A few weeks later, since Klaus had brought in Connor and hold him captive. He had asked him questions, but he would refuse to answer him. Brooklyn had asked to Klaus why he was brought into their house. He would than say about the tattoo and on that tattoo that nobody could see expect her little brother Jeremy. And on that tattoo, there would a map from that let to something that every vampire would want. Now, today, Brooklyn brought Rose to school. When they arrived, the teacher was standing there, looking angry. Brooklyn stepped out of the car with her daughter Rose. "What's wrong?"
"You are late, miss." The teacher told her.
"Oh, sorry about that. I overslept, it would never happen again." Brooklyn told her honestly.
"I hope it doesn't." The teacher told her. "Because the others from her class were already asking about Rose."
"Okay." Then Brooklyn turned to look at her daughter. "Have fun today, sweetie."
"Okay, mommy." Rose looked at her mother, before she walked inside of the school. The teacher followed after her.
Then Brooklyn walked back to her car and went to the woods.
When she arrived, she stepped out of the car, slipping her ring in the bag and put it away in the car. Then she closed the car and walked further into the woods as she went running and turned into a wolf. She was running and running, until it was a few hours later. Then she turned back to her human form and went back to her car.
A little while later, she arrived back at the mansion. Brooklyn walked inside of the house to look for Klaus. Then she found him with Connor, who was chained up to a wooden platform as then Stefan walked out from the shadows.
"Looks like I'll have to beef up the hybrid security detail." Klaus spoke up, without turning around.
"I was gonna take him but I figured you went through such trouble to truss him up in your red room of pain." Stefan told him as then Klaus now turned around to look at him, seeing Brooklyn standing there as well.
"It's from the Inquisition." Klaus smirked. "I thought it was a nice touch."
"What'd you get out of him?" Stefan asked, basically pointed at Connor.
"Not enough." Klaus replied.
"Like nothing at all." Brooklyn muttered as Klaus rolled with eyes.
"He's mum about the Council fire and he's not saying anything about this greater evil we're all supposed to be shivering over." Klaus explained.
"What brings you snooping?" Brooklyn asked to Stefan.
"Well, I can't say it in front of him." Stefan looked between them. "As I'm sure you figured out, our friend here can't be compelled."
"You're full of mysteries, aren't you?" Klaus looked at Connor.
"I told you, I don't know anything." Connor repeated.
"Thankfully, I know plenty." Klaus looked them as then he closed the door behind him. "Shall we?" he pointed at the couch. "So, what's with the home invasion?"
"Damon said you knew about this guy." Stefan replied to them. "I should've figured you were up to something when you healed Elena from the werewolf poison without asking for anything."
"I was feeling benevolent." Klaus lied to him as Brooklyn rolled with her eyes.
"You're never benevolent." Stefan shook with his head. "Who is this guy? What's the Five?"
"So many questions." Klaus smirked.
"It's a good thing I have nothing to do today except get answers out of you." Stefan sat down on a chair.
"Fine." Klaus sighed. "You might actually be useful in persuading my sister to cooperate. The Brotherhood of The Five was a group of highly skilled vampire hunters. Crossed paths with them in the 12th Century, Italy. My siblings and I had followed the Normans as they conquered the south feeding, turning people as we went. But with the bloodshed came exposure." Klaus told him. "When Elijah, Rebekah and I were in a small village when we encountered them for the first time and one of them caught Rebekah's eye."
"So these hunters have been around for 900 years?" Stefan asked to him.
"Apparently." Klaus sighed. "Though our friend in the other room is the first I've seen since then. Makes you wonder what they've been up to all these years."
"Rebekah had a thing with one of them?" Brooklyn asked, curiously.
"Oh, she didn't just have a thing. She fell in love with him." Klaus looked at Stefan. "He told her all his secrets which I will gladly share with you provided you do one thing for me."
"And what's that?" Stefan asked confused.
"Get Rebekah over here." Klaus stood up. "She's being stubborn and hateful. I need to make peace with her. I want her to give me some very important information about the hunter which she won't do unless she believes we've made up."
"And what's in it for me?" Stefan looked at him.
"Just get her here and I'll tell you." Klaus pointed at the door, where the hunter was. "Oh, and Stefan trust me when I say this: That hunter in there holds the answer to all your prayers."
A little while later, Brooklyn had brought Rose back from school as she was now playing in the living room as Brooklyn stood with Klaus. He asked to the hunter. "You feeling all right, mate? Are the shackles too tight?" Just then, Rebekah and Stefan walked into the room. "Welcome home, sister."
"Is this a trick?" Rebekah looked flabbergasted at the man in chains. "How do you know he's one of The Five? Where's his tattoo?"
"The tattoos aren't visible on this lot like they were on the last." Klaus told them as they all leave the room. "Let's eat." Not much later, they all sit around the table, Brooklyn had Rose next to her and Klaus the other side of her. "Thank you, my lovely." Klaus told to the girl who had served him a drink, she walked away. "I could kiss the Council for burning up all the vervain in town. They made my life so much easier." Then he pointed at the vegetables. "Rebekah, love, eat your veggies."
"I'm not eating until you apologize." Rebekah told him as Rose was happily eating with the help from Brooklyn.
"For which indiscretion?" Klaus looked at her. "There have been so many."
"You broke my neck." She reminded him.
"You threw away Elena's blood so I can't make hybrids." Klaus looked at her.
"You took me for granted." Rebekah looked annoyed.
"That's what big brothers do, sweetheart." Klaus nearly shouted.
"Let me just name the million other people I'd rather be having dinner with right now." Stefan sighed heavily.
"I agree with you." Brooklyn deadpanned.
"All right, fine. I'm sorry." Klaus looked at his sister. "I often forget how delicate you are. Forgive me?"
"I'll take it under consideration." Rebekah looked at him.
"Okay, good." Stefan leaned in on the table as he looked at Klaus. "Why don't you tell me about Rebekah's hunter?"
"Right. Alexander." Klaus replied to him. "Nice chap, forgoing the obvious issues. He was looking for creatures of the night which is why we felt quite safe around him wearing our daylight rings. It was at one of the dinners we provided for him when he told us a weapon that no vampire could ever resist."
"So that's what this is about?" Stefan asked. "A weapon?"
"Not just any weapon." Rebekah revealed.
"Rebekah, love, don't get ahead of the story." Klaus scolded her.
"How is a weapon the answer to all my prayers?" Stefan asked, but there was no reply. "Okay. Why don't we just skip the theatrics and get right to the point?"
"Not quite yet." Klaus looked at him. "Because in order to find this weapon, we need to solve the puzzle which seems to have disappeared."
"What puzzle?" Brooklyn asked confused at them.
Then Stefan realized. "The tattoo. What is it?"
"A map." Klaus replied to them. "Leading us to its treasure."
"Fat lot of good a tattoo is if we can't see it." Rebekah remarked.
"We can't, but someone else can." Klaus looked at the waitress. "Won't you tell the hybrid to bring him in, love? The hunter was so eager to get to the bottom of his mystery tattoos that he mentioned there was only one other person that can see them." then Jeremy was pushed into the room by a hybrid as Stefan used his vampire speed to get to Jeremy, Klaus followed him. "I wouldn't. Lucky for us, young Jeremy here is a bit of an artist."
"What the hell?" Brooklyn stood up. "Don't push him into the room." then she looked at Klaus. "You could have ask me to bring my brother here, not this." She gestured at the hybrid. Klaus just shrugged at her, but only makes Brooklyn angrier as she shook with her head.
"I'm not helping you with anything." Jeremy glanced at his sister.
Klaus motion to the hybrid as he took the ring from Jeremy, tossed it over to him. "I'm afraid you are."
Then he was sent to the other room as Brooklyn put Rose to bed.
Brooklyn was with Rose upstairs as she asked to her mother. "What did aunt Bekah mean with that Daddy had broken her neck?"
"Well, it's that they play a game. It's not really that your father had broken the neck from your aunt." Brooklyn replied to her. "They are sometimes like little children."
"Like me?" Rose asked to her mother.
"No, much littler." Brooklyn replied to her as she tucked her in.
"Oh." Rose said sleepily.
"Sleep well, sweetie." Brooklyn told to her daughter as she gave a kiss on her forehead.
Rose was fast asleep as then Brooklyn put out the lights and let the door ajar as then she walked downstairs.
When she arrived downstairs, she heard Stefan telling to Klaus. "Just tell me more about this tattoo."
"My sister's suitor was unwilling to tell us anything. Rebekah, however, was more than willing to investigate." Klaus looked at his sister as Brooklyn came to them and sat down on a chair. "Isn't that right?"
"Alex told me that the tattoo was a map to the weapon and the only way to decipher it was it sword." Rebekah told them.
"My sister's boyfriend threw a slumber party that night." Klaus continued. "He and his brothers put us all down in our sleep. Elijah, Kol, Finn and me."
"How was I supposed to know?" Rebekah looked disbelieved.
"Cheers. To my sister's uncanny ability to choose men." Klaus took a sip from his drink.
"I thought the daggers didn't work on you because of your werewolf side." Stefan remarked.
"They don't." Klaus smirked. I killed the Five and took out the daggers from my family only to discover form my sister what made her betray us." He looked at his sister. "Go ahead, Rebekah. Tell him. Tell him what the Hunter told you the tattoo leads to. What's this great weapon that could bring about the end of the vampire species?"
"A cure." Rebekah revealed. "He said there was a cure."
"There is no cure for vampirism." Stefan comment as Klaus stood up and the others followed him.
"He's telling the truth, Stefan." Rebekah told him.
"Why wouldn't you have found it?" Stefan asked as Klaus poured for himself a drink.
"Because when the hunters drew their final breath that night the marks disappeared from their body. The map was gone." Klaus turned to look at them, with his drink in his hand. "The Brotherhood of The Five, extinct. For 900 years, there was not a whisper of another hunter until our friend in there showed up."
"Now we have the map." Rebekah looked at her brother. "What do we do next?"
"We don't do anything. You can't be trusted, little sister." Klaus looked back at his sister. "You'll be blabbing this secret to the first boy who calls you pretty. I mean, it's pathetic. Really. How she hands her heart to any man who shows her a hint of affection. You'd think she'd learn from the endless cycle of disappointment and deception."
"But I haven't. Instead I stay with you and let you leech every moment of happiness from my life." She nearly shouted at him. "At least I fared better than Finn. Klaus left him daggered because he was tired of his judgment."
Then he walked towards her. "Finn was a dullard. He's more interesting lying in a box."
"You want the cure for Elena, don't you?" She realized. "So you can go back to mass-producing your hybrids. That's why you brought Stefan in. You knew he'd help you even though he hates your guts. You know what? You can shove your cure." Then she walked away from them and out of the house.
"I hope you got what you wanted out of her before you chased her off." Stefan comment.
"She never would've told me what I needed to know." Klaus remarked. "But she'll tell you."
"What do you need me to find out?" Stefan asked to him.
"The map is useless without the tool to decipher it." Klaus replied to him.
"The sword." Stefan realized.
Klaus nodded to him. "She knows where it is. And you're going to get her to tell you. You have a chance to save Elena from the very thing that's going to destroy her. You can call it a deal with the devil if you like. But you know you won't walk away from it."
Then Stefan walked out of the room and out of the house as Brooklyn turned to look at Klaus. "Why don't just ask me to bring my brother here?" She repeated her question.
"I didn't think you would have allowed it." Klaus replied to her.
"Oh, now you can reply to me and for Stefan and your sister you can't." Brooklyn looked angry, Klaus didn't say anything to her. "Not this way, how you have done it. In any other way, yes maybe I have allowed it."
Then she start to walk away, but Klaus stopped her. "I'm sorry." He told her ashamed.
"I know you are, but doesn't change the fast that you used my brother to get here, threating him by his ring, draw for under the treat." She hissed at him. "I'm going to bed and will sleep on the couch." Then she walked away from him. "We will talk in the morning, I'm too angry right now." She walked out of the room and went upstairs, leaving Klaus standing there, hoping, and thinking about that he had done to her.
Author's note: Quarrel between Brooklyn and Klaus, what will happen next?
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