Disclaimer: I don't own the vampire diaries I only own my OCs, Sasha and Ake.


Chapter 19: The Wolf's Visit

June 15, 2010

"So, Sash what's new?" Tate asked her as he served her a chocolate pie and then sat down across from her in her booth.

"Well...Klaus and I are getting along great we haven't had any big disagreements lately and I feel like he kind of trusts me now and that we're really good friends now!" Sasha enthused as she broke a piece of pie off with her fork and put it in her mouth.

"Friends...sure," Tate muttered to himself and then louder he asked, "And the hybrids?"

"Well we have a sizable army...many of the newly turned ones happily share the locations of packs they know when Klaus asks because of, you know the sire bond." Sasha explained as she chewed.

Tate nodded and was about to ask another question when Sasha said, "Oh, and did I ever tell you that Stefan is no longer imprisoned with Ake?"

"No!" Tate exclaimed, "When did that happen?!"

"Uh...about a few days ago," Sasha recalled, "Elena had been rather helpful as of late so Klaus told me to release Stefan as a reward. Plus he told me since Elena birthday is coming up he'd allow her to spend the day with just Stefan but that's a surprise."

"That's nice of him." Tate commented with a raised eyebrow.

"He can be really thoughtful and kind when he wants to be." Sasha responded with a smitten smile.

Tate sighed dramatically and Sasha looked at him oddly, "What?" She asked puzzled.

"You...are just so into this guy!" Tate stated, "Why don't you do something about it?"

"I've told you-" Sasha started annoyed.

"Yes, I know you like the older brother too blah, blah doppelchick strung them both along and you don't want to be her blah, blah." Tate recounted, "Honestly at this point you know Klaus better, pick him."

"It's not that simple!" Sasha argued, "You just-you just don't get it."

"Your right I don't." Tate retorted.

"I'm leaving." Sasha grouched and she moved to the restrooms where she'd teleport herself back to the Abattoir.

Tate jumped from his seat and said, "Ah wait, I'm sorry don't leave...I'll stop bugging you about it, I promise!"

Sasha squinted at him suspiciously and said, "Please, you may drop it now but you'll bring it up again later."

Tate smiled sheepishly, "Probably but I did want to ask you something after you were done filling me in on the goings of the supernatural."

"Oh and what's that?" Sasha asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Are you going to graduation?" Tate questioned.

Sasha eyes widened and she stared at him uncomprehendingly for a moment, "Graduation...it's time for the graduation ceremony already...?" She asked slowly but then she gasped, "Oh god did I even pass I haven't looked at my emails in forever I've been so busy helping Klaus with the hybrids!"

"Sash-" Tate started but she just teleported away in public without thinking in her panic.

Tate tensed and glanced around but no one seemed to have noticed but then he saw poor Gill was looking in his direction and she seemed to be unconsciously pouring coffee on the ground her jaw was hanging open in her astonishment.

"Oh shit." Tate muttered.


Sasha appeared in her room and she darted over to her desk where she had her laptop plugged in and she opened it and then then opened her emails. Sure enough there were some emails from her college.

One was her report card and she scanned it quickly and was relieved that she passed with A's and B's. Another was inviting her to attend the Graduation ceremony at the campus on June 18.

Sasha wondered why it was so late in the month, she could of sworn that college graduations happened in May and subconsciously she had thought she'd miss it. But things were relatively calm now and she could go...and it was a rather big milestone for herself.

She whipped out her phone and texted Tate. I'm going to graduation!

She frowned when after a few minutes he didn't respond, he always answered back quickly but she shrugged it off, the diner must have been busy.


"Klaus," Sasha started when she found him out in the bayou training with his hybrids, "Can I speak with you for a moment?"

Klaus knocked the hybrid Aiden off his feet and pinned him but released him when the boy said he surrendered. Klaus got off Aiden and looked at Sasha with an inquiring look, "Sure, love."

He lead her over to a cooler full of blood bags and grabbed one, "What do you want to tell me?" Klaus asked as he opened the blood bag and started drinking from it.

"I just found out my graduation is being held on Friday and I'm going to go. I might be gone for a day or two." Sasha revealed.

"You're graduating?" Klaus asked in surprise, "Congratulations, Sasha."

"Thanks," Sasha responded with a grin, "Would you believe I kind of forget about it completely?"

"I don't think I should answer that honestly, love." Klaus teased with a smirk.

"Ha, ha make fun of the person with memory issues because she died that one time, real classy." Sasha sassed while rolling her eyes.

Klaus shrugged shamelessly while smirking at her.

"Anyway, you think you'll managed without me?" She asked.

"Actually...do you mind if I came with you?" Klaus asked in return.

"Why would you want to do that?" Sasha questioned with furrowed eyebrows.

"The hybrids are driving me up the wall with their yes-man routine and rowdy antics, I need a break." Klaus admitted lowly.

"Oh, the army's not what you expected, hmm?" Sasha ribbed jokingly.

"Can I join you or not?" Klaus asked with a slight scowl.

"Fine, grumpy." Sasha agreed amused, "you'll can be my cheerer."

"Your what?" Klaus questioned baffled.

"My cheerer, you know when parents cheer for their kids when they walk on the stage to get their diploma. Since my parents aren't available you can do it." Sasha explained with a grin, "Plus you can finally meet Tate!"

"Sasha, love you're so ridiculous." Klaus stated in amusement as he shook his head at her.


June 17, 2010

"Mindy make sure that everyone behaves while I'm gone," Klaus orders his second-in-command, "We should be back in two days."

"Of course, Klaus." Mindy nods but she asks, "Are you sure that you don't want more hybrids to come with you guys? Didn't Sasha says this college is owned by vampire hunters?"

"I am sure." Klaus stated firmly, "I am the Original Hybrid after all. I don't need bodyguards."

"And that was Elijah's speculation, we don't know that for sure." Sasha inputs.

"Alright then," Mindy concedes and then says, "Have fun you guys!"

"Thanks Mindy." Sasha smiles and then she says, "Come on Jackson, time to go!"

Jackson leaves his fellow crescents to join the blondes and they head out to car so they could leave for Whitmore.


June 18, 2010

"Tate texted me that he'd meet us after the ceremony and we could celebrate at his diner." Sasha told Klaus and Jackson as they drove up the campus.

"I thought he was attending?" Klaus asked confused.

"Well he is but he won't get to see me until after but you'll probably meet him out in the family seating. I did show him a picture of what you look like." Sasha explained.

"How much did you tell him about me?" Klaus asked with a frown.

"Oh relax," Sasha assures him with a smile, "He doesn't know any of your deep dark secrets. Your compulsion is still in effect you know."

Klaus nods in understanding as he pulls up to the campus and parks in the grass.

"I suppose, we'll see you after then?" Klaus asks as he and Jackson move to leave her to go to waiting area for the family members.

"Yeah wish me luck!" Sasha smiles as she heads towards the theater hall.

"Good luck, love." Klaus responds as they go their separate ways.


Sasha smiled nervously as she walks through her old campus. The last time she was here was only three months ago when she teleported into her old dorm room and scared the hell out of her old roommate, Natasha and then teleported away without any explanation. She kind of hopes the other girl had just written it off as a weird dream and that she doesn't bring it up.

She adjusted her graduation cap on her head and smoothed out the wrinkled on her robe as she headed towards the theater hall where the ceremony was being held.

"Sasha, is that you?!" A familiar voice shouted.

Sasha whipped around and saw her old roommate, "Natasha, hey!" She responded nervously.

"What the hell happened to you?!" Natasha asked as she walked over to her with two of Sasha's other old friends following behind her.

"Didn't you read my note?" Sasha asked quietly.

"Oh yeah some nonsense about a family emergency but you, honey, you don't have any family!" Natasha responded unimpressed.

"Whoa, Nat that's not cool too say." A brunet man chastised which made Natasha frown at him.

"Thanks Ethan." Sasha smiled at him, "How have you been?"

"Good, good I'm dating Chelsea now." Ethan says with a grin.

Sasha's eyebrows raise and she laughs, "My ex-boyfriend and my ex-girlfriend are dating each other?" She asks and then smiles and genuinely says, "Good for you two."

"I heard from Tate that you ran off with some rich guy!" Natasha butts in.

"Tate said that?" Sasha asks slightly hurt at the thought.

"No," Ethan corrects sharply, "He said that you got offered a job opportunity of a lifetime that you couldn't turn down and that's why you switched to online classes."

"Oh," Sasha says relieved, "Yeah I guess you could say that."

"Why did you leave a note about a family emergency then?" Natasha asked nosily.

"Natasha stop giving her the third degree!" A Hispanic girl chastised finally speaking for the first time.

"But Vanessa!" Natasha protests, "She lied to us!"

"I don't have to tell you anything." Sasha justified defensively, "My business is my own."

"But we're your friends!" Natasha argued with a scowl, "God you're still as secretive as ever!"

"Can you two not argue ever five seconds, we do have a graduation to get to." Vanessa pointed out.

"Fine." Sasha and Natasha both grumbled.


Klaus looked around at the theater hall slightly impressed with how extravagant and large it was, not what he'd expect from a small university like Whitmore.

"This is really fancy." Jackson notes unintentionally echoing Klaus's thoughts.

"Yes...the blood money associated with being a vampire hunter I suppose." Klaus responded dryly.

"Do you really thinks that vampire hunters owned a college?" Jackson asked skeptically, "That sounds weird doesn't it?"

"Everybody needs a hobby." Klaus shrugged disinterestedly.

"Hey, can you explain the whole invitation thing to me?" Jackson asked then, "Sasha said that your brother couldn't enter the dorms but we can enter the theater hall just fine?"

"Invitation is only needed when a building is owned by someone. If it isn't owned by anyone then you don't need an invitation." Klaus explained simply.

"So someone owned the dorm building but no one owns the theater hall?" Jackson asked for clarification.

"The theater hall is public domain and no one lives here. So no invitation is needed. A neutral zone if you will." Klaus elaborated.

Jackson nodded in understanding, "That makes sense I guess."

"Klaus!" Someone shouted interrupting their conversation, "Hey, over here!"

Klaus looked over in the direction of whoever was yelling his name and he saw a man who looked to be a few inches shorter than Klaus himself with messy black hair, slightly tanned skin, and hazel eyes. The man was walking over to him with a slightly wobbly smile on his face and he asked, "Uh, you are Klaus aren't you?"

"Yes I am, you're...Tate I assume?" Klaus asked with a raised eyebrow.

Tate nodded with a wide grin that faded quickly as he nervously fiddled with his hands and then he looked at Jackson, "Are you uh...like Klaus?"

"If you mean a hybrid then yes." Jackson answered bluntly.

"Can I see your hybrid faces?" Tate rush out looking excited and curious.

Jackson just stared at him in slight disbelief while Klaus looked at him in amusement at his eagerness and quipped, "Maybe later."

"Cool, cool, cool," Tate responded falsely nonchalant, "Hey so I already found some good seats if both of you want to seat with me?"

Klaus eyed him a moment before he shrugged, "Sure, mate."

"Cool." Tate repeated with a small grin.

Klaus and Jackson followed after him after trading looks at the man's jittery behavior.


"Sasha it's been too long!" A familiar redhead exclaimed as she threw her arms around Sasha and pulled her into an embrace when she and her old friends entered the theater hall.

"Yeah I know," Sasha stated as she laughed sheepishly and returned the embrace, "It's good to see you, Chelsea."

"We all missed you these months, you know." Chelsea scolds as ends the hug, "You should have kept in contact."

"It's only been three months." Sasha griped.

"Yeah I know but I always worry about you when you do things like this." Chelsea sighed.

"Chelsea, I'm fine I promise." Sasha assured her.

Chelsea frowned slightly and said, "If you say so."

"Look, we all can get caught up at Tate's, right?" Sasha remarked lightly.

"Yeah, we will." Chelsea agreed immediately.

"Come on, girls," Ethan urged, "Let's go to our assigned rows."

Chelsea and Sasha quietly walked together as the both had surnames that started with the letter O and it just so happened that they were seated right next to each other.

"Hey, guess what?" Chelsea says with a teasing grin after sitting down.

"What?" Sasha asked curiously.

"Tate baked a chocolate fudge cake." Chelsea revealed.

"Really!?" Sasha gasped excitedly, "Man, Tate's the best!"


After sitting down and waiting for the ceremony to start Klaus decided to take out his phone and he texted Sasha.

Your friend is an odd one.

She responded quickly. He's fun!

Klaus scoffed quietly at that but before he could respond she texted something else.

And don't judge you're a little weird yourself

Klaus raised an eyebrow at her comment. Oh whatever do you mean by that, love?

One word: stabbing.

How was that- ?

You stab people a lot.

He frowned at her message puzzled and slightly peeved. So? They all deserve it.

Sure, bud.

He could sense her condescension and sass in that response and he scowled. Don't call me bud that's just atrocious.

Fine I'll stick to Grumpy

Klaus scowl deepened. Klaus or Nik would be preferred, love.

Nikki?~

Klaus eyed widened in outrage at her pure audacity to even suggest that. NO!

Hey can you ask Tate if he really baked a chocolate cake?

He decides he's going to ignore further texts and actually pays attention to the ceremony. It was pretty routine with a student's name being called across the stage and receive the diploma. It was honestly very boring waiting for Sasha's turn so he looked down at his phone again and found two other texts from her.

Klaus?

I promise I'll never call you Nikki again.

Klaus turned to Tate and asked, "Did you bake a cake for the after party?"

Tate looked surprised at his question and said, "Uh yeah I did."

He said he did.

YAY!

Klaus smiled in amusement at her excitement over the dessert but he side-eyed Tate who suddenly looked at his own phone and paled but forced a smile on his face when he saw Klaus looking at him. Tate was so suspicious. Are your other friends like him?

Well no one person is the same, Klaus.

Klaus once again frowned at her tongue and cheek response. That's not an answer.

Totally is but whatever the only ones you'll meet will be Ethan, Chelsea, Vanessa, and Natasha.

Klaus didn't remember her talking about any of them. You never mentioned any of them.

I've mentioned Natasha before!

Yes she did, he recalls then. And yet she's listed last.

Well she's bitchy.

Klaus laughed slightly in amusement at that justification. Who are the other three?

You'll find out when you meet them.

Klaus rolls his eyes at her non-answer. Have they walked across the stage already?

Yeah except for Chelsea whose surname starts with an O like me.

It's taking forever for it to be my turn!

After living for so long time an hour was rather meaningless to him. Your concept of time always amuses me.

Yes I know an hour is nothing to you, shut up immortal jackass.

Klaus hates when she echoes his thoughts after he thinks them, it's so disturbing but that nickname was new. Immortal jackass? That's a new one.

She sends him the tongue out emoji which makes Klaus rolls his eyes at her immaturity and makes sure she knows it too by sending that exact emoji as a response.

You're rolling your eyes at me?!

Klaus smirks. Yes.

Tsk, how rude of you.

Klaus is reminded of his brother's scoldings so he decides to make a joke. Elijah is rolling in his coffin as we speak.

Do you miss him?

Klaus doesn't answer her immediately as he is surprised she decided to ask him that but when he does he reflects it back at her. I know you do.

What?

He surprised she didn't think he'd know. The hybrids I have guarding the coffins told me that you visit sometimes. You feel guilty for daggering him don't you?

Yes, he was my friend and I literally stabbed him in the heart.

Klaus doesn't regret getting his brother out of the way, he doesn't. I compelled you to.

I remember.

Klaus decides to tell her what he knows will be true because he knows his brother. He won't be mad at you, he'll be mad at me.

But he'll forgive you, he always does.

He remembers all the times Elijah has forgiven him over the years and he sighs. I know, he's a fool.

Nah he just loves his baby brother.

Klaus groans in distaste at that comment. Must you phrase it that way?

Yes.

Klaus couldn't help but think that this text exchange had really spiraled from just being a way to pass the time. This isn't a conversation that should be had over text.

I know funny how these things happen though.

Klaus hears them announce for the row O to head over the stage. I believe it's time for your row to walk across the stage.

So it is.


Sasha puts her phone away and let out a breath as her row was told to go up and line up by the stage stairs. She looked over Chelsea and as always the other girl wasn't nervous at all and looked excited.

Chelsea noticed that Sasha was looking at her and she smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, just shake the college presidents hand, take the diploma, and then you're done and we can go to Tate's and have some chocolate fudge cake!"

"Yeah…cake," Sasha sighed dreamily but shaking her head and slyly saying, "but I also can't wait to hear the story of how you and Ethan got together."

"Well I'm curious about the mysterious Klaus that you've been texting since rows A through M walked across the stage." Chelsea retorted.

"He's just my friend." Sasha justifies.

Chelsea doesn't get a chance to respond before her name is called and Sasha cheers and claps for her alongside the rest of the crowd as Chelsea walks up the stairs and then across stage to get her fake diploma as the real one would be mailed to them.

Sasha smiles in amusement when she hears Ethan screaming, "Proud of you babe!"

She didn't realize how much she missed her old friends. She couldn't wait to catch up with them at Tate's diner.


Sasha was next and when her name was called she went up the stairs and made her way across the stage to the college president.

"Way to go Sasha!" Ethan yells.

"Yes, Sash!" Tate yells, "You rock!"

"Proud of you Sasha!" Chelsea shouts with a beaming smile.

"Congrats!" Vanessa yells.

"Cheers, love!" Klaus shouts, "You're brilliant!"

Sasha smiles brightly as all her friends cheer for her and she shakes the college president's hand and says, "Thank you!"

She keeps moving after accepting her diploma and exits the stage and immediately she wants to leave for Tate's for cake but the ceremony technically wasn't over yet.

She looks over to where Klaus, Jackson, and Tate are sitting see that they are leaving so she decides screw it, and starts leaving too.

"Sasha, where are you going?" Chelsea hisses at her.

"To have cake!" Sasha responds.

"The ceremony not is not over yet." Chelsea scolds.

"I walked across the stage that's all I wanted to do," Sasha responds with a shrug, "Come on Chels, ditch with me for old times' sake!"

"Old times sake would include have sex in the library." Chelsea states dryly, "And I think Ethan would take issue with that."

"He can come too." Sasha answers slyly but ruins the effect by laughing at her own innuendo.

Chelsea shakes her head at her but smiles at Sasha fondly, "Fine I'll join you but sorry to say that sex is off the table."

"Bummer," Sasha laments falsely before saying, "But seriously get Ethan, Vanessa, and even Natasha. We all walked across the stage so we're all good to ditch and have cake."

"Okay, okay," Chelsea agrees and goes to get them all.


Sasha enters Tate's diner to see Klaus giving one of the employees a very dark look and she wonders what the poor girl said to insight his rage. Jackson and Tate seemed to be trying to calm the situation which didn't seem to be working at all.

"Klaus, what going on?" She whispers after motioning for her old friends to find a table and hoping they don't notice the bad vibe that Klaus is giving off and rushes over to the fuming hybrid.

"Gill here saw you teleport away a few days ago," Klaus started explaining darkly, "And I found an interesting dark object in her possession."

"What?" Sasha asked caught off guard by this information, "A dark object?!"

"Yes, she is a hunter and she was going to attack you with a dark object designed to seal away celestial energy." Klaus growled.

"What?!" Sasha gasped utterly stunned, "That's...that's possible!?"

"Yes, I admit I looked into such things after being so unnerved by my encounter with the Guardian back in the 17th century. I found that some witches had created such things but they were very rare as not many witches would dare try and challenge a Guardian. I had never managed to find one before until now that is." Klaus explained grimly.

"Wait I remember now," Sasha stated numbly, "You researched and studied this particular dark object for a long time but nothing ever came of it and eventually you gave up."

"How Gill attained one I was just in the middle of finding out." Klaus says dangerously.

"But how did she even know it was celestial energy from just one time of seeing it?" Sasha asks.

"Well Gill, answer the question." Klaus compelled as he threateningly loomed over her.

Gill glared at him but was forced to answer, "I'm a rare kind of hunter...I hunt vessels."

"Excuse me?" Sasha sputtered.

"Did you really think you're the only active vessel in the world?" Gill asks disparagingly, "Please, the Guardian are arrogant, manipulative, selfish creatures and they treat us humans like toys they like to play with from time to time but they get bored with us they'll delete our universe when their done with this version of us."

"You think we're just a game to them?" Sasha asked as strange sensation overtook her body.

"I don't think I know we are." Gill stated firmly but before she continue speaking suddenly she froze and so did everything else.

Sasha blinked as she looked at her still surroundings and suddenly her brain starting burning terribly and she tightly shut her eyes as she tried to fight the pain but when she opened her eyes again she was standing beside Klaus and Jackson with Tate appearing to be putting on his apron getting ready to head to the back to get the goods he made.

Gill was nowhere in sight.


"Where's Gill?" She asked slowly in a confused tone.

"Who?" Klaus asked from beside her with a raised eyebrow.

"The uuuuhhhhh..." Sasha slurred as she struggled to explain but it was like something was preventing her from properly speaking, "The hunnnnn...t...Taaate's...emmpllloooyeeeee?"

"No one named Gill works here." Tate stated confused not seeming to notice her struggle to speak and sounding like he was miles away but he was only standing a few feet from her.

Sasha head was throbbing and her ears were ringing and she couldn't get a handle on her thoughts and it felt like something was just slipping away until she blinked and pain stopped and she smiled sheepishly and said, "I'm sorry I think I zoned out what were we talking about?"

"I was telling you I was going to bring out the food and that you guys should go join the others at the booth they picked." Tate explained patiently and it was like her brief struggle with speech never happened.

"Ah okay well come on guys come meet my old friends!" Sasha urged as she gestured for Klaus and Jackson to follow her.


"So Klaus, what do you do?" Natasha asked him with an prying look on her face after introductions were over and the cake had been served with a booze that Tate kept in the back.

"Oh I dabble in many things like art, history, hunting, traveling," Klaus answered with growing smirk, "but recently I've taken up... dog training."

Sasha almost chokes on her cake that she just started eating from shock that he actually just said that. She shakes her head in disbelief with laugh at the mental image it brings forth. Tate was laughing alongside her and Jackson looked torn between offense and amusement.

Everyone else just looked confused, "Is there a joke, we're missing?" Vanessa asked with a raised eyebrow.

Klaus shrugged nonchalantly and with a completely straight face he said, "I have no idea, Sasha has a really odd sense of humor."

"I do not!" Sasha protested after regaining her bearings.

"You kind of do," Chelsea laughed, "God I remember this one time she just-"

"Oh no!" Sasha interrupts loudly, "Don't give him dirt on me!"

"Please do." Klaus insists with a wicked smirk.

Sasha groaned lightly as Chelsea launched into a particularly embarrassing story but at least they were getting along even if it was at her expense.


As Chelsea was back in the back with Tate helping him bring out more drinks and Jackson was talking with Ethan, Vanessa, and Natasha over at the chocolate fountain, Sasha had the chance to have a private talk with Klaus.

"By the way, thanks for being my cheer." Sasha said cheekily as she gazed at Klaus with a smile on her face and squeezed his hand in her own to express that thanks.

"Of course, love," Klaus responded back with a smile of his own and squeezed her hand back.

"Also I'm sorry for having an emotionally charge conversation over text," Sasha apologized, "It really was a conversation we should have had face-to-face."

Klaus waves her off with his free hand and says, "It's fine, love."

"Still." Sasha murmurs.

"Can I ask you a question, Sasha?" Klaus asks suddenly.

"Yeah, sure." Sasha agrees, curious.

"Do you miss your old life?" Klaus asks then.

"Of course," Sasha responds honestly, "Don't you miss your normal human life?"

"You know the answer to that." Klaus stated.

"Then you also know that going back to that life is basically impossible. The moment I got teleported out of my dorm room and was greeted by Elijah's corpse. My life changed drastically and what I considered fantasy became my new reality."

"His corpse?" Klaus questioned bemused.

"He was stabbed throw the heart with a coat rack by Damon...for you know, trying to kidnap Elena." Sasha explained.

Klaus just shook his head at that and changed the subject as he noted, "You seem particularly close to Chelsea."

"We've been friends since middle school." Sasha shared sheepishly, "We uh...also dated a few years ago."

Klaus's eyebrows rose in surprise, "Really?" He asked.

"Yeah, funny enough she's dating Ethan now who I used to date." Sasha snorted.

"Hmm, you don't mind that your ex's are dating each other?" Klaus questioned skeptically.

"No, they're my friends and I want them to happy and if that means being with each other then I'm all for it. Also they're pretty cute together from what I've seen." Sasha stated with a smile.

"You are kinder then I." Klaus noted with an amused smirk.

"Eh, you're not that bad." Sasha teased.

"What esteemed praise I've been given." Klaus stated sarcastically.

"Oh, forgive me Lord Niklaus," Sasha gushed dramatically, "Praise be!"

"That's better." Klaus retorted with an amused smile as he looks at her with a softened gaze.

Ethan makes his way back over to the booth and said, "I think both Natasha and Vanessa are trying to hit Jackson up. So I got the hell out of there. What are you guys talking about?"

"Oh, nothing interesting." Sasha shrugged but she subtly winked at Klaus.

Klaus smirked back at her.


"What are you two giggling about?" Sasha asked suspiciously.

Tate and Chelsea who had gone to the back together to grab more drinks had been taking a while so Sasha went to go check on them and found them whispering to each other with wide goofy grins on their faces.

"Oh, nothing." Tate brushed off.

"Really?" Sasha questioned with a raised eyebrow, "So I didn't hear you say Klaus's name just now?"

"You know, he's really charming." Chelsea smirked.

"Chelsea, you're taken." Sasha admonished playfully.

"That's not what I meant and you know it." Chelsea stated and wiggled her eyebrows suggestively.

"Oh, god," Sasha groaned, "Tate are you dragging her into your-"

"My Klausha shipping." Tate interrupted with a grin.

"You gave us a ship name." Sasha deadpanned, "Klausha, really?"

"Well I considered Sashaus, Niklasha-" Tate started but Sasha cut him off.

"Stop, stop, Tate he could hear you!" Sasha hissed and looked over her shoulder at Klaus who was regaling Ethan with his traveling throughout Europe. He didn't seem to be paying attention to their conversation but Sasha wasn't taking any chances.

"I have some for Elijah too. Elijasha, Elisha, Sashijah-" Tate continued with a smirk but was once again cut off.

"You're a terrible friend." Sasha growled with a glare.

"No a terrible friend would tell you that I've come with some for the other siblings too." Tate retorted with a wicked gleam in his eyes.

"Tate, I haven't even met them yet!" Sasha exclaimed.

"That's enough Tate, let her be." Chelsea chastised but then stated cheekily, "Anyways Klausha is my OTP."

"Fuck you both." Sasha states without steam.

"But seriously, Sasha we just want you to be happy." Chelsea says softly.

"I am happy." Sasha insisted.

"Happier then." Tate inputted.

Sasha sighed exasperated, "Look, me and Klaus. It's not gonna happen."

"We saw you holding his hand earlier." Chelsea accused.

"So? Friends hold hands." Sasha grumbled.

"Sasha, it's not healthy to lie to yourself." Chelsea admonished.

"I'm not lying to myself I've fallen in love with him, there I said it." She exclaimed impulsively.

"And...?" Tate urged.

"And," Sasha huffed, "I'm in love with Elijah too which is the problem, guys."

"Because...?" Chelsea urged.

"Because I'm selfish and I want them both and they'd never agree to that which is why I chose to be with neither, okay?!" Sasha growled.

"You could ask." Tate pointed out.

"Tatia, Katherine." Sasha retorted.

"You're not them, you're Sasha." Tate answered back, "Maybe they'd agree for you?"

"Yeah right, those possessive idiots would totally agree to sharing." Sasha scoffed unconvinced, "Anyways Elijah's daggered right now."

"He'll be undaggered eventually as will the other siblings." Tate responded.

"Daggered?" Chelsea questioned, "Is that an euphemism for something?"

Tate and Sasha both paled forgetting that Chelsea didn't know about the supernatural.

"Uh, yeah for uh...traveling." Sasha lied badly.

Chelsea looked skeptical but let it go and said, "You should really talk about Vanessa about how to get in a polyamorous relationship since she is in one with four other people."

"I'll think about." Sasha sighed.

"That's the best we'll get out of her." Tate remarks to Chelsea.

"We should probably bring out the drinks now." Chelsea comments and moves to do just that.


"You've really been around all over," Ethan observed after Klaus was done describing his travels there, "that's really cool. Have you gone traveling ever since you were a child?"

"In a way," Klaus said as he reminisced about his younger vampire years, "My siblings and I always enjoyed seeing new places."

"Hmm, would you ever talk Sasha to any of these countries?" Ethan asked lightly.

"If she wanted to, I wouldn't mind at all." Klaus answered honestly, "But both of us are very busy at the moment with the...dogs."

"What exactly is Sasha's job?" Natasha asked with a raised eyebrow as she and the others return from the chocolate fountain. She sits down next to Klaus with Jackson and Vanessa choosing to sit beside Ethan.

Klaus paused as he thought of how to describe her "job" and he smirked, "She's my older brother psychologist," Klaus stated with hidden humor, "I need help with my dogs and I asked her to help with their behavioral therapy and she agreed."

"Is she qualified for that?" Natasha asked doubtfully.

"I think so, she did just graduate with a psychology degree." Klaus stated dryly.

"Yeah focused on humans not animals." Natasha retorted as she glared at him slightly.

"She's doing a good job so far regardless." Klaus responded smoothly completely unaffected by Natasha.

"How did your brother find her anyway, she was still in school and wouldn't he rather have a professional?" Vanessa asked confused.

"My brother has odd preferences," Klaus said as an excuse, "And I believe he found her through one of her essays that a professor of hers posted online."

"Can we hear more about your travels in Poland?" Ethan asked then.

So Klaus launched into another story.


Sasha, Tate, and Chelsea arrived to find Klaus telling another story but the sharp ring of Klaus's cellphone interrupts him in the middle of speaking.

Klaus hits ignore not wanting to be interrupted but moments later it starts ringing again so he sighs irritably and says, "Excuse me, evidently someone really wants to talk to me."

"Go ahead." They all excused him.

Klaus walks away from the booth and heads outside and answers his phone, "What is it, I'm in the middle of something?" He asks annoyed.

"Klaus, someone woke up one of your siblings." Marcel stated without beating around the bush.

"WHAT!?" Klaus roars which makes Sasha look over at him with concern through the window from the booth.

"What's got him so upset?" Chelsea wonders aloud.

"Nothing good," Sasha sighs to herself, "Better go check on him."