Klaus stayed around the area, watching the proceedings of that night in 1492 he should have broken the curse, but Elijah betrayed him...
He thought.
He realized now that he'd been completely wrong; Elijah hadn't betrayed him...
He'd banished his own brother for nothing with the threat of death upon his head if he didn't... some little brother he was (!)
But when Klaus did leave the area, he truly didn't know where to go. Just... where was Leonie? Had she made it back to the correct century-?
Was she alive...
His answer was about to pounce on him, and quite literally.
Klaus heard the footsteps now as he walked through the English woods, then stopped dead, turning round and snarled quietly. "I know you're there. Come out, come out." he was smirking by the end of it, but now the rustling became louder and then he was faced with a pure white wolf, its deep golden eyes staring at him.
He chuckled now, then crouched down- it was no werewolf, but what was a wolf doing out here in England? Klaus extended a hand now, letting the other predator prod it with its wet nose.
Klaus glanced behind him now, then chuckled once more and swiftly pulled his clothes off, shifting into his own wolf form that was almost twice as big as the white one, making that very same white ones ears go back a little, but he just prodded the wolfs shoulder, encouraging it to run with him.
Running through the forest at full pelt offered a sense of... freedom, he decided now, then he spotted a lake up ahead and ran, leaping of the side and into the water, shifting just before he came back to the surface.
"Hell I love four legs." he muttered to himself now, then looked over to the other wolf that had followed him in. It was gone, and instead, Klaus heard a voice.
"You know; when I first changed, I thought I was going mad."
He froze at that voice, then looked over to where a light splash was sounding, seeing a pale foot for starters, but then-
"Leonie-?"
She swam forwards now and grinned. "Hello Niklaus. It's been quite a while."
They were both silent for a second, then he kissed her for a minuet before saying quietly. "What happened?"
Leonie chuckled at that, then replied. "Well, I'm still alive."
Klaus realized he was missing something now- Leonie was still alive. And for that to happen...
"You-? You're five hundred years old now?"
She grinned at that. "I remembered you telling me about this place, so I figured this is where you would appear. Hell of a long wait though."
Hang on-
"How can you be a wolf?" he pressed now and Leonie rolled her eyes. "You remember the witches? They did say there might be effects... and your wolf side got fused onto me too. I'm no werewolf or hybrid, but-"
"Shapeshifter of sorts?" he guessed now, and she nodded, putting an arm around his neck and pulled him closer, saying quietly as she put her head on his shoulder.
"It's been a long wait."
"I can't believe you actually did wait for me." Klaus said truthfully, and Leonie just wrapped her arms around his neck, kissing him for too long for either of them to count. But Klaus was thinking- Leonie had been alone as a vampire for five hundred years.
What changes had taken hold of her?
Leonie took Klaus back to the place she was staying in the woods once he was dressed, saying as she opened the door. "Sorry it's a little small. I needed to hide from you and Elijah. Could you imagine what would happen if the past you met me?"
Klaus nodded in agreement. "I can. Nothing good I'm guessing?"
She sighed and sat down on the bed, looking around the room wistfully. "I miss TV... how many years until it's invented?"
"About five hundred." he chuckled, agreeing- no luxuries back here... and he was going to have to grow his hair to fit in. Great... just great...
Klaus was watching Leonie now as she got up once more and lit the candles, sensing a new edge to her- what had she been up to for five hundred years-?
When he asked her this, she chuckled and just replied. "Quite a lot to be honest." and Klaus raised an eyebrow, but then she pulled out a sketchbook from next to the bed and gave it to him. "I've been traveling the world. It's all so... fascinating. All these things the history books from the twenty first century missed out, I've written them all in there."
Klaus sighed at that- typical Leonie.
"Ooh-!" she started now, then smirked, picking up something from the side and said, holding it up. "I've been trying to find a way to make cupcakes."
"And did you?" he chuckled now, and she sighed, shaking her head. "No... it was the wrong kind of flour. But-" she reached inside her dress now and pulled out the end of the necklace she was wearing, and Klaus saw that same ring he'd given her on the end of it. She'd really kept it... for all these years.
But now she raised her hands and took his face in them, frowning a little. "Is that really you?" she got no answer, but he did lean forwards and kiss her instead, pushing her down onto the bed and wondered-
What were they going to do now? But then it hit him- anything. He was a hybrid once more, Leonie was alive... and wolfy.
Maybe the future seemed brighter for once?
Yeah... how long was that going to last...
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