Just as Antonia took her hand back the door opened. "You know you're a real ass for making me going a town over to get blood you know. Mystic Falls as a perfectly good blood bank" Katherine blabbed with her hands full with a brown paper bag, her back was to the Alaric and Antonia as she closed the door.
Turning around she promptly dropped the paper bag causing one of the blood bag to burst open upon impact with the floor. Blood spewed everywhere as Antonia and Katherine eyes met. " 'Rin, you're all right" the shorter girl said.
"Antonia, how did you find me?" Her tone was anything but pleased, it was boarding on scolding.
"Your phone tracker, it's time to come home" A smile spread across Antonia's face as she took a step towards the doppelganger. Her hands went out to welcome her into a hug.
"You need to leave, now Antonia" Katherine's harsh words were matched by panic and anger in her eyes. Her arm came up pointing to the door she had walked through moments before. Alaric could see the hurt that came across Antonia's face as she dropped her outreached arms and for a split second her felt bad for her but he only allowed his amusement to show.
"What is going on, why haven't you called me back?" Antonia tried to hold back her tears. Her voiced raised a little and Katherine rolled her eyes planting her hands on her hips.
"I told you to stay home, how did you get here?"
"You also told me to come get you after 72 hours with no response" She spared a wary glance at Alaric out of the corner of her eye, he was leaning against the island bar. He wondered if they were using told as a code word for compelled. Intrigued Alaric decided to intervene.
"Katherine, darling can we talk privately?" Alaric said leaving no room for discussion, effectively breaking the girls from their stare down. Antonia composed herself standing up straighter her gaze on the floor. Katherine moved to stand right next to Antonia looking her straight in the eyes, "Clean it up" and with that she followed Alaric into the bedroom.
Once the door was closed Alaric had Katherine by her throat against it. "Katherine you didn't tell me you had a little plaything? What didn't care to share?"
"Klaus" she choked out her hands coming up to try to pull Alaric/Klaus' hand from crushing her windpipe. "I swear I will get rid of her, she means nothing to me."
"Tell me Katherine do you have a sister?" Alaric/Klaus said bringing his face to inhale her scent making Katherine shiver.
"No, she's just a human I picked up along the way, personal blood bag and all" She lied, Katherine and Antonia had been running together since the early 1900s and was anything but a blood bag. Originally Katherine had found Antonia singing in a bar to make money, and after hearing her backstory Katherine had compelled her to be loyal to her, wanting to keep her as a potential bargaining tool for her life if Klaus ever caught up to me but this was not how it was supposed to go down. Katherine was starting to panic as she now feared she would exposed with no way of getting out of this mess.
"I don't believe you, tell me the truth or I will compel it out of you." Klaus threatened as he threw Katherine onto the bed. Landing with a thud and a groan on the bed Katherine quickly sat up, "Klaus…" She started but she was interrupted, just then they heard a heavy thud and some scrapping. Alaric/Klaus threw the bedroom door open only to find Antonia on her hands and knees with paper towels trying to wipe up the blood from the floor. As the blood had made it way under the couch Antonia was holding one of the couch's feet up as she wiped underneath letting it down with a little thud. "Oops" she mumbled unaware of her being watched. Alaric/Klaus watched Antonia for a moment, how could someone look innocent while cleaning up blood. Antonia had taken her leather jacket off in order to keep it clean leaving her in her cami. Standing up to throw away the blood-soaked paper towels she turned and was met with Alaric/Klaus right behind her. They were nearly touching chests; Antonia's eyes grew big in shock. Reaching forward to take her chin in his hand he compelled her, "Tell me who you are and what you are doing with Katherine"
"My name is Antonia, she took me in when I met her in a bar in 1932. She has been taking care of me ever since." Her monotone was almost irry as she held Alaric/Klaus' gaze. Being the man, he was his gaze dropped to her chest, taking note that she was in fact not wearing a bra. Snapping back up Alaric/Klaus tilted his head, realizing she had said 1932. His eyes zeroed in on her pulse point, her heart was still beating. So, she wasn't a vampire, perhaps she was a witch? Keeping his hold on Antonia's chin he glanced over his shoulder to the nervously pacing Katherine, "Sweetheart you sure do have a lot of explaining to do"
