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Chapter Three

… Deceitful Normalcy …


"Will she be okay?" Elena asked as she looked back at the temporary dead body of Rebekah, a sigh from her side and she looked back to the blonde that drive quietly down the long and bare road. "I had hopes that she was going to be okay … it seems that I had been mistaken."

She raised an eyebrow at him as he continued. "If she continues on like this she'll end up like Kol and Finn." "What do you mean?"

This time she earned herself a long look, contemplative. It was as if he was trying to read into her soul in that moment. Before she could try to determine his thoughts he blinked, looked away from her with a sigh and spoke once more.

"Finn hadn't always been suicidal; he had been strong and arrogant, cocky. You could actually say he was a complete ass." He stopped then and she wondered if he was going to leave it there. Looking at him from her position in the car she could tell that he was hesitant about continuing. She had been sure he was finished but he started speaking again. "If there was one thing that I could completely say all these vampire fanatic writers got right about the laws of the vampire community I would say that immortal children will always be at the top of the list."

That made her eyes widen; the thought that there were truly immortal children out there was scarier than vampires themselves. "So are you telling me that there actually are vampire children out there."

"Yes … No … Let's hope not." Klaus replied with a frown.

"Are they truly that bad? I mean I know that twilight had mentioned it briefly but still, I didn't think they were on spot with that sort of information." She said unconsciously.

She hadn't realized that she had spoken out loud until she heard him laugh, and it was easy and simple for him and his laugh was warm and true. She had honestly thought that he was going to have that stereotypical evil madman laugh that was so expected in those cute Disney cartoons.

"Oh Elena … my precious young doppelgänger…" She fazed him out as she reverted back into her own mind. She couldn't understand why he had to always call her that. While she knew that she truly was a double of another person particularly his dead and cheater of a lover she really hated that he wouldn't just let her be Elena, really if he continued this during his probation time then she was surely going to find a way back to her brother.

"… The true reason though that we forbid the others from turning children is because they are exactly that, merely children. Children who are completely and whole heartedly innocent and pure, younglings that are still learning the world. When a child is turned though they are forever in that physical form, this is one thing that could cause serious mental issues, forever they would be trapped in a doll form watching and learning the world around them with vampire eyes. Biologically they can't mature from where they are, they could learn what sex is but not truly know how it feels, they could see the difference between men and women but never be attracted in the physical sense or ever be looked upon as such. Right and wrong would be one in the same to them which is unfair seeing as others would look down upon them and think something wrong with them. We don't turn children because they become uncontrollable but because it's unfair, your stilling a choice from a child that the vampire themselves had gotten."

"What does this have to do with your brothers?" Elena asked hesitantly and she truly hoped that he hadn't gotten on some killing spree and fed off innocent children.

"You see it took a whole century for us to learn how to procreate by that time my brothers and I had lusted after many women, but during a time of famish in our growing village a man came to us, saying he would willingly give him and his male staff to whomever would take it. Let me just tell you that a starving human equals a starving vampire, it's hard to feed when the food doesn't feed either, unhealthy human is bad blood. .."

"Wait I thought you and your family had left after you killed your …" She stopped herself as she realized she might have spoken out of term, and she was sure he was probably sensitive to such a subject.

"We came back after word had gotten to us that Kol had gone back and as concerned and loving brothers we followed." She lifted a brow at that and he silently dismissed it as he continued. "So the human offered the men of his home to us. See he owned land in the village, not much but enough to have others in the village work for his small field. They were the healthiest out of the bunch so we took what we were offered, there was a catch though we were to care for his family and his land. The true reason though that he was so willingly sacrificed himself, was for his wife, his wife that had come to find herself pregnant during such a dreadful era. Women in the village were losing their unborn or giving birth to stillborns, some even had died in childbirth with the child following shortly after there was a small percent where the child lived and even a shorter portion of mother and child living. Her name had been Nara and she had all of us wrapped around her finger, she had this head of dark curly brown hair and these eyes that were the color of sage she was a beautiful woman whom deserved everything good in life. She was excepting and understanding, she loved as if she had been an angel sent down to show us mercy from the Gods … Well during the last hours of childbirth she wouldn't stop bleeding, and when given the option of healing from our blood, she choose not to entrusting my family to care for her child. She birthed a skinny but just as beautiful baby girl. We she had her mother's eyes and her father's hair. We all watched her grow into a woman … Finn had loved her the most though from the first moment he laid eyes upon her."

"Sage." She said suddenly

"Yes Sage. …feisty little Sage, Rebekah adored her like she had been her own daughter. For a time then we had simply been living, caring for each other. Then she went and grew up. It was like we were human again. … This time we were the ones receiving the offers for her hand in marriage. Men of all ages, rich and poor asked for her hand day in and out. She fought tooth and nail with Bekah and Elijah, they were adamant that she live a healthy life and marry one of her suitors. She was and had always been in love with Finn, and he the same. Sometimes I can see the allure, having watched many infants flourish before my very eyes, but the part that turns me off is that I knew them as a child."

"Obviously they she got her way."

He smiled grimly then. "Yes, she did and it angered Rebekah and Elijah to no end. It was interesting really, before we found out that they had been seeing each other secretly. Finn would sneak out of the house and she would pretend to go to sleep. He would come home in the early hours, hair mussed and looking like he'd been rolling around the ground, we'd constantly make fun of him, trying to get him to say he his new friend was. It wasn't so funny after we found out, by then he'd already turned her."

"So what happened to make him …"

That grim look deepened and for a moment he truly looked old. "See we can't have children, not possible not since." He stopped then and his gaze seemed to go into a different time and place and she wondered just where exactly he had gone and feared at the same time.

He blinked then and started off dismissing his early words. "See women have it imbedded into them to love and care for children, they yearn to have children from the youngest of ages. See they may be alright with it when their still new to the vampire life, everything's great. For the most part men are the same when it comes to fatherhood. It's you women that always push us to the edge of insanity, with your beauty, your sincerity; you're loving hearts, soft body's and plush pink lips. Men are mere stepping stones for you lot, with tears and broken words you can bring us to our knees and make us do the most horrifying of acts."

She had so many words running through her head then to yell at him but the far off look that seemed glued to his face. "It's not your fault though, your made the way you are as are we. … When we were human before … before you …. She came along we'd always been pushed by our parents to find a good girl to marry someone to bear our children. I never usually had blocked my parent's words out and focused on other things like protecting our village during the night, living through the night. Finn as the first born and heir to our family though always considered it his duty to do as they had said even after he's always had his eyes set on the right women to have by his side. Sage was the one he would tell us after she had already become one of us. They looked to the future together without fear of the unknown. I'm not sure what set her off, why Rebekah was stronger than her but whatever made her finally brake happened. Finn had done everything to distract her from her desires of children and gave her everything she wished for, she was happy for a moment and after a while the fever grew and she passed it her sickness to Finn and even with all his strength he'd finally broke and appeased to her cravings. The next thing I knew they were cooing over this little bundle of joy … a girl of all things, with a tuft of dark brown downy colored hair and these eyes that were the color of leaves. A newborn, but out of course, reality hit them and she was cursed by none other than one of the Bennett witches and she grew sick and even witch our blood her health continued to decrease and before any of us knew it Sage did the unthinkable and turned her. The babe hadn't even started to teeth yet and couldn't bare fang couldn't feed herself, it didn't matter though Sage took care of it. The child never cried for a change of rags only for blood, a tower of blood she laid upon and there was no way any of us could kill the child, so we waited."

"What do you mean you waited?" Elena asked carefully as she took in the newly gained information. They had all tried to be normal and yet everything came back to haunt them, they had tried to keep the children human and tragedy struck once more.

"We waited for Micheal to come for us." He said in a whisper. "I may have killed my family but never had I felt so disgusting in my life then when I had helped the others put down Sage and Finn that morning, we'd left that little babe out in the open for Micheal to find. We could hear his cry of anguish as we had fled; even Micheal himself had been torn by such a thing. Sometimes I think he believed it was me he had done it and not Finn. Because of course Finn as the eldest would know better, I was the idiot boy who knew nothing and did everything wrong, only I could have done something so stupid."

"So what happened after they'd finally come back?" She asked softly. "They hated us, Sage went on the defensive. Finn fell into depression more than he had after he'd turned the little one. I hadn't known about anything that could permanently kill us back then and neither did Finn, he went willingly though, didn't even try to fight back and even thanked me."

"So what about Kol? What made him so … well crazy?" She asked as she changed the subject. He looked at her then with that same grim smile. "Love of course; it's the only thing that can make a person lose their mind. Since he's still walking this planet you can ask him that question, because that it quite a story that can only be told from the person that lived in it."

It was silent then as they fell back into comfortable silence and she thought on about how such acts of love could make people so mad and how far one would go in the name of love.

Love, if that was what it truly was, she couldn't be sure, it seemed that Katerina believed it was love that made her do the things she did, survival was what she was a victim too it seemed. What about the original girl that carried her face? Was it more or less the hundred monkey theory that kept her living this tragic loop of love that was beginning to make everyone around her crazy?

"What do you think will become of me?" She asked quietly.

There was a sigh and he rubbed his neck as he kept his eyes directed towards the road. "You are strong and resilient, you will live a long and healthy life and fall in love with a mortal and live in a white picket fence with two point five kids and die a beloved daughter, sister, wife, mother and grandmother. … At least if I have my way you will … If you continue trying to figure things out your own way you'll end up like Katerina or like the others dead before they can see the rest of the world. … Personally I'm a sucker for happy endings so I'm rooting for the latter."

"Do you not see me living happily ever after with … well at all?" She asked carefully not wanting to say a name for fear it would be the wrong name she said. He was bluntfully honest as he answered. "You're a lot like her you know, you love children, you want to fall in love, and you're used to having things given to you with no hesitation. You're used to men falling over themselves to please you. Everyone always trying to make life easy for you and now you are all alone and you're left to fend for yourself. If we do things your way, you won't have the happy ending you want. We do things my way we will."

"Your way involves me and my descendants being you blood banks and no way for me to fall in love with a mortal man for fear of losing your precious blood forever."

"No my way involves one descendant every hundred years and you can fall in love easily my way, trust me." He said smoothly.

She didn't know why but her mouth moved faster than her mind could as she spoke. "Did she trust you? The original?" She asked.

She could tell by the way he stiffened and froze in his place that she'd caught him off guard. He gripped the steering wheel till his knuckles turned white as he spoke. "Yes … No. I'm not sure, you're here in mind body and spirit you tell me did she trust me?"

She looked away from him after that. "Where are we going?" She asked, not bothering to try to use tact to change the subject.

"There's a pack here in Maryland I'm following directions, there hiding in the woods."

"Wait." She said suddenly as she realized what was going on. "We're tracking werewolves!"

Klaus smiled then at her as he turned with deepened dimples. The sign she was beginning to associate with trouble "Of course not, my days of hunting them down are over. … One of my new friends taught me how to feel them, and we're going to pay them a visit. Don't you worry though you're safe, I'm not gonna force you to give blood. … I just want you to see why you should come and help me with my cause."

"Your cause is insanity." She said simply.

"No my cause is." He paused then and he looked thoughtful before he spoke. "My cause is happiness and acceptance." She was quick to retort wittily. "Tell yourself what you need to comfort your ego."

Another laugh a good laugh as it was his earlier one. "Oh little doppelgänger I need not have to care for my own ego when it is you that sits here that does that for me." He replied haughtily.

She should have seen that one coming and as she crossed her arms over her chest and settled into the seat further she could feel his amused eyes on her. Before she knew anything there was a bag of trail mix in front of her.

As she looked towards him and back to the back with a questioning look he spoke again. "Eat, you need to keep your strength up, can't have you getting sick on me now."

"Of course not, bad blood is bad blood right." She responded in a grumble. "Wrong, unhealthy you equals unhealthy you." He answered.

"In other words unhealthy hybrids." She said with a small smile. "Or a dead you." He replied with a smirk and she grabbed the bag from him heatedly.

It was quiet in the vehicle as she munched on her small and healthy snack. As she looked upon the red, yellow, brown and green scenery that passed them. The nature that surrounded them was beautiful and simple and artistic. It looked like a painting you would find at a gala of some sort.

"It's beautiful don't you think?" Klaus' voice drifted to her. She nodded her head easily as she replied. "Yeah, have you been here before?" She asked quietly.

He seemed hesitant again as he replied. "… Yes …. We left during the early nineties."

"Oh so not to long ago." She responded. A small smirk. "Well for me not really, we came here during sixteen-ninety …. Something. I can't remember exactly when all these dates really begin to blur after some time."

The sixteen hundreds, she really hated vampires and their immortality sometimes. Still though it was interesting to learn that he had been here in New England sometime before the or even right when the Salem Witch Trials started.

"So were you here when the witch trials started." There was a laugh this time cruel, amused and troubled all twisted together at the same time. "We're the reason the trials happened in the first place." Her eyes must have shown her fear and shock at the knowledge as he continued on. "See the witches were onto us … so we outed them first before they could do the same to us, thankfully as you can see with my sister we can play dead for quiet sometime, and back then it was long enough to get the humans to see the witches as well witches."

"Don't you feel bad though for killing all those people?" She asked carefully. "Yes, no. It's not exactly our fault for being what we are, and they have no right to judge. I do regret the real humans that did die. … You must understand though witches, werewolves and vampires have been fighting for centuries and humans are just collateral damage. The truth of the matter is if witches would stop thinking themselves as the creators of right and wrong then the rest of us supernatural's would be living happily trying to pretend that we're anything but … well what we are."

"Do you hate what you are?" Elena asked quietly.

"No." Klaus replied simply.

They were quiet then, soaking up the words that had been said while taking in the scenery of New England. Realization hit her then as she came to notice how easy and simple it was for her to talk with him, for her to act as though there wasn't a dead body in the back seat and merely a sleeping girl.

Was this normal? Had this become her daily routine of talking to madmen and pretending something wasn't what it truly was?


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