returns with a suitcase. She walks over to them and sets her suitcase down. "I'm going to miss you both so much." Rebekah says and then embraces Hope and Hayley in a hug.

When Rebekah lets go Hayley begins, "As we all know New Orleans isn't a safe place for a supernatural being especially one as unique as Hope. That's why I was hoping you might let Hope come with you when you leave."

Hope can barely breathe as she waits for Rebekah to respond. Just when Hope feels like she's about to burst Rebekah responds, "I was thinking the same thing. Besides it wouldn't be fair to Hope if I took Esther's grimoires with me leaving her nothing to help her learn how to become a powerful witch. I know just practicing a few basic spells the last few days since I became human again I'm picking it up pretty quick. Working together I know Hope and I can eventually become pretty good at it. So what do you say Hope, want to come with me?"

After hearing Rebekah's question, Hope embraces Rebekah into another hug and says to her, "Yes. I would love to go with you." Then Hope turns around to face her mother and says, "I'm gonna miss you. I'm going to text you every day."

Hayley wipes a tear from her eye and tells her daughter, "I hope you contact me as often as you can. I'll miss you and I love you." She then gives Hope a goodbye hug and a kiss on the head.

"I love you too, Mom." Hope says a little emotional. "So how did you pack all of Esther's grimoires? There's like a dozen of them." Hope asks Rebekah.

"Oh I actually have been learning a spell that makes something bigger on the inside than how it appears on the outside. So this suitcase has room for all my things plus the grimoires. I also prepared one for you. I left it on your bed. Why don't you go pack while your mother and I discuss a few things."

When Hope is done packing her things and returns down stairs, suitcase in hand, she sees that Elena has returned with Tyler. Hope approaches everyone and Rebekah says to her, "Ready to go? But first Elena and Tyler wanted to thank you for staking Klaus."

Tyler says, "Thanks so much for giving us a way to escape. We think we know a way to thank you though. Elena that's your cue."

Elena turns away from talking to Hayley and tells Hope, "Your mother told us that you're leaving with Rebekah tonight to start over in a new place but we were thinking you and Rebekah can stay with us in Mystic Falls until you guys find a place of your own."

Hope remembering all the stories her Aunt Rebekah had told her about how she couldn't stand Elena since they showed up a few days ago was shocked to hear that she would want to stay with Elena and Tyler. Hope decides just to be straight-forward and asks, "Aunt Rebekah I thought you didn't even like Elena?"

Elena and Rebekah both give her a smile and Rebekah speaks first, "Well ever since I've become human again I've realized that if I piss somebody off they can actually kill me now. I'm now actually vulnerable in a fight. Also seeing Elena being treated just as bad by Klaus as I am helped me figure out we need to work together to stay safe from Klaus. He wants Elena for her doppelganger blood and me he just wants me to be miserable always and forever."

Elena now takes her turn to talk, "Although I've been upset with Rebekah since she killed me I've seen a change in her once she became human. She's no longer acting like a bitch towards me leading me to see her differently. Besides I want to be on the good side of a witch descended from Esther. Rebekah maybe just a newbie witch right now but someday I suspect she will be someone to fear."

Hope lets their reasoning for no longer hating each other set in for a second and then realizes they both have gone through a lot the past few days causing them to see each other differently. "Can I still take you up on your offer?" Hope asks Elena and Tyler.

"Yes of course. But we should probably get going now. I want to be as far away from New Orleans as possible before Hayley unstakes Klaus." Elena tells everyone.

Elena, Tyler, Rebekah, Hope and Hayley all go outside and stand around in the courtyard saying goodbye. Hayley goes back inside to make sure Elijah knows not to unstake Klaus until they call Rebekah in the morning to make sure they made it out of the city. Tyler finishes getting everyone's suitcase into the back of the SUV and says, "Well I guess we're ready to go then."

The four of them get into the car and take off towards Mystic Falls, Virginia.

Hope you enjoyed the ending to How Tyler Became a Hybrid. A sequel set further into the future will come eventually. I would highly appreciate it if you review this story.