Sup my lovelies!
So I'm in vacation in Crescent City itself (like, how's that for a change!) and its been great! I still have a couple of weeks left to go so postings might be a little bit irregular, but this chapter comes to you thanks to the French Quarter (It's Amazing, although the weather it's too humid for my tastes, like SO FUCKING HOT OMG I WAS DYING JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES AGO)
Anyways, enjoy this :) I'll be out in the real world having some fun
Alex.
Landing in Tennessee was a quiet affair, Stevie and Chance were really competent at compelling their way through airport security, when we made it to the parking lot an SUV was waiting for us and we were driven to a very nice looking hotel.
"Chance, Stevie, before we join Nik find a couple nobodies, compel them to join us" I said as I placed my purse on my bed, I turned to look at them, "No kids or teens, go on I'll be fine for a couple of minutes." I gestured with my hands, the two hybrids exchanged looks before going, my phone buzzed and I picked it up.
"Nibblet, where are you?" asked Nik sounding chirpy, I rolled my eyes and fiddled with a lock of my hair.
"At the hotel leaving my bags, patience is a virtue Nik" I said, he huffed.
"You're sounding like Elijah, Nibblet"
"Well I was married to the guy for a century Nik, something had to stick, now don't fret and we'll join you at the beginning of the trail, Stevie and Chance are procuring something for me, you'll thank me later" I said.
"If you say so"
Ten compelled humans later we made it to where Nik was waiting for us, he had an amused look on his face as he took the cooler I was carrying from my hands.
"You look lovely Nibblet, summer is agreeing with you" he said, I snorted.
"Of course it is, who's the poor sod?" I asked looking at the body that one of Nik's hybrids was hauling.
"He's our new friend Ray, he was the one who led us here" he said with a smirk, I hummed noncommittally.
"Right, well, what are we waiting for?" I asked
"For you to explain them," Nik gestured towards the humans behind me.
"Oh, well you see, they are the first snack that your new hybrids are going to get, 'cause you know, I have to think of everything, it's not like you kart around a group of unsuspecting humans to feed your newbies" I said, Nik seemed pleased by my foresight.
"And this right here is why you're my favorite, come along then" he said offering his arm to me, I smiled at him before taking it.
We walked the trail for the better part of an hour and I was glad that I had decided on wearing boots, it was a pretty trail that reminded me of simpler times and another life, I smiled to myself, my memories were something I always held close to my heart, my parents and my family, while the pain of losing them forever had lessened in time, I still thought of them from time to time, my mom wouldn't have been happy with the things I had done in this life, but then again, she was very hard to please and my dad would have supported me in his own way.
"Alexandra?" Nik said softly looking at me confused.
"Huh?"
"What has you smiling to yourself? That Salvatore?"
"Damon? Nah" I said with a grin, Nik raised an eyebrow, "I was thinking of my parents actually, I miss them sometimes"
"Ah"
"Yeah, my dad once told me when I was a kid that whatever I did, he just wanted me to be happy, mom said the same but she told me to be the best at my field, I like to think that they would be proud of me" I said gently, Nik smiled sincerely at me.
"They would be very proud of you, Alexandra" he assured me, his smile then turned mischievous, "Minus the littered corpses of course"
"Nah, dad would approve only because it makes me happy" I said giggling.
"And your mother?"
"She would criticize my lack of class sometimes and the fact that I sometimes manage to get blood everywhere, she and Elijah would have gotten along splendidly" I said, Nik snorted.
"Of course"
When we reached the werewolf camp the first few minutes were tense until Nik started explaining his hybrid status, that got the attention of many of the werewolves in the area. I sat quietly on a fallen tree while Nik spoke to the werewolves about the transformation calling up one of his hybrids so the wolves could see, they were certainly interested.
"Hello there" I said once Nik motioned for me to talk.
"You're a vampire" said a woman, Paige, I smirked at her.
"I'm a special vampire" I said lifting my hand and allowing fire to dance at the tip of my fingers, "Another type of hybrid, the reasonable one"
"Reasonable?" Paige asked, I nodded.
"Yes, I'm in charge of setting you guys up with jobs and such, 'cause you know I doubt that Lycanthropy allows you to work your normal nine to five, Niklaus and I set to remedy that, werewolves are stronger than the average chap and work really good in construction, Mikaelson Corp. is accepting all the new hybrids that want to work for them, the work comes with a family plan of health insurance, fifteen days of vacations that you can take as long as you've been working for a year and the opportunity to work at Black Designs & Landscaping, even college scholarships for the younger ones" I said crossing my arms.
"Your plan for us is corporate business?" asked Paige skeptical, I liked her already.
"Not really, Niklaus wants his hybrid army but we all know that war is never constant and that you guys need to earn your pay and do something in the meantime, so the answer was corporate business" I explained.
"We get paid?" asked one of the men, I nodded.
"We are very much against slavery so yeah, it's a job, you get paid, any of you interested?" I asked, many hands went up and I turned to smirk at Nik who was looking at me with an amused look on his face.
"Fantastic" he said and I laughed.
"They're all yours Nik" I said as I stepped back, then looked at the pack, "Please stand in a line in front of Nik and wait for your turn patiently"
"Just go straight for the vein, Paige dear" I said holding one of the humans I had brought in front of her, she looked at me and shrugged before biting into the man.
"What will happen to Derek?" she asked once she was done, I smiled at her.
"I'll turn him into a vampire for you, not now of course but soon 'cause I'd need to procure him a daylight ring first, so keep him human for a while, but do remind me to turn him in this decade" I promised, Paige seemed happy by that. "Better yet, compile a list of all of you who have human partners and hand it to my assistant Jules, you'll meet her in Charlottesville"
"Charlottesville?" she asked, I nodded.
"It's where our HQ is located and you all need to sign your work forms, you know bureaucracy at its finest, we're working on a small Hybrid village near Mystic Falls, a few of you can begin your own schools and such for the little wolves, it's a quaint town and its being remodeled for your use" I said, Paige looked at me confused.
"And what happened to the humans of that place" she asked.
"Nik and I killed most of them, and compelled the rest to donate blood regularly to the blood bank, it's a lovely place" I said enthusiastically.
"Lovely" Paige said softly.
"Well duty calls, I'll see you again in Virginia" I said and winked at the newly turned hybrid and walked to where Nik was as he had finished with the werewolves.
"You are a miracle worker, Nibblet" Nik said, I smirked and handed him a Kleenex.
"Oh I know, this is how you do business, you keep your minions happy and never have to fear that they will turn on you" I said, Nik nodded, "How many did you turn?"
"Thirty" he said, I nodded.
"Forty-two hybrids at your beck and call, nice" I said, Nik smiled crookedly.
"Technically forty-three" he said, I rolled my eyes at him.
"Tyler doesn't count, if he wants to work for you, fine, but he's still a minor and you promised" I reminded him bumping my shoulders with his.
"Oh I know" he said smirking.
I walked out of the bathroom drying my hair with a towel only to find Nik sitting on my bed, I threw the towel at him and he caught it and smirked at me.
"So, Nibblet, will we continue to look for more werewolves to turn or will you return to your provincial life in Mystic Falls?" he asked, I sighed and ran a hand through my wet hair.
"Who knows, by the way I have a spell for us to try" I said, Nik raised an eyebrow.
"And what would be the purpose of it?" he asked.
"Remember when I told you that a sireline could be broken?" I asked and he nodded, "Well I spent the better part of my summer reverse engineering your mother's immortality spell and the binding she used, because if I can do it so could another witch and you have plenty of enemies so I prepared up a spell that would link your and your sibling's sirelines link to my life"
"Meaning?" he asked.
"That no one could break their sirelines unless they kill me first and that could be our dirty little secret," I said, Nik seemed pensive.
"And what if you were to die?"
"Nothing would happen to your lines, think of me as a lock, when you close a door and put a lock on it, it gets harder to enter, now if you break the lock, the door is still there, it's just easier to open it, think about it, you have many enemies that would like to see you dead, some of them from your own line, they can't kill you because they would die, they try to unlink themselves from you, it doesn't work, you kill them, I drink margaritas and live happily ever after" I explained.
"And what if they manage to capture me?" he asked, I snorted.
"As if that's possible, but should that happen I create a rumor and the vampires who want to live come to your aid, or I destroy them either way, simple"
"What do we need?" he asked.
"Your blood, my blood, blood of a vampire from your line, maybe one of the Salvatore brothers or even Caroline, blood of the doppelganger and a full moon, it should do the trick, I also imprisoned your mother's talisman" I said, Nik looked at me confused.
"My mother had one?" he asked, I nodded.
"It doubled as Bekah's necklace, she lost it when she met Stefan, Stefan found it, kept it, gave it to Elena with vervain, I told Damon to get it, he did, it's under a blood sealing spell now" I said with an easy smile.
"You still keep amazing me, Nibblet" Nik said with a smile, I winked at him.
I returned to Mystic Falls two days later with Nik in tow, it was gratifying to see how the Mikaelson Mansion was advancing and now even faster with the new hybrids that had joined. I smiled at Nik as I told him the plans I had for the house, including my very own ritual room.
"You're moving in with us?" he asked surprised as we watched the hybrids work.
"I'm not sure, I've gotten used to my apartment but I cannot fit a ritual room in it, besides the house is for you and your siblings, and I think it would be weird that I be living in the same house as my ex-husband" I said, Nik raised an eyebrow.
"Nonsense, I hope you plan for your own set of rooms in the house, you're moving in with us" he said with an air of finality, I crossed my arms.
"I don't really like being told what to do Nik, and that sounded very much like a command instead of a suggestion" I snapped at him, he looked amused.
"Forgive me Alexandra, I hereby extend you an invitation to come live in the mansion with me and my siblings, I can assure you that should you decide to do so, you won't regret it" he said with his crooked smirk.
"I want a room in the wing with the garden view" I said, Nik's eyes softened suddenly.
"If I do recall correctly a room with a view is what got you together with Elijah" he said teasingly, I rolled my eyes at him.
"Well bad for him, I won't be accepting roommates this time around" I said, Nik chuckled.
"That's fine by me, love, although, not even your Salvatore?"
"Damon? No, I mean, Nik, I know you're a little behind with the times" I said with a grin, "Being over a thousand years, I don't blame you really, but I thought that a guy such as you have heard the term friends with benefits before"
"You wound me Alexandra" Nik said suddenly lunging for me, I was quick to move in between laughs.
"Missed me!" I sing-sang with a shit-eating grin on my face as I stood several feet away from him, Nik huffed and lunged again.
Several attempts later he managed to catch me and threw me over his shoulder all while laughing, "Put me down Niklaus or so help me"
"Oh, full name, someone's in trouble" he joked, I hit his back several times and he just kept laughing.
"Nik, pretty please with a blood bag on top?" I asked and he stopped laughing very suddenly.
"What type of blood?" he asked as he slowly set me on the floor.
"Whichever you want, I have O positive in my cooler, that and champagne" I said grinning up at him.
"What are we waiting for then, love?"
"Try not to break anything, Tyler just left me a really weird message so I'll go to Caroline's house, you sure you can handle to be alone for a while?" I asked Nik who was sitting on the couch with several bags of blood and a movie.
"I'll be the picture of perfection, Nibblet" he said with a cheeky smirk, "Will you be safe out there in this cruel, cruel world?"
"With you in here, I'll be the biggest bad roaming the streets of Mystic Falls tonight, so don't worry about me," I said with a wink before grabbing the keys to his SUV.
The drive to Caroline's was done quick, I had been so busy with Nik and the Hybrids that I had forgotten about my phone and I had ten missed calls from Tyler and a panicking voicemail. When I knocked the door Liz opened and motioned for me to walk in.
"What happened Sheriff?" I asked quietly, Liz looked tired.
"Caroline's father, Bill, he tried to turn Care back into a human" she said and suddenly I wanted to punch myself, I had completely forgotten about Caroline and her slightly psycho dad, damn it all to hell.
"Is she okay now?" I asked heading for the stairs.
"I fed her two bags of blood, she is in her room with Tyler" Liz said and I let out a breath I didn't know I had been holding.
"Good, your girl is strong Liz, she'll pull through this, you know this right? You birthed a warrior" I told her softly, Liz looked at me teary eyed and smiled, I sighed before pulling the human into a hug, "There we go" I said patting her back as she cried silently, "Grab the Tequila you keep under the sink, I'll be back in a moment" I said letting go of her, Liz nodded and walked to the kitchen.
I walked upstairs and stopped at Caroline's door, I knocked twice before walking in, Caroline and Tyler were cuddling in bed and I smiled softly at them.
"Hey" I said as I walked in and sat on the edge of Caroline's bed.
"You came" Caroline said.
"Of course I did sweetheart, I'll always come" I promised, she smiled at me.
"Why didn't you answer our calls?" Tyler asked, his eyes were full of hurt, I sighed.
"I was in Tennessee, hiking with Nik to a werewolf encampment, reception was really shitty" I said, Tyler looked confused, "Nik was turning more wolves into hybrids and I was serving as spokesperson for our construction and landscaping companies, we got the hybrids relocated in a small town and there they will build the first hybrid community,"
"But aren't they loyal to Klaus?" Tyler asked, I shrugged.
"They are, but Nik and I don't want slaves, we want to offer them a job and a way of living," I explained, "You see, Nik and I have an understatement when it comes to slavery, so the hybrids work full time in our construction thing and in case an enemy of Nik rolls into town they help us take said enemy down, they have really good life insurances for their families in case something unfortunate happens to them, everyone is happy really"
"It doesn't sound so bad" Tyler conceded, I smiled at him.
"It's not, I promise, now Liz told me about what happened, and Care, I'm really sorry I couldn't be here to help you" I said sincerely, Caroline smiled at me.
She and Tyler sat on the bed and I pulled them into a hug.
"It's okay" she murmured, as I let go of her I stared into her eyes.
"It's not, but you're a really strong young woman and your mother and I couldn't be prouder of you, kay?" I asked, Caroline nodded and I smiled, "Now talking about your mother, I will attempt to get her drunk on tequila, it takes off the edge, you two behave"
Tyler and Caroline both smiled at me and I walked out of the room leaving the young pair alone. Liz was in the kitchen already drinking, I smiled at her before grabbing a shot glass and joining her at the table.
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