I woke up rather early the next morning with warm arms around my bare form. I shifted a little now and turned to face him. Elijah was fast asleep and I chuckled silently at the blank expression on his face.

There was a creak from outside now as someone walked down the corridor, and I tried to pull put of his arm, but the movement woke him up, then I met mahogany eyes and a voice.

"Good morning."

I smiled a little now, then replied. "Good morning." He leaned forwards now and gave me a brief, but sweet kiss.

"Shouldn't we be getting up?" I asked now, but he chuckled and just said. "No. It's still early. I do not think anyone will be missing us this early."

"Hmm, you might be right." I smiled now, leaning over and kissed him for a moment, pulling the covers more over us and letting him put an arm around me, pulling me more into his chest.

It was so nice and relaxing laid out here in his arms, especially after the night we'd had together. The lazy morning completed it.

"So when are we emerging?" I asked him now, a finger tracing down my spine. Elijah was quiet, then he said in reply. "Do you want to get up?"

With that, I shook my head and leaned forwards, my lips just touching his as I said against them. "No, not yet." The bed creaked a little as I shifted, putting an arm around his neck and pulling him closer to me so I could kiss him once more.

"Last night was amazing." I mumbled against his lips now, and he chuckled, saying back. "Likewise. It has been a rather long time since I spent the night with a womans company."

"I couldn't tell." I just said now, and something in my voice made him go with a chuckle. "I was the first one? Why didn't you tell me? I could have been more ge-"

"I don't make a habit of sleeping around. It's not very ladylike." Was all I could say, and there was another light chuckle, and he said. "Then I am honored you do not consider me part of this 'sleeping around.'"

"How could I?" I muttered now, kissing him once more, but for longer this time. I let him put his arms around me once more now, my head on his chest with eyes closing once more as the previous night and tiredness took its toll.


When I woke up again, I was in my own bed in the room a few doors down, back in my white chemise too. There was a knock on the door now, and at first I thought it was Elijah coming back, but a voice I knew well said.

"Lili? Are you awake?"

Oh, Katerina.

"Yes, come in." I said now, sitting up and pulling the covers around me a little more. Katerina walked in now, fully dressed, then sat down next to me on the bed, then frowned. "What is wrong?"

I snapped to my senses of sorts now, then chuckled. "Nothing's wrong. It is all ok actually."

Katerina sighed now, then looked to the window and said. "What you are talking about, I have no idea. But I have just been talking with Elijah. He wanted me to give this to you-" she held up a little silver chain now, a little silver woven style locket was hanging from it, and Katerina looked envious, and she said in an equally as yearning voice.

"He is more than a little taken with you... is that a herb inside it?"

I opened the little metal woven locket now and found a dried herb in there and frowned. "Yes. I wonder what it is?"

Katerina now looked to the pillows and raised an eyebrow. "Did you sleep in here last night?"

"I did." was my answer, closing up the locket and putting it around my neck where it hung snugly just above my cleavage. Katerina scoffed, then said, standing up. "I can tell you are lying sister. You spent the night with Elijah, didn't you?"

I knew I couldn't lie, and much less to my own little sister, so I rolled my eyes and nodded. "Yes. Happy now you know? And I swear if you ask for details-"

"I wasn't going to." she just said now, then looked out the window at the sky. It was a light blue with fluffy white clouds over the tree tops.

"I am going for a walk, Niklaus..." Katerina sighed, and I frowned. "I thought you liked him? He certainly took a shine to you."

"That is it." She said now, turning to me with a kind of sadness in her eyes. "Niklaus... Klaus... I do not believe he cares for me. He has made promises, then broke them almost immediately. He does not love me... not in the same way Elijah loves you."

"But Elijah-"

"No, do not give me that nonsense- he is more than taken with you. Klaus looked angry at the thought though..." she trailed off, and I wondered what she meant by he looked angry at the thought of his brother falling in love with me.

Men of many secrets these brothers.


I went for a walk of my own now through the woods, and they were darker than usual... dark enough to make me feel afraid and wish I had Elijah at my side.

There was a snap of twigs now, and I stopped dead, looking around, my auburn hair quivering a little in the process. I didn't feel fear to easy, but I felt it now.

"Hello?" I called now, but then a light chuckle met my ears, and I turned to face the figure that wasn't Elijah, but his brother.

"Klaus? What are you doing out here?" I asked now, feeling relief that it wasn't a monster...

How wrong was I?

He chuckled again, then raised a hand and took my chin, tilting my head up a little so he could see the color of my eyes, and he said quietly. "Your eyes are the color as your sisters."

"Klaus, you are scaring me now." I just shivered and he let me go, saying softly. "Why are you afraid?"

"You sound different."

"Different you say?" he smirked, but then took my face in his hands and said in a cold voice. "You have made my brother weak."

"Excuse me? I-" I never got the chance to say anything else now as he slammed me into the nearest tree by my throat, then smirked darkly. "I have my doppleganger, my werewolf, my witch... all I need now is my vampire."

"Va- vampires-?" I squeaked out in fear now, unable to push him away. Klaus chuckled now, then he grinned, and a shiver of fear shot through me as his eyes transitioned to a deep gold, then I saw the thing that scared me most of all- fangs.

He leaned forwards now and said softly into my ear. "Oh we are real, little Lili. For five hundred years now me and my brother have been searching for your sister... and I get a bonus. A tasty elder sister to use as well."

But one thing above all other things he'd said was registering in my mind.

"Elijah is a vampire too-?"

Klaus laughed, then a scream escaped me as he clamped down into my neck, and a tearing sensation was all I could feel, then the ground was under my hands, then the devil in the flesh crouched down next to me and lifted my chin up so his eyes could pierce my own.

"Oh yes. Elijah is a vampire too... and in a few moments, so will you-"

He put his bitten wrist to my mouth now and made me drink his blood, then he took my shaking head into his hands once more and said quietly, eyes not leaving my own.

"It was a pleasure meeting you, now-"

Everything went dark as my neck got wenched to the left...


I woke with a start god knows how long later, and there were chains around my wrists and ankles. The room I was in was pitch black, but the cold chains let me know that I was alive... somehow.

Oh god... oh god... Klaus had killed me...

He and Elijah were vampires.

Va-? Was that what I was now-?

I raised a chained hand to my mouth now, then felt the sharp fangs and gasped in horror. No... this wasn't happening...

I was so, so hungry. Why was I so hungry-?

There was a clang now as the door opened, and a figure walked in with a candle lit, leading their way. They crouched down next to me now, and Klaus's smirking face was illuminated.

"Wakey wakey sweetie." he said now, then I felt the chains fall from my wrists, and the urge to run dominated everything, but Klaus knew what I was going to do and grabbed my long auburn hair, telling me to shut up.

I did so from fear, then was thrown into a well lit room where a young man was stood, terrified, but unable to move or make a sound.

"Bite him. Now." Klaus ordered me, and I didn't need telling twice, for the scarlet on his neck was more than inviting, and I bit down into it, drinking his blood until he was dead.

Klaus now yanked me back and said, cocking his head. "What is this vervain doing around your neck?" he yanked my necklace off now and threw it aside, slamming me into the wall and said. "Now, we are-"

"My Lord?"

Klaus snarled now, looking to the door and hissed. "What-!"

"Someone has told Katerina. She has gone."

Klaus let me go now, eyes widening, but then in a flash he was gone and I was left to slide down the wall and sit on the floor, every fiber in my body wanting to run...

And after scrambling to my feet, grabbing the necklace, run I did.


The full moon was high in the sky as I ran at full pelt through the woods, my speed increasing all the time and heart running even faster.

I got a sense of someone else being there now, then someone grabbed my arms and stopped me dead, prompting me to try and yank away, but I heard a familiar voice.

"Lili! Calm down!"

I was shaking as Elijah grabbed my wrists and looked around hurriedly. "I don't have long." he just rushed now, then he yanked a ring of his left and and forced it onto one of my own, hurrying when he said. "Here- keep this ring on. It'll protect you from the sun."

"Vampires..." I just whimpered now, and he hugged me before I got chance to push him away. He must have felt my shaking body, for he said sincerely.

"I am so, so sorry for all this my love."

"You are a vampire-? I am?"

"Yes to both. Now, listen-" he took my hands and said in a rush. "People are looking for you and your sister. Run. And keep running. Run until you find somewhere safe. I will find you, I promise."

I nodded and I felt a hasty kiss on my lips, then he was gone. I hesitated for a moment, then turned and did exactly what he said to do-

Run.


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