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Stefan and Klaus are off in Tennessee hunting down werewolves in order to form hybrids. On one of the nights that Klaus and Stefan were camping out in the woods, Stefan is brooding over his "dead" Girl friend Elena, Klaus decides to tell a little of his past leading to a discovery that Stefan has never expected to hear.

Memories

"I don't know why you continue to torture yourself so much Stefan? She was just a girl, you should get over it... here have some more blood it will do you good." "Really Klaus? Is blood your remedy for everything? You've killed the one and only women that I've ever truly loved. Forgive me if I'm not all sunshine and smiles about traveling with you." Klaus looked down playing with the fingers of a young women that he had just killed sighing in boredom. Stefan had been his forced companion for over 6 months, only becoming his indentured servant in exchange to save his brother's life. Ever since then Klaus has had him hunt Werewolves in order to make more hybrids like him. Stefan has also now been forced to quit his old "Vegetarian" diet and is now indulging himself with the Vampire healthy diet (AKA human blood). Finally looking up from the female corpse Klaus began, "Stefan honestly, I believe I did you a favor all she would have done anyway was leave you! She was human after all and humans change their minds all the time."

Stefan with his hands bawled up into fists said through gritted teeth, "How the hell would you know? You have no idea what you have put me through!"

Klaus tossing the dead woman aside got up to stand in front of Stefan putting both hands upon his shoulders and said, "You are completely and utterly mistaken Stefan, I know exactly how you feel, maybe even better."

Stefan became confused as he asked, "You, an original, fell in love with a human?"

Klaus nodded in reply, creating such shock in Stefan that he had to sit back down on a tree log. Klaus sat across from him and began by saying, "Her name was Amelia, Amelia Cleverati, we met in Rome, Italy in 1483, 11 years before I met Katerina. All of us were in town for the festival; we were staying at our lovely villa where as you know we had many parties, one night as I was on the hunt I saw a woman in a silver and purple mask trying to pick up the rest of her train from her beautiful purple ball gown. Her brown curls cascaded down her milky white throat as she leaned back to take a seat. Her deep brown eyes were searching the room until the honey brown orbs fell upon me. She smiled, her lips setting in the most pleasing way that I've ever seen a smile, it radiated warmth at first my only feeling towards her was to talk to her to know her. I didn't even feel thirsty, the need to kill was gone, even the thought of killing her makes me sick even now. That was when I first saw my Amelia, but it wasn't until our fourth meeting that I actually spoke to her, I had convinced my companions to invite the Cleverati' s to a wine tasting and then supper afterward. I had made it so that I was seated right next to her. The first thing that I said to her was, "My dear Miss Amelia you look very well this evening."

To which she replied, "Why thank you for noticing Senor Pre, have you been enjoying your stay here in Rome?"

"Oh yes! And I'm beginning to think that it's just about to become more pleasant." She blushed a lovely crimson once I said that, I must say that I absolutely adored her shy blushes. They never caused me to become thirsty for blood but always thirsty for her company. She allowed me to stay close to her the entire evening, allowing me to learn how her love for books surpassed all others; her favorite food was Chicken Parmesan with fresh herbs, and how she loved walking through her father's vineyards. Many of these things we ended up doing together. Her smile lit up my life for those three years that we stayed in Rome. The sound of her laughter caused me indescribable joy.

She was also the only women ever to outsmart me. Once we made a bet to who could make the best cannoli (one of her many ways of getting me to do more humble things.) Of course when Amelia made the setting more competitive it made me want to win more than anything, but after all of my attempts to take away her ingredients, to stop her from gathering her horses to bring her into town, and I even took her wood so that she couldn't bake the cannoli, but low and behold she was not only able to make the cannoli but they were the best tasting things in the whole world! Next to blood of course. Come to think of it she never did tell how she did that. I didn't even know that she knew I was a vampire; she kept it from me for two years, not until she finally told me! You will never meet a better actress in the entire world. Never have I met such a women."

Taking a break for the first time allowing Stefan to ask, "If you loved her so much then why did you leave her?" Klaus looked down at the forest floor, his expression seized with the absolute definition of pain, as Stefan saw this he realized that Klaus had just flipped the switch to his more humane side, the side that feels pain and love, a side the he thought that Klaus had never had, let alone see it in action right across from him.

Klaus looked up at Stefan pain stricken as he continued, "I never wanted to leave Amelia, I made that perfectly clear to her family and to mine, I asked her father for her hand in marriage after consenting I asked Amelia herself.

When I came to ask her for her hand it was late in the evening and Amelia had decided to take a midnight stroll in her father's vineyard, she was wearing only her night gown and a pair of sheep skin slippers, her hair was wavy as it lay on her sleek back. I wasn't running long before I found her admiring the waning moon.

As I approached her she said, "How Lovely the moon is tonight? Have you ever seen such a beauty? Nicklaus." She said my full name with such grace that it astounded me, hearing my name spoken by such an angel made my heart sore.

It was then that I knelt down on the ground in front of her and asked, "My dear sweet lady Amelia, will you do me the honor of becoming my bride?"

I didn't even get a chance to show her the ring; she was so overjoyed that she ran into my arms crying, "Yes! Yes! Yes I will marry you Nicklaus!" We ended up walking and talking in that vineyard till morning came. It was then that we told our families of the good news. "

Stefan still confused asked, "Then why do you looked so pained when you speak of her?"

Klaus looked back at the ground laughing darkly to himself said, "I haven't told the whole story, would you like me to continue or do you wish to continue to ask stupid questions?"

Stefan nodded innocently and said, "Please... continue."

Klaus needed no more invitation as he began again, "It was the night before our wedding I had just said good night and had retired to my room for some sleep. It was about one in the morning that I was rudely awaked my sister, Rebecca, she was screaming and crying all she could say, over and over again was, "She's gone, she's gone Klaus! She's gone!" I ran over to the Cleverati' s villa to see Amelia's room ransacked with traces of Amelia's blood across her bed and wardrobe. Yes, she had indeed been taken from me, I later learned that the witch Arianne, the former best friend of the original witch, came up with the scheme of my dears kidnapping. I later tracked her down and killed her myself for such an act of evil. Her only reason for taking Amelia was that she loved me, and as you know witches hated my very existence, me being an abomination against nature and all. These witches hated anyone who loved me or who I loved. I never was able to find my dear Amelia's body so I assumed that the old hag had killed her and buried her somewhere close to Italy.

I couldn't live with the pain of her loss, so I turned it off, I didn't want to feel, I didn't want to hurt anymore so I turned off my emotions to her memory. The only thing that I kept from that time was my wedding ring." Klaus then flaunted a amber gemstone wedged in between two shields encrusted with diamonds, he then continued, "I gave Amelia the exact twin of this ring, the night before our wedding she took my ring placed it to her lips and kissed it, she said, "This way no matter how far we are from each other you will always have a kiss from me!" I in return did the same with hers. I know exactly what you feel Stefan, maybe even more, I never knew whether or not the witch killed her, and if she did then I don't know if she suffered or not. At least you know that Elena didn't suffer, at least you got to see her one last time. I never got to say goodbye or say that I loved her one last time. Consider what I did to Elena a favor." After this their conversation died away with the fire as they waited for the start of a new day of hunting for werewolves and killing innocent people. Klaus never spoke of Amelia again. Stefan harbored this memory with him, even when Klaus compelled him to lose his humanity, he still remembered how utterly pained Klaus was at the loss of the one girl he loved.