Thank God for Dance Lessons.

"We shall" said Charlotte She looped her arm around Elijah's and they proceeded down the hallway toward the stairs. As they reached the top of the grand staircase Charlotte looked out into the Mikaelson's mansion, and what she saw was truly beautiful. There was small glimmering lights everywhere and a large crystal chandelier, the people below all looked stunning, none more so than Klaus himself. Their eyes met for a split second, and Charlotte could see in his eyes that his demeanour towards her had changed. He was no longer looking at her as a pest that needed eradicating, but as a beautiful young woman that he could no longer ignore. Elijah walked Charlotte to the bottom of the stairs were she noticed Elena walking toward them.

"Elena, I'd like you to meet a friend of mine." Elijah said as he motioned toward charlotte. "This is charlotte; she is a guest staying with us at the moment." Elijah politely looked back toward charlotte. "And this charlotte, is Elena"

"Nice to meet you" Elena said to charlotte, but charlotte could see in Elena's expression that Elena's was very suspicions of this new comer.

"Nice to meet you too." She said as she tried her best to seem as though this was the first time she was ever seeing Elena. "How about I get us some champagne?" she said as started toward the nearest waiter carrying drinks.

"Thank you" they both said to charlottes offer.

Charlotte headed toward a waiter passing out drinks and courteously takes one, when a man says "well well well, I hear the Michelson's have a new house guest." Charlotte turned around to see who belonged to the voice, but she already knew who it was.

"Damon Salvatore, I presume. I've heard a lot about you." She smugly said.

Damon Salvatore, in the flesh, and Elena is standing right over there, this is all insane….Enough! You can think about what a trip this is later, tonight you have work. She thought.

"Hmm, see I haven't heard anything about you, well only that you have been staying here at casa de crazy originals," Damon said sarcastically to charlotte. "So who are you, like a long lost cousin or something"?

"No, I'm not a cousin" she replies shortly

"But you do know about their 'lifestyle' I presume…" Damon rambles on.

Charlotte is barley listening to Damon speaks she's too busy trying to eaves drop on Elena and Elijah's conversation.

"I understand my mother requested to see you" Elijah enquires.

"Yeah, why? Is there something wrong?" Elena replied.

"Well her ability to forgive my brother after everything he has done to destroy this family, strikes me as a little strange, to say the least."

"Do you think it's all and act?"

Klaus must have said something to Elijah, good. Maybe this will put doubt in Elena's mind and I can convince her more easily. Thought Charlotte.

Charlotte is abruptly knocked out of her eaves dropping buy Damon's tight grasp on her arm.

"So let's just make one thing clear, if you are working for Klaus, or any of the others. Just know I will do whatever it takes to protect Elena. You got that!" Damon said very aggressively.

"I know, because you're in love with her and all." Charlotte responded, she yanked her arm out from under his grasp and continued. "Believe me; I want no harm to come to anyone okay. So if you'll excuse me I have something I have to do."

Damon stared after as she sauntered off in the direction she had just seen Elena go, she left him standing there with a bit of a confused look on his face, but she didn't have time for that right now, she had to get to Elena before she spoke to Esther. She followed Elena into one of the downstairs bathrooms, she quickly glanced around the room to make sure it was empty besides her and Elena, before she locked the door and headed to where Elena was fixing her hair.

"Okay look" she quickly said to Elena "we haven't got much time, Esther is going to ask you to help her with a spell. She is going to need your blood to bind all the originals together, so that she can kill Finn and since they will be linked all her other children will die too." Charlotte stopped to take a breath and to see if Elena was following. "But you must not help her, I know you want Klaus dead, but you can't kill him okay. When an original dies so does every vampire that was ever created from that bloodline."

Elena eyed her sceptically. "How do I know you're telling the truth, I don't know you, and up until 10 minutes ago I hadn't even heard of you? You are staying here with Elijah and the rest of them, you're probably working with them." Elena answered. Charlotte could see that Elena still needed more convincing.

"You're right, you have no reason to trust me, but you must. It's hard to explain, it's kind of like I can see the future, but only a certain future and killing the originals will be killing every vampire. Including Damon and Stefan. Trust me, when you walk into the room Esther will be burning sage, she will perform a silencing spell so you can speak freely. I know what happens here and she wants to use the essence of your blood in a toast to seal the spell with all the originals. Whatever you do don't give her your blood and don't help,

"Knock knock" someone said from outside the bathroom. "Is anyone in there?"

"I have to get back to the party" Elena said, she brushed past charlotte, but at the door she looked back quickly, charlotte could tried to read the look in her eyes, was she convinced. Did I do it, I guess only time will tell.

Charlotte headed out of the bathroom and back into the ballroom just as everyone was crowding around the entrance way. Elijah was making a toast about the family, and commencing the dance. "…find yourself a partner, please join us in the ballroom" Elijah headed down the stairs and walked straight over to her. "Would you care to dance?"

"Of course." Charlotte answered, she took his hand as he led her onto the dance floor.

Thank god I had to take dance lessons as a child.

The music started and everyone began the dance. Ed Sheeran's 'give me love' played in the background. Charlotte was staring at Klaus and Caroline, she was imagining every word he said to her, was he still saying those thing, even though things had changed since she arrived. Get a grip charlotte, here Klaus is real and he is horrible. He has killed thousands of people, and you are not a part of this world. Don't get attached.

"Are you infatuated with my brother?" Elijah asked charlotte, she had been so distracted watching Klaus she had forgotten she was even dancing.

"No, not..." charlotte blushed as she began to stutter out. "Not at all. I was just admiring Caroline's dress"

"It's understandable, Klaus has charmed many over the years" he vaguely said. His tone began more serious "charlotte, let's be honest, why are you here?"

"I honestly don't know, but..." should I tell him about the Esther's plan. Maybe that will gain their trust, it might buy me a while in here without having to tell them exactly where I'm from. But then again, it might make it worse and they might be more interested in my background. "There's something I have to tell you," Charlotte said as she scanned the room, "but not here"

They continued dancing, Elijah spun charlotte and they moved onto the next partner. Klaus's string arms captured charlotte and they began dancing. She felt so wonderful in his arms, she tried to not look at him, and she knew she would just swoon if she looked up. But her curiosity got the better of her she looked at his face, she stared deep into his eyes, and she knew she was gone.

He began to speak in his sexy British accent, "you look ravishing in that dress,"

Charlotte blushed. "Thank you, you don't look so terrible yourself"

"Are you enjoying yourself tonight?" he asked

"Yes, this house is so beautiful, and everyone looks amazing. Are you? She replied

"now that I'm dancing with you, the night has gotten a lot better" charlotte was enjoying Klaus company, and he was being very nice toward her, but he could help but be a bit nervous and suspicious of his new found appreciation of her.

"Klaus, why all of a sudden the turn around, only a few nights ago you tore at my thought, now you seem so pleasant." charlotte stated, anger was bubbling up inside her, anger she didn't know she had.

"I appreciate your honesty, last night, what you said about my mother. Well it takes confidence and courage to intentionally anger someone like me." Klaus replied with a certain amount of sincerity in his voice.

"Oh" was all she managed to say. The dance came to an end and everyone dispersed around the room. Charlotte looked around for Elena and Stefan, but they were nowhere to be seen. Oh no, Elena's gone, and Stefan too. She must have decided to go see Esther and help her with her plan. I have to find her. I have to stop her.

Charlotte dashed off without saying so much as excuse me to Klaus. She raced up stairs looking for Elena, or any sign of where she must be. She opened one of the upstairs rooms when someone forcefully pushed her inside as she fell to the ground. She rolled over and rubbed her head, she looked up to see her attacker, and it was none other than Stefan Salvatore.

"What the hell Stefan. Why did you push me" she said, forgetting that she hadn't actually met Stefan, and that he might find it odd she knew him before being introduced.

"So you know who I am?" he asked, standing over her.

"Klaus told me" crap! I shouldn't have said his name. "Anyway, that doesn't matter, I have to find Elena" she said as she stood up and headed for the door. Stefan sped toward her and stood in between her and the door.

"I can't let you do that" he said. "She's helping Esther, she told me about the plan you said Esther had, and she's going to do it. We are going to kill these originals once and for all.

"You will be killing yourself Stefan and your brother and Caroline. I won't let you hurt them."

He pushed charlotte away from the door "now that's where you're wrong. I don't believe you, I think you're working with Klaus and that you made up some lie that keeps us from ever killing him."

"Stefan please you have to believe me, it's the truth!" charlotte said as she tried again to push past him. I have to think of something, anything to get me out of here. "I'll scream, with all the vampire hearing in this mansion, someone is bound to hear."

Charlotte opened her mouth ready to let out the scream of her life, but was instantly stopped but Stefan's fangs on the side of her neck as she fell to the floor.

When charlotte awoke she was lying on a brown leather couch upstairs. She was still in the room where Stefan attacked her. She put her hand up to her neck and felt the dry blood and fang marks on her neck. Omg this hurts. It never really looked that painful, but crap it's so painful! She was so focused on the pain she almost forgot about the ball, shit the toast!, Klaus!, I hope I'm not too late she thought as she quickly jumped up and ran out into the hall. She noticed there were many fewer guest roaming about the mansion, it was much later than she thought. She had missed the toast, she didn't stop Esther. She was too late!. Her eyes began to water and she couldn't stop a few stray tears from escaping.

Charlotte ran into the nearest bathroom, cleaned herself up, and washed her face.

She grabbed a stray coat from the closet and ran downstairs and out into the cool night air. She walked for a while around the grounds as she let herself succumb to her emotions. She cursed out loud, everything was getting to her. Being in this place. The realness of it all. And it didn't help that she had had a few too many glasses of champagne throughout the night, that's when she heard someone walk up behind her. She quickly wiped her tear stained face and turned around to face her intruder. It was Klaus. She immediately saw the concern on his face.

"Are you alright love" he said with the utmost sincerity.

Charlotte was in no mood for pleasantries, as she had just failed miserably trying to stop Esther. "Why do you care Klaus?"

"I fancy you. Is that so hard to believe" he simply stated. Charlottes jaw dropped, she couldn't believe what she had just heard.

"Yes" she quietly said back.

"Why, you're beautiful, you're full of light, I enjoy you." These words aren't meant for me charlotte thought they are meant for Caroline…I can't believe he is saying them to me. I've loved Klaus ever since he came into the show. But now that it's real…I can't deal with this.

"I'm sorry; I have to go back inside." She said as she pushed past him. She didn't have time for Klaus and his confession. She had to find Elijah; she had decided to tell Elijah about Esther's plan. She also wanted to confide in Elijah about where she was from and how she had gotten there, she believed that maybe Elijah would keep her secrets and maybe he would help her. Suddenly Klaus grabbed charlottes arm and quickly pulled down the collar of her stolen jacket.

"Who did this to you" he said angrily as she stared at the fresh blood escaping the bite marks on her neck. "I will kill whoever hurt you!"

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