Chapter 35
Klaus, Cassie, Elijah and Kol were standing in the room that held the coffins.
"So Mikael got the coffins," Klaus said bitterly
"Yes" Elijah said, "Mikael now has Faye and Robert"
"But" Kol said looking towards Cassie "we did find a pair of bloody gardening shears. Cassie care to explain"
Cassie smiled "there was a vampire who was sent to get the coffins while Mikael was distracting you guys." She began "I grabbed the shears when I fell so I stabbed him and snapped his neck"
"So where is the vampire?" Elijah asked.
Cassie walked over to the closet and opened the door. She caught the vampire who fell out and laid her on the ground.
"That vampire is currently in Faye's coffin" Cassie said.
Kol laughed. "This is why I like you" he walked over to where Faye was.
"Elijah where do you me to put her?" Kol asked.
"The cellar" Elijah said.
Kol nodded and blurred off, leaving Elijah, Klaus and Cassie.
"Lets get out of this room shall we" Elijah said.
Cassie nodded and took Elijah's offered hand as he helped her up the steps.
Once they got back up to the greenhouse, Elijah stopped and looked at the mess Cassie made when she fell.
"Sorry Elijah" she said noticing how Elijah stared at it.
Klaus laughed while Elijah looked at Cassie. "Its ok Cassandra, I'll just have to replant them next year"
"Were they his favorites?" she whispered to Klaus.
"No, but they were incredible rare" he whispered back.
Cassie put her face in her hands
"But its fine because you stopped Mikael from grabbing Faye" Klaus said back to his normal tone.
Cassie looked up and smiled "then I have something that might make me killing several rare plants completely forgotten."
Elijah and Klaus both looked at her.
"I didn't have time to get Robert out but I slipped my cell phone into his coffin" she said.
Elijah took a step forward "what are you saying Cassandra"
Cassie took a deep breath "I'm saying that we can use the GPS from my phone to find out where Mikael is keeping the coffins, we can get Robert back"
Elijah and Klaus looked at each other and smiled.
"Well I guess this means I cant be mad at you for the plants anymore Cassandra" Elijah said.
Cassie smiled at Elijah.
"You know what this means" Elijah said talking to Klaus
"It means that Cassie single handedly tipped this back in our favor" Klaus said staring at Cassie in awe.
But Cassie didn't noticed because she was looking at the exotic flowers that Elijah held in his greenhouse.
They were all sitting in the kitchen of Elijah's house.
"Well the human needs to eat" Cassie said getting up "I'm going to find some food. Do you guys need want anything? And no Kol or Klaus I am not offering my blood, good old human food"
Elijah chuckled as Kol pouted because he couldn't make some innuendo.
"Well love, I'm offended you put me in the same category as Kol" Klaus said
"Were your going comment?" Cassie asked.
Elijah chuckled again while Klaus didn't answer the question Cassie asked.
"Were fine Cassandra" Elijah finally answered for them.
Cassie nodded and left to go find some food.
Klaus stood up "I have an errand to run before I take Cassie back to Mystic Falls"
Elijah nodded "I'll get in contact with some of my witches and we will hide Faye from Mikael"
"And I will be discreet and track the GPS from Cassie's phone to scope out where Mikael put Rob" Kol said.
"And I" Cassie said walking back into the room "will continue helping Jeremy with his mark. And leave the Mikael business to you boys" she finished bitterly while she sat in a chair.
"Good, now that everybody knows their roles" Klaus said with a smirk and he left.
Kol left soon after that.
Leaving Elijah and Cassie alone.
"I apologize for what happened earlier today with Mikael" Elijah said
"Elijah, you have no control over what he does, there is no need to apologize" Cassie said.
Elijah nodded and the two sat in comfortable silence while Cassie munched on her toast.
"Excuse me" Elijah said. As he phone started to ring.
Cassie finished her toast and walked back to the kitchen to clean up her dishes. After she was done she walked back into the room that she woke up in and laid down on the bed.
"Here you go" Klaus said tossing her a bag.
Cassie sat up on her elbows and raised an eyebrow at him.
"Clothes for the trip home" he said " no offense love but your not getting in my car covered in dirt"
Cassie laughed as she opened the bag, there were new jeans and new undergarments but the shirt, she knew she had seen that shirt before.
"I knew you wanted to be comfy for the ride home so I gave you one of my shirts" Klaus added seeing her expression at the shirt.
"Why?" she asked, "I could have just borrowed something from Elijah, it is his house"
"No dice sweetheart," Klaus said taking a step forward "I want you in my shirt"
Cassie's breath caught in her throat as she looked into Klaus's eyes after hearing that. "Well we can't always get what we want" she quipped.
Klaus chuckled. "You'll find love that I always do"
"Cocky much?" she asked.
"Very much" he said taking another step towards her.
Cassie grabbed the bag and walked towards the bathroom.
"What no more friendly banter" Klaus asked
"Like I said, you cant always get what you want" she said and she closed the door.
After twenty minutes Cassie came out in the clean clothes. Her hair hung in damp curls on her back.
"Took you long enough" Klaus complained. "I will never know what takes women so long to shower"
"Waiting on you now" Cassie teased, "I will never know why men complain about all the things women do"
Cassie walked out of the room. "I'll drive" she called.
Klaus laughed and blurred to where she was. He grabbed her waist from behind and pulled her to him. "Nice try love" he whispered in her ear and blurred away towards the car.
Cassie however just stood there; her heart was racing, what was happening to her?
Why did all of the sudden being close to Klaus and having him whisper in her ear cause her to have such a reaction?
It took three seconds, three second for Cassie to put all of the puzzle pieces together.
Cassie was starting to have feelings for Klaus
"Shit" she whispered to herself.
"Hey sweetheart" Klaus said blurring back to her. "Are you coming?"
"Oh ya," Cassie said "I'm coming"
Klaus grabbed her hand "come on then" he said dragging her over to the car.
Cassie couldn't tell you how she got in the car, how she buckled her seat belt, or how the first half of the car trip went. She was only brought out of her mind when Klaus interrupted her thoughts.
"Penny for you thoughts love" he asked
Cassie looked at him "my thoughts cost more then a penny" she said
"Fine a dime then" Klaus said continuing the banter.
Cassie's lips turned up at the corner, she looked back down at her lap
"Are you mad at me?" he asked turning his head so his full attention was on Cassie and not on the road. "Because I don't want you to be involved with Mikael"
Cassie had to laugh at herself, if only he knew that was the furthest thing from her mind.
"I'm mad" she began "but I understand why you don't want me involved, but Nik clearly I am already involved and I'm not helpless, I know I was today but its never going to happen again. I can take care of myself, I thought I had proved to you that to you"
Klaus took her hand "Cassandra,"
Cassie loved hearing her full name roll off of his tongue, especially with that accent, she watched his lips and all of the sudden got the urge to stop whatever he was going to say with hers.
"I know your strong, and fully capable of defending yourself against other vampires, but this is Mikael, he is in a completely different category." He finished not knowing Cassie wasn't paying any attention.
"I understand that, but Mikael said I had been doing exactly what he wanted me to do from the start, I'm involved whether you want me to be or not" Cassie said. "This isn't something you can control Nik"
"Like hell it isn't" Klaus growled "Mikael is done using you and I am going to make sure you are as far away from this as I can you"
Cassie didn't say anything but took her hand from Klaus and returned to staring at the window.
Klaus groaned, "I didn't mean that" he said softly
"Yes you did," she said just as softly
"Love, you have enough on your plate with dealing with Jeremy and his hunter's mark, plus there is the family drama with Elena stealing Damon from you" he said
Cassie snapped, she whipped her head towards him "why does everyone seem to think that I'm some poor heart broken girl! I'm fine! Elena didn't steal anything from me, Damon wasn't mine to be stolen, and we hooked up one night! And who are you to say what I can and cannot handle. You know nothing about me and what I have had to deal with!" She yelled "and family drama! Seriously you want bring that into the conversation"
"You and Damon hooked up?!" Klaus growled as they pulled into the boarding house drive way
"That's what you got from that!" Cassie yelled. "After all I just said, you only picked up on that"
"When" Klaus asked, "when did you sleep with Damon?"
Cassie shook her head and got out of the car.
"Cassandra when!" Klaus yelled following her out of the car.
"The night of the party" she yelled right back "not that it is any of your business who I can and can't sleep with"
She stormed off from him and walked into the boarding house.
Klaus followed her and walked in as well.
Stefan, Damon, and Elena were sitting in the living room.
"Well, its about time" Elena said.
Cassie glared at Elena.
Stefan seeing that a fight was going to break out between the sisters quickly intervened. "Cass, your dad is at the loft, he was pretty worked up, you might want to go see him," he said.
Cassie nodded and turned to leave.
"I'll drive you" Klaus said.
"No" she snapped, "you have done enough, besides they need to know what happened"
"I'll drive you" Stefan said trying to defuse another fight. He grabbed his coat and keeps before anybody could say anything. "Lets go Cass"
The two of them walked out of the boarding house. Klaus turned to Damon and Elena.
"So tell me about how papa original kicked your ass" Damon said sitting down.
"And just how screwed we are" Elena said sitting next to Damon.
Damon threw his arm around Elena.
Stefan and Cassie got into the car
"Thanks Stef" she said leaning her head on the backrest.
"You ok?" he asked "you normally don't get that mad the first time Elena says something rude to you"
Cassie didn't answer, Stefan knew she wanted to say something but she was afraid.
"Have you ever liked some one you have had to lie to?" she finally asked.
"So its true" Stefan said "you like Klaus"
"It just happened while we were gone," she said "but it doesn't matter"
"Why?" Stefan asked
"I'm lying to him Stefan, to their entire family, they just think I'm some dime a dozen vampire hunter." She said
"And that's why your mad?" he asked
Cassie sighed "no, Nik and I got into a fight on the way home"
"Ah, about what, if you don't mind me asking"
"He doesn't want me anywhere near this whole Mikael problem"
"Do you want to be near it? I've seen the problem first hand Cass and its bad"
"I know it is Stefan, and its not like I'm happy to join, but Mikael said I've been apart of his plan since I arrived. I have to know what Mikael thinks I'm doing for him, and how to stop it. This is something Nik can't control"
"And that right there is what you two were fighting over. Control"
"Yep" Cassie said popping the p "I'm not somebody who is going to do whatever he says because he thinks he in charge"
"I know that" Stefan said, "I guess Klaus is going to have to figure out the hard way"
They arrived at the loft and Cassie started to get out. "Damn it I didn't tell you what happened"
"It's fine" Stefan replied, "I'll find out later"
"You sure?" she asked
Stefan nodded.
"Well thank you for the ride, and listening to my rant" she said
"What are friends for" Stefan said "plus you have heard me rant about Elena enough, I figured it's my turn to listen."
Cassie smiled. "Stef, about the whole Nik thing"
"I wont tell anybody," Stefan promised.
"Thanks" she said before shutting the car door and going inside.
"Dad?" Cassie called knocking on the door.
Alaric opened the door. Seeing it was Cassie he pulled her into a hug.
"Your grounded" he said
Cassie laughed and walked into the loft. She sat on the couch while Alaric poured her and him a drink.
"So how long am I grounded?" she asked
"Forever" Alaric replied sitting next to her and handing her a drink
Cassie raised her drink as her acknowledgement.
Alaric chuckled. "Is there anything else I need to lay out for this grounding?"
"Well" Cassie said taking a drink. "You should lay out exactly what I'm grounded from"
Alaric nodded.
"Well after that drink you're grounded from alcohol" he said.
Cassie looked at him in shock "I hate you" she said
Alaric laughed
"You're the worst father ever," she said
"And for that lip" Alaric said grabbing her drink "you can't finish that drink"
Cassie looked at him, her eyes big. She pouted a little bit.
Alaric looked at his daughter.
"I'm sorry," she said
Alaric sighed and handed her back her drink.
Cassie smiled.
"Damn it" Alaric said
It was Cassie turn to laugh, "that is puppy dog pout, learn that now father"
The two sat in silence for a while.
"So no more alcohol, anything else?" Cassie asked.
"Well I would say your phone, but seeing as you don't use it in the first place" he said bitterly
Cassie laughed "about that, my phone is kinda stuck in the bottom of a coffin with an original in it"
Alaric choked on his drink "what?"
Cassie then launched into the story of what happened while they were gone.
After she finished hanging out with her dad, she decided she needed to go out and burn off her anger on some vampires before she hurts one of the gang. And after a ton of begging she convinced Alaric to let her and Jeremy go out and hunt to help him grow the mark.
"So, your telling me" Damon began "that Mikael thinks he has the upper hand but actually we are ahead?"
"Yep" Klaus said popping the p
"Point for us" Elena said.
"Point for Cassie" Stefan said walking back into the boarding house after he dropped Cassie off. "We didn't do anything"
"Ya, but by default we all get the point" Damon said "no matter who it was that brilliantly gained us the point"
Klaus glared at Damon.
"Well mate as wonderful as you theory is, you guys are not involved. You are going to focus on working on the hunter's mark" Klaus said "the last thing I need you guys screwing up my plan"
"Hey" Damon protested, "We never screw up plans"
Klaus raised an eyebrow "how many times have you and the Scooby gang tried to kill me" he asked.
There was a moment of silence
"Point taken" Damon agreed
"Well, that was before" Stefan said.
"Before mate?" Klaus asked.
"Before you pissed off Cassie" Stefan said. "Next time it might go as planned"
Elena laughed, "You pissed off Cassie? Good luck to you"
"Cassandra and I had a misunderstanding," Klaus said. "She'll get over it."
Stefan's phone beeped. He looked down at the text. He laughed.
"Your right" Stefan said "she is over it"
Klaus, Damon, and Elena looked at Stefan confused.
Stefan didn't say anything he just grabbed his keys and turned to go back out.
"Another movie night" Damon teased, "she sounds over it"
Stefan turned back to them "we're going to the club" he said.
Stefan opened the door and saw Rebecca there, dressed and ready to go.
"Ready?" she asked.
"Becca?" Klaus said "your going?"
Cassie walked up next to Rebecca, she was wearing a burgundy dress that had a halter-top and stopped about mid thigh, she had on a pair of black lace heels, and her hair was up.
"So I just called the boys," she said to Rebecca "they are going to meet us there"
"Everyone is going?" Elena asked.
"It's a hunting trip," Cassie said looking at Klaus "gotta work on Jeremy's tattoo"
"At a club" Klaus said.
Cassie shrugged her shoulders "you told me to work on his mark, so I am. If I get a little fun out of it well then, it's a win, win."
"Is that everybody?" Stefan asked.
Cassie looked back to Stefan.
Klaus being the gentleman he was took that opportunity to stare at Cassie, she wore heels and with her dress being short in the back, it gave the illusion that Cassie's creamy legs never ended. The back also left her shoulders and upper back bare.
Her hair was pulled up so her neck was exposed to Klaus.
Klaus could barely keep his self-control. All he wanted to do if take her back to the mansion and find something for her legs to wrap around.
Cassie did a quick head count. "We are one girl short" she told Rebecca and Stefan
"Caroline?" Rebecca suggested
Cassie looked at Stefan "she is going to be your partner"
"Caroline works" Stefan told her.
"Great, call her" Cassie said, "I need to grab something Rin left in her room"
Ignoring the three who were sitting in the living room Cassie walked up the steps.
Klaus stood up and quietly walked behind her.
Rebecca and Stefan just shook their heads and laughed.
"What's so funny?" Elena asked.
"Wait for it" Rebecca said.
Two second went by and they hurt Klaus groan.
Cassie walked back down the steps, tucking the stake she had in her hand back into it holder.
"Can't take care of myself my ass," she mumbled to herself.
"Lets go" Rebecca said.
"Are you really not going to invite us?" Elena asked.
The three of them stopped. Cassie pinched the bridge of her nose.
Rebecca and Stefan looked at each other.
"Of course you two get to go" Klaus said walking back down the steps. His shirt had a hole in the stomach from Cassie had staked him. "In fact you two are going to take Cassie's place, because she isn't going"
Cassie's head snapped up "excuse me" she growled.
Stefan and Rebecca blurred away as fast as they could, while Damon and Elena blurred upstairs to change then they both used the window exit.
No body wanted to be around for this fight.
AN: so there you go chapter 35!
Klaus and Cassie are starting to fall for each other, but will cassie lying to him break things before they even happen?
find out next chapter!
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