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Chapter 2:

It was my first evening home alone with Klaus and I was already bored. I considered of going out and killing someone just for fun, but I promised Bastiaan to lay low with the killing for the next two weeks in case the family of the werewolf he and Klaus killed the night he was attacked, wanted revenge. It annoyed me that Klaus was able to walk in the sun, whilst I could not, but I refused to ask him "politely" if he would get me a day-ring, because I did not need his help with anything. I could easily find and force a witch to make me one now that I knew they could do that.

However, my lack of ability to walk in the sun did not help with the fact that I was bored tonight. I literally sat on the chaise longue and simply stared out in the thin air, because I had absolutely nothing to do since I was not allowed to leave yet. It was very tempting to leave the house anyway – merely for a few hours – but when I stood up I heard the sound of someone entering the house and decided to hide instead.

Since I was a prisoner in my own home I might as well have some fun…

"Meike!" Klaus called and walked in to the living room, but I was nowhere to be seen. "Meike, I know you are in here. You are forgetting that I am an Original. I can smell your awful scent a mile away!"

I came out from my hidings, feeling very annoyed of what he just said. "I do not smell awfully!" I grumbled.

Klaus spotted me and chuckled. "No, but you did come out, correct?"

I rolled my eyes and sat down on the chaise longue, pushing a curly dark brown lock of hair behind my ear. Klaus walked up to me and sat beside me, something square hidden in his hand.

"What is this?" I asked, nodding towards the object in his hand.

"A gift for my lovely hostess," he answered and opened what I soon found out was a little box. It contained a beautiful necklace made of fine silver and the pendant itself was made of Lapis Lazuli. I knew this because Bastiaan had a ring made of Lapis Lazuli, which he required about two months after he was turned. "It allows you to walk in the sun. I thought you might want to get out soon and enjoy the sunlight."

I did want to enjoy the sunlight. In fact, that was the only part about being human I missed. But as much as I wanted to take the necklace, then I reminded myself of that I did not need a man to provide me anything and I definitely did not want to owe this Original anything, so I shook my head much to his surprise.

"You do not want to walk in the sun?" he asked wonderingly.

"Yes, but I do not need your help to do that. I can take care of myself!" I answered, which made Klaus burst out laughing. "What is so amusing, Niklaus? I am quite serious!"

"I know, but I truly find it amusing to see how ignorant and foolish you are. Then again, all young vampires are like that." He swiftly put the necklace on me quicker than I could stop him and flashed a smug smirk.

I growled and left the room in a hurry before I began strangling him or something worse. Klaus might be very attractive and powerful, but he was just like every other man, who tried seducing me and acted like I could not defend myself at all. If that was the case, then I would I have lived for nearly 50 years then?

Instead of sulking in my bedchamber all night I decided to leave the house – without the necklace on. I had thrown it on Klaus' bed before I left, so he understood just how serious I was. I did not know where to go or who to kill, but I knew that I had to get out of the house and distract myself with something or someone else.

However, I did not get very far and was soon stopped by my least favorite person in the world. He stood before me with arms crossed and looked at me, a smug grin planted on his lips. I huffed in exasperation of his annoying antics and tried walking past him, but he swiftly stood before me again. I flashed my fangs at him this time, but he merely chuckled.

"You remind me so very much of my younger sister, Rebekah," Klaus said teasingly. "She was such a brat and still is."

I snorted. "Is that supposed to be an insult or compliment? You know what? I do not even want to know! I am leaving to have some fun and if you stop me again I will slap you so hard that your face falls off!"

I walked away and to my surprise he did not stop me, but he did do something else that annoyed me. He followed me in to town and walked quietly beside me without uttering a word. I tried ignoring his presence and searched the area for any delicious and strapping young men, who could entertain me tonight. I always preferred killing arrogant or sleazy men, who thought that they could get away with just about everything.

"Do you have a body count on how many you have killed?" Klaus asked curiously as we walked through the streets of Amsterdam.

"No, I lost count after the first 100 I killed," I answered. "What about you, Lord Original?"

Klaus smirked. "I have lost count as well."

Figures…

I suddenly spotted a strapping young man with a pair of glorious green eyes and curly blonde hair, who walked next to a very fine and beautiful woman. They were gossiping about another couple they knew and I overheard them saying that they were going to Phillip the Good, who was the Duke of Burgundy. He was hosting a party to celebrate that he had created an Estate-General, which in it itself was extremely boring, but the party on the other hand… that was definitely something I was interested in.

"Shall we invite ourselves to the duke's party?" I asked.

"Certainly. I am beginning to feel hungry anyway." Klaus answered.

I smiled and walked with him to Phillip's home where we were easily invited inside. I had been inside the duke's home before with my brother, so I did not need an invitation but Klaus did. For a moment I actually hoped that he would not be invited inside, because then he could not keep an eye on me. As soon as we entered the home, however, I swiftly disappeared in the mass of my fellow Dutchmen, who were talking loudly, drinking and dancing. I searched the ballroom for the strapping young man I saw before and smiled when I found him talking with his wife.

"Hello," I greeted and curtsied politely. His wife curtsied too and seemed to know who I was, because her heart suddenly began beating faster as if she was afraid of me. I ignored her fear and turned my gaze to the man, making my pupils dilate and force him into a trance-like state. "You will–"

"Ah, there she is!" Klaus suddenly interrupted and slipping arm around around my waist. "My dear Meike, would you like to dance with me?"

I wanted to smack Klaus in his face for interrupting me, but I had to act normal, so I nodded and followed Klaus to the other dancing couples and danced with him, but whilst keeping an eye on the handsome man/tonight's delicious meal.

"Normally, I would enjoy watching a vampire on a hunt, but I can easily tell that you have not learned enough to survive for another 49 years." Klaus said before I could complain.

"What do you mean? I almost had him! If you had not–"

"If I had not stopped you he would have known that you were a vampire. He and his wife were on vervain, so compulsion would not have worked on them and to make things worse, then the woman is from a well-known line of vampire hunters, who lives right here in Amsterdam."

I shut my mouth and although I did not care whether or not I died, then I did not want to die at the hands of a vampire hunter. They were everything I hated about humanity and they killed my parents for working with other vampires. The memory of how my parents died made my blood boil and I was about to leave Klaus, so I could find the couple and kill them, but Klaus held a firm grip on me and forced me to stay.

"Such an impatient vampire…" he muttered, shaking his head of me. "I can help you get your revenge, but you need to start listening to me first. I can teach you how to detect vervain in humans and that is an ability many vampires would give their own freedom up to learn, so consider yourself lucky."

I snorted. "Lucky? If I want to kill them I will find a way to do it and not you or my brother will be able to stop me from doing it."

I tried leaving again, but this time Klaus held my arm in an iron grip. "Meike, I promised your brother to keep you safe and that is exactly what I am going to do whether you like it or not."

I groaned, but stayed put and just continued dancing with Klaus. I tried not to think about being under Klaus' control and focused on enjoying my dance with him instead. It was first now that I truly noticed how good a dancer he was and unlike the other men (including my brother) he did not step on my toes on single time.

"I see you have used your eternity wisely," I teased, making him chuckle and spin me around elegantly. "How old are you exactly?"

"Much older than you, sweetheart," he said, pulling me close to him. I felt his hands move slowly down my body and saw the hint of a mischievous smirk on his lips. He was flirting with me, but if he thought that I was that easy to seduce, then he was very, very wrong. "Care to grab a bite with me? I have eyes on a young couple with a fairly handsome man you can have."

"Are you asking me out for dinner? What would my brother not say?"

Klaus chuckled. "If I know Bastiaan right, then he would have a heart attack if he saw us together. He told me quite a lot about how you used to scare everyone in your family about five times a day."

I giggled, remembering clearly all the times I had fallen down from a tree, nearly drowned in a lake or even to be head-butted by a horse, which by the way was not at all fun. Bastiaan was supposed to look after me that day, but he laughed his butt off instead of helping me.

"Actually, I am quite hungry, so show me which couple you are talking about." I finally said.

Klaus took my hand in his and ushered me to the west side of the beautiful mansion where a young woman with beautiful honey-blonde hair and enchanting blue eyes stood with her equally handsome husband, who had midnight black hair and deep brown eyes.

"I changed my mind," I said. "I think I want the woman tonight. I bet she is still a virgin even though she is married."

Klaus narrowed his eyes at me, but I just smiled innocently back. "Does it really matter who you kill? Or are you simply saying this to annoy me?"

I smirked. "The latter."

He groaned and grabbed the woman before I could, so I had to settle with the man for now. I took him with me to somewhere remote where not even the vampire hunters would find us, but I always did enjoy playing with my meals, so I did not kill him immediately.

The minute we were alone and hiding behind the east side of the grand mansion, I pinned him to the wall behind him and let my lips crash with his. I felt his hands move up my thigh under my dress and could sense that this was not the first time he had been unfaithful to his wife. I smirked against his lips and let my fangs extend…

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