Chapter 4…How the hell did you do that

We spent the rest of the ride going over different plans, and we stopped once at a gas station for gas, food, and to buy an extra shovel so that we could both be digging. By the time we got to the address that Sydney gave us it was midnight. It was just an empty field with one tiny bright orange flag in the middle where I guessed was where Klaus was buried. We got out the shovels and I brought over my duffle bag and we started digging. The hole was huge, and it didn't look like it would take that much time, even with our speed and strength it took us an hour and a half before we even felt something hard, then another hour to actually get off the rest of the dirt, and out of the ten foot deep hole.

We sat him up against a tree and I started to put on all of my gear. I said this before and I will say it again, I looked pretty bad ass in that shit. After I was done I turned to Dimitri and looked into his eyes. "Dimitri, you know I love you right? And I would never intentionally put you in danger this was all your doing, your choice to come with me." I asked him "Yes I know that it was my idea to come with you, and yes I know that you love me, just as much as I love you." He told me. "Wow, that's a lot of love." I said jokingly, and then he took me in his arms and wee kissed. It felt like a good bye kiss, or maybe a just in case kiss, I can't tell the difference, all I knew is that I didn't want this to be the last time I kissed him.

I straddled Klaus' legs and brought out one of the silver knives with one hand and held it to his throat, while with the other hand I pulled out the dagger. After it was out I didn't move it but an inch away from his heart, if he even moved his neck was getting slit, and he was getting a stake back in his heart. After a couple of minutes I saw the wound in his chest start to heal "Dimitri its working! Get me the blood bags"

Dimitri did as I said, and seconds later there was a big intake of breath, then he tried to lunge toward my neck, but he hit the dagger and screamed out in pain "Dimitri now, give it to him!" Dimitri reached down and handed Klaus the blood bag, he drank it within seconds and Dimitri grabbed the second one. That one he took a little longer on, and he wasn't as white, he was still pale, but not like a new cotton sheet white, and his eyes started to get a bright red, and he was finally able to talk.

"Rose?" he asked in a very raspy voice.
"Yeah it's me, the one who killed you, and won't hesitate to do it again, you will get the third blood bag when you answer all of my questions."
"I knew you would figure it out, how long has it been?"
"Seven months, about, now first question, 'there are more,' there are more what?" I asked
"There are more originals, I think it would be easier if I told you the story and then you asked me any more questions."
"Okay" I said, and I relaxed a little inside, seeing that he seemed willing to tell me what I needed to know, but I didn't relax at all with the weapons at his throat or heart.
"We were a family, there were seven of us, I was the youngest, Vladimir was the oldest—"
"No, Vladimir was a Moroi, he was shadow kissed, or is it not the same Vladimir!" I said shocked and confused.
"Yes it is the same person, when you are talking about the originals you have to throw everything you know about vampires and Strigoi out the window. My father was a Moroi the first Moroi, and when he had his first six children, they were with another Moroi, the first female Moroi, kind of like Adam and Eve, since they were the first their children were more powerful than anything, they had all of the qualities of Strigoi, but could use magic, like regular Moroi, but they could use all five elements. But me, my mother had an affair with a human, so I was the first Dhampir, or basically the first common Strigoi, just more powerful. Really the only difference is that I can't use magic. Further down the line as us, and our children, and great children, and so on started mating with humans we grew weaker. We got to the point where we could no longer reproduce, we could only be made, and those are the common Strigoi that you know of today. So when I said 'there are more' I meant there are more originals, there are my six brothers and sisters, and the reason I went through with all of the tests was because I needed the best Dhampirs on my side, I needed to turn them Strigoi so that I could kill my brothers and sisters, well not kill, as you can see we cannot be killed, but they needed to be put in a suspended state. Now you can ask questions"
"Why would you want to kill your brothers and sisters?" I asked
"Not kill, preserve, I guess you could call it, they are reeking too much havoc, killing humans, killing Dhampirs, they are upsetting the balance, I need to teach them a lesson, that just because I'm the youngest, and can't use magic, doesn't mean that I am defenseless."
"Holly ground?"
"If an original walks on it he/she can control the wards let whoever he/she wants in"
"Isaiah?"
"He was my first son"
"I'm sorry, I didn't know" I don't know why I was apologizing to a Strigoi for killing another Strigoi, but Klaus seemed different.
"Don't bother, he was also upsetting the balance."
"Wait, if you were born, why didn't you stay a baby?"
"We were able to choose the age that we wanted to stop growing at, we can turn it on and off, I chose to stop at 26, but I can change my mind whenever I want, and be older or younger."
By the time I was done with all of the questions I could think of for now, the sun was starting to come up. "We better get you inside somewhere, the sun is starting to come up."
"Sunlight doesn't affect me." He said
"Well that's convenient, that means that if everything you are telling me is true—"which it is"—then the only way to tell if you are a Strigoi is by your pale skin and red eyes."
"Actually no, because I can do this" and just like that his eyes were dark brown, and he had nice tanned skin.
"Fuck, so how the hell are we supposed to tell, and how the hell did you do that?"
"Well as for how, it was kind of like the magic used on the bracelets your friends can make that hides your identity, only we can change the look, and don't need a tacky piece of silver jewelry, as for how you will be able to tell, you won't, I will, it doesn't work on other originals, and that is why you can't kill me, because unless you want to wait around for them to come to you, which Rose I know you don't, you need me to spot them out.