England - December, 1491
Klaus looked at the fire. It burned so intensely; it made him remember how warm he used to feel, when human. Thinking about being human again was a stupid idea. He wasn't that boy he was before. Now, almost five hundred years after he became a vampire, he was a completely different person. Before the transformation he was weak, foolish, with no ideia of the future. Nothing could stop him anymore. Ageless. Immortal. Nothing could ever stop him.
"Should I leave you alone, brother?" Elijah showed up at the door. Klaus blinked, driving away from his deep thoughts. He smiled a little.
"No Elijah, I bet everyone is already waiting." He got up and started to change clothes. Elijah helped him.
"Yes, brother, we all know how much you love to be late for your own birthday party." They smiled at each other. Klaus started to leave his room when he saw his drawings about the wolves. He took a deep breath.
"Throw this away. I don't want it anymore." Elijah looked at him and didn't say anything. Klaus left the room and as he was told to, Elijah picked up the drawings and threw it into the fire.
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Klaus came downstairs slowly, waiting for everybody to see him. He liked to be adored. People wanted him to like them; people knew how powerful he was. He looked at the center table, where the girls of the village were sitting. They all seemed happy when they saw him.
"How are you, my lovelies?" He asked them.
"Oh Nik, we've missed you so much." One of them said, as they started to make him sit with them.
"Oh ladies, I have to please my other guests as well." He continued to smile. Then, looking at their eyes, he said, "How about we meet in my room later, tonight, uh?" He passed his hand through one's hair. "I'll be waiting." He said that looking into their eyes.
"Nik! Happy birthday, brother!" Kol came behind Niklaus. They hugged each other happy. Then, Kol looked at the girls at the center table. "Looks like we'll have a great dinner tonight." Kol smiled at him.
"You can have your fun. I must speak to Elijah, he knows something. Just keep them busy. I'm sure it won't be a problem for you." Klaus gave him a light smile, then, went to his room to look for his brother. "I expected to find you here." Klaus said, when he found Elijah looking at Rebekah's coffin, with an dagger in her heart.
"You shoudn't have done this, Niklaus." Klaus aproached, himself, looked at Rebekah with a nostalgic look.
"Of course I needed. She was a risk. But that's not why I'm here for." He looked into Elijah's eyes.
"You may think you can fool me, but you can not, brother. I know about the dopplaganger." Elijah felt his body shake. Klaus smiled seeing his brother reaction.
"Don't worry, Elijah", he started to walk away, to come back to his party, "My contacts made sure that she'll be here on the right time." He looked back, serious, "And the sacrifice will happen. I will not tolerate a failure this time."
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"Sir, we have news." A boy approached himself to Klaus while he was walking through the hall. He smiled.
"Tell me, Robert." Robert was Klaus' favorite toy. The boy worshiped Klaus and wanted to be a vampire more than anything. Klaus used him to know about Katerina and the curse. Back then, after Elijah, he was the only one Klaus trusted.
"We found her." He sound nervous. "But..." Klaus changed his expression.
"Tell me." He whispered, serious.
"But I couldn't get to her... Her family didn't let me. She is locked at their house and I couldn't do nothing about it." Klaus grabbed the boy's shoulders and looked into his eyes.
"Robert... My friend... I waited five hundred years for this day. You listen to me very carefuly. I do not care for the girl's situation. You will bring her to me." He took a deep breath and the boy got scared. Robert tried as hard as he could to hide his fear. "I don't care about what you are going to do. I just want her here." The boy remained quiet. "Do you understand me?" The boy said yes with his head and left. Klaus looked around, smiled alone, and went back to his party.
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Klaus liked the eyes full of fear staring at him. Even though he knew nobody liked him, he was fearless. He was respected. A king. He felt like a king. He looked at all those faces that he wouldn't remember and smiled.
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Elijah looked at his sister, with dagger through her heart. Whatever his family had become, it was something completely different from what they were before Esther's spell. He didn't agreed with Niklaus, but he was his brother. The brother that he held into his arms when he couldn't even speak. Almost like his own son. But he was wrong. Leaving Rebekah like that was wrong. He grabbed the dagger and pull it out of the girl's body.
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Klaus was changing his clothes in his own room. There was a very attractive woman, half-naked, on his bed that kept calling him.
"C'mon Nik, I'm waiting for you..." He smiled.
"I'm coming, my love." Klaus started to wash his face when he felt a hand grabbed his throat.
"Miss me?" Rebekah said, and with that she drove a sword through Niklaus' stomach. It wouldn't kill him, but it would make Rebekah feel better. She smiled.
"Oh my God!" The girl on the bed screamed. Rebekah turned around, looked at the girl with disdain and said, "LEAVE." And the girl walked away.
"Sister..." Niklaus said while he put the sword out of his body. "Came to join us?" He smiled a little.
"Don't you play with me, Nik. I'm done with you. The only reason I don't kill you right now it's because I can't." She said, angry. Klaus smiled.
"Oh, c'mon, Bekah, you couldn't. You love me too much." He joked.
"Don't test me." She approached herself like she was about to atack him.
"Enough." Elijah came up at the door. "Rebekah, please, I need to talk to Niklaus." She looked at them, angry, and then left, without saying anything.
"Oh, brother, came to apologize for you betrayal?" Klaus looked at him, while grabbing a glass of wine.
"I'm sure that waking up our sister doesn't count as a betrayal." He said, looking at the window.
"You have no right to do it." Niklaus said, with a threatening tone. "I did the right thing putting her there, she was a risk, as always."
"Did you?" Elijah looked into his eyes and Klaus couldn't say anything. "You put daggers in our hearts when you judge convinient and tell yourself that it is right thing to do so you can sleep at night and hope that we have dinner and parties like a family?" They remained in silence for a moment. "You know, I... I don't think I belong here."
"What are you saying? Are you leaving?" Klaus asked, surprised.
"I don't know. Maybe, I need some time." Elijah looked at nowhere. Klaus changed his expression. Now he felt betrayed. Elijah started to walk away.
"Are you going to walk away from me, brother?" Klaus said. Elijah looked behind.
"You know I'll never do that. Always and forever." He smiled. Then he left. Klaus knew that Elijah was coming back. He just needed sometime for himself.
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Rebekah woke up early and started to comb her hair, while thinking about her life.
"Oh, you." She said, when saw Klaus at her bedroom's door.
"Be nicer to me, Elijah is gone. I'm all you have left."
"Oh, you are wrong, brother, I still have Kol."
"Rebekah, don't be ridiculous, you can't stand Kol." She looked at him seriously.
"Just because Kol and I have a little age difference doesn't mean we can not talk."
"Admit, you can't stand him. He is just a kid, I don't blame you." Klaus joked. She walked until where Klaus was standing, still angry, and looked at his eyes.
"I'm still mad at you, Nik. You killed me." She looked at him.
"Oh c'mon, I knew you wouldn't die."
"Still.", she had a few tears in her eyes, "I'm you sister", she lowered her voice, "After everything, I can not believe you did such thing to me."
"Oh C'mon love, I need you." She looked at him, thinking.
"You have to promise you will never do it again." Klaus hesitated. Rebekah remained serious.
"Fine." He said, between his teeth. She smiled.
"It's nice to be back. What did I miss?" Klaus smiled.
"I found her." Rebekah looked at him, surprised. "The doppelganger... She is alive." Rebekah smiled.
"So... When will I meet her?" The girl smiled.
"Calm down, Bekah, things need to be ready at the right time." Klaus smiled. "It appears that no one could get to her. Her parents locked her up for some reason... But I already called someone to solve this problem." They smiled at each other.
"So everything is working..." She smiled.
"Soon we won't have to run anymore, little sister." They smiled, with a light fear in their eyes.
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"Where, sir?" The man in the horse asked Elijah. He, lost in his thoughts, waited a minute before answer.
"Oh, thank you Henry, but I'm on my own today." He smiled.
"Are you sure, sir?" The man looked at him. "It appears that is going to rain. I don't think it is prudent to leave now." Although Henry was a little bold, Elijah didn't seem to bother. He always have been kind with everyone.
"I know, but I can't delay it." He hugged Henry and the man got surprised. Elijah didn't know when or if he would come back and Henry had been a good friend for him. "Thank you, Henry. For everything." He smiled and the man smiled too, knowing that he was saying goodbye for good.
Elijah called his horse and the animal approached. Then, he left.
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Rebekah went until her window and saw her brother leaving. Klaus was still with her.
"Why Elijah left?" She asked, sadly.
"He said he needed time to think. You know Elijah, he always have this moments."
"Life always seems to leave me alone with you." She sad, sadly. "You are all I have, Nik. It always was only you." She felt a tear running from her eyes. "Always and forever.", she continued and smiled a little. Klaus didn't say anything.
"Rebekah!" Kol showed up at the door. Rebekah dried her tears fast, and looked around. "Sister, I missed you." He went hug her.
"Oh Kol, you don't need to lie." They smiled.
"I'm glad you are back, Bekah. I have so much to tell you!"
"Please, I do not want to know about your girlfriends." She joked.
"C'mon, let's eat. I'm starving." Niklaus said and they smiled, sarcastically.
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"Will you need a room, mate?" The fat man asked Elijah.
"Oh no, just a bed will be fine." The man took him to a very simple room, where there was a bed for Elijah to rest. "That's good." He said.
"So, are you staying in town or..." The man started to ask. Somehow he did not trusted Elijah. He could sense it.
"Yes... Ahn, business trip." He simply said, giving the man the least details possible.
"Hum... Anything you need, I'll be at the kitchen."
"Yes... Thank you." And the man left.
Elijah looked around and layed at a small bed. He wasn't tired at all, he was just bored of riding a horse all day long. He tried to sleep but he couldn't. He kept thinking about Tatia, the curse and all of the things that he had done with his brothers to save them. Was everything really necessary?
Maybe he was supposed to be dead. Nature was against him. Kill people to remain alive. Trade other lives for his own. He wasn't that person. Not five hundred years ago. He remembered about the life he had before Henrik's death. He avoid to think about those moments because the feelings that took care of him were just too much. The guilty, the pain, the suffering.
He thought about the love he had for his brothers, specially Klaus. Was he wrong for doing everything his brother wanted? Or even support him with his way of living? Elijah could feel the guilt from Mikael. From Klaus' suffering before he turned. Was Mikael the responsable for their mistakes?
His eyes finally closed and he fell asleep.
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"Robert... Do you have good news?" Klaus asked the boy.
"Yes... Sir. I'm going back to Bulgaria tonight." The boy had a light fear in his eyes. "And I will not return until I have the girl with me sir." Klaus seemed surprised.
"Good, Robert. You have been a great servent..." Klaus walked around the boy. "You know... Maybe, if you make it, I'll be able to do what you want most: to turn you." The boy smiled. Klaus could trick him like nobody else.
"Thank you, sir- I- I-... I will return with her! I promise." And the boy left, leaving Niklaus alone with his own humor. 'How could that boy be so naive?' Klaus laughed.
"What are you laughing?" Kol showed.
"Nothing. What are you doing here?" Klaus asked, rudly.
"Our sister. She's already causing problems." Kol said, rolling his eyes. "Nik, you have to call her attention. She barely left the house and people are already gossiping about her." He smiled.
"Oh Kol, why don't you leave our sister alone?" Klaus started to walk away."
"But Nik-"
"I have better things to do." He said, leaving Kol alone.
Kol, seing that Klaus wasn't going to help him, went to Rebekah's room to tease her, but when he got there, the room was empty. He smiled to himself and started to look for interesting things.
"What are you doing here?!" She screamed and grabbed his throat before he could even breathe.
"Beka- Yo- ar- hurting-" He tried to say.
"Good that you can't say anything, so you listen to me." She said, looking into his eyes, "I'm tired of you tricks Kol, I'm too old for that. So you get the hell out of here or I'll make sure I'll find a fountain of vervain and, believe me, I'll drown you there until you burn." She let him go.
"Your treats don't scare me anymore Bekah. I'll tell Nick about what you have been doing." The girl's expression changed immediately.
"You wouldn't dare!" She whispered.
"Oh, I would." And Kol left the room.
Rebekah looked everywhere in her room but she couldn't find it. If Kol grabbed her necklace she would have seen. She took all of her clothes, opened every chest, but she couldn't find it. She got desperate.
"What are you doing?" Klaus saw her while he was passing through the hall.
"Ah... Nothing, I was just looking for a ring." Klaus remained quiet, suspicious about Rebekah's behavior.
"All of that for a ring?" He asked, testing his sister.
"It was a very special ring." She looked into his eyes and Klaus calmed down. He lifted his eyebrowns and started to walk away again.
Rebekah kept looking.
"Daria!" She screamed, "Daria!" She screamed the housekeeper's name again.
"Yes, miss." The woman, old, with a fear look in her eyes, showed up at the door.
"Where is my silver necklace?!" The woman seemed confused. "Where is it?!" The girl screamed.
"I- I don't know miss, what was the neckacle?"
"The silver! The one I never take it off."
"Do you mean that one?" The woman pointed at the girl's bed.
"Of course not-" Rebekah looked at her bed and found it. She remained in silence for a moment and looked at Daria, shaking. "Yes... Ahn, thank you, Daria." She said, awkwardly. "You can go now..." The girl looked at the woman, scared to death.
Rebekah grabbed her precious necklace and put it on. She hold it and whispered to herself.
"It's almost time."
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Kol approached himself through Rebekah's bedroom and tried to look at her. She was holding a necklace and then whispered something that no human being would be able to hear.
"It's almost time."