Chapter 4: Getting ready

I woke up feeling weak and exhausted while my head was pounding; I turned my head to the right and opened my eyes. There right in front of me was the vampire; he was looking at me, smirking off course. God, how much I wanted to wipe it off.

"Finally, I was beginning to think that I had taken too much blood." He said, faking worry.

With a lot of struggling I managed to sit up, I was feeling ill from the blood loss and the movement from the carriage. I reached for my neck feeling; on the left side of my neck were two marks after his canines. It hurt to touch them so I laid my hand in my lap, seeing that my fingers was covered with blood. Great! I'm covered in blood, I'm exhausted and my head is pounding, can this get any worse?

I leant my head on the window and looked out, seeing trees and lots of fields which told me that I was far from home.

"Where are you taking me?" I asked barley able to make a sound; I was still looking out the window. I didn't want to meet his eyes.

"Firstly, I am taking you to a place where you can get some proper clothes and after that will you meet with the man who sent me after you thirteen years ago." I turned my head towards him, to be honest I wasn't really surprised but I couldn't help the shock filling my face.

"So you have heard of him?" He asked. He had a glint in his eyes that made shivers go down my back. I wasn't looking forward to meet with Klaus, but I have never really feared him, no matter how much he might hurt me I knew that he wouldn't kill me, I mean, why look for me in thirteen years if it's just to kill me?

"What does he want with me?" I asked ignoring his question.

"The lord only tells his plans to the most trusted of his men, me failing in finding you until now, have made his trust for me fade" He answered coldly and I couldn't help smiling which seemed to make him angry.

I was about to turn to the window again when he grabbed my arm tightly stopping me from moving, I turned back to him and waited for him to speak.

"You should be careful, even though I cannot kill you, it does not mean that I cannot hurt you." He said baring his fangs.

I only looked into his eyes, I didn't move or talk. We sat like that for a few seconds then he let go of my arm and I leant my head back against the window. It was sunrise, and the nature looked so beautiful.

"Are we there yet?" I asked keeping my eyes on a pair of birds that was flying.

"Soon" Was the only thing he said.

My eyes started to close and I let them, wishing that I would wake up in my own bed. Sadly I was woken up a few minutes after, that's what it felt like. I opened my eyes and saw that the sun was up, I turned towards the man.

"Now, I have a few rules you must follow while we get you a proper dress." He said making sure I would hear everything he said.

"Rule one stay close to me and do not dare to try to run." He held up his hand to stop me from speaking as if he knew I was about to say something. "Rule two, Behave and rule three, do not do anything stupid." He said in a warning tone.

The Carriage stopped and he stepped out, then he stepped aside so that I could go out too. We were in front of a small cottage, there were lots of flowers and bushes around in the garden which made it all look so fairytale like. We moved towards the door and before we reached it, someone came out of it. It was an old lady; she looked very kind so I started wondering what we were doing here.

The old lady moved towards us and greeted the vampire as if he was her grandson or something.

"Demetri, it has been a long time" She smiled at him and then she saw me. "So you have finally found her" She was still smiling as she studied my clothes.

"I was hoping you could help me." Demetri said.

"Of course, I will always help you" She said while she turned towards me. "Well, first we need to give you a bath to get off the blood and dirt." She grabbed my hand and pulled me after her.

She pulled me inside the house through a small bedroom and into a bathroom, it wasn't big but it was still a nice room. There was a bathtub in the middle of the room, and along the walls there was a sink and toilet and lots of shelves with different types of hairbrushes and makeup, there were also different kinds of soaps so I immediately knew that this was a place where people were brought to so they could get cleaned up and dressed for meeting with a lord.

The old lady went over to the bathtub and turned on the water, while the tub was filling up she moved over to the shelf with the soaps and picked out some and then she went back to the tub and poured some soap in and then she turned the water off. The soaps smelt like a mix of roses and strawberries, it was amazing.

"Now, I am going to leave you in here so that you can wash yourself, I will be back after I have found the perfect dress for you, and I will bring you something to eat." She said smiling, handing me a scrub and then she left the room before I got to say anything.

I went over to the tub, undressed and stepped in. The warm water felt good against my skin, it was almost soothing. I started to scrub my legs and then I went up, when I got to my neck I started to scrub gently, it hurt to touch the wounds. After I was done scrubbing my body I went over to wash my hair, it felt so good just to sit in the bathtub so I sat there and waited for the old lady to come back.

"Demetri said you were different but I did not really believe him until now." Said the old lady, I hadn't heard that she had come back so I got very frightened.

I turned towards her confusion covering my face. "What do you mean?" I asked.

"You are so calm, the complete opposite of what Helena was, she was so scared, she tried to run so many times after Klaus found out the truth."

"The truth" I asked.

"I am sorry, my dear, but no one knows and those who do are strictly forbidden to talk about it." She said, she moved to get me a towel and then came over to me and held it out.

I grabbed it and putted it around my body when I got out of the tub, she moved me in front of a big mirror with a table and a chair and I sat down in it.

"Wait... Who is Helena?" I asked remembering the name.

"You do not know?" she asked shocked. I shook my head and the lady started talking: "Helena is your great, great, great grandmother and she was Klaus' first love, of course after he found out the truth she ended up dead."

"Did he kill her?" I asked.

"There have been many rumours about that, so it is hard to tell which one is true." She answered while she started to dry my hair with another towel.

It was silent for a moment, when she was done drying my hair she went and got me some food and then she started to style my hair while I ate.

"You look like her you know" She said suddenly.

"I do?" I asked feeling a little stupid asking.

"Yes you do" She smiled; she went into the bedroom and came back in a few seconds holding a little piece of paper. She handed it to me and started to put make up on me while I looked at the paper she had handed to me.

It was a drawing of a girl who looked just like me, but it was just something that told me that it wasn't me. The look in her eyes screamed bored and it was something about the way she sat that made me think snobby, spoiled brat who would get anything she wanted if she asked.

I just looked at the drawing, trying to find some differences between her and me but there was none, the eyes was the same shape, the nose was the same size, everything was the same. It scared me a little that I looked just like her, but it was both the words the lady had said and a feeling that I got that made me think that there was a difference. I might look like her but our personalities are different.

"There, now the hair and makeup is done" The lady said, smiling and I looked in the mirror. My hair was pulled up away from my neck with some few strands of hair hanging down, the makeup was natural and it brought out my blue eyes and then went in to the bedroom. I couldn't help but to smile, I have never looked so beautiful before.

"When you are done admiring the result, could you please come in here and get dressed?" The lady laughed. I smiled and went in to the bedroom still with the towel around me. The bedroom was small but there were a lot of closets and shelves here and in one corner was a screen, so that someone could get dressed without being watched. There the lady was holding a blue dress, it was gorgeous, the shoes were blue and they were standing on the floor next to the lady and on the bed was a hat that matched the dress.

"Wow" Was all I said. "Is, is... Is that for me?" I asked.

"Yes, it is." She said. "Since your hair has an amazing chestnut colour with a hint of ginger and your eyes has a beautiful blue colour in them, and then I thought that this would fit perfectly."

I smiled, I didn't know what to say but I forced out a thank you. I moved over to her and touched the dress, silk, I have always loved silk.

"Now take the dress and go behind that screen" she said and nodded towards the corner. "A pair of knickers is laying there."

I smiled and went behind the screen and laid the dress over it, on a chair was a pair of white lace knickers, I pulled them on before I pulled on the dress. The dress had a corset, so I needed help to tie it so I walked out from behind the screen and the lady came over and started to tie the corset.

A knock on the door got me to remember why I was here in the first place; the lady opened the door when she was done tying the corset.

"Patience Demetri" she said. "She is almost ready, there are just a few things left."

Demetri said something that I couldn't hear, and then the door closed and the lady went over to a drawer and grabbed a pair of white stockings. She gave them to me so that I could pull them on, then I sat down in a chair near the door to the bathroom and pulled on the shoes while she took the hat and putted it on my head. When she was sure that it wouldn't fall off she pulled me in front of a mirror standing between two shelves the second I saw myself my jaw fell and I stated to smile like I have never done before. I stepped closer to the mirror to get a better look at my neck; the dress had a small collar which covered the bite mark as long as I didn't turn my head to the right Klaus wouldn't know. When I bend my neck forward I could barely see my face which also meant that no one else could either. I doubt they are expecting me, so why not make the best of it. I smiled at the thought. If only mama and Christine could see me now. That thought made my smile disappear, I started to wonder if she was alright. I'll have to ask Demetri.

I moved my mouth to say something but not a single sound came, I turned towards the lady and hugged her tight. I think I surprised her because she didn't hug back right away.

"Thank you so much" I whispered in her ear.

"You are welcome my dear" She said and then pulled back. "Come on, Demetri is very impatient and he really want to go back there so you better be going."

She led me through the house and out front where the carriage was waiting, Demetri showed up out of nothing. He looked at me and he got the same reaction as I did.

"Well, the clock is almost twelve, so if you leave now you will be there at three." The lady said which got Demetri to focus again.

"Yes, well... It was nice to see you again" He said motioning for me to follow him while he went over to the carriage. I turned towards the lady and gave her one last hug and a smile before I followed him.

"Goodbye and thank you" I said smiling before I stepped in the carriage.

"Goodbye and You are welcome" She said waving.

Demetri stepped in after me and closed the door, he sat down opposite from me and knocked on the wall signalising to the rider that we were good to go and a few seconds later we were moving and I was back to looking out the window before my eyes closed and I fell asleep.


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