I do not The Originals
She got up and showered. After she had shared half of her story with Klaus last night she had come to her room and sobbed silently over her dead family. She had an old portrait of them that she kept with her but she hardly ever got it out. It made her too sad. But last night after she had abruptly stopped telling her story to Klaus he hadn't even questioned her as she ran out of the room upstairs and to the frame in a Ziploc back inside a green drawstring bag in the bottom of a suitcase under her bed in her room.
She had sat on her bed with her head bent over the picture as she cried. She hadn't shut the door and she hadn't been silent. The emotion that she had felt was beyond her trying to hide it. It was beyond her caring. All she could do was feel the grief of her loss once again as Klaus had opened the wound up again.
Now she stood in the shower as the warm water washed over her face and got rid of all the tears from the night before. She imagined the dark past seeping out of her eyes down her body and she watched as they swirled around the drain and she cursed them as they disappeared forever. She had won this round. She knew that there would be more but she could bear the sadness. It was getting easier.
She got out of the shower and put on some black ripped tights and a pair of jean shorts. She grabbed a black and white polkadot top and her go to red cardigan. She slipped her moccasins on and headed out to the front room. Klaus would be impatient and want to leave soon. He would not tolerate her being late.
So she walked into the kitchen and poured herself a cup of coffee into a to- go mug as she looked up and made eye contact with everyone who was in the room. They were all avoiding her gaze as she stirred coffee. They didn't know how to address her after her outburst last night that everyone had heard. She put the lid on her cup.
"I am fine everybody." She assured them as Elijah looked up at her. "It was just stuff from my past that came back. But don't worry it is where it belongs now; in the past." She said smiling at Elijah and Haley smiled at her tentatively. Elijah walked over to her and took her hand as he kissed it.
"Your past makes you who you are and you are very strong to be able to concur it." He said and she smiled at him. But as he stepped away she pulled him close and whispered in his ear.
"The past has made us who we are but it does not define us. Do not let your past afraid to love who you want because it has been taken it from you before." She said as she let him go and stepped back.
"Are you ready Klaus?" She asked. He stood up from a chair by the door and opened it for her as they made their way outside and into Klaus' car. They didn't speak as she sipped her coffee while staring out the window. They drove a path that was familiar to her. They pulled up to the church and she sighed wondering if this was going to be another murder spree.
She followed him into the church but she found that it was full of people walking around and sitting on the pews. They were all Werewolves. Their stench filled the entire room. She looked over at Klaus but he was avoiding her. So she sat down on the pew in the front and watched as he walked up to Father Kieran. He handed him money and told him to buy food. She was so confused by his actions as he came over to sit next to her.
"Gathering them all in one place so they are easier to kill?" She asked him and he scowled at her. She stared at the candles that were lit up on the steps as the werewolves came to light more. She got up and put three quarters in the box.
One for Dom
One for Iris
And one for Klaus.
She prayed over each of them before she came back to sit by Klaus. She set her elbows on her legs and let out a breath.
"So a killer vampire was holding my baby"
She couldn't scream as her child looked at her like there was nothing wrong. She looked like she would be content to sit there in this stranger's arms. Her husband was also frozen as he stared. Iris gave her a big smile and giggled a little bit.
"Mommy can we get the funny man some more chocolate soda?" She asked tilting her head.
"Let go of her." She said through clenched teeth.
"Who are you?" Her husband asked with the bat still in his hands.
"I have taken a liking to your wife." Was all the man said as Dom turned to Tesla and questioned her. She just shook her head at him to tell him that she had no idea what he was talking about. "No she hasn't been unfaithful. Though I think if I put the right pressure on her she might." He said kissing Iris' cheek. "How much does mommy love you Iris?"
"Mommy loves me bigger than the whole house." The girl didn't hesitate.
"Iris honey it is going to be okay." Dom said and she smiled at him. 'We will give you whatever you want please don't hurt Iris." He pleaded with the man.
"We have money." Telsa said shaking now as tears slipped down her face.
"I don't want money." He shook his head and then turned back to Iris. "Iris, how much does mommy love papa?" He asked her.
"Papa is mommy's favorite star." The girl said repeating something that Tesla said all the time about Dom.
"Well we can't have that." He said shaking his head.
She didn't even see him move. He moved impossibly fast. Too fast. Faster than anyone should be able to move. He was over to Dom before she could find what happened. Iris was sitting on the bed still smiling. The stranger had Dom's head in either of his hands. He dipped down and bit into Dom's neck and looked as if he was sucking his blood out.
"I can't move Tesla." He said to her. There was so much fear in his voice and she just wanted to make it all better.
"Beg me to spare him." The man said and she looked to him. "Tell me you love him." The man said and as her gaze slipped back to her husbands she knew that no matter what she said her husband wasn't going to survive this. The look on his face told her that he knew the same thing and he silent tears turned into sobs.
"I love you!" She shouted to him "I love you so much. I can't do this without you. What am I supposed to do?" She begged him like he could fix this.
"Oh Tessa, I love you more than I could imagine loving anything." That was the last thing that her husband ever said to her. Her scream was something inhuman as the man snapped Dom's neck as his lifeless body fell to the floor. She fell with him crying his name. Telling him that he needed to get up; for her and Iris. She told him she didn't know what to do without him. Get up; she yelled over and over. The man walked over to her and bit his wrist. He forced his blood to flow into her mouth as at first she rejected it. She tried to spit it out but he plugged her nose and she couldn't breathe. She finally began to drink the warm metallic liquid that flowed down her throat.
Then she blacked out. It was the one decent thing that the man had done for her. Put her under after she had watched her husband die. After her life had fallen apart at least he had the decency to give her the option of going to sleep. If only she had stayed asleep. Because the nightmare that she woke up to was much worse than the one she had slept after.
She woke up hearing every noise that she had never been able to hear before. She smelled everything she heard blood pumping. She heard bugs buzzing and her head hurt so bad it felt as if it were going to split. She raised her head. She was tied to her own bed. Her sheets were covered in blood and the sun had come up showing all the blood splatter all over the walls. She tried to scream but her throat hurt so bad that she couldn't. She was almost done taking the horrors in when her daughter walked in with a glass full of a deep red liquid.
"Mommy I brought you breakfast." She said
"Oh Iris." Tesla said overwhelmed to see her daughter. But as she stepped closer she realized what was in the cup. "Iris honey where did you get that?" She asked as she realized something else. The inside of her was begging her to devour her father. She was so horrified with herself as she head her own daughters heart beat and longed to drain the blood from her.
"Iris wants you to eat breakfast." The man said from the door and she stared at him.
"What did you do to me?" She asked as her daughter got up on the bed and held the glass to her mouth. It took everything she had not to rip Iris' throat open.
"Drink mommy." Iris said as some of the blood spilled onto Tesla's mouth. She rejected the thought at first but it was the best thing that she had ever tasted and her body wanted it so bad. So she drank the whole glass and licked the rest of it off her face.
"In the end your husband's blood is going to make you what you are." He said and she tried to vomit up what she just drank. She started to cry again as she thought of the death of her husband. And the fact that she had just drunk his blood made her hate herself because even now she couldn't say that she didn't enjoy it. She was so weak that she could barely keep her eyes open. The man came over to sit next to her.
"Will you be mine?" He asked her and she gave him the most horrible look that she could muster.
"I would rather die ten thousand times." She spat at him. "I would rather have nothing for the rest of my life." She said
"Your life is going to be very long." He said stroking her cheek. "But if nothing is what you want then nothing is what you will have. Are you sure that is what you want?" He asked and she could think of nothing but her hate for him. So she was filled with remorse as he picked Iris up and set her on his lap.
"Please." She had changed her voice to plead with him. "Please don't"
"Will you be mine?" He asked her and she nodded with every ounce of energy she had.
"Yes I will please let my baby go." She pleaded
"You see I wish I could believe you." He said sinking his teeth into Iris' neck as she heard her little girl cry out in pain.
"He killed her and left her body next to me." She said staring off into the nothingness" I was gone before the police came. They said I was kidnapped and they searched for him but he was gone. He left me with nothing like he said he would. I snuck around in the shadows because of the daylight. I found people like me who explained what was happening." She said
"And you moved on." He said.
"It has taken me eighty years to get to this point." She said as he pulled her to him. "I am so afraid he will come back."
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