Chapter Nine: Meeting Uncle Nik
"Klaus, how did you even-"Katherine didn't even finished her sentence, she turned towards the living room and glared. "Ok, which one of you idiots was it? I knew that I shouldn't have trust any of you with Lucy!"
"Katerina, calm yourself," Elijah warned as he put a hand on her shoulder, but he looked queasy as well. "Brother, how did you find us? How did you even know about Lucy?"
Lucy frowned as she looked from her parents to the strange man in the doorway. "All right would someone mind explaining what is happening? Who are you? Did you say-"
"Hold on a second, love," Klaus interrupted. "Your parents have a series of questions that they want answered. Now how did I get the information about you lovely daughter?" He raised an eyebrow in Kol's direction and Kol slightly balked with guilt.
Katerina wasted no time in going into fierce, Mama protective mode as he pressed Kol against the wall and growled her fangs at him. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you right now."
Before Kol could utter a word, Klaus pinned her against the opposite wall. "That would be a little more threatening, love if it were actually true. So it seems that you were hiding this little bundle of joy now were you. Lucy was it?"
It didn't take long for Lucy to put two and two together, this was psychotic uncle Klaus who her mom had been running away from for the past 500 years and who her father despised and the one who held her mom's life in his hands. Without thinking Lucy grabbed a vase and hurled it towards his direction. "Leave her alone!"
Klaus barely even flinched as he simply moved to the side. "Lucy!" Elijah snapped, pulling back her slightly.
Lucy glared angrily at him. "Well, what am I supposed to do just stand there like an idiot and not even try to help her?" Elijah's jaw tightened. He clearly did not know what to say.
Klaus shrugged. "He has a point there, brother. I like your spirit, love and you defend your family. Didn't we use to have a little motto, what was it again?"
"Nik," Rebekah stepped forward. "Don't hurt, Lucy she's innocent in all of this."
Klaus threw Rebekah a dirty look. "I'm not going to hurt her. But I see where your loyalty stands Rebekah." Rebekah paled. "Lucy, sweetheart if you would join me for a quick, private chat in my study."
"Klaus," Elijah began.
"Over my dead body!" Katherine fumed.
"I won't hurt her," Klaus repeated the phrase annoyed, He turned to Lucy and offered his hand. "Lucy, darling?"
Lucy hesitated for a moment before she took his hand and he led her towards the parlor. Lucy knew that she should be nervous, but she wasn't scared exactly. She was curious. Klaus poured himself a drink. "Now you might wonder why I asked you here for a chat."
Lucy shrugged. "Not really, but I'm sure you came for something."
Klaus nodded. "You're not afraid of me? I'm the most powerful creature in the world." Lucy blinked. He looked kind of scrawny to be the most powerful creature in the world, but whatever. "How long has Elijah known about you?"
"A few months," Lucy said. "Actually a few days after I reawaken, my mom didn't tell him about me until then. I'm guessing you had something to do with it."
Klaus looked slightly confused, apparently Uncle Kol hadn't let him know about everything. "Reawaken? You're not a vampire."
"No, I'm not," she admitted. "But I was curse ever since it was a baby. My mother became pregnant after she was turned. I don't know who cursed me, but as a result I am only awake one year and then I sleep for every thirty years. You wouldn't happen to know why that happens, would you."
Klaus shook his head. "I thought so."
Klaus snorted. "You have your mother's wicked tongue."
Lucy smiled. "I take that as a compliment."
Klaus gave her a wry smile as he approached her until they were closer. "You're not afraid of me why? I could kill you, Lucy, I could kill you as revenge for your mother running away 500 years ago."
Lucy scoffed. "If you wanted me dead, you would have killed me already. Which means you have something else planned in your head. I'm guessing that you don't want to kill me, but not for my mother's sake or because you're a kind person, but because you don't want your brother to despised you."
Klaus let out a small laugh. "You are more astute than I gave you credit for. I trust that you are not a threat to us."
"You do realize that I'm human, right?" Lucy snorted, though Klaus still looked slightly paranoid. Lucy sighed dramatically. "Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you. I want to find a way to live Klaus. A normal life, not this life that I've been living. My father and my mother have tried everything, but no such luck I'm guessing that you don't have any ideas."
Klaus shook his head. "Your curse is quite rare."
"Wonderful," Lucy murmured, though she knew the answer she still looked slightly disappointed.
Klaus stare at her. "Lucy, I know what it's like living with a curse that you cannot control. I have some contacts, I will find a way to figure out how to stop all of this."
Lucy smiled. "Well, it's more than I expected."
They exited the living room and Lucy saw that everyone looked tensed and slightly paranoid when they came out. Klaus said sarcastically. "Do not worry, she is still alive as you can clearly see. Lucy and I will were making our acquaintances since we were long overdid. Elijah I give you my word that I will not hurt her." Elijah visibly relaxed, but Katerina was still scowling at her. Klaus petted her cheek. "And darling Katerina, you just keep in mind that the only reason I'm not killing you it's because of my lovely niece and my brother. You're free."
"Katerina, where is Lucy?" Elijah asked Katherine a few days later as he looked at the clock. It was almost midnight and Katherine was reading a magazine in the kitchen table already wearing her too seductive nightgown. "She should be home from that silly school dance by now."
Katherine rolled her eyes. "Relax, she told me that she was going to an after party afterward. It's a school dance Elijah, the most exciting thing that happen there is that someone puts rum in the punch." Elijah did not look amused. "I'm kidding, geez why are you so uptight?"
Elijah took a deep breath. "I just would like to know where my daughter is. Is that too much to ask?"
"And I told you that she's fine." Katherine put down her magazine. "I've been in charge of her for how many years now? She's been fine ever since and she has her cell phone." She threw him a seductive smirk. "And now that you're annoying siblings have finally left how about we go upstairs. I'll meet you up upstairs." She said with a smirk as she went up the stairs.
Elijah waited until he was sure that Katherine had closed the door behind her to make his way towards Lucy's school. The lights were off and the school dance had been over an hour ago and Lucy wasn't answering her phone either.
He pulled over and talked to a man who looked about Lucy's age. He compelled him and asked him if he knew where Lucy Pierce was. The boy told him that Lucy had gone up to The Hill, an old make out spot with her date Bryce.
Elijah's frown grew deeper. Lucy had told him and Katherine that she was going with girl dates. Apparently, that was not true. Elijah sent the boy away and went up to the Hill in search of his daughter.
-End of Chapter Nine-
