Title– Lost in Darkness

Description - "When lost in darkness he who lights the way, marks himself as easy prey." AU Klaroline fic. When the President asks retired Superheroine, Illumina to get his daughter back from her psychotic ex boyfriend the nefarious Eclipse, will all go to plan? Or has she gotten too much out of practice.

Disclaimer - I do not own anything that you recognise.

A/N- This was supposed to be an original novel that I was going to work on for Camp NaNoWriMo, but I'm impatient and really wanted some Klaroline to write so hey ho.

*Here We Go Again*

"Mattie!" I say dragging out the last syllable a bit too long. Although he is my boss, he is similar age to me, and I am not afraid to use a bit of harmless flirting to get off early.

"Yes sure, it's dead in here, you're not needed." He grins, rolling his eyes at me. I have no idea how I manage to keep my job at the Grill seeing as I am clumsy, disorganised and my punctuality sucks. I just put it down to the fact that Matt is genuinely too nice of a person to fire anybody.

I run to the staff room to take off the stupid apron that I wear, put on my coat and grab my bag and I'm off. The great thing about working at the Grill is that it is literally a stones throw away from my small home.

I get in, click on the lights and nearly scream as I see a big guy in a suit sat on my sofa. "Get out of my house!" I shout as instinctively get into the defensive pose, knowing that despite his size, it would probably be an even fight with my abilities.

"Miss Forbes, I am not here to fight you." He says flashing me some badge, that proves that he is in fact part of the secret service. Great, exactly what I need. It is like a month until Christmas, I've done exactly no shopping and I barely have time to fit it in with my schedule at the moment.

"Sorry, but I'm retired from the business. I hung up my outfit for good." I literally put that metaphor in there any time that is possible. I just feel like it adds weight to the situation. The agent didn't look like he agreed, with the same indigenous look plastered upon his face.

"I have been ordered by President Hopkins to take you to the Headquarters. He said to tell you that it is Eclipse. And this time he has help." Shit. Shit shit shit.

So the story behind this is that once upon a time I was in love. His name was Niklaus Mikaelson, and what surprises most people is that he was the most charming person that you could ever imagine. I mean he had problems, but nothing serious. It was mainly things like he would forget to wash the dishes, he was really jealous of other guys, or he was always in the mood for sex even when I was exhausted. The man seemed to have the stamina of a bull.

Then one night at around midnight we decided to go and have a romantic walk outside, despite the darkness from the lunar eclipse. We ended up in this park, the last thing I remember before it went to shit was seeing Nik get onto one knee.

That is when the meteors started to fall. Niklaus tried to protect me with his body, but it just caused us both to be crushed. I thought that we were to be dead, but as the life slowly started to slip away from me, something else was rising. People ask me to describe it all the time, but it isn't something you can put into words.

All I can say is that it felt warm, and then as if it was second nature to me, I pushed the meteor with a flash of blinding white light shooting from my hands. Nik was doing the same, yet his hands released a stream of the darkest shade of black imaginable.

The government were there practically moments later and me and Nik were brought into the world of superheroes. Imagine the Avengers, but less public and we all have matching outfits. More like the X-men now that I think about it. Just without the bald guy in the wheelchair.

There were five of us including Nik and myself. We all had code names, despite how stupid I thought that they sounded. I was given the name Illumina, as we found about that my power was to bring light. So I have this pretty cool white flame thing that I can shoot out of my fingertips that can go through most solid objects, except from like titanium and anything stronger, and I can also turn lights on pretty easily, but that is about it.

Nik was the exact opposite with the ability to have this black darkness flash out of the tips of his fingers, and he can turn things off. He was given the name Eclipse. I think the name brought him power, as that is when he slowly started to lose his grip on everything.

Then there was Elena Gilbert, codenamed Flexile. She was beautiful, most of the guys would look straight at her if we went anywhere together with her striking and exotic features and legs that seemed to go on forever. She was flexible. Not just like she could touch her toes, she could literally contort her body into any position that is possible.

She was pretty close with the other two members of the group, brothers Damon and Stefan Salvatore. Damon's power was able to control fire and Stefan could control water. I didn't really talk to the boys as much as Elena did, but that was because I knew that Nik wouldn't appreciate it. Damon was known as Flame and Stefan was Submerge. I have no idea who came up with the names, we were just assigned them as we joined.

As a whole are unofficially named Team Z, but officially we don't exist, due to the fact that if we were a proper unit it would put us on file or something and it would be easier to find us. They just put our info in this big folder that had a stamp with the letter Z on it. I hear that it was taken straight to the Presidents office after me and Nik had signed the agreement.

We were a team for three whole years, and then on my twenty third birthday, something snapped in Niklaus and he left the team, deciding that he would be able to do more on his own. He was right there, when he left he revealed everything about Team Z and nearly managed to send an army to the White House to bring it down. Long story short I was the one who stopped him, and after he was placed in a secure unit, I left the business.

"A: how did he escape, and B: why me?" I ask, although I am pretty sure I know the answer to the second question.

"Like I said, Miss Forbes, all I am here to do is take you to the headquarters. At this moment, I know just about as much as you do." I sigh, maybe a bit dramatically, but I'm making a point.

"I'm not promising anything, but I'll just go and see what the problem is. But you can probably do it without me." I say, though when it comes to Nik, they will need all the help that they can get.