House Of The Rising Sun - A Thousand Year Old Secrets - Season One, Episode Two.
I was rifling through Klaus' drawers trying to find out what happened to Elijah, because first of all there was no way he would leave me here with Klaus in my current situation, especially when he knows I need to speak to him, and also after he promised he wouldn't let anything hurt me along side Klaus' apologies and then just disappear? Please. I've been apart of this family for far too long to understand when something is going on, and I know that it would be Klaus that has caused the trouble.
I closed the drawer in a huff and sat back on my knees frustrated. I heard a car pull up from outside and grabbed the closest thing to me and headed slowly downstairs. I lifted my arms up wielding and old piece of metal just as the door came open, I tried to aim before I stopped mid way noticing the guest.
"Rebekah?"
The Original's eyes widened at my outburst.
"Alex? What the hell are you doing?"
My eyes trailed up to the broken piece of iron and threw it to the side of me.
"Sorry, I didn't know it was you." I apologised.
"What do you mean you didn't know it was me?-" Rebekah took a step back in confusion. "Wait. Why do you reek of dog?"
I huffed as I explained to her what happened to me. I told Rebekah about the baby, and about how not only did Sophie Devereaux link herself and I together but she also reverted myself back to being a werewolf and not a vampire.
"Well, this Sophie Devereaux seems like a right old cow."
I narrowed my eyes at the mention of the witch.
"Tell me about it. And not only that but Elijah has...Disappeared."
Rebekah furrowed her eyebrows at me.
"Where the hell is he? He isn't answering his phone and if you don't know then-"
I growled.
"Oh no, I don't know where Elijah is but I have a pretty good idea who's behind it."
Rebekah growled in return and turned to the open house.
"Klaus! Get out here and tell me what you've done with our brother, you backstabbing wanker!."
We both watched on as Klaus sauntered through the room.
"Enough with all the shouting. Little sister, I should've known. I assume the six dead vampires are your doing?" Klaus sighed looking down at his angry younger sister.
"They were very rude." Rebekah argued. "They were trying to victimise a poor, innocent girl just trying to find her way into the Quarter. So sorry, were they friends of yours? Oh that's right, you don't have any friends." Rebekah bit back.
"I do have friends." Klaus stated. "I have Marcel. You remember him don't you? Yes, of course you do. He fancies himself the "King Of The Quarter" now, and he has three rules of killing vampires. It'll be fun to see what kind of punishment he comes up with for you." Klaus smirked.
"I don't care about Marcel or his rules. Elijah doesn't welch on deals. What did you do to him?" Rebekah glared at her brother.
"Perhaps he's on holiday, or taking an autumn nap upstairs. Well, go on, take a look around. You both remember this house as well as I." Klaus chose this time to glance down at me and I crossed my arms still angry with him.
"We both remember everything." I sneered at him as Rebekah and I walked out of the room.
Since Rebekah had left to do some digging of her own, I had my own problem to deal with. It was all I had been thinking about and all this "King Of The Quarter" thing had just made the problem worse. I was there when Klaus had met Marcel, when he was only a boy, they had bonded very well, he was like the son Klaus never had. And now Klaus was actually going to have one of his own. I paced on the pavement thinking about it, running my hands through my hair.
Flashback
I pulled Elijah to the side being weary of the people around us. I was dressed in a off white coloured dress that came down to my feet, it had a light coloured rope belt that ensentuated my small waist and my long brown tresses were wild and flowing down my back. Elijah in turn was wearing a grey tunic along with brown trousers, with his hair up to his shoulders and curly.
"Elijah, please you have to help me."
Elijah's worried brown eyes set themselves on my teary ones. He took my hands in his.
"Alexandra? What is it? What's wrong?"
I sniffed and shook my head.
"First you have to promise me."
Elijah furrowed his eyebrows in confusion.
"What are you talking about?"
I rose my eyebrows in exasperation.
"Elijah! Please! Promise me, you won't tell your brother what I'm about to say."
Elijah put his hands on my shoulders.
"If that's what I must do. Tell me Alexandra."
I peered around me making sure nobody overheard our conversation.
"Elijah. Niklaus and I-" I stopped as somebody walked past. "Elijah. I am with child."
Elijah's dark eyes widened in shock.
"What?"
My vision became blurry and my voice began to break.
"Elijah. I am pregnant. With Nik's child."
I stopped pacing as my flashback ended. A few tears ran down my face as I remembered my memories. I ran over to the shop I had been trying to go into as I saw a woman come out as she closed the shop.
"Hey! Wait!"
The woman stopped what she was doing and turned to me.
"We're closed, sorry."
I sighed.
"Please. I just need a herb. Please." I pleaded.
"Which herb?" The mocha coloured girl questioned.
"Crushed aconite flower."
"Wolfsbane? That's a poison. You gonna kill a wolf?" The shop owners eyes stared into mine and I sighed.
"Just a little one." I replied.
"Give me a minute."
I nodded and watched as she went back into the shop to retrieve the wolfsbane. She handed it over to me and I pulled some money out my pocket.
"Cut it with jimson weed. A few drops in some hot tea, that should do it, and don't worry about the money. It's an ugly town for wolves, you're doing the right thing."
I nodded and turned to walk away.
Katie, the shop owner glanced down at her phone and dialed a number.
"You wanna gain some points? Tell Marcel there's a werewolf in the Quarter."
"God! Come on Alex, you've done it once before. You can do it again! One upset stomach and all this stupid drama is more ancient history." I whispered to myself and then looked up into the sky. "God, why does history repeat itself?"
I sighed and brought the cup filled with the poison closer to my lips, but just before it touched I brought it back down to my lap and sighed.
I jumped slightly as I heard a branch snap. I stood up slowly trying not to attract attention and just as I turned a vampire stood in front of me and I froze.
I was still attempting to get used to this new predicament of mine. Being pregnant and not being a hybrid is not a good combination.
"Dumb move coming into the Quarter. You're coming with me wolf."
I sneered at the vampire in front of me.
"I have had it with everybody telling me what to do." I growled at the vampire and threw the contents of my cup into his face and he roared in pain, bringing his hands up to his face.
I span around ready to run but more vampires were suddenly in front of me.
Just as one growled at me and made a lunge, Rebekah turned up behind them and snapped the neck of the one that was about to pounce and then turned to the others and ripped their hearts out. With blood all over her hands and a bit on her face, she chucked their hearts to the side and turned to face me.
"Now that is no way to treat a pregnant lady. I do hate bad manners." Rebekah smirked at me and I sighed in relief.
I stood with my arms across my chest as I listened to Klaus' frustrations as he threw the last body into the dead body bonfire going on in the middle of the driveway.
"This is why I told you never to leave the house. Werewolves are banned in the Quarter. I had a plan and your little nighttime stroll put it in peril!" Klaus set his venomous gaze onto me and I pursed my lips in annoyance and avoided his gaze.
"Leave him!"
Rebekah started to make her way over to one of the bodies that were still alive, but at Klaus' command she stopped.
"You've done enough don't you think? Leaving a trail of bodies like a road map at my door?" He sneered.
"If I hadn't overheard this lot bragging about werewolf heads, everyone here would be screwed. And don't give me that crap about having a plan. You've had all the time in the world to execute a plan, and no one's seen you do a damn thing! Elijah made a deal to protect your child, so that it could save you from your selfish, rotten self. But you obviously don't give a damn about the child or Elijah, because what have you done to honor it?" Rebekah yelled at her older brother.
All this arguing is exhausting. Don't get me wrong, I am furious with Klaus trying to tell me what to do and without my hybrid powers it was a lot easier for me to get into trouble, especially now that I'm not even a human, I reverted back to my original state as a werewolf, and werewolves, Marcel just so happened to have banned from practically everywhere.
"I have done everything. Let me spell it out for you, shall I? From the day I arrived, Marcel hasn't trusted me. From Day One, he's had his vampires ingest toxic vervain which, as you know, little sister, protects them from my mind control."
Klaus huffed angrily as he ran a hand over his stubble and made his way over to the dying vampire.
"And this one – I'm gonna drain him of vervain, compel him to believe his mates found religion and moved to Utah, so that he can explain to Marcel why he lost three more vampires tonight." Klaus growled as he dragged the vampire into the house by his leg and dropped him unceremoniously on the floor.
"Does anyone have any more questions? No? Good, because I have a question."
Klaus diverted his gleaming eyes onto me and I gulped.
"Alexandra, love, what were you doing in the bloody French Quarter in the first place?" He asked but I held my tongue holding his stare. Klaus growled at me.
"Answer me!" He commanded.
"Leave her be." Rebekah spoke up.
I bit my lip before I spoke.
"You really wanna know what I was doing? I was buying poison. I was buying poison so I could put the baby out of its misery." I snarled at Klaus. I saw a Klaus' eyes change before he shoved me against the wall viciously and I whimpered in pain. His hands wrapped themselves around my throat and I gasped in pain as I tried to pull him off me.
Rebekah's eyes widened.
"Nik! Nik! She's not a hybrid anymore!" Rebekah sped toward him and ripped him off me and stood protectively in front of me as I sucked in as much air as I could, I rubbed my sore throat in pain and watched on as Rebekah stood up for me. Again.
"Keep your hands off her! She is pregnant, for God's sake! All of this bluster about not wanting the child, and then the second she tells you she's ready to get rid of it? It's okay to care. It's okay to want something. That's all Elijah was trying to do, all he's ever wanted for you. All we've ever wanted."
I caught my breath before I spoke again.
"Klaus. Please."
His beautiful, tearful eyes gazed up at me and I felt my heart break.
"I'm sorry. I'm just. I'm so scared. It's hard enough finding out that I'm pregnant but I'm not a hybrid anymore. It's so hard not protecting myself anymore, I feel so close to being human again and it terrifies me."
His hard gaze softened and he reached up for me and I followed without question. He held me in his arms as I sobbed into his neck. He reached up and stroked my hair, massaging my scalp calming me down. He pulled me back to look at me.
"I know it's hard for you sweetheart but I will protect you with my life. You and our child."
Klaus pulled me back to him and hugged me tight to him and I reveled in his hold.
After a long silence, Klaus sighed and walked away from me.
"I gave Elijah to Marcel."
"You what!" I snapped.
"Marcel was nervous. It's bad enough having one Original returned to town but two? His crew was getting antsy. He wanted Elijah gone. So, I gave him a peace offering." Klaus replied.
Rebekah growled at Klaus.
"You bartered our brother."
"I have a plan. Gain Marcel's trust, dismantle his empire, honor Elijah's wish that that baby be born. I am executing that plan the only way I know how. If you don't like it, there's the door. See if I care."
At Klaus' last words he gave me one loving look and left Rebekah and I alone.
"I know your brother can be difficult Bekah, I just want to say thank you for sticking up for me and for saving my life." I turned to the blonde and she smiled at me.
"After all the centuries we've been through and the fact that your carrying his child, I think suffice to say we can call ourselves sisters now."
I laughed with her and hugged her tight.
"I mean it. Not being hybrid is gonna take some serious getting used to, so I'm glad I've got you to watch my back...Sister." I smiled at her again but it faltered.
"What is it?" She asked worriedly.
I sighed. "I know it's hard for you, what with Marcel in the middle of this and all but...If you know Marcel has Elijah can you not just get him yourself?"
"Because, if I betray my brother there's a coffin downstairs with my name on it." Rebekah replied, her vibrant blue eyes turning sadder.
"About that. I know this house well enough to find his secret stash of coffins and I just so happened to stumble upon these." I pulled out two daggers out from the cloth I wrapped them in and handed them to Rebekah.
"Do what you have to do. Leave Klaus to me."
I felt fingers move across my bare back as I woke up slowly.
"Klaus?" I moaned, my vision blurry from being asleep.
I turned to see his gorgeous ocean orbs gazing into my whisky ones.
"Why didn't you take it?" He whispered.
My eyebrows furrowed.
"What?" I sat up, pulling the sheet with me to cover up.
"You could've been free of all this...Of me." He replied pushing a piece of my hair behind my ear.
"Ok, first of all, you made me a hybrid so somehow I don't think you would even let me live without you in my life and secondly." I paused and thought about my answer. "When I was fighting off those vampires, I realised I wasn't just protecting myself, maybe it has to do with the fact that my parents weren't exactly role models but...All I know is when the moment really came to us dying, I didn't want to risk it. I am so scared of being a mother. I don't know the first thing of motherhood."
I notice Klaus smile slightly.
"It seems like you and I have a lot more in common than I thought sweetheart. It seems we have both learned how to fight when backed into a corner." He kissed my bare shoulder tenderly.
I scoffed. "Yeah, well, we're backed into a corner now."
Klaus kissed my cheek gingerly.
"It seems we are. It's time to fight...little wolf."
I glanced down as I thought about what I was going to say next and Klaus noticed my change in mood as he shifted.
"What is it love?"
My shoulders slumped as I took in our other problem.
"What exactly happened between you and Marcel? I left before everything...broke...Rebekah told me some things but...She didn't tell me everything."
Klaus exhaled.
"Mikeal happened. When Mikeal chased us out of New Orleans we thought he had killed Marcel. We mourned for him. Except when I came back, I found not the disruption I thought I was going to find, instead I found him...Alive….Alive and thriving. I want it all back. And if I have to push him out to get it, that's exactly what I will do."
Klaus rose from the bed and kissed my forehead and laid me back down gently as I gazed up at him tiredly.
"Get some rest."
I listened to his footsteps as he left the room and drifted on back to sleep.
Thank you all so much! I wasn't going to write that Alex was pregnant before but that's why she needed to speak with Elijah but now the question is will Klaus ever find out? I loved writing him furious and loving in this chapter, until next time!