England, 1468

"France or Italy?" His voice pulled me out of my thoughts. I turned my head towards him with a confused expression.

"Excuse me?" He smiled and squeezed my hand. Currently we were in the huge gardens, holding hands, strolling. There was exactly one month and a half to the wedding and the whole house was full with people, preparing it for the celebrations.

"Where would you like to go for our honeymoon? France or Italy? Or Spain?"He stopped and took both of my hands, smiling warmly. "Just name a place and I will take you there." My lips extended in a smile as my heart started beating faster. His eyes were sparkling, making me feel like we were the last people on Earth.

"As long as we are together, it doesn't matter." He smiled wider and leaned down, slightly pressing his lips against mine. My cheeks got warmer and my heart started beating faster. He pulled away and touched my warm cheek.

"Alright then I know exactly where I am going to take you."

"Where?" He shook his head and smiled.

"It's a surprise." I frowned and he chuckled softly. He was just leaning down to kiss me again when suddenly he froze. His face became serious for a second and I remained silent, knowing that he was listening.

After a few seconds his face softened.

"Is there something wrong?" His lips extended in a slight smile and I sighed from relief. He took my hand and turned us around, starting to walk back towards the house.

"No. Quite the opposite actually. My best man is here." My eyes widen from surprise and I looked at him with opened mouth.

"Your best man? Isn't he going to be one of your brothers?" I said, trying to overcome my shock. He didn't exactly strike me as a person...who had a lot of friends. I mean being a hybrid and all. He always seemed so...cold with people rather than me and occasionally his sister and brothers. I always assumed that he would pick Elijah or Finn to be his best man.

He laughed at my reaction.

"You are surprised that I have friends?" I nodded, hoping that he would not be offended. But he just smiled and shook his head. "He isn't... a normal friend. He is...my first vampire. " I darted my eyes to him. "I feel very protective of him. I know that my family and I have made hundreds of us but...the first one is always special."He looked down like he was ashamed.

"He is your progeny." I said with surprise and satisfaction that I had found the right word to describe it. I didn't want him to be ashamed that he was showing his weak sides in front of him. I wanted him to be happy about it. He squeezed my hand and smiled with the sweetest smile that just melted my heart. I smiled too and continued walking.

I could feel Nick's anticipation growing with every step we made. After a few minutes we could see the house and after a few seconds I saw the big carriage that had stopped in front of it and the two man standing in front of the carriage. Nick let go of my hand and almost ran towards the tall, dark haired man, who reached out his arms and smiled widely. When I got closer I saw that he had piercing green eyes and a crescent shaped scar on his eyebrow but it somehow didn't make him look unattractive, quite the opposite actually.

"Eric!" Nick hugged the man and strongly patted his shoulders.

"Klaus! Long time no see." They were both smiling and I almost started feeling like they had completely forgotten about me, when Eric moved his gaze towards me, his smile changing slightly. His eyes flickered and I involuntarily tilted my head, my belly tingling as I took a deep breath and with its release entered his mind.

I had gotten better at this over the past couple of months. My powers were growing with every hour and I was constantly surprised at the things I was able to do. At one point I stopped showing my true powers in front of Nick, not wanting him to feel as scared as I was from the things I just woke up and found that I was able to do. Because, although, I was new at all of this, I was pretty sure that resurrecting a dead bird simply by touching it ,was not normal, even for our messed up world.

I furrowed my brows. Something was not right. Most people's thoughts were chaotic, mixture of images and words, but Eric's thoughts were...neat. There weren't images, there were sentences.

I let out the breath, I hadn't realized was holding, and pulled away from his mind. That whole thing took around 3 seconds so Nick didn't not suspect or see anything, but Eric's eyes were pinned to mine and the slight smile on his lips told me that he knew exactly what had just happened. He had expected it.

At the same time we plastered smiles on our faces and stepped closer to each other.

"Is that her, Klaus? She is lovely." Nick smiled and came to my side, taking my hand into his. He was glowing with pride as he introduced us.

"Eric, this is my fiancée, Annabella Petrova." I smiled with the smile I knew made all man stare. Eric took my hand and slowly pressed his lips against my skin. I clenched my teeth as the usual dark feeling consumed me. Now that I knew so many vampires, I had learnt that although the dark feeling was pretty much the same, the pictures that went in front of my eyes and the intensity was different for everyone.

"Nice to meet you, Miss Petrova." I smiled and bowed.

"Nice to meet you, too." Eric turned his head to Nick.

"She is lovely, Nick. Where did you meet her?" They started talking and I soon lost interest. My eyes started wandering around. To the carriage then to the other man I had seen. He was obviously the driver, I was facing his back. He was slightly hunched, he was dressed in black...nothing unusual. My eyes moved away to the beautiful horses. One was jet black and the other was snow white. I smiled. I loved horses, they always remained me of my childhood. Nostalgic feelings overwhelmed me as I remembered how me, my sister and our brother used to race from the town to our home all the time.

I felt how my throat clenched and tears blurred my vision so before I had started weeping like a baby, I blinked a few times and moved my gaze away from the horses. I moved my head to the men but then my eyebrows furrowed as something had caught my attention. Something had flickered, I moved my gaze back and almost gasped.

The driver had turned towards me. I narrowed my eyes. The man before me looked so incredibly familiar but at the same time I was completely sure that I had never seen him in my entire life. I swallowed thickly. He was looking right at me. His eyes were piercing me and I shifted uncomfortably. I couldn't escape the feeling that I had seen him somewhere.

I had the feeling that I would remember any second when Nick called my name and the driver turned around. I took a shaky breath, trying to calm myself. I turned around, smiled and pretended that nothing had happened.

Nick, Eric and Elijah went in the library and continued talking until dinner time. I, on the other hand, stayed in my room, lying on my bed, staring at the sealing. There was something not quite right with the new guests. But it wasn't like I could say anything. I couldn't just go and tell Nick that his progeny was not letting me read his mind.

Since Kol and Rebekah were out of town, it was only the three of us at dinner. A headache was beginning to form so the whole evening I was waiting for the right moment to excuse myself. Eric was making me nervous and Nick was too busy talking to his best friend to notice my bad mood.

"Excuse me, gentlemen, but I think that I will go to bed now." I said towards the end of the evening. Nick looked at me worriedly.

"Are you alright?" I tried to smile and nodded.

"Yes, I just have a slight headache." I stood up and put my hands on his shoulders. I leaned down and kissed his cheek. "Don't trouble yourself." I smiled. "Goodnight." They all stood up and bowed as I tried not to run out of the room. I had lied. I didn't have a slight headache. My head was about to explode. I took a deep breath and looked around. I didn't feel like going back to my room, so I turned around and instead of going up the stairs, I went through the back door.

I inhaled the sweet cool air outside with relief. Without even thinking, my legs took me to my favourite place in the gardens. I sat on the bench and watched mesmerized how the moonlight reflected and flickered in the dark water of the lake. I have no idea how long I had stayed like that before a voice almost made me jump from surprise.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" I pursed lips as he sat next to me. I turned my head to look at him. The moonlight was reflecting of his hair, making it shine. His skin looked almost blue and if I wasn't already in love, I probably would have fallen for him as he looked mesmerizingly.

"It is indeed." I quietly said and turned my head back to look at the lake. We just stayed silent for a few minutes. I didn't dare to try to read his mind again. I knew he would somehow know and I was afraid of what he might do, so we just stayed like that. I had almost forgotten that he was next to me, when I heard his quiet husky voice.

"Do you love Klaus?" I furrowed my brows and darted my eyes at him, his question surprising me. I decided that he was just worried about his friend's happiness so I answered without even hesitating.

"More than anything in the world." My words hung in the silence and I looked at him. He was looking at the lake, his brows furrowed.

"I hope so. And I also hope that when the time comes you will be able to make the right decisions." Before I could ask him what he was talking about he disappeared. I pursed lips and went back into the house.

The following few weeks, Eric did not mention anything about that night. He started acting normally. He was helping with the wedding preparations, he was talking about literature with me, he was going hunting with Elijah, he was arguing with Klaus about politics...he was acting perfectly normal.

I had almost forgotten about the bad impression I had had of him when we first met and then one day, two weeks before the wedding, he knocked on my door. I told him to get in. I was standing in front of the mirror, braiding my hair.

"Do you have a moment?"

"Of course." I smiled and looked at him then looked back at the mirror. He came behind me.

"I have an early wedding present for you." He took a small box out of his pocket.

"You shouldn't have." He smiled and shook his head. He opened the box and took out the most beautiful bracelet I had ever seen. It was silver and very elegant. It was simple yet very beautiful. It had a silver rose in the centre and in the middle of the rose there was a beautiful dark blue stone."Lapis lazuli?" I asked and wondered why he would give me this exact stone.

"I have the feeling you will need it soon." I didn't say anything. He stayed silent for a few moments and then said with the same quiet voice from the night at the lake. " I told you that it will come a time when you will have to make important decisions." He paused and looked me with his piercing eyes. "The time has come." I stopped braiding my hair, turned around and looked at his serious expression.

"What decisions?" Something in his eyes told me that I would not like the answer.

"Your first decision is whether you will follow me or not." He spoke slowly and quietly. HE had chosen his timing perfectly. We were alone in the house. "If you choose to follow me you will get all the answers you want, if you don't...well the consequences will be disastrous." I turned around and finished braiding my hair. Then I put on the bracelet, looked myself in the mirror and then turned around to look at him. All the possible scenarios went through my mind but somehow his expression showed me that he was talking seriously. I took a deep breath. I was too curious and scared of the look in his eyes to say no.

"I will come with you."

"Very well." He took my hand and we went out of my room. As I had supposed he was taking me to a place in the house. And even though I knew the house very well, when he started leading me through the different corridors and hidden passages, I completely lost track of where we were.

We turned left...then right...then we stopped in front of a huge oil painting. Eric let go of my hand and pushed the painting with both of his hands. For my surprise behind the painting there was door. Eric looked at me and I nodded. He pushed the door open and I found myself in a oval room, whose left wall was made completely out of glass. I wondered how I had missed seeing it from outside.

The huge curtains were moving, blown from the wind. Suddenly as if from thin air, a man appeared behind them. He was tall and had fair hair.

I raised my head high, not wanting to look like the little scared girl I was.

"Master." Eric said with a completely new voice. The man moved.

"Eric."The mad said with a deep accent. I furrowed my eyebrows. It sounded a lot like...

The man turned around.

I gasped.

It all dawned on me. Seeing him more closely.

It was the driver. I understood why he looked so familiar before.

The eyes.

Nick's eyes.

"How is it possible? You are Nick's father?" The man smiled and nodded to the beautiful armchair.

"Sit down, child, we have a lot to talk about."

So? What do you think happened to Klaus' father?

And how should I name him since in TVD they didn't mention his name?

P.S Sorry for not updating last week. I was just incredibly busy. But now that school's over I have

all the time in the world to update.

So don't miss the next chapter on Sunday.