~ I did tell you in the last author's note, that chapters won't be coming as fast for the next two months... but I wanted to update this chapter because of what happens in it.
Anna.B: When Kol's ghost comes back, He's going to say something to Luna that he didn't get a chance to say before. It might cause some tension between Luna and Klaus when The Originals stat. I'm trying to get Luna's dad back as well since he was a wolf... and he'll say what he thought of her turning it off when Klaus died. Kluna moments are kinda obvious... lol Hopefully, because of Luna, there will be a fight between Klaus and Marcel... and maybe Luna will stop them. I think instead of a Luna/Elena fight (even though I'll try to fit one in), Luna will understand Elena's point since she once had her humanity off. I think, especially since Kol died, that a pure Kluna chapter would be good for their relationship and good for Kluna moments. There are some Kluna scenes in this chapter that I might be able to get referenced in the next. I think that there is a connection between Klaus and Luna, above the fact that they are both hybrids. I think because Luna is a hybrid, her werewolf anger is magnified... which would blind her to other things at times. That's why she didn't care about the people Tyler lost, because she was consumed by that. Klaus loves Luna, or he wouldn't have been so patient with her. Hopefully I'll be able to talk about it, if they aren't thinking about other things.
ENJOY!
Luna's POV
Sometime during the night I must have moved because when I opened my eyes, I realized that I was laying on the couch with Klaus. He was sleeping beneath me with his arm around me. I didn't bother to move off of him because I knew that he wouldn't let me. I wasn't sure I wanted to move out of his arm. It felt like I was warm, protected, and above all not alone. I snuggled my head against his chest and I felt his hand slowly move down my arm.
"Are you awake?" I quietly asked him, trying not to wake Caroline from the other room.
"For a while..." Klaus whispered to me "...I didn't want to wake you." I internally smiled, seeing that kind part of him again. "Why didn't you leave last night?"
"I don't know." I said in a whisper, knowing full well that I could have left him with Caroline. "I think because I didn't want to be alone." Klaus's hand slowly moved to mine and I found myself putting my fingers through his.
"I have something in my pocket for you." He said, which made me slightly confused. I slowly sat up, not letting go of his hand.
"What is it?" I asked and he slowly sat next to me, with his hand still in mine. With his free hand, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a small box.
"I found this." He said as I took my hand out of his so I could hold it. I looked at Klaus before slowly opening the box.
"Oh...my...gosh." I breathlessly said. "My necklace." The necklace that my dad gave to me for my 16th birthday, the necklace that I had lost after I turned into the wolf was I'm the box that Klaus gave me. "How?"
"After your wolf ran away from me, I was going to burn the hybrids and I saw it on the ground. I thought you might want it back." I couldn't help but smile as I slowly took it out.
"Thank you." Klaus took the necklace out of my hand and I knew he wanted to put it around my neck. I brushed some hair out of the way and he put the necklace around my neck. I looked at Klaus and I felt happy. He brushed some hair behind my ear and I started to lean in. Our lips touched and I closed my eyes. All of sudden I heard a fake coughing noise and I broke away from Klaus.
"I didn't want to wake up to that." Caroline said from the other room.
"You didn't have to look." I said before giving Klaus a peck on the cheek. He gave me a small smile before giving me one to.
Caroline stayed with us, but in the other room. I still couldn't bring myself to go into the kitchen. Kol's body was still laying there because Caroline and I didn't move him. 'Klaus or I could be the one' I thought because we were the only two in the house that actually liked Kol. Kol was Klaus's brother while Kol was close to me, almost as much as Klaus was. It was hard to lose someone and because I lost a lot of people, I would know. Out the corner of my eye, I could see Caroline leave the house. I didn't say anything because I didn't really care.
"Are you okay love?" Klaus asked me after a while before sitting next to me. I opened my mouth to say something, but then I shook my head. I looked at the ring on my finger, the one I was sure Kol was going to give to me if he wasn't killed.
"It's just..." I let out a sigh and shook my head "...I can't talk about it." I closed my eyes. "If I think about it and then talk about it, I'll cry again." As my eyes were closed, I could feel my fingers toy with the ring. "If I didn't turn it on, it wouldn't hurt so much." Klaus sat next to me and started to rub my back with his hand. "I'm just going to lie down over there." I got up and walked out the barrier to one of the couches. After I laid down, I closed my eyes and tried to think of other things that would distract me from everyone I lost.
I didn't realize that I feel asleep until I heard voices. I turned over on the couch and opened my eyes a little. My vision was a little blurry because I had been sleeping, but I could tell that Caroline and Tyler were in the room.
"It's called a cryptex." I heard Caroline say, which made me slowly sit up. "I've seen The da Vinci Code. You turn the different sides to the different symbols to get the translation on the other side. And with the magic of the internet, Elena sent over these." Caroline held up some photos. "So now all we have to do is cryptex away. If you happened to want to help, we wouldn't stop you." I turned my head and saw Klaus facing the room we were in from his barrier.
"Right. Well, might I suggest using the magic of the internet to purchase an Aramaic-to-English dictionary from your nearest retailer." Klaus smirked.
"What's Aramaic?" Tyler and I asked at the same time before I yawned. 'I must have been tired' I thought as Klaus looked back at me.
"It's a dead language. It hasn't been used since, like, biblical times." Caroline explained.
"Qetsiyah's native tongue, I'm guessing. You know, even if you had the best dictionary in the world, it could take days to translate." Klaus sat on the table that was within the barrier. "Perhaps weeks. 'In bas so-teen-too ara-ma-eet.' "
"What does that mean?" I asked, which made everyone look at me.
" 'If only you spoke Aramaic.' " Klaus said while smiling. 'Of course he knows that language' I thought. 'He probably knows every language.' I thought as Tyler sat down next to Caroline. They started to go through the pictures, but then Caroline stopped and looked at me.
"You can help if you want." She said to me and I gave her a small smile.
"Sure." I slowly got up and sat on the couch next to Caroline, on the opposite side Tyler was at. Out the corner of my eye, I could tell that both Tyler and Klaus were looking at me. I was still thinking about using the cure on Tyler, but that didn't mean I couldn't help to find it.
I helped Caroline and tyler translate the symbols in the pictures.
"Okay, this is it. We've translated all the symbols on the tattoo." Caroline said out loud. " 'Passage inside... requires a young senator, and a pretty flower.' " She read the translations from the notecards she head. Okay, none of this makes sense!"
"Maybe we translated wrong." I suggested because what she read didn't make much sense. I picked up the notecards and looked at them, trying to figure out what the right translation would be. Klaus started to say something, but I couldn't recognize what it was so I guessed it was Aramaic.
" 'Requires a powerful witch and a hunter in full bloom.'" Klaus said in english, which made me think that is what he said in Aramaic.
"What are you doing?" Tyler asked as the three of us looked at Klaus.
"I don't need to tell you my reasons." Klaus said to Tyler before looking at me. "Luna sweetheart, bring my sword over here." I looked at Caroline before slowly getting up from the couch. I carefully picked up the sword and held it in front of Klaus.
" 'Silas rests on the far side, the means of his destruction at hand.' " Klaus looked behind me before looking back to me. "Turn the cryptex to the right." I started to turn it to the right. "Stop." I stopped so he could read it. "The top of the hilt reveals a key to a nautical map. Turn it to the left." I started to turn it to left like he said. "Now turn the other piece." I started to turn it like he said. "There's something else." He started to speak in Aramaic again. When he was done, he looked at me with a torn look in his eyes.
"What is it?" I asked. "What's the bad news?" I tried to hide the worry from my voice, but I had a feeling that he could hear it.
"There's only one dose." He said as calmly as he could. 'Only one dose of the cure?' I asked myself before closing my eyes and taking a deep breath. 'What am I going to do?' I asked myself before slowly putting the sword on the couch I was laying on before. I tried to keep the emotion from my face as I sat on the floor, against the wall where the barrier was.
My mind was going through the what was said about the cure. 'Only one dose' I thought with my knees against my chest. Out the corner of my eye, I could tell that Caroline was calling someone.
"Hello?" I could hear Rebecca ask when she answered.
"Hey, it's Caroline. We have the translation of the tattoo. We're emailing you pictures of the map and instructions right now." Caroline clicked a few buttons on her laptop.
"Got it. Thanks." Rebecca said.
"Actually, it was me." I turned my head so I could look up at Klaus, but he was looking at Caroline's phone.
"Nik, you helped?" Rebecca asked with surprise in her voice.
"You sound so surprised, little sister." Klaus said and I stopped myself from saying anything.
"Shouldn't I be? I mean, you don't want me to be human." Rebecca said, which made me think of why he wouldn't want his sister to be human. "You don't want any of us to be human. Why would you help us find the cure?"
"Maybe I finally realized the longer I stand in the way of what you want, the longer you'll continue to hate me. Perhaps I want my sister to finally know happiness." I tried to read his expression, trying to figure out if he was lying to his sister or not. Her looked at me for a second and our eyes met before Rebecca started to talk again.
"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me a hundred times..."
"No more fooling. No more games. I hope you get to live, and die, as you wish." Klaus looked back at the phone, even though Rebecca couldn't see us.
"So do I."
"There is one more thing, Rebecca." I kept my eyes on Klaus, wondering what he was going to say. "There is only one dose of the cure. You need to find it first and take it. It's the only way you'll..." The call was quickly ended and I just rolled my eyes. 'He was just lying to her' I thought as I crossed my arms on the top of my knees and laid my head against them.
I knew Caroline and Tyler went outside because I heard the front door close. I just stayed on the floor, thinking that the cure was lost to me. It wasn't a choice for me to use it anymore. I wanted to use the cure for more than one reason, but both of them were impossible now.
"Luna...?" I could hear Klaus ask my name in a whisper.
"I'm fine." I said, not moving an inch. "I just wanted the cure and now the plans are impossible. Everything has gone to hell."
"You can still have revenge." Klaus said and I could tell that he bent down within the barrier so he would be equal to me if I looked at him.
"I don't think I was gonna go through with it anyway." I honestly said to him. "I'm really not that type of person. I..." I let out a sigh "...I wanted the cure for myself." I lifted my head from my arms, but didn't look at him. "I know it sounds crazy, but I wanted to take it so I would have to turn once a month like I used to with my dad. It would make me feel like he was still here." Tears started to gather in my eyes, but I didn't let them fall. "I know it's hell to go through, but it would make me feel normal and... it would make me feel like both of them are still with me." I closed my eyes and felt a tear roll down my cheek. "I have to go... get something to eat." I slowly stood up while trying to change the topic. "I haven't fed since..." I looked back in the kitchen, so Klaus would know what I meant. "I don't want to lose it." I gave Klaus a quick look before speeding out of the house.
I went to Klaus's mansion, took a shower, and fed from a few blood bags he had. I was going to go back... but I went in my room. After I got my phone, I laid on my bed and just looked through the pictures. They were all of people I've lost. I wanted to remember them and even though the thought of not having them in my life anymore made me want to cry... it was the only way I could still see them. I lifted my head from my phone to see Klaus standing at my doorway.
"How did you get out?" I softly asked, knowing that he could hear me.
"The spell wore off." He said as he stood there. I moved so there was room on my bed for him to lay next to me. He must have known I wanted him next to me because he walked into my room and laid next to me. I put my phone on my bedside table and put my head on his chest.
"Thank you for being here for me." I said as I buried my head into his chest.
"Anything for you love." Klaus softly said as he wrapped his arm around me. He caused most of the pain in my life, but when I was around him I felt safe and not alone.
"I love you." I said through tears that were starting to fall from my eyes.
"I love me to." I couldn't help but let out a small laugh because I found it funny. He didn't say 'I love you to', but he made me laugh when I felt like crying... I could wait a little longer to hear those words from him.
"Good night Nik." I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, breathing in his scent.
"Good night Luna." He said before kissing the top of my head. At the moment I really realized, that even though he hasn't said it... he loved me.
~ Klaus had Luna's necklace... did you expect that? Originally I was going to have Kol give her a necklace, but I thought it would mean more if Klaus found and gave Luna the necklace that her dad had given her before she was turned into a hybrid. Originally I wasn't going to end the chapter with Kluna... but I felt that they needed a somewhat happy moment after what has happened.
~ I know this chapter might seem a bit boringish, but I tried to fit many emotional scenes when it came to Luna because of the things that have happened.
~ The next chapter for this story is going to take a while (maybe the end of next week) because I want to work on chapter 2 for Down The Rabbit Hole. I'm not entirely sure if it's going to be pure Kluna, but if I go straight to Bring It On, I'll still have Kluna scenes in it (:
~ I have started a new TVD story (against my better thoughts) called Dark Paradise. It's a Silas/OC/Stefan story... which is different than most of my other stories
since someone is usually either paired with Damon or Klaus. I hope you can check it out and leave a helpful/constructive review. The chapters are shorter in that story... but that just means more chapters and possibly quicker updates (depending on reviews). It has some events from TVD season 5, but it will be sort of different... once you read the chapters that are up, you'll know why.
R&R 'till the next update
