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"So when exactly are you going to undagger your siblings Klaus? You've gotten everything you wanted, so what's the hold up?"
Klaus who was masking his excitement with a smile as he drove the car headed for Chicago stared at girl through the rear view mirror only to see a curious expression on her face.
"I think you already know the answer to that love." he responded. He really didn't want to mention the name that has given him nightmares from the moment he could speak fluently. Mikael.
"So you are just gonna let them slumber for another century or a couple of centuries? I'm sure they will all be really grateful of how their brother protected them throughout the ages, especially Finn."
Klaus's hands tightened on the wheel as his eyes narrowed in anger at that sarcastic retort.
Stefan only blinked in shock at the lack of fear in her eyes. He got that she was a witch, but did she really lack any self preservation at all.
"You need to be careful love or…"
Klaus said only to pause when she laughed once.
"Or what? You'll kill me. If you do that your obsession of siring werewolves will end."
Stefan looked outside of the window to hide his panic. If she died Klaus would find out that Elena was alive. Couldn't she just try not provoke him.
"Not before i drained you of your blood." Klaus's anger momentarily escaped only to be replaced with a smirk.
Stefan sighed hopping that what Klaus said would at the very least frighten her enough to not challenge him.
"You can't take my blood without my consent Klaus and even if you somehow managed to do it won't work."
His smirk shrunk slightly as he wondered what she was on about.
"It has to be given willingly not forcibly taken in order for the werewolves to transform otherwise you'll just be condemning them to a premature death."
Stefan's eyes widened at that statement. How is that even possible.
"It's my magic Stefan which means that i get to use it however i choose to and not what Mr Hybrid over there decides."
The car skidded to a stop at that revelation and Katelyn only smiled having expected Klaus to act that way. Her door suddenly opened violently and she quickly turned to look at two hands that were trying to reach her and throw her out of the car violently only for them to be withdrawn quickly as though electrocuted.
"What is this?!" Klaus demanded angrily as he knelt down on the road his hand clutched tightly on his chest as he stared at the smiling girl in palpable fury.
"You can't hurt me Klaus, you swore remember?"
Stefan also got outside of the car and went over to the other side to observe.
"I'm an original love.."
"That means absolutely nothing to me Klaus. You might be the strongest man alive but my oaths trump that, they bind the soul. If you try to break them you suffer an intense agony and if you somehow manage to break them…"
Stefan felt a chill run up his spine when he saw her eyes glow dangerously.
"You die, Original or not…"
Who was this girl?
"You can ask Elijah if you don't believe me."
Klaus rose slowly from the ground and took a step towards her only to gasp in pain and take a step back.
"Stefan!" he commanded his intention clear.
He only looked at her not knowing what to expect. It was now clear to him that the girl was extremely dangerous.
"You heard him Stefan, go ahead."
Stefan only blinked at her unsure what to do but complied when he saw her nod once. He took a step towards her and Klaus dropped to his knees screaming in agony and stopped in absolute shock. He then rose shakily from the ground with an expression he has never shown to anyone besides Mikael before. Fear.
"Have you already forgotten the exact words you said when you swore Niklaus?"
Klaus frowned slightly as he thought back to the night he made the oath only to glare darkly.
"You tricked me!"
She only raised a brow at what he said. "And how many people have you tricked, threatened, forced and killed to do your bidding? It's not very nice when the same equation is applied to you, now is it?"
Back in the car Klaus was fuming at the witch for gaining the upper hand on him. For someone who always enjoyed being a step ahead of his foes, this was a major blow to his ego. He was a little frightened to be honest at how easily the witch had manipulated him. Where they all capable of such fits and if so, why had they let him always get what he wanted?
Stefan was also wondering the same thing as he sat by his side in the car. He had originally thought that the witch was a bit naive to think that an oath she made would keep even Klaus at bay but now he understood that she had played him. Beaten him at his own game.
"You haven't won love, once we get to Chicago i will get a witch to unlink us.."
Katelyn who had been reading a book looked at Klaus with a small grin plastered on her face.
"No witch alive on this planet can unlink you to this oath but you are welcome to try."
"Hello Gloria".
A dark skinned witch with short blonde hair who seemed to be in her late fifties who had been wiping the left over beer drops on the bar area turned to stare at the entrance door where the greeting had had come from.
"Klaus." she greeted albeit reluctantly in return and turned to look at the two people accompanying him only to pause and stare at the female who seemed to exude a powerful aura. She quickly guessed that the girl was a witch.
"So, a hybrid walks into a bar says…." Klaus began to say only to be stopped by Gloria who didn't seem to appreciate the joke.
"You maybe invincible but that doesn't make you funny." She said as she moved away from the bar cubicle headed towards them. "I remember you." she said as she looked at Stefan.
"Yeah." Stefan said. "You are Gloria. Shouldn't you be dead?"
"If i die who's gonna run this place?" She then turned to look at the small witch who had been observing her with a small smile. "And who might you be?"
"Aah, the thorn to my side." Klaus said as she he took another step forward towards Gloria. "I broke the Hybrid curse and it turns out that the doppelganger blood is the ingredient to fully turn a werewolf into a hybrid…"
"So how is she alive, shouldn't she be dead?" Gloria asked
"They were two, the other one die. I'm lucky that this one happened to be around." he smirked briefly. "But she has caused a slight problem to me. She linked herself to me with an oath she forced me to make and as a consequence i cannot kill her without killing myself.
Gloria looked intrigued by this. "Did she use blood.."
"No, she made swear not to harm her and anyone of her blood origins."
Gloria only shook her head her eyes wide with unbelief. "Well this is new."
Stefan frowned. Hadn't she heard of this before?
"Well i've never heard of a spell like that, maybe the original witch could perhaps shed some light." She said with a thoughtful expression.
"Bring me Rebekah, she has something that i need to contact the Original witch."
"You seem to have gotten yourself in a bit of a bind here girly." Gloria said to Katelyn who sat at the bar drinking once Stefan and Klaus had left to undagger Rebekah.
She smiled at her. "I know what i'm doing Gloria."
They returned a few hours later and joined her at the bar.
"Where is Rebekah?" Gloria asked Klaus.
"She'll be here, i can't just conjure her on demand." He replied before turning to look at Stefan.
"What's with you? I thought Chicago was your playground."
Stefan who was shaking his head in boredom turned to look at Klaus. "So this is why you asked me to be your roommate, because you liked the way i tortured innocent people."
Katelyn looked at him when she heard that confession.
"Well that's certainly half of it." Klaus said.
"What's the other half?"
Klaus poured himself a drink before turning to look at him. "The other half is that you used to be my wingman."
Katelyn only listened as they reminisced about their past.
"But why? You shouldn't have to hide your tracks….unless you are running from someone."
She smiled a little when Stefan finally connected the dots about Klaus being on the run from Mikael.
"Story time is over…." Klaus said.
"I'm gonna need a dink… a real one." Stefan said as he rose from his bar stool headed outside.
"I think it's time i called it a night." Katelyn said as she prepared to also leave.
"Don't try to run love." Klaus warned making her turn to face her. "Or you don't have to worry about me running Niklaus, after all i am a woman of my word also."
When she reached the front exit door it opened revealing Damon.
"You have a death wish Salvatore." She said as she passed him not waiting for a response. Once she was outside she saw Stefan talking to Elena.
"Seriously? Are people from Mystic Falls this idiotic?"
Elena turned to look at her with a small glare.
"I could say the same thing about you." Stefan who stood his back facing her responded.
"The difference between me and Elena is that i know what i am doing. If you leave with her, Klaus will see it as sign of betrayal and he would hunt you both down and the last time i checked Elena has family back at Mystic Falls. If Klaus didn't spare Katerina's family, what makes you think that he will spare hers?"
Elena gasped at what she said having not thought about that possibility.
"You haven't thought about that have you?" She then turned headed straight for the hotel that Klaus had compelled for rooms to sleep in.