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Chapter 25
Chicago
"Ah i love Chicago!Fond memories have the others meet me in my room in an hour."
Klaus directed the two hybrids behind him, not taking his eyes off Elena, who was glued to the scene before her. The loud jazz band playing, bright lights, as people moved to the music, waiters carried trays of champagne around. The whole place screamed money, elegance, power.
Elena had never seen anything like it, she could feel her body responding to the music, and somehow the red dress she had slipped on earlier, she had felt unsure in, she now felt empowered in it, sexy, in control.
And above everything else she could see, feel it was nothing compared to the hunger that ripped through her, the pang she felt in her gums, the pleasure pain feeling. She felt her face change the blood rushing.
She could hear the heartbeats pounding, the blood pulsing through their veins. She felt like she had never feed. Her head began to pound, her body shaking. As her eyes took in the half naked bodies gyrating around the dance floor. The veins visible under their tissue soft flesh.
Klaus watched Elena's reaction, h e had guessed right she hadn't feed on a human. He could tell the way her hands clutched the rail in front of her, hoe her face had vamped out without her stopping it, or really even noticing it.
Trailing a finger along Elena's bare shoulder, she tenses "shall we go to my private rooms, its being a long journey, I'll get us something to eat."
Elena nods, Klaus's touch leaves her cold, and in her memory loss she can't remember if he's more to her then she has being told. Although he never really insinuates anything else. She turns to leave with him cos she really is hungry and may not be able to control herself. Why does it feel like she's never feed? Klaus pushes her from behind up a stair case, why does she feel like she's stepped in to another world, god am starving. How long have i being like this? I need to feed. How long have i being with Klaus? In what way am i with Klaus? Their pounding heartbeats drone out the sound of the music. Why does Klaus feel me with uneasiness?
At this last thought, they stop at the top of the stairs, where a young man opens a door, murmuring his greetings to Klaus, who is ordering him to bring me some 'refreshments'.
I close my eyes as i try to breathe, and has soon has my eyes close i see the most beautiful bright soulful eyes. There's no face, but these eyes are full of hope and promise. I feel like am drowning in them, that they strip me down, and see every corner of my being. Even the parts i can't find right now. There's a low humming noise, a promise 'I'll follow you always Elena'
"Elena?" Klaus's voice brings me out of my daydream. For a moment i stand there looking stunned. His eyes on me waiting for me to make a move. That's when i notice the girl.
Klaus follows my gaze and smiles a little.
"jenny why don't you give us a little dance ?Elena why don't you have some bubbly?"
Elena takes the glass and sits on the deep fabricated grey sofa. Trying to look at anything but the girl. For a minute or so her hunger had being forgotten thinking about the green eyes.
Klaus goes to the girl and begins to slow dance behind her, the atmosphere is tense, the sexual tension, the hunter stalking his prey.
Elena knows she's a vampire, she just doesn't know how long she's being like this, or why, or even acting well... in vampire ways.
"its lovely this club, i don't think I've ever being somewhere like this." Elena states to try and get some information from Klaus, and direct her attention from the girl.
And it works Klaus turns the girl compelling her to keep dancing.
"no i don't think you have, shame though, i can tell you like it, that's why i bought you along, i want to look after you, it's sad that we'll never know why or who turned you, I've known you for a year, and i think your only just starting to come out of your shell .now how about dinner ?am starved."
Elena feels like the holes aren't any fuller in her head. Perhaps she should stop dwelling on them and be part of the now, Klaus is right the feeling downstairs felt great.
Elena is watching Klaus as he gengly strokes the dancing girls neck, as they sway to the music, its like a scene from a movie. He begins to whisper in her ear. And then smiles at Elena, before sinking his teeth into her neck, taking in a long slow gulp. The girl doesn't flinch, she doesn't open her eyes, Klaus looks back at Elena with his yellow eyes, by this point Elena's own eyes are swollen and red, he beckons her over, taking her hand and spinning her, wrapping his arms around Elena they move at the side of the dancing girl. Until Klaus brakes off to pull jenny to them. Encircling her, elena begins to feel the music, the pull of the hunting, the thrill of having this girl. Elena and jenny begin to move with each other to the music. The girls so close to Elena she can feel her breathe against her cheek. And then slowly runs her tongue over her lips and then along Elena's jaw line.
Klaus takes this as his cue, and sits back down on the sofa, watching. He also hears the door open, but shows no sign of acknowledging it.
The girl wraps her arms around Elena's waist and then leans back, her bloodied neck exposed. Elena doesn't feel attracted to this girl, just the blood, and it fills her senses. The blood is calling to her. She can't see or hear anything else. Elena feels her fangs expose and then them sink into the girls milky skin.
And there it is, the feeling. That there can never be anything that feels this way.
There isn't enough, Elena pulls the girls limp body closer, sinking her fangs into other areas. Until there isn't nothing left. And the girl lays on the floor covered in bite marks. Elena eyes roam over the girl, dead, she did it, she couldn't stop and she's wanted more, what is she? a monster.
Elena's startled from her thoughts by Klaus clapping and laughing.
"Hungry? Don't worry love there's plenty more. What did you think Stefan?"
Elena s eyes dart from a smirking Klaus to a grim looking Stefan, whose looking at the floor. But when he does look up, she shocked by his eyes, there the same. The same ones she remembered earlier. Or envisioned. She feels disgusted with herself, but she can't stop looking at him, until she realizes he doesn't look disgusted or judging. Tormented maybe sad?
"Perhaps you need a minute to clean yourself up Elena? It seems Klaus has being starving you."
This comment from Stefan sparks new amusement for Klaus." No i don't think I've starved her, she just had the best meal she's ever tasted."
Elena feels like she's missing something and tries to listen carefully, but Klaus changes the subject.
"Anyway Salvatore, aren't you hungry?"
And as if by magic one of Klaus minions bring another bleeding girl in.
"Elena you haven't seen what an artist Stefan is, he's a rippah! That feeling you felt when feeding? Well Stefan feels it only 10 times more, it's like a drug to him, he gets so out of control he rips the bodies apart, watch and learn, you're in for a treat."
Elena looks at the battered bleeding body in front of her, and feels the quilt and disgust, is this why he didn't look disgusted, because this body mean nothing? He's seen, done far worst. Looking at his angelic pained face its hard to see him as the being Klaus just described.
Stefan's eyes are fixed on Elena. Trying to calm himself. Think of her, think of what you're doing, you still have to help her, you still have to prove that you're in control, and you can get them both home. Remember who you are. He feels the veins that had only faintly appeared, start to disappear along with Klaus's smirk.
"things have changed Klaus. The blood no longer controls me, you no longer control me."
Stefan turns to leave when Klaus voice booms out, "YOU MANGED THAT?ALL FOR THE LOVE OF ONE GIRL?I'LL BREAKE YOU SALVATORE"
Elena doesn't moved scared of Klaus, but she watches Stefan leaves, and wonders about this girl, she must be really special for Stefan to change from the monster Klaus described to the man stood here now. What an epic love she muses, a sadness washing over her. Until she notices Stefan stop at the other side of the door and mouth to her, "you'll be ok"
Elena feels her body stir, a dim light in the darkness begins to burn again.