Four years later...
Things had changed when Leonie left, Klaus had become a tad more placid, obeying the rules in a much more gentlemanyly manner,not in his uncouth and teenage ways.
But now the teen was turning eighteen, no longer a lanky boy, but a fast maturing, well defined young man. His features more hardened, giving him a look of adulthood about him.
Twenty two year old Elijah walked into his and Klaus's room now to find him fast asleep under his thick grey wolf fur covers, buck naked under them again no doubt.
"Niklaus?" he asked now, picking up his brothers leather boot and threw it at him, making him wake with a start.
"Wha-?" he mumbled, then looked over the covers. "A few more minuets."
"Do not make me pull the covers of you again."
Klaus groaned now and sat up, picking up the shoe and lobbing it back at his elder brother. "You are such a spoilsport." he groaned, grabbing his oak brown trousers and cream shirt, taking his black leather tunic from his brother.
"Father wants you up and rounding the sheep that have strayed into-"
"On my birthday? Oh what an evil-!"
"Niklaus."
The younger brother got up now with a growl in his chest once more, pulling his clothes on. "I truly cannot wait to leave this place."
Elijah sighed as his errant brother walked past, long brown-blonde hair sticking up in every direction.
Like a wild beast that wanted to escape its cage.
-YaYwH-
When Klaus returned to the mansion, his mother came bustling out and said with a sigh. "Niklaus, wha-"
"Please, do not mother." he sighed, sliding down off his horse and taking its reins and pulling towards the barn. His mother followed and said with a light sigh. "Please Son, stop being like this."
Klaus sighed too, then tied up his horse and turned to her, premitting her to take his face in her hands, a light smile on her face. "You are so very like your father." she said quietly, tracing her thumb over his cheek. Klaus groaned and pulled away while she watched him pick up a brush and put it to his horse.
She sighed now once more, then turned and walked back to the house, passing her elder son as she did so.
Elijah leaned in the doorway now, watching his brother brush mud of his horses white coat. "We are having a feast tonight in celebration."
"Sure..."
He sighed, then walked forwards, raising a hand and patted the horses neck. "Father does care, you know?"
"I doubt that."
Elijah was silent, then said quietly. "She is back."
Klaus's hand stopped with its brushing now as he turned and frowned.
"She?"
Raising an eyebrow, Elijah just said. "You have forgotten her so soon?"
Niklaus laughed, chucking the brush back into the bucket, his soft leather boots kicking the straw aside as he walked towards the rest of the grooming kit.
"No, but four years? She is gone, Elijah."
Elijah gave up, knowing his brother would not listen to reason.
But he would have to later on that night.
-YaYwH-
Klaus was in rather a rather bad mood as the guests arrived, greeting them with a forced smile while saying "Fuck off out my house." inside his head, wishing he could say it out loud, but his father would be immensely dissapointed and incredibly angry at him for being so very rude and outspoken.
When the greetings were over, the pile of gifts on the wooden table while the guests danced and laughed around the immense home, Klaus was sat on a chair on the side of the scene, watching everything with dull and bored eyes.
"Why so lifeless, Niklaus?"
Now he froze and looked up, eyes widening a little in shock as he recognized that voice, then faced a beautiful young woman of his own age with long slightly curly honey blonde hair and emerald eyes.
"Leonie-?" he asked in surprise as he stood up, face turning into a grin, then hugged her tightly, ignoring what the guests would think of his actions. Such boring people that should mind their own business.
"Are you back?" he grinned, looking at the changes- she was so very beautiful now. Her form taller and slender, more soft.
She nodded, giggling a little as she courtsied. "Happy birthday. It is a pleasure to be here."
Klaus shook his head, taking her hand and pressing his lips to it for longer than he planned. "The pleasure is all mine."
Leonie chuckled, then Klaus glanced around- no one had seemed to notice the inapropriate touching between them.
"Come on." he whispered to her, taking her hand and pulling her put the back door where his horse was tied up and grazing. "Les get out of here." he chuckled, picking her up onto his horse and then himself before her, letting Leonies arms wrap around his waist as he turned the hoese and they cantered away from the noise and chatter.
Klaus took her to the barn where he slid off, pulled the reins and bought the horse inside with her on.
"Why have you bought me here?" she asked as he picked he up of the horse, helping her. Klaus chuckled. "I come here when I like to be alone."
"Oh? But you are not alone now."
Klaus walked over to the ladder and nodded. "Come on." Leonie frowned, then climbed up to the hayloft where Klaus followed and gestured to the fur thow he kept up there. "Take a seat."
Leonie frowned and sat down on the thick fur throwover that doubled as a rug while Niklaus reached for a rope and pulled it hard, opening a hatch in the roof, exposing the sky above them and tied it off, then bent down and lit the candles, casting the loft in a warm orange and amber glow.
"Oh!" She now smiled, understanding just how Klaus could spend so much time here alone while staring at the stars.
The young man himself sat down next to her and took in the changes that had occured in the last four years.
"You look beautiful." he smiled, making her chuckle and say. "Thank you. You have changed so much yourself."
Klaus sighed. "How long are you back for?"
Leonie was quiet, then-
"For good. My Father is planning to marry me off now I am..." she laughed. "Mature enough."
He frowned at that. "Marriage? Is that what you want?"
Leonie shook her head. "No... but if it is what lets me remain here, then I will do it." she raised her hands and took his face in her hands with a smile. "I love you."
Klaus was taken aback by that, even more so when she leaned forwards and kissed him softly, then saying. "I am so sorry how we parted last time. It was not my intention to upset you."
"Upset me?" Klaus scoffed, his pride getting in the way of his head.
"Yes, upset you." she told him, kissing him once more, but for longer. "So you came back a more mature woman?" he asked now, tracing a hand over her cheek.
"Correct, but-" she pushed him backwards onto the rug now and grinned. "I am still that girl you know from all those years ago."
"Oh?" he said with a raised eyebrow, then made her gasp in surprise as he flipped them over so he was hovering above her.
"We are only human." he said into her neck, kissing it as he went. Leonie chuckled, putting her arms around him. "You fool. We really should not be doing this. Could you imagine our parents faces if they saw us now?"
Klaus grinned, kissing her for a moment. "It is my birthday. And this-" he kissed her again, more passionately. "Is the best birthday gift I have ever recieved."
Leonie kissed him back now, wrapping her legs around his waist, running a hand up his chest with a giggle. "You have really grown up..." then started to untie the strings that were there, doubling as buttons, taking it off him and casting it aside and premitted him to pull her dress off.
"Wait-" she said now as he kissed her neck, a hand on his bare and muscled back, stopping him. "I heard something."
Klaus raised his head, listening, but all that could be heard were the faint sounds of the night and horses snorting quietly. "There is nothing there." he assured her, leaning back down onto her and kissed her once more while listening hard- if someone found out about them, about what they were doing all alone in the barn, one, they would never see each other again, their families shamed and severe punishment for their foolishness.
But rules were there to be broken.
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