CHAPTER TWO
NEW ORLEANS MIKAELSON COMPOUND
The phone rings, once, twice, three times. Klaus answers. "Speak."
"Nik, I need you."
Sick of his sister's constant schemes and machinations which ultimately end up undermining his own plans. Klaus "Try enlisting Elijah or Marcellus into whatever scheme you're planning to undertake. I am done Rebekah!!"
"No, it's not, I'm not scheming"
"GOODNIGHT SISTER!!!" Klaus hangs up and grinds his teeth in frustration.
Rebekeah casually strolls into the compound courtyard, Elijah following a few steps behind. "Why are you shouting at me NIk? I can hear perfectly fine."
Confusion spreads across the hybrids face. "You - you were just on the phone with me a second ago."
"Like hell! I've been with Elijah spending the evening at Rousseau's."
Adamant he was right Klaus continued, "No,you called and said you NEEDED me!"
Rebekah scoffs harshly, "I need you? I NEED you like a dagger in my heart!! Elijah kindly tell our bastard brother where we were this evening."
Elijah straightens the shirt cuffs on his jacket as he begins. "Our sister speaks the truth Niklaus. We went to Rousseau's, spent the evening drinking and keeping an eye on Camille. As lately the Nightcrawler crowd has been rather more rambunctious since the Crescents have returned to the quarter. Our mere presence put a dampener on any potential clashes escalating."
The ever suspicious hybrid asks. "Rebekah's lying and you're covering for her...WHY?"
In a perfectly reasonably tone Elijah replies,"I have no reason to lie to you Niklaus.. Whats triggered this particular bout of paranoia?"
Just at that moment Rebekah decides to chime in with a few questions of her own. "Pray tell Nik, what was it that I said exactly?
"Nik, I need you."
"And what else did my disembodied doppelganger voice say?"
"That you weren't scheming."
Rebekah grins having put all the pieces together and guessed the true identity of the caller and Elijah turns to her with a confused expression. With a sly look in her eyes Rebekah says, "I'm beginning to like this other me. Are you sure it was my number?"
"Of Course I'm bloody sure. No one else calls me Nik. Only family." Smugly she says, "Check your phone."
Klaus looks down at his phone certain he's about to prove he is right, when the call log shows a very different name to the one he was expecting. Caroline had called and asked for his help. His Caroline ! She'd called him Nik. Something they only did at night, when completely alone. When he calls her.
All of a sudden a thousand different scenarios were running through the Hybrids minds. Caroline had said she needed him and he'd harshly dismissed her. Oh what she must think of him . "Was she hurt? "Had her own personal supply of his healing blood run out?" Most importantly how had he not recognized her voice. His sister and Caroline sounded nothing alike. "Dammed my temper" he thought.
One thing was clear, he had to call her back immediately. Apologize profusely. Do whatever it took to get back into Caroline's good graces. He had to find a way to salvage the evening. "Elijah, Rebekah, forgive me. I - I have to make an urgent call. Excuse me." nodding to his siblings Klaus whooshes away to his soundproof room.
Elijah looking completely puzzled asks, "Dare I even ask what that was about?"
Grinning like a cheshire cat the youngest Mikaelson sibling says, "That Elijah, brother mine, is Nik's "Ive-hurt-Caroline-and-need-to-fix-it-immediately-or-she'll-NEVER-
forgive-me-face."
"His what? Who's Caroline?"
"Caroline Forbes." Her mother is the sheriff of Mystic Falls.
Uncertain where his sister is going with this new information he waits for her to explain further. So rebekah decides to connect the dot for her unusually obtuse big brother. "Nik's in love with her. Has been for years. Really Elijah still nothing?"
Finally he makes the connection as to where he has heard the name before. "Do you mean Elena's friend?"
"Elijah, for an astute vampire, at times you are utterly clueless...out of that whole conversation all you got out of it was the bloody Petrova Doppelganger!!! Oh and while we're at it, your darling Katerina was the one who killed and turned the love of NIk's life. And when that bitch was finally dying and Nik and I took off to Mystic Falls last year determined for him to have his revenge, he gave it up because Caroline asked him to. That is how much she means to him. He chose love over revenge."
"Our NIklaus?"
"Yes, you mornonically single minded doppelganger obsessed idot!" Rebekah throws up her arms, storms upstairs muttering to herself…"And you're supposed to be the good brother, Honestly so pathetic!!"
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