Always Getting Over You:
Lady Mikaelson: Rub my belly and call me genie because your wish is my command!
Our Town:
Rhea POV:
Niklaus and I hadn't said a word to each other as we made our way to the mansion that he was having renovated for our family to live in. We were now sitting together in silence on the comfortable lounge that was in the incomplete living room. I sipped the glass of scarlet liquid that Nik had given me from the kitchen and glanced around the large cavernous house.
"Nice house, Nik." I complimented my brother as I looked back over at him and he smirked smugly as his baby blue eyes swept around the room.
"Thank you, baby sister." He replied to me happily as he stood up from the couch and looked down at me from his superior height. "Your bedroom is up the stairs to the left."
"Okay." I said quietly as I stood up as well and stretched my arm over my head in an attempt to sooth my aching muscles. I closed my eyes with a slight sigh as I lowered my arms back down to my side before nodding at my brother once with a smile and then walking towards the elaborate staircase that lead upstairs to the second floor. I followed my older brother's directions until I came to a large set of double doors on the left side of the hallway and then I carefully pushed open the doors. I gasped out loud in surprise at the beautifully decorated room that I had just walked into and stepped slowly into the large bedroom as I looked around with wide eyes. The walls were painted a pure white except for one which was covered in an intricately patterned wallpaper in a purple floral design that matched the purple bedspread that covered the king size bed. I closed my mouth abruptly with a snap as I looked around the room in awe before I walked further into the room and turned towards the large set of double doors on the right side of the room. I carefully strolled towards the doors and turned the knob it open to reveal a massive walk-in closet decked out in the latest fashions all in my size. My mouth fell open into the shape of a perfect 'o' as I looked around the closed with tears coming to my eyes at the thoughtfulness at my normally cold brother harboured. I shook my head to clear away the thoughts as I grabbed the first pair of jeans that I saw and a button up deep red short that I threw on quickly before walking out of the room to thank my brother for my new bedroom. I slowly walked down the stairs with a content smile and then strolled into the living room where I could hear Nik moving around just in time to see one of his hybrids leaving him alone with a casket.
"Sweet dreams, Rebekah." I heard Nik say softly as he repositioned the dagger into my twin sister's heart and my eyes widened in horror before I flew across the room to grab his arm to stop him.
"What are you doing?" I cried as he pushed my away from him easily with his hybrid strength and I automatically put my hands behind me to break my fall as I landed on the ground. Nik carefully shut Rebekah's coffin with a soft click before turning around slightly to look at me with hard light blue eyes. "Mikael is dead! I thought that he was the reason you were keeping us locked in coffins!"
"It is. It was." He snapped at me angrily as I glared up at him with narrowed oak brown eyes and I pushed myself up a little so that I was sitting on the ground instead of lying sprawled at his feet.
"Then why is Rebekah still daggered? Why is Elijah? Kol has been carted around by you for a century and Finn close to 900 years! If Mikael was the reason you treated us like carry-on luggage, why are our siblings still lying dead in wooden boxes with daggers in their hearts!?" I asked him in a shouted as I stared up at him with wide eyes that demanded the truth from him and he glared back at me as he curled his hands into fists at his side.
"Because of your boy-toy Stefan Salvatore!"
"Excuse me?" I asked him in a quiet deadly voice as I slowly stood from my spot on the floor and he swallowed hard under my glare but didn't move.
"Stefan stole the other coffins." Nik explained quietly as though he was afraid of what I would do to the messenger but all I could do was blink back the tears that threatened to fall. I stared into his light blue eyes defiantly as he looked back at me until I closed my eyes in defeat and turned my head away. I slowly made my way over to the couch but I could still feel Nik's gaze burning into my back as I walked around from him. I sunk down onto the soft couch as soon as the backs of my knees hit the edge and I stared blankly out at nothing as I tried to process what my brother had just said. I felt more then saw Niklaus come and sit next to me on the couch but I refused to look at him in case he could see the betrayal and heartache in my eyes. "I'm sorry, Rhea."
"Please don't apologise. It makes it worse when you're out of character." I joked feebly as I turned my head slightly to see him giving me an amused smirk from the opposite side of the couch where he was sprawled with his arm over the back of the couch and his long legs crossed over each other. I sighed as I leaned back on the couch and closed my eyes against the pain I was feeling before rubbing a hand over my forehead. "You aren't really the one I go to in my times of emotional turmoil, Nik."
"Oh? And what am I the one you go to for?" he asked me in a forced amused voice and I opened my eyes slightly to squint at him in mock examination.
"You're the brother I go to when I want to talk about culture. Art, music, theatre, food. You are the perfect travel companion." I answered him honestly after a moment's hesitation and he looked back at me in shock that I had actually said something in his favour so I smiled at him weakly before turning my head away knowing that he wouldn't want me to see his momentary weakness.
"So, who would you go to for dealing with 'emotional turmoil'?"
"Rebekah." I replied instantly without even thinking about it because it was true that I could talk to her about anything and not feel judged for my actions while she could do the same with me. "Sometimes Elijah."
"Then what is Kol good for? Other than annoying us all to death?" Nik asked me with a roll of his baby blue eyes and I giggled lightly as I nodded in agreement with his comment about my youngest older brother.
"Kol is good for helping you forget your emotional turmoil." I answered him with a nod of my head as I turned to give Nik a small smile and he chuckled lightly in agreement as he nodded once.
"And Finn?"
"Finn is boring dolt you go to when you want to be put to sleep!" I exclaimed happily with a giggle as I folded my hands together on my lap and Nik laughed outright in a way that made his dimples stand out.
3rd Person POV:
In the basement of the abandoned witch house, Damon Salvatore fiercely hit the locked coffin with a shovel in an effort to get it to open even though he knew it was useless. He narrowed his electric blue eyes in frustration as he panted in exhaustion because of the effort he had put into the bashing.
"You're wasting your time. It won't open." Stefan Salvatore informed his older brother as he descended down the stairs that lead to the basement and Damon turned to look at him with a annoyed look on his handsome face. "Did you bury the body?"
"Yeah. Any sign of our little hybrid buddies?"
"Nope, just the dead one." The younger Salvatore assured him as he walked down the last of the stairs and leaned against one of the coffins with his arms crossed lazily over his broad chest.
"Alright, Klaus has 7 siblings. Rebekah is now with Klaus. Rheanna is roaming freely probably waiting to kill us along with her brother. There was one dead kid in the old world, one dead kid in the new world, which leaves Elijah and two others. Three sleeping originals, four coffins. So, who is in the locked box?" Damon asked rhetorically as he turned his attention back to the mysteriously locked coffin that they had been trying to open and Stefan shrugged his shoulders carelessly as he followed his gaze.
"No idea. But whatever is in here, Bonnie seems to think will help us kill Klaus. So, the sooner she can get this open, the sooner we will know if she's right."
"Oh, you think the spirits of a bunch of dead witches that can make the coffins invisible would have figured out how to open one." Damon said tauntingly as he raised his voice and tilted his head towards the ceiling to look at the invisible witch spirits but nothing happened so he sighed impatiently as he lowered his head. "Fine, don't help."
"You know, none of this is gonna do us any good if Klaus' hybrid friends find our hiding place, right? They need to go away." Stefan told him as he crossed his ankle over the other and tilted his head to the side in silent contemplation as to what to do about the problem.
"Oh yeah, that's a great idea Stefan. Why don't you just ask them to pack their bags and take a long rest while we are at it." Damon responded sarcastically as he turned around to face his younger brother with a scrunched up expression on his face. "How about try to keep the peace? Don't attract attention to the real thing we are trying to hide."
"Well, I'm not gonna play defence when I have what Klaus wants. He does what I say, or I dump his family to the bottom of the ocean."
"And then he kills you and everyone you know like, I don't know... me!" Damon cried impatiently as he gestured to himself to further prove his point but Stefan just shook his head in denial.
"No, he's bluffing. His family means more to him than anything else." Stefan replied as he pushed himself off the coffin he was leaning on and Damon shot him an unbelieving look as flashing of Klaus ripping him to pieces crossed his mind.
"You sure about that?"
"Well I don't know Damon. I mean, I guess there's only one way to find out, right? Call his bluff." Stefan responded lightly as he headed towards the stairs that lead to the upper level of the abandoned witch house that they were hiding in and ignoring the scoff that came from his older brother.
"The only way to call someone's bluff, Stefan, is to be willing to lose everything if you're wrong." Damon called out to the younger Salvatore's back but all Stefan did was shoot him a smug smile before walking towards the stairs and ignoring his words of warning.
Rhea POV:
I climbed out of the car that I had borrowed from Nik when I parked in front of Mystic Falls High School and frowned when I saw a familiar blonde standing not far away on the grass in front of the school. I jerked the strap of the bag I was carrying higher onto my shoulder before carefully walking over to Caroline as she looked down at something in her hand.
"Caroline." I called out hesitantly as I strolled closer to where she stood and her blonde head instantly snapped up in surprise when I appeared next to her with a worried frown on my lips.
"Oh, Rhea. Hi." She replied softly as her wide blue eyes shifted to look down at her hands again so I followed her gaze to see a silver charm bracelet with small a C, an F, a football helmet, and a cheerleader's megaphone among other charms dangling from her fingers.
"That's pretty." I complimented it as she gently probed the small charms that hung off the bracelet and she smiled sadly as she lifted her head to look at me with tears in her pretty blue eyes.
"Thanks. Tyler got it for my birthday." Caroline told me as she carefully put the bracelet around her thin wrist and did up the small lock so that it didn't fall off.
"It's your birthday?" I asked her happily with a genuine smile as the blonde nodded jerkily once and then cast an unreadable look at the school building so I followed her gaze suspiciously. "You know, it's your birthday, you can skip if you want to."
"Heh, thanks." She said to me with a small smile tugging at the edge of her lips and I placed my hand softly on the crook of her elbow as I guided her back towards the parking lot.
"Come on, petite luciole. I'll drive you home and then come back for your car." I informed her firmly as we reached my borrowed car and she nodded briefly as I opened the car for her so that she could slide into the passenger seat. I offered her a smile as I shut the door and walked over to the driver's side door so that I could jump in. I looked over at the quiet vampire in the passenger seat as I turned on the car and saw her staring down at her folded hands in her lap.
"Thanks for taking me home."
"It's fine. It's not just Tyler, is it?" I asked her knowing as I drove down the familiar route her the blonde's house and she made a scoffing noise in the back of her throat as her head snapped up to look at me in disbelief.
"You hardly know me! How can you be so good at reading me?" she asked in a slightly raised voice as her blue eyes widened and I chuckled lightly at her reaction without taking my eyes off of the road in front of me.
"I've been alive for 1000 years, Caroline. You pick up a thing or two in that amount of time."
"… 1000 years." Caroline repeated softly to herself as she turned her head to look out the passenger side window and I frowned at the back of her head in confusion but let it go because I figured she needed some time to think it over herself. I turned my gaze back to the front of the car so that we could drive in silence while Caroline mentally came to grips with what was bothering her and then smiled slightly at her when I noticed that she had turned away from the window to look at me with a curious expression. "How old were you when you turned?"
"17, why?" I asked her curiously as I tilted my head to the side slightly in confusion and her lips pressed together into a thin line.
"How did you deal with it?" she asked me sadly with large pleading blue eyes and I scrunched my eyebrows together in confusion. She must have seen my confused expression so she sighed dramatically at my lack of understanding before turning her body to face me more. "How do you deal with being stuck in a filler year? My birthday used to be my favourite day of the year but now, it's just a reminder that technically, I'm dead. Look, I didn't even like 17. And the only point to being 17 is to get to 18. It's a filler year; I'm stuck in a filler year." She ranted at me with slightly raised voice while waving her hands melodramatically in the air as she spoke making me laugh at her in amusement and she gasped indignantly at me. "And you're laughing at me! Stop laughing at me."
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry, petite luciole." I said to her through little giggles as she scoffed at me and crossed her arms over her chest. "It's just that I've spent 1000 years being 17 and I can tell you right now, it's not all bad."
"How so?" she spat back at me disbelievingly with a scoff in my direction and I smiled at her in amusement as I shook my head slightly.
"College. I have 3 degrees because I was able to compel my way into Stanford, Penn State and Oxford." I told her modestly with a shrug of one my shoulders and she gaped at me for a minute before nodding slightly.
"What else?"
"Well, not to sound conceited but I'll always be super attractive." I joked with a wide grin and an obnoxious wink in her direction that she laughed at genuinely for the first time since I picked her up. I pulled to a stop in her driveway and turned to smile at her with a reassuring look on my face so that she would know that I was being serious. "You have nothing to worry about, petite luciole."
"Thank you for talking me off the edge." Caroline said to me with a smile as she leaned her head back against the headrest and I turned the ignition off with a quick turn of the key. "I would invite in but my mom isn't home, you want to come around to the backyard for a while? I think I have more tequila in there."
"Sure." I agreed with a laugh that she followed as I remembered drinking with her when Tyler and she broke up. We both climbed out of the car silently as Caroline lead me up the driveway to the front porch so she could go in and grab the alcohol. I watched as she turned the key and slowly opened the door with a wide smile back at me as she stepped into the house when all of a sudden I heard footsteps on the wooden floor so I pulled Caroline by the arm so that I was standing in front of her protectively against whatever was inside. The blonde vampire gasped in surprise as I sighed in relief at the sight of Elena, Matt and Bonnie all standing in the front parlour with party hats and colourful balloons in their hands.
"Happy birthday…" Matt greeted us weakly with a confused expression on his handsome face as Elena and Bonnie before glared at me heatedly and Caroline placed a hand on my arm as she walked past me into the house.
"What are you guys doing here?" Caroline asked them in confusion as she stepped in front of me as though she could block the doppelgänger and witch's hatred with her body.
"What is she doing here?" Elena counted with a scowl on her pretty face as she nodded in my direction and Bonnie nodded in agreement with her question.
"Rhea drove me home and now we're going to have a drink." The blonde explained almost defiantly as she lifted her chin in the air and all three of the humans looked between us with confused eyes.
"It's fine, Caroline. Have a good birthday with your friends, petite luciole." I told her with a soft smile as I put a hand on her arm and she turned to look at me as she opened her mouth to disagree with me. "Really, Caroline."
"Okay…" she replied softly with an unsure look on her pretty face so I smiled at her reassuringly and then widened my eyes in surprise when she suddenly pulled me into a tight hug. "Thank you."
"It's not a problem." I responded to her as I wrapped my arms around her in return and tried to ignore the disbelieving looks Elena and Bonnie were spending us.
I walked quietly next to my older brother in a respectable dark blue cocktail dress as he we strolled through the Founder's party at the Lockwood mansion with my hand resting in the crook of his elbow. Nik had dragged me to the Founder's fundraiser to raise money to rebuild the Wickery Bridge so I had gotten changed into the dress he had thrown at me and allowed him to drag me to the party without much complaint. I smiled politely as we stood talking to Mayor Lockwood and Nik grinned charmingly at her as he tried to persuade onto his side.
"Look at what the cat dragged in." I heard a familiar male voice say to our right so I turned my head to see Damon strolling up to us with a smirk plastered on his lips. I raised one of my eyebrows as he looked over at me for the first time and made a show of looking me up and down in an exaggerated manner just to piss off my brother. "Rhea, nice dress."
"Thank you very much, Damon, I have a very good eye for dresses." Nik said to him in reply as he stepped in front of me protectively from the eldest Salvatore's roaming eyes and I rolled my eyes at the Alpha male show. "Good to see you, Damon. Carol and I were discussing about whether you would be the other big benefactor."
"What do you say Damon? Klaus has made a very generous pledge. You know how we're chomping at the bit to begin the renovation." Carol Lockwood said with a wide fake smile on her lips and I smirked at the obviousness behind her words but didn't say anything.
"Carol, don't take this the wrong way, but do you realize that you've been kissing the ass of an immortal hybrid who ruined your son's life?" Damon asked rhetorically as he turned his gaze from Nik to Mayor Lockwood with narrowed electric blue eyes and I glared at his words because I knew for a fact that Tyler was happier being a hybrid even with the horrid misfortune of having a sire bond.
"Oh, come now. Some would say that I saved him from all that nasty full moon business. I've never had to go through it myself more than twice, to be honest, but still, I'm very sympathetic." Nik said to Carol with an understanding smile on his face and I tightened my hold on his arm because I had seen his first transformation back when we were first turned into vampires.
"Klaus and Rhea have promised to protect Tyler, Damon. And our town." Carol responded pointedly to the younger vampire and I smirked a little at the affronted look on Damon's face.
"From who? His hybrids are the one the town needs protection from." Damon hissed dangerously as he glared at us and Nik smirked back at him unnerved at the threatening note in his voice.
"Well he'd have no use for them if your brother would kindly return our family." I finally spoke up in a calm voice even as my insides were boiling in rage and Damon snapped his glare around to me instantly.
"Not gonna happen."
"That's what I thought, which is why I've come to an agreement with the Mayor. You and the Council stay out of my hair, I stay out of yours. Your town gets protected, my hybrids get left alone and everybody will be happy. All you have to do is to get Stefan to stop decapitating my friends." Nik told him politely with a shrug of his shoulders as I took a flute of champagne from a passing tray that was being carried by a waiter.
"Please Damon, just get your brother under control or the Council will be forced to take action against him." Carol said to Damon with a raised eyebrow as I sipped my champagne even though the human world thought that I was still in high school.
"You've gotta be kidding me!" Damon exclaimed in disbelief as he looked at all of us as though he was waiting for us to telling him we were joking.
"Oh come on mate, give peace a chance." Nik joked lightly with a smirk on his lips and I chuckled softly as I raised my glass in silent salute at Damon before taking another long sip from the flute. I watched in amusement as Damon shot him a heated look before stalking away from us angrily.
"I'm going to mingle." I murmured to Nik as I removed my hand from his elbow and he gave me a smile as he nodded once in understanding. I smiled back at him before I offered a polite smile to the mayor which was returned and then I walked through the party people watching as I sipped my champagne. Twenty minutes later, I was making polite chit-chat with one of the older members of the community when Damon came up to us and grabbed my upper arm forcible.
"Excuse us." Damon insisted to the woman with a fake smile on his lips and then started pulling me away without waiting for a reply so I scowled at him but let him lead me towards where my brother was standing chatting with another stranger. Nik turned when he heard us coming towards him and frowned when he saw Damon's hold on my arm so I rolled my eyes in annoyance so he knew that I was alright despite how it looked. Damon jerked his head towards a set of double doors before he started tugging me in their direction and Nik followed behind us curiously to see what was going on.
"What now? You just pulled me away from a fascinating conversation about landscaping the Town Square." Nik stated as he waked further into what appeared to be a study and I yanked my arm out of Damon's grasp with a scowl.
"Stefan just grabbed Elena." Damon informed us with a frown as I sat down on the black leather lounge that was on the side of the room while Nik leaned on the desk with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Well, he's getting desperate."
"Elena's the desperate one." I muttered under my breath as I pouted my bottom lip out as jealousy invaded the pit of my stomach because Stefan was alone with Elena even though I had no claim to him and the fact that he had stolen my family was making me angry. Nik sent my an amused half smile to let me know he had heard my comment but I just rolled my eyes as I leaned back on the couch and crossed my arms over my chest defiantly.
"He's gonna try and use her against you. Do what he says, get rid of your hybrids." Damon said to my brother as he ignored my jealous grumbling and I was silently glad that he had because I wasn't very proud of my childish behaviour but Stefan had always made me act out of character.
"Or what? Stefan would never dream of killing her." Nik protested with a frown as he shot me a sympathetic look that I ignored as I played with the edge of my dress.
"You sure about that? He just tried to behead someone in the middle of a Council party. He's operating on crazy right now."
"Well, crazy or not, that kind of love never dies. He's bluffing." I said with a frown as I looked up from my lap to find both of the men looking at me with unbelieving looks and I rolled my eyes at them because I knew they were thinking. I was about to open my mouth to explain my point when Nik's cell phone rang loudly and interrupted what I was about to say. Nik spared a concerned glance at me as he reached into his pocket for his phone and then checked the caller ID before answering it with a grim smile etched onto his lips.
"Stefan, how nice to hear your voice." Nik greeted the youngest Salvatore on the other side of the phone line as Damon and I both stiffened at the sound of his name.
"Tell your hybrids to get out of town, Klaus." I heard Stefan's voice echo through the cell phone in my brother's hand as I straightened up and looked over at my brother with a quirked eyebrow.
"Well that's not gonna happen until I get my coffins back."
"Okay, well then I'm gonna drive your blood source off Wickery Bridge." Stefan bargained lightly as I could hear the sound of a car accelerating in the background of the phone call.
"I don't believe you Stefan. You won't kill her." My brother protested as pressed the speaker phone button on his phone so that Damon and I didn't have to use our vampire hearing to listen to the conversation.
"No! No! No! What are you doing?" I heard the unmistakable sound of a doppelgänger and I frowned in worry as I noticed Damon and Nik both stiffen.
"What's going on?" I asked in concern as I leaned forward slightly on the couch and brought my hand up to rest on my cheek.
"Rhea? I just fed her my blood. No more hybrids if she's a vampire." Stefan told us in a light voice and all of us in the study shared a wide eyed look full of worry.
"You won't do it." Nik said confidently even though I could see the anxiety in his light blue eyes and I scrunched my eyebrows together as I bit my bottom lips warily.
"Really? Try me, because your coffins are next to go. Say goodbye to your family Klaus."
"Stefan, slow down! Stefan! Stefan ,stop it!" Elena screamed through the phone line so I jumped out of my seat instantly before striding over to Nik and grabbing the phone out of Nik's hand.
"Stop the car, Stefan." I ordered him firmly because I knew that if Stefan were to kill Elena even just to turn her into a vampire he would be consumed by guilt.
"Fine, I'll send them away, you win." Nik agreed with me instantly and I felt a swell of relief even though I knew that concern expressed by him were not for Stefan but for his hybrid blood source. My eyes widened in panic when I heard the car on the other side of the line speed up to a dangerous degree.
"Stefan! Stefan, stop!" Elena screeched loudly through the phone and Nik grabbed the phone out of my hand again harshly so that my finger twisted backwards.
"Stop the car, Stefan!" Nik yelled into the phone and I let out a cry of pain as I placed my phalange back into the right place. The car tires on the other side of the phone screeched to a stop to indicate that Stefan had listened to our request and Nik pressed the disconnect button. I closed my eyes in relief that Stefan wouldn't have to live with the fact that he had killed Elena and let body relax as Damon left the room to go find Elena while Nik fumed silently next to me. A shrill ringing interrupted our quiet shroud angry silence and I reached for my cell phone as I opened my eyes again to find Nik looking at me with a curious expression.
"Hello?" I answered hesitantly when I didn't recognise the number that was display and frowned in confusion as Nik watched me.
"Rheanna?" I heard a familiar male voice ask softly on the other side of the phone line and I frowned even more in confusion.
"Matt?"
"Rhea, listen, it's Caroline. She needs help." Matt informed me with panic tinted in his voice and I felt my insides freeze in worry over the young blonde vampire. "I'm not sure what exactly you are to each other but I saw you here earlier so I figured I'd give it a go. Tyler bit Caroline. She's dying."
"No." I whimpered quietly as my eyes filled with tears and I frowned when I saw Nik flinch slightly in my peripheral vision until realisation came over me. "Matt, take Caroline to her house and stay there. I'll be there shortly. Don't worry, Caroline will be fine, I promise." I told the blonde human as I stared at Nik with narrowed oak brown eyes and he looked down at the ground sheepishly.
"Okay." Matt agreed hesitantly before hanging up the phone quickly and I slipped the phone back into my purse before moving to stand right in front of my older brother.
"You either give me your blood willing or I take it by force, Niklaus."
Caroline POV:
Everything hurt.
All I could think about was the pain that was coming from my shoulder where Tyler had taken a chunk out of me. Warm tears ran down my cheeks as I thought about the fact that I was going to die. A real death, not just vampire dead. I knew that Matt had called Rhea to try and get Klaus to give me the cure but I really doubt that he would. I didn't know why the honey haired Original was so affectionate towards me but I didn't real mind because I was nice to be wanted above Elena. My whole life I had been competing with her even though she was my best friend in the world. I closed my eyes tightly in an effort to try to blink away the tears because I hated crying. Crying was for the weak and Caroline Forbes was not weak. I heard footsteps come to a stop in my bedroom doorframe so I opened my eyes to see Klaus standing their looking hot as all hell, which totally annoyed me. But then again, if I was going to die, I might as well have something nice to look at.
"Are you going to kill me?" I asked him weakly as I looked up at him with tearful eyes and he frowned at me as though I had said something completely crazy.
"On your birthday? You really think that low of me?" he asked softly in that sexy British accent of his as he stepped closer and sat on the edge of my bed.
"Yes." I declared in a stronger voice than before and I tried to ignore the hurt that flashed across his handsome face at my words. He reached out a hand to gently remove the thin sheet that covered the bit mark and I grimaced slightly in pain.
"That looks bad. My apologies, you're what's known as collateral damage, it's nothing personal. Luckily, my sister has taken an interest in you." He said with a small smile that showed off his dimples and I had to mentally berate myself for thinking how cute they were. "I love birthdays."
"Yeah. Aren't you like...a billion, or something?"
"Well you have to adjust your perception of time when you become a vampire, Caroline." Klaus told me with laughter in his voice as his light blue eyes twinkled with amusement. "Celebrate the fact that you're no longer bound by trivial human conventions. You're free."
"No, I'm dying." I disagreed with him with a shake of my head that I immediately regretted when pain shot down my arm thanks to the werewolf bite.
"And I could let you die, if that's what you want. If you really believe your existence has no meaning. I thought about it myself, once or twice over the centuries, truth will be told. But I'll let you in on a little secret. There is a whole world out there, waiting for you. Great cities and art and music, genuine beauty. And you can have all of it. You can have a thousand more birthdays. All you have to do is ask."
"I don't wanna die." I told him honestly with tears stinging my eyes as I thought about what he said and what Rhea had told me earlier. Klaus lifted my head up since I wasn't strong enough to do it myself and offered me his wrist.
"There you go, sweetheart. Have at it." He said to me softly as I allowed my vampire face to come out and I bit into his skin with a sharp click of my fangs. "Happy birthday Caroline."