~ I've been having some internet and computer issues, otherwise I would have had this updated a few hours ago. I will try to get the next chapter up before Thursday. I want to get this story caught up with the show's number of episodes and the winter hiatus gives me some time to do that.

~ I'm trying to finish up my second Klaroline Oneshot... hopefully it will be done before the end of the month.

~ Those that like Chelsea/Damon... might be a tad disappointed with this chapter... but hopefully the beginning of the next chapter will make up for it.

ENJOY!


Chelsea's POV

I was semi-laying on the couch that Klaus and I had been sitting on. He went to check up on Connor and I decided to stay in the room. I wasn't a huge fan of of seeing people getting tortured in real life. In movies and TV it was okay, because I knew it was fake. In real life it was different, but I could deal with it to a point. I lifted my head when the door opened and saw Rebecca walking in with Stefan behind her. I gave her a small smile, which she returned before stepping behind the couch I was on.
"Welcome home, sister." Klaus said. He was saying stuff to Connor before Rebecca arrived, but I wasn't paying attention to him.
"Is this a trick?" Rebecca asked as I saw her look at Connor. "How do you know he's one of the Five? Where's his bloody tattoo?"
"Oh, the tattoos aren't visible on this lot like they were on the last. Let's eat." Klaus said before walking out of the room.
"Finally, food." I said as I stood from the couch. Klaus closed the door to Connor's room and turned towards me with a small smile. He looked at me for a couple of seconds before walking towards the table, that was set with four places set.

Stefan was the first to sit down with Rebecca next to him. Klaus was going to pull out a chair for me, but then I sat on the other open chair. He smirked at me before sitting down. Klaus signaled a woman, who served us champagne and food.
"Thank you, my lovely." Klaus said to the woman after she finished putting his plate on the table. "I could kiss the Council for burning up all the vervain in town." He said as he looked back towards us. "They made my life so much easier. "
"You'd have to kiss Damon then." Klaus looked at me with a slightly puzzled look. "He is on the council after all." He let out a chuckle.
"Yeah, well maybe I won't kiss the whole council." He said before looking at his sister. "Rebecca, love, eat your veggies." I looked at her plate to see that she hasn't even touched any of her food.
"I'm not eating until you apologize." Rebecca said to Klaus.
"For which indiscretion?" Klaus asked her. "There have been so many." 'That's true' I found myself thinking before Rebecca spoke.
"You broke my neck."
"You threw away Elena's blood so I can't make any more hybrids."
"Because you took me for granted."
"That's what big brothers do, sweetheart."
"That's only you Nik." I said which made him and Rebecca look at me. "Mine has never done that."
"You have a brother?" Rebecca asked and I nodded.
"I can always list things you've done to me to." I said when I looked back at Klaus.
"You mean besides the compulsion love?" I opened my mouth to speak, but then closed it again. "I wonder what Damon would think if he finds out I made you choose him." My eyes flickered to Stefan. 'Now he knows' I thought before sitting back in my seat. 'You win this round' I thought towards Klaus before Stefan spoke.
"Let me just name the million other people I'd rather be having dinner with right now." Stefan said, glancing at the three of us.
"Alright, fine." Klaus leaned back into his chair as he looked at Rebecca. "I'm sorry. I often forget how delicate you are. Forgive me?"
"I'll take it under consideration." Rebecca said before Klaus looked at me.
"What?" I couldn't help but ask. "You've already talked to me about my situation."
"I know love." He said with a faint smirk on his face.
"Okay, good." Stefan said, which brought my attention back towards him. "Now, why don't you tell me about Rebecca's hunter?"
"Right, Alexander." Klaus said. "Nice chap foregoing the obvious issues. He was looking for creatures of the night which is why we felt quite safe around him wearing our daylight rings. Elijah, Rebecca and I had him over for a meal... where we tried to get information from him. Inconspicuously of course." He glanced towards me before continuing. "Alexander said that his group was only made of five men. They were bound by fire with a witches last breath for one cause. To destroy all vampires. He said that they had a weapon, that no vampire could survive from."
"So, that's what this is about?" I asked. "A weapon?"
"Not just any weapon." Rebecca said to me.
"Rebecca, love, don't get ahead of the story." Klaus said.
"How is a weapon the answer to all my prayers?" Stefan asked and I knew he mainly meant Elena. Rebecca and Klaus just looked at each other, but didn't say anything. "Okay. Why don't we just skip with the theatrics and get right to the point?"
"Not quite yet, because in order to find this weapon, we need to solve the puzzle." Klaus said to Stefan. "Which seems to have disappeared."
"What puzzle?" Stefan asked. Although Klaus didn't say anything, my mind started to put some things together.
"The tattoo." I said out loud, which made Klaus look towards me. "What is it?"
"A map." He said before looking back towards Stefan. "Leading us to its treasure."
"Fat lot of good a tattoo's gonna do, if we can't see it." Rebecca said to her brother.
"We can't, but someone else can." I looked towards Stefan as Klaus looked behind himself. "Why don't you tell the hybrid to bring him in, love?" 'Jeremy' I ended up thinking. He was the only person that I knew of that could see Connor's tattoo. "You see, 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." Klaus said just as his hybrid brought Jeremy into the room where all of us could see. I was going to get up, but Stefan sped up but then Klaus went faster and stood in between Stefan and Jeremy. "I wouldn't." I watched them with caution. If anything went wrong, i would step in. "Lucky for us, young Jeremy here, is a bit of an artist." Klaus looked from me, to Stefan, then to Jeremy.
"I'm not helping you with anything." Jeremy said before the hybrid took Jeremy's ring off and tossed it to Klaus. "Oh, I'm afraid you are." I let out a sigh.
"Just don't hurt him." I said, which made Klaus look at me.
"I wouldn't dream of it love." He smirked before forcing Jeremy into the room that Connor was in.

When Stefan sat back down, I started to eat some of the food. I had a feeling that Klaus wouldn't harm Jeremy and not just for the reason that he was a friend to me. Stefan started to pick at his food, just to pass the time while Rebecca looked at me.
"I didn't know you had a brother." She said to me, which is what Klaus had said to me earlier.
"Neither did Nik." I said after swallowing some food. "I didn't tell many people because I didn't want him to be in danger. He has to protect his daughter."
"You have a niece?" Rebecca asked and I nodded.
"He named her after Anna." My eyes flickered towards Stefan, because he knew her. "She was my best friend before she died." My eyes went back to my food and then my mind started to go through a few things. I only knew that Anna died from when my mom appeared as a ghost. There was only a few people that knew that I lost my parents and my best friend, besides the obvious. My mind flickered to the homecoming dance. I had told Klaus about my parents dying, but not Anna. 'It doesn't matter' A voice in my head said. 'You have feelings toward him'. I started to eat more food, hoping that I could just distract my thoughts.

Klaus came back to the table and sat down. He looked at me for a moment before eating some food off his plate.
"So, tell me more about this tattoo." Stefan said just as Klaus put some food in his mouth.
"My sister's suitor was unwilling to tell us anything." Klaus said after swallowing.
"Naturally." I said, which made Klaus look at me for a minute before looking back at Stefan.
"Rebecca, however, was more than willing to investigate. Isn't that right?" He looked at Rebecca, who was looking down. "My sister's boyfriend threw a slumber party that night, that was after he told Rebecca that his sword was the key." He looked from me to Stefan. "He and his brothers put us all down in our sleep. Elijah, Kol, Finn, and me."
"How was I supposed to know?" Rebecca asked with hurt in her voice.
"Cheers, to my sister's uncanny ability to choose men." Klaus said with slight anger as he raised his glass. I just put some food into my mouth.
"I thought the daggers didn't work on you because of your werewolf side." Stefan wondered towards Klaus.
"They don't." I saw him show a smirk. "I took them by surprise when I killed them all. Then I undaggered Rebecca and the rest of our family. I figured that Alexander offered my sister something that let her guard down." Klaus looked to his sister. "Go ahead, Rebecca. Tell him. Tell him what the hunter told you the tattoo leads to. What is this great weapon that could bring about the end of the vampire species?"
"A cure." Rebecca said, which made my ears perk up. "He said there was a cure." 'A cure?' I thought hopefully. 'I could get rid of my vampire half' I thought before thinking of the things I would miss. All the perks, the speed, strength, enhanced senses would all be gone but I could have children and a family. If the time came when I wanted to be a vampire, I could always get someone to turn me. I was brought out of my thoughts when Klaus stood from his chair.
"There is no cure for vampirism." Stefan said as he followed Klaus into the other room.
"He's telling the truth, Stefan." Rebecca said when she got up and followed the two of them into the other room.
"Then why wouldn't you have searched for it, found it?" Stefan asked angrily as Klaus poured a glass. I decided to get up and walk into the room by them.
"Because when the hunters drew their final breath that night, the marks disappeared from their body, the map was gone, the brotherhood of the Five extinct." Klaus said before turning around. "For nine hundred years, there was not a whisper of another hunter, until our friend in there showed up in town.
"Well, now we have the map, what do we do next?" Rebecca asked.
"We find the cure." I said before anyone else could say anything.
"We don't do anything." Klaus said to Rebecca. "You can't be trusted, little sister. You'll be blabbing this secret to the first boy who calls you pretty. I mean, it's pathetic, really, isn't it?" I let out a sigh and was glad that's when my phone started to ring. I sped out, not wanting to know what Klaus was going to say next.

I stood outside and answered my phone.
"I'm glad you called." I said, knowing it was my brother calling me.
"Stefan boring you?" Dylan asked me.
"No." I said. "I just needed an excuse to get away from the sibling rivalry going on between Klaus and Rebecca."
"You're with Klaus?" He asked with some worry.
"Don't worry Dyl. I'll get you caught up."
"Well, Bridget and I were ready to leave and were hoping that you could come over now and watch Anna."
"Of course. I'll be there soon." I hung up and started to make my way to his house.


I walked into the house and noticed that Bridget and Dylan were in the living room.
"Guess who's here to raid the refrigerator." I said, trying to joke.
"Oh, it's only you." My brother said, pretending to be less than enthusiastic that I was there.
"Well, I guess I'll just leave and you guys won't be able to go out." I said before Dylan smiled at me.
"I'm only kidding." He said as he gave me a hug.
"Are you sure you want to watch over Anna tonight?" Bridget asked me as she stepped closer to me with Anna in her arms.
"I'm sure." I said with a small smile before she handed me Anna. "There is a list of numbers on the refrigerator with all the other information you'll need to know."
"You guys go have fun." I said with a small smile. They each took their turn giving me a one armed hug before leaving me alone with Anna.
"You get to spend some time with the best aunt in the world." I said to Anna and I could swear she smiled.


Anna was sleeping in my arms. I know that I should have put her in her crib, but I liked the feeling of her in my arms. 'If I got rid of my vampire half, I could have children like her.' I thought before I heard someone knocking on the door. I opened the door and saw Klaus on the porch.
"It took me awhile, but I finally found where you were hiding." He said with a small smirk.
"My brother's not here, so you can't be invited in." I said to him, knowing that he would want to come in.
"I'm just here to tell you I know where the sword is." He said, with his eyes just looking at me. "I'm leaving for Italy within the next few hours. I would ask you if you want to come, but it seems you're busy." His eyes looked down to Anna, which made me look down at her. She was still quietly sleeping in my arms. I slightly smiled at her before taking a step onto the porch, next to Klaus.
"I never told you about Anna. My best friend who my brother named her after." I looked up to Klaus. "I knew her since I was a little girl and she helped me when I became a vampire." I glanced back down at Anna. "It was her blood that was in my system when I turned last year." I reluctantly looked back up at Klaus. "Rebecca's not pathetic you know. She just wants what every girl wants. Real, authentic love."
"Every girl?" I couldn't help but have a small smile appear on my face.
"I don't know why I like you." I found myself saying out loud.
"Are you sure it's not more than like?" He asked and I felt myself blush.
"I'm still thinking about that." He smirked before I spoke again. "Bring me something back from Italy. Preferably some earrings." He gave me a small nod before giving me a kiss on the forehead, which took me by slight surprise. He looked down at Anna before he turned to walk off the porch. I stood there, with Anna in my arms as I watched him speed away. Even though I've only known him for about seven or so months, he still took me by surprise. I looked down at Anna, who was still sleeping. I smiled at her before walking back into the house and closing the door.


~ I know that there is no Damon in this chapter. I had originally plan to have him at the end... but I had Klaus instead. Damon will be in the beginning of the next chapter. Like I said before, I'll try to get the chapter up before Thursday.

~ What do you think will happen for '4.05 The Killer'? With what happened in 4.09 O, Come All Ye Faithful, I have some plans for what will happen between Chelsea and Klaus... I can guarantee those of you that like them together, will like how that should end.

~ I want to have Chelsea get 'indisposed' in The Killer, but I don't know how. Maybe there is more than one hidden vervain dart left in Alaric's loft, Stefan snaps her neck... or... idk... what are your ideas? Also, what do you think Damon's reaction will be when he finds out Chelsea is working with Stefan and Klaus?

R&R 'till the next update