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Klaus

Klaus walked out of the shop straightening his blazer and looking for Tesla. She had not come back in even once while Tom had measured him for a new suit for the party on Friday. He would have expected her to come in and harass him with her sarcasm that she thought was funny. But as he came out he could not see her anywhere. That made him livid because he knew how much she hated being here. Would she have left? Had he given her the opportunity to leave? His anger swelled in his chest as he thought of hunting her down before his reason kicked in. She was compelled to come back at five tonight so even if she did try to leave she would be back.

He looked down however and his opinion changed. Tesla's ratty torn up bag lay strewn on the ground with its contents thrown everywhere. Her phone screen was cracked and sitting face up on the pavement. A half smoked cigarette lay further away. Klaus had seen Tesla smoke only once; the night she had drank his blood. He supposed she was a stress smoker. But there was no reason that Tesla's things would be haphazardly thrown out if she had left. He picked her things up and put them in her bag and walked back to the car. He slid into his seat and put her things in the passenger seat.

She had been running from something that was for sure but there was another smell in the alley. Another vampire had been there. Unless he turned full werewolf in the middle of the street there was no way that he was going to find her. But then again maybe she didn't want to be found. Maybe she made it look like she had been chased so that he wouldn't think she had left willingly. He didn't trust her and she was too smart for her own good; or his own good.

No, He didn't trust her. That was the only thought running through his mind as he drove home. He didn't trust anyone and Tesla wasn't someone he thought played by the rules. And everyone here needed to play by his rules. He pulled up to the house and saw her car there which gave him just a hint of relief that she had been chased after all and not left. He slammed the car door and stormed into the house.

"Haley!' He shouted from the common room and Marcel looked up at him startled. He grew impatient and yelled again. "Little wolf!"

"Klaus what is it?" Elijah came from downstairs

"I need the wolf." Klaus said "Where is she?" Elijah looked at him confused.

"Haley is in the back." He said it and pronounced the name Haley so there was no mistaking what his meaning was.

"If I feel like calling her by her name I will Elijah now go find your little girl and bring her here." He said standing very still and almost daring Elijah to question him. Elijah just sighed exasperated and made his way down the stairs and out into the back yard.

"What's wrong?" Marcel asked Klaus and Klaus turned to face him. He had a lot of respect for Marcel. He was strong enough to run this town for a long time smoothly. However he and Rebekah had tried to trap him so while he respected Marcel he was sure that his old friend hadn't given up on his plan to overthrow him and that made him wary.

"Tesla is gone." He said to Marcel who pulled his phone out and began to dial a number. He was so desperate to prove to Klaus that he was trying to help him.

"Well I'm glad someone left." Haley said followed by Elijah whose gaze went between her and Klaus. Klaus seethed on the inside. Elijah cared deeply for the girl and Haley seemed as if she returned the feelings. It upset him that the mother of his child cared more for his own brother than himself. He would teach Elijah a lesson about taking what was his when the baby was born.

"She left her bag, her cell phone and her car." Klaus said

"Well I could believe all the other stuff but she loves that car. I don't think she would leave it here." Haley said biting her lip. "This is what happens when people get involved with this family people start killing and kidnapping and putting curses on people. It's horrible." She said before thinking about why she was there. 'What do you need me for?"

"Your ability to smell is better than mine." He admitted

"And?" She asked though he knew what she was trying to do.

"It will be faster if you help me find her." He stated but he wouldn't say what she wanted him to.

"And?" She asked again but he stood there stubbornly. "I won't help unless you ask Klaus."

"Well then I suppose she will just have to suffer wherever she is." He stated as Haley rolled her eyes.

"You would gamble with her life rather than ask me for my help?" She asked him and he gave her a look that could only be described as cold. He cared almost nothing for Tesla. Or that is what he was going to give the impression of. The crazy blond girl was now a soft spot for him much like Cami was. He enjoyed her company and no one had ever spoken to him the way that she constantly did. As if she wasn't afraid of him. But he would not look weak for her. Weaknesses were the worst thing a man in his position could have. He didn't love her. So he didn't care. So he looked back at Haley as she gave him the same look that everybody gave him. Like they could not believe how twisted he really was. People did not seem to grasp the concept that he was the bad guy.

"Neither of you need to go sniffing around anywhere I can do a tracking spell and tell you exactly where she is." Davina piped up from a chair in the corner where Klaus had not seen the small girl. Marcel was on the phone talking quietly to someone. He then wondered if they were all eager to help because they wanted to appease him or if it was because they genuinely cared for Tesla. How could a person gain so much admiration in two weeks?

Klaus motioned to her bag and Davina grabbed a lip stick tube out of it. She asked Elijah for a map of New Orleans which he went upstairs and produced. It was a whole lay out of the towns workings.

"What if she isn't in New Orleans?" Elijah asked Davina

"I'll know as soon as I start the spell." She said grabbing a bowl and a long locket from around her neck as she walked out the front door only to return a minute later with a handful of dirt. She placed it in a mound on the center of the map and the bowel with Tesla's lip stick right next to it. She began to swing the pendant back and forth as she chanted something in Latin. They were all standing around now and Klaus realized that they were all sincerely worried; himself included. The dirt began to make a path across the paper as Davina got louder and her eyes rolled a little too far up. At the last part of the spell she was nearly shouting as the dirt trail ended. They all leaned over the paper.

"Haley and Klaus I need you to come with me." Klaus said

It was dark when they reached the place where Davina had told them. They searched an hour around abandon buildings and drug houses. People looked at them like they were out of place. Klaus almost wished someone would bother them just so he could teach them not to. Then what Tesla said earlier came into his mind about him beheading a stranger and he sighed. He didn't like to be predictable but the girl had pegged him with that sentence.

He was getting irritated that they couldn't pick up her smell. It was dark and they were getting nowhere. He had yelled at Elijah and Haley enough to where they were silent now. Haley breathing deeply every once in a while and shaking her head confused.

After Klaus decided it simply wasn't worth the trouble. He would have to find someone else to write his memoir he looked at his clock. It was six. If Tesla wasn't dead his compulsion would have driven her insane. She would have turned off her humanity off in order to complete what he wanted. So he wasn't sure he wanted to find her in the state she was in. If she was unable to complete what he wanted her to, what would happen?

"Got you." Haley said and Klaus' eyes rose to hers. She nodded but she only sensed Tesla a split second before Elijah and Klaus heard something. They listened for a few minutes before Elijah shot him a look that asked what he wanted to do. Klaus listened and almost cringed from what he was hearing for a few seconds more before he spoke.

"Take Haley Back to the car." Klaus said

"What's going on?" The girl asked. She could smell better than they could but she couldn't hear what was going on two buildings down. Elijah directed her around and to the car.

"Klaus will take care of it." He said matter of factly so Klaus took determined steps in the direction of the building to 'take care of it'.

The doors were unlocked as he opened one and walked through. He thought it was amazing that nobody hear him come in cut the great room that he entered into was empty. The sounds of laughing and yelling came from the next room over. That wasn't the only sound. He walked across the room and looked through the glass window that was set in a fire door. What he saw made sense to him for reasons that he didn't like to think about. There was a man off to the side hands crossed over his chest like he was in charge. There were three other individuals off to the side. They were the ones making all the noise. The objects that they held were reputedly struck into whoever was the unlucky target was, and as one of them stepped back he saw a girl lying on the floor tied to a chair her face was unrecognizable. Only the shock of brilliantly blond hair and the worn jeans gave her away. He watched for a few seconds as they hit her and all she did was sit there. She didn't move. She didn't fight back she just sat there and took it.

For a while he contemplated leaving her there. No doubt the people would kill her. She would no longer be his problem. It would be one less person that he had to worry about going behind his back. He just watched as they hit here and at one point he took a step backwards to leave.

Then he stepped through the door and before they could tell what happened he snapped all three of their necks. One that he hadn't seen in the corner came at him angrily then and he tore his arm from his socket as the man howled in pain and Klaus snapped his neck too. Four bodies lay at his feet as he looked up to the older gentleman in the corner. He didn't look very surprised that he was there.

"She killed my son." The man said. Like perhaps it would explain part of it. Klaus did understand. Just like any Vampire with family would understand. Family came first. But the more he looked at Tesla's still and beaten form; the more he had to suppress the urge to kill every single one of them permanently.

"She is under my protection." Klaus said to the man

"I am Fredrick Lestire`" The man said pulling rank which Klaus kind of chuckled at. They were some claimed to fame family who sprang up in Australia. Klaus would like to know what Tesla had done to their son.

"I am Nikluaus Mikealson." He said and if it was possible for a vampire to pale he did.

"I heard that the originals were in New Orleans." The man said "I am owed payment for the death of my son." He still kept at it and Klaus took a breath. Would Tesla want him to kill these people? He then asked himself why it mattered. If he wanted to kill them then he would. But Tesla's face kept him from doing it.

"The payment has been made." Klaus said walking over to Tesla's body. He bent down to and cut the rope that held her to a metal chair. "If you come for her again you will have to answer to me. Tesla Coos is a resident in the Mikealson house hold and she will not be harmed." He reached out to touch her cheek but she shuttered away from him and whimpered. He was over to the man in a split second and his hand was on his throat. "I would thoroughly enjoy taking your heart out of your chest and watching it beat the few times as you dropped dead to the floor."

"Very well" The man said as Klaus went back to Tesla and picked her up and his heart tightened as she began to cry.

"Sh.. " He whispered to her telling her that it would be alright as she relaxed into him. He stepped over the bodies on the ground as he walked her out of the building. Some of her bones snapped into place as her body healed very slowly. He was almost to the car and she didn't look much better than she had when he got her. She cried out as her arm snapped where it was supposed to go.

Elijah got out of the car and opened the back seat where Haley sat. Her eyes went wide as she helped them settle Tesla into the seat. She rested Tesla's head on her lap as Tesla said something about being fine. Klaus was still fighting the person in him who wanted to go kill everyone who had done this to her. He got in the car to drive home. The whole time he watched as Tesla moaned and murmured in the back seat. There was silence all the way home other that Tesla who didn't say much but she would ask questions that made no sense and they would all look at each other and then go back to being silent.

They got home and Elijah and Haley helped Klaus get her out of the car. She didn't look much better. Her bruises were still there and there was a huge split on her neck. It had stopped bleeding but it was still there. Her nose was still broken and her ankle was twisted the wrong way. Elijah lifted her out and set her in Klaus' arms.

"Oh I'm fine." Tesla said but her head lolled against him.

"She was filled with vervain." Klaus said explaining why she wasn't healing. He turned to take her inside. Haley started to say something But Elijah shook his head at her. She questioned him and he waited until Klaus was inside.

"I have never seen him take care of anyone that way." He said as Haley nodded and he slipped his hand into hers; squeezed it and let go as he walked inside.

Klaus walked her up the stairs to his own bedroom. He wanted to watch her get better. He told himself that it was because the inconvenience was too great to find another person to write his book. So he pulled her shoes off and set her on the bed. He went to his door and shut it. He sat next to her and she moved closer to him. He stiffened but her eyes were still closed as he put his arm around her. She sat up suddenly and then moaned. He took her and pulled her against him so that her head was on his chest.

"I'll be fine in the morning." She mumbled against him as he sat there stiffly. He wasn't used to doing this. Comforting people wasn't something that he was really good at. He was considering taking her back to her room until she started breathing heavily. So he got as comfortable as he could and let her sleep.

The next morning she woke up in his bed. Her face looked so much better and as she stretched like a cat against him he knew that she was fine. She made a noise like she had just been beat up the night before but other than the dried blood in her hair there was no sign of the battered woman from the night before. As she pushed against his chest she must have realized he was there. She looked up and met his eyes but instead of pulling away she put her head back down and got comfortable again.

"Doesn't this go against some getting close to people rule you have?" She asked and his anger flared up because he had thought the same thing. If she would have pulled away and been upset he could be smug but she just laid there like she had expected this. So he asked her a question that had been at him all night.

"How did your mind deal with the compulsion?" He had figured out the answer last night. It had made him admire her more than a little and the way she stiffened when he asked secured his thoughts. He smiled slightly at this because she had lied straight to his face. Not only that but she wasn't lying about it now.

"Klaus I had the crap beat out of me last night can we wait to discuss this?" She asked him. Her eyes were still closed as she lay on him.

"You have been writing for me, how long by choice?" He asked her

"Almost the whole time" She said her tone was sleepy.

"What will you do now?" He asked her

"Well that depends on what you are going to do Klaus. But it seems like I owe you one. What are friends for? And your stories aren't all that bad. " She said and she started breathing heavily again falling asleep against him.

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