AN: Haha sorry I knew everyone would freak about the contain part but I thought it would be a funny little OMG moment. As always please read and review, i love hearing what y'all think!
"Condition?" Klaus and Antonia turned to Abby saying in unison. What was she referring to?
Abby's face fell as she realized her mistake.
"Perhaps condition is the wrong word... with her being an immortal human it's complicated because she is your mate Klaus, yet because she's died before and isn't dead, l suppose a typical supernatural creature, the signal that I get comes in and out" Abby backtracked as she started reached for the empty apple pie dishes stacking them to the side on the table. Immediately Klaus and Antonia were relieved, they didn't want or think they could handle another wrench thrown into the works right now.
"But I am Klaus' mate, right?" Antonia asked anxiously, Klaus just held tight to her hand.
"In short yes, but with you being a werewolf you'll need to trigger the curse before you'll be able to fully complete the mate bond" the witch started to flip through the pages, swiveling the book she pointed out a passage to them. "This clearly states that in order to complete any mate bond the mates must be in the same form, meaning you must be a werewolf to complete the mate bond with Klaus since he's a werewolf otherwise it would cause immense pain to you" Abby told Antonia who was looking over the Latin on the page.
The words meant nothing to her she had lost that ability a long time ago but Antonia still wanted to look it over. It would make it feel a little more real. She did however recognize the werewolf and mates but that was it.
"If Antonia was to trigger her curse, we would be fine and able to complete the mate bond?" Klaus spoke up asking Abby.
"Yes, but I'm sensing some black magic in her so I'd like do some more research before you two do anything" she cryptically answered getting up.
Antonia and Klaus stood too, "What do you mean black magic?" The Hybrid asked, this was the second witch to say that Antonia had black magic within her, it was starting to become a theme one that no one had yet explained.
Antonia rolled her eyes, why did witches always have to be so cryptic.
"The witch that created the spell to make her immortal used black magic, it has loop holes and essentially booby traps, I need to do more research I think I know what's going on but I want to be sure before I say anything" She moved to walk them to the door. The house suddenly seemed really small as they made their way to the front porch within seconds.
Klaus stepped out first, "You have two days, Bennett" he turned walking to the car.
Abby stopped Antonia extending her arm blocking her exit, "Do you feel alright?"
"Yes?" Her voice wavered, Antonia knew that the black magic was slowly trying to kill her, forcing her hand to turn but wasn't sure that's what Abby was asking.
"Is it taking you longer to come back when you're killed?"
Antonia pursed her lips, she knew if Abby figured it out she was bound to tell Klaus who would no doubt force her to trigger her curse. She wasn't ready to at least not right now.
"You are, aren't you? Headaches? Trouble sleeping? Needing to be around him otherwise feeling sick? Nose bleeds?" Abby rattled off in a whisper that almost blended in with the winds whooshing by.
"No not at all, thank you for your help Abby" Antonia said as she pushed past the witch's arm jogging to the car where Klaus was waiting.
"What did she want?" He asked, evidently, he hadn't been listening in and Antonia mentally praised the Gods for that.
"I was just thanking her for not being a bitch of a witch" Antonia said jokingly as she buckled up. Klaus hummed as the wheels screeched as they pulled off the curb.
When the pair arrived back at Klaus' house they went inside hand in hand. The house was silent but Antonia's mind was screaming. She could tell that Abby saw right through her lying and even if she hadn't, it was only a matter of time until she did find out and told Klaus. Antonia wasn't sure she was ready to turn. Change was difficult for her.
She knew that she had to have been made with black magic, she knew from what one really old witch Katherine took her to that finding her mate untriggered would cause her human body to die forcing her to turn into a true werewolf but that was all she knew. Katherine had been so upset by that news that she snapped the witch's neck. Antonia had been angry, but that was something the two girls worked through decades ago. And at the time Antonia wasn't even interested in finding Klaus so the news didn't matter that much anyhow. However they hadn't been able to find a witch that knew anything else after that one.
Antonia had started feeling symptoms of what that witch had told them back when Klaus had taken her with Stefan on that werewolf scavenger hunt. She figured they would get worse the more time she spent with Klaus but they were small symptoms, sneaky.
Tireless nights weren't anything new but now it was becoming a nightly routine of lying awake until dawn, barely catching a few hours. Headaches originally, she thought they were brought upon being dehydrated, but no ungodly amount of water would help. The black magic was probably making the symptoms sneaky. Silent but deadly. The thing that scared Antonia the most was not knowing how much longer she had until she had to turn in order to not die, for real this time.
By the time Klaus and Antonia had gotten upstairs it was dark out and the two flopped onto the bed nearly falling asleep as their heads hit the pillow. The two barely talked about what they learned at Abby's nor what they speculated was entwined in black magic in Antonia.
And when Antonia woke up in the morning, there were no arms holding her tight, nothing. She was met with a cold spot next to her.
Assuming Klaus had business to attend to Antonia got up, and straightened up the bed itself making it look presentable. She was just fluffing a pillow when the maid entered.
"My apologizes Miss, I did not mean to disturb you but I wanted to give you this" The maid extended a hand with a cream envelope to the still groggy looking Antonia.
"Uh thank you!" Opening it she quickly read that note as the maid left.
Dear Antonia-
I have business to attend you and should be back in time for dinner. Please explore the mansion at your leisure but if you leave it you are to take a Hybrid with you.
Fondly,
Klaus
Antonia threw the note away seeing no need to save it, on her way to the bathroom to shower up and get on with her day. She hoped that the business he had to take care of was working on getting his family back.
It was easy for her to see that he was hiding his emotions, he was distraught and stressed to say the least. He was good at camouflaging his emotions but the mate bond told Antonia the truth. If Klaus wanted to go deal with business she could at least try to help him get his family back too. He said she'd be his sidekick and yet he went out without her, she was irked but she tried to brush it off.
Either way Antonia sent a text to Katherine asking about where one would hide "valuable things that needed to be hidden from someone very powerful/hide something that would be considered an abomination to nature". In Katherine style she gave information to her best friend not asking due to not caring what the information was for.
To Antonia: the one place I can think of is where witches were murdered, the higher the number the better, they'll be sure to protect whatever from being let out, stay safe Toni
Knowing no one else, she dialed Tyler's number as she slipped into ripped jeans and burgundy off the shoulder sweater with wine red little botties.
"Yo what's up"
"Tyler Hey its Antonia! Are you busy right now?" Scrunching her shoulder up to keep the phone in place as she talked to Tyler.
"I was about to head to English but I can skip, why what's up?" His interest was peaked.
"Can you show me sites where witches may have been burned and murdered?" Antonia asked hopefully.
"Why are you asking?"
"Do you know or not?"
"Are you sure you don't wanna just go shopping?"
"Tyler" Antonia groaned.
"Um does Klaus know about this? Are you sure you don't wanna, I don't know just grab a pumpkin latte or something?" Tyler stuttered out not knowing what his sire would think of what Antonia wanted but he also knew his sire wouldn't want him telling Antonia no.
"Please, Tyler, I know you know what's going on, I'm trying to help come on please?" She half begged as she emerged from the bedroom in search of breakfast.
Silence.
"Antonia, I don't think so, Klaus has this handled" He tried to reason.
"Either you go with me or I find out where the sites are in town and I go alone"
Silence lapped between them for a moment.
"You don't leave my sight not for one second"
"Perfect! Be here in 10"
The clock was nearing 10:00 am by the time Antonia had a plate of apples and toast with Nutella in front of her when her phone went off.
To Antonia: If you're not out here in 5 I will be leaving and I'm taking you to any massacre sites
Rolling her eyes, she snagged two slices of apple walking towards the door.
She slid into the passenger side to see Tyler looking irritated and anxious.
"So where are we going?"
"Antonia are you sure you want to do this? Klaus may get mad" His hand on the keys.
"I'm helping him, he won't be bad"
"Fine but if he finds out you have to tell him this was all your idea" And with that they pulled out as Tyler drove them to a cemetery where he said was where local lore said witches had been killed, some local historic event he had barely paid attention to in history.
The leaves crackled and crushed beneath their feet as they made their way to the site. They were met with a little wooded area just behind the cemetery in town.
"Wow look nothing here, guess we've got to go back, damn" Tyler loudly observed as they saw nothing around that looked like it could hide coffins.
Antonia groaned, her breath visualized before her as she kicked the leave covered forest floor, "You said you knew two, what's the other one?"
Tyler just jutted his chin back giving her a hesitant look at Antonia.
"Take me or I'll tell Klaus you were checking me out at his father's wake" Her face turned stone cold as her skin paled from the cold giving her an eerie look. The wind wrapped her loose waves to her face as she looked at Tyler.
"Fine, but that's the last one I know so after we go straight back to Klaus'" Tyler said marching off back to the car.
The two stood outside of a worn down, broken down house in the middle of the woods, you could tell it was spectacular back in its day. The structure must have been at least a hundred years old and just as long untouched. All the windows were broken, Antonia was surprised to see the door even closed.
The front porch creaked beneath their feet as Antonia turned the handle and pushed the door open. Surprisingly silent the door swung open to reveal a more broken down inside.
Antonia almost gasped but stayed quiet as Tyler grabbed her arm and motioned with his free one to be quiet.
"I hear something, someone" Tyler mouthed. Antonia nodded understanding, letting Tyler inch towards the door to what appeared to be the basement. Left open just a crack Antonia could just barely make out the voices of a girl and Stefan, no doubt Tyler could hear everything they were saying with his supernatural hearing.
It was three long minutes of waiting until Tyler flashed them back to the car.
"Woah! What no warning? Geez" Antonia gasped out hunching over hands on her knees trying to catch her breath once she pushed away from Tyler.
"You wanted me to break our cover by giving you a warning that I was going to flash us out of there?" Tyler sarcastically asked as he beeped the car unlocked getting in himself. It was a hot minute until Antonia got in the car after catching her breath. Safely locked inside the car Antonia asked what Tyler had heard.
Tyler's nose however was buried in his phone texting away.
"Hold on, I'm texting Klaus"
"You're telling him before you tell me?! I was with you, it was my idea I deserve to know before you tell him!" Antonia asked snatching away the phone from Tyler's hands.
Huffing Tyler swiveled to explain, "Alright so Bonnie was down there in the basement with Stefan and they were talking about how to hide the coffins. He was saying the four coffins are in the but they're hidden by the witches so no one can see them. They're in that old decerped house Antonia, they're in there!"
"Oh my God we found them!" Antonia yelped out in excitement clapping her hands. "wait" she yelled retracting the phone she was just about to hand back to Tyler.
"What?"
"Rebekah, that's five. So, Stefan didn't take Rebekah otherwise he would have said five, not four"
"Someone else has Rebekah" Tyler filled in understanding what Antonia was saying.
"Exactly"
"We need to call him"
Without thinking Antonia dialed Klaus' number on Tyler's phone.
"Tyler" Klaus greeted, construction going on in the background.
"Klaus, Damon or Elena has to have Rebekah. Stefan doesn't have Rebekah"
"Antonia? What are you doing using Tyler's phone? Where are you?"
"We found the coffins, but Stefan doesn't have Rebekah"
"Where are they?"
Antonia filled Klaus in as they drove to the mansion meeting him there as quickly as they could.
Once parked Antonia nearly flew out of Tyler's car running to Klaus who stood in the front door way.
"Klaus!"
"Antonia, are you alright?" Klaus asked meeting her half way enclosing her into his arms.
"Of course, I am, what's important is that we have a lead on Rebekah" Antonia interjected.
Tyler had come to stand a little behind Antonia, Klaus saw him glaring at him over Antonia's shoulder. Antonia turned wanting to see what he was glaring at,
"Klaus Tyler was helping don't me angry with him"
"He let you go out into those woods, who knows what could have happened"
"It's not like I can die, and besides you said I could go anywhere with a hybrid"
Seemingly dropping it Klaus spoke, "Let's go pay the other Salvatore a visit, shall we?"
"Don't you want to hear our plan first?"
Klaus didn't reply but his glare finally left Tyler's uneasy one. He looked at Antonia and nodded for her to continue.
"Damon and or Elena must have Rebekah because Stefan doesn't and Rebekah wouldn't have run away not like this so, make a deal with Elena, we think she's a better option than Damon more to lose, tell her you'll stop trying to kill her brother, Jerry- "
"Jeremy" Tyler corrected
"Jeremy, if she tells you where Rebekah is. But just Jeremy not her entire family, we can't let on that we know where Stefan is keeping the rest of yours since we don't know how to get them out if they're invisible" Antonia explained feeling very confident in her plan.
"I'll call the doppelganger up right now"
