~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~It doesn't hurt me.
You wanna feel how it feels?
You wanna know, know that it doesn't hurt me?
You wanna hear about the deal I'm making?
You be running up that hill
You and me be running up that hill
Klaus sat there with the eight witches waiting; they had seen his memories, scoured his mind to every dark inch and burned it with mental claws that would leave marks for some time to come. "…You have no problem dying for them? Even after all you've said and done." "Life is a grand show my sister liked to say. Best to put distance between the loved ones who hate you than to have them die with you in vain." Klaus said before taking a drink of water then coughing, vervain. "Aright then… so… will you help me make the deal? I'll get the blood then send it off like we disgusted and you just have to make the contract official. You can even put in a clause to save yourselves so you can be there if you please." They wrote their blood lines in and the Bennett family as well. "We might need their help for something later, there are two left." Reasoned an old witch then he nodded before they left.
Rebekah tried to reason with him but he snapped her neck then had his best friend Marcel take her to Mystic Falls. Marcel had asked why there then Klaus replied because it was a little place close to their true home where no one goes so perhaps it would be safe if he died. "Are you really going to die to save the three of them?" Marcel asked out the window from the driver's seat then Klaus nodded. "I love my family despite what they believe."
Finn, Elijah and Kol left a week ago when Klaus told them about his curse and how it could be activate. One kill of an innocent and it was all over for him, but also that meant they were only half siblings, that he might not be worth the trouble because really he wasn't their blood fully. Finn said he wasn't going to be around a murderer anymore and that he shouldn't have killed the only family he had or their mother, called him pathetic and left. Elijah sighed then left without a word. Kol did something unexpected. He punched Klaus then hugged him hard which shocked him before his brother was at arm's length again and then gone but they could tell it was because he was going to cry. Rebekah had no crying before him, she understood it, she saw it; he was a victim who made himself look like a monster when he just needed someone to understand him. She needed that to, so they sat there all night just talking and drinking their sorrows. They found no answers in the bottom of their bottles except one for Klaus. Rebekah needed some sort of protection, a safe heaven and she would never get that if she was with him.
Klaus walked over to see his father then when the elder launched he pulled a knife and cut his throat then a witch ran over and got some then ran and used it on the spell fast. The two were trapped in a flaming circle. "What is this?!" Michael demanded before turning to his wife's child. "A deal, you don't except it we die." He looked at the boy in disbelief then asked what. "You can kill me in exchange for never committing any crime against Finn, Elijah, Kol or Rebekah your blood children or any of the witches on the contract." "Really? You're going to let me kill you? Why so you can quit running? Are you that sick of living you coward?" "I'm not letting you kill me I'm saving them so they can be happy something I doubt I will ever be and I'm not a coward I'm infinitely more brave than you coming here facing my fears of death and you… I am far from a coward, you just can't see that because you're so narrow minded and hold no love for anyone." "I held it for your mother." "No you didn't… you loved what she could do for you like you did your children and I." "No, I loved her and my children, now I hate you and them. There's a difference and I won't buy into your foolish notions of bravery." "Then you truly are a fool. Do you accept my terms or do we both die here?"
