AN: I'm sorry Ive been MIA for so long, I had a lot of personal stuff going on but I'm back on my game so thank you for understanding! I hope y'all enjoy, please review your comments and reviews mean a lot to me.

Antonia scowled at the two men as they took their exit, and she soon felt a soft breeze and Rebekah once again appeared by her side.

"Good to have you back Rebekah" she commented as she herself slid off the stool.

"Oh, don't be cross. I was listening from the back. If anything happened I would have come out within a second" Rebekah informed the human as she placed down a wad of cash on the bar paying for their meals.

"I figured as much"

"Then why do you look like that?" The original tilted her head examining Antonia.

"It's nothing, just a headache" Her forehead and brows came together forming little wrinkles giving away her pain and annoyance.

"Oh, I see. Well I'm done here, lets go home" Rebekah said as she sauntered out of the Grill with Antonia trailing behind.

Once the two women had arrived back at the mansion Klaus could be heard yelling at his Hybrids inside. Antonia grimace with pain as the yelling made her head pound as they made their way to the door.

The house was a buzz with Hybrids bustling about.

There were hybrids everywhere, running around with all sorts of things from bundles of herbs to blankets and blood bags. But the thing that caught both of the women's eyes was the man tied to a chain in the middle of the living room off to the side.

"Klaus?" Antonia croaked feeling very over whelmed, it was a big change from the mansion she had left only hours before.

Within a blink of an eye Klaus was before Antonia, "Hi love, how are you feeling?" his hands coming to rub her temples as if he could just sense her tension headache that plagued her.

"What is all this?" Rebekah asked as she slowly walked over to the man in the chair intrigued. Klaus didn't answer his sister as he was too preoccupied holding his mate in his arms who had buried her face in his chest seeking refuge from the loud sounds.

"How long till everything is ready?" Antonia bumbled against Klaus' chest.

"Abby is on her way now, she should be here within the hour" her murmured into her ear, his deep voice sending shivers down her spine.

"Oh"

"What is going on?" Rebekah interrupted as she turned away from the unconscious man who appeared to be human.

"How about you go shower, relax and I'll come get you when Abby is here, how does that sound?" Klaus suggested after throwing his sister a look.

Pulling back Antonia said okay quickly kissed Klaus and up the stairs she went. She could hear Klaus starting to explain everything to his sister as she went to Klaus' room to shower and hopefully calm her nerves.

It wasn't more than five minutes before she heard a banging on the door, "YOU BETTER BE READY TO EXPLAIN YOURSELF WHEN YOU GET OUT!" Rebekah screamed through the bathroom door.

Antonia was so startled she dropped the shampoo bottle at the voice of Rebekah. The liquid spewed everywhere making the floor slick casing her to slip onto her butt. "I'll be out in five!" She sputtered out as she palmed about for the bottle with shampoo running down into her eyes.

Mentally Antonia was freaking out, she wasn't expecting Rebekah to be so upset and vocal about it. She quickly finished up, wrapped a towel around herself and her mind around how she was going to trigger her curse within hours and left the bathroom.

Steam followed Antonia as she exited the bathroom to face a very annoyed Rebekah.

"YOU'RE DYING AND YOU JUST CAUSALLY PLAYED OFF A HEADACHE EARLIER?" Rebekah's face was red and blotchy as if she had been crying as she yelled at Antonia who was very much taken back.

Antonia didn't even get the chance to say anything before Rebekah continued, "I thought we were close enough that you would tell me oh I don't know that you were dying!"

"Rebekah-"

"You were going to leave me in the dark?"

"I'm sorry" Antonia said and, in that moment, Rebekah saw how tired, drained and dare she say deathly Antonia looked. The pure white bath towel wrapped around her body consumed her tiny frame making her skin appear nearly transparent.

Rebekah quickly moved to stand, realizing that as much as she was horrified and scared to hear the news of her friend's impending death her friend must be just as much if not even more scared, "Well better get to getting dressed, I can hear Abby down stairs and you look like you could die at any moment"

That was Rebekah emotional to stone cold within the same breath. The original left Antonia dumb founded at the sudden change in attitude and her mouth was left a gap as the door shut behind the blond.

The girl took a few moments to collect her thought, quickly sent a text to Katherine, "It's happening" and went about getting ready. In almost a trance Antonia slipped into a simple matching jogger set threw her hair up and followed down the stairs to where everyone was waiting.

All of the hybrids must have left as it was weirdly quiet as Antonia made the finals steps down the staircase. Abby gave Antonia a smile that she returned as she went to hold Klaus' hand.

"Are you ready love?" Klaus asked the nervous girl next to him. His eyes searched hers, clearly, he was as nervous as she was. She was shaking life a leaf, both from her being tired and her body being drained but mostly from nerves.

"I am, I'm ready" He kissed her hair before softly telling her that she would do great. They both knew that transitioning was going to extremely painful and there was no use assuring her otherwise.

The group silently made their way into the dining room. Candles lit up the room, as herbs burned in the center of a circle or salt in the middle of the room. Symbols in white paint were all over the floor. The drapes were closed and the room felt heavy with anticipation. Antonia let go of Klaus' hand as she took Abby's letting her draw her into the circle, careful not to step on the salt.

Klaus and Rebekah stood on the outside of the circle looking on, the air was thick with anticipation yet still filled with hope.

The women in the circle kneeled facing each other, "What's going to happen is that I will cast a spell pushing the black magic causing you to deteriorate to leave your body but only for a few moments, perhaps a minute at most and in that time, you must trigger your curse. I can't cast the black magic out for long so you must be swift do you understand?" Abby informed Antonia cryptically.

Antonia looked over her shoulder back at Klaus, "Who am I killing?"

"Tyler, bring him in" Klaus called out and soon Tyler emerged dragging a man in cuffs. It was the same man who had been unconscious in the chair earlier but this time very awake.

"Let me go! You people are insane! Let go of me!" The man exclaimed as he tried in vain to struggle free from Tyler's grip. Clearly the man had no idea how sealed his fate was.

"What is his crime?" She questioned looking at the man struggle, his face was unkind and no doubt had seen some terrible things.

"Child molester and bank robber, just got released yesterday from prison for good behavior" Klaus disclosed as Tyler pushed the man down to his knees just inside the circle.

"How am I supposed to kill him?"

"This" Abby held out a gold dagger out to Antonia, taking it the knife felt heavy but comfortable in her hand. There were intricate roses carved into the gold, it was stunning and Antonia mentally noted to see if she could keep it after everything was all said and done.

"It's a beautiful dagger" Rebekah commented peering at it in Antonia's hands.

"It is isn't it?" Antonia replied before eyeing the man kneeing adjacent asking him, "Don't you think it's pretty?"

"You're insane, freaks, all of you! Devil worshippers!" The man looked utterly terrified as he spewed insults but Antonia wasn't fazed, she just smiled at him sweetly before turning back to Abby.

"I'm ready, let's do this" With each passing moment Antonia was feeling more tired and her headache was becoming more intense. She looked to Klaus who had moved to stand behind Abby so he could watch Antonia. When she looked into his eye all she saw was love and safety and she knew this was what she wanted, all of her suffering and loneliness was finally going to be worth it. She was finally going to be with her mate, fully, completely and without reservations.

And with that Abby started to chant. With each word the flames of the candles grew and the sand burned a ring into floor the smell of burning wood soon filled the room.

Antonia figured she'd feel a difference when Abby cast the black magic out but the way she felt was as if she was floating on air. Her vision became hazy and her body felt tingly all over.

In a haze she looked to Klaus who was saying something but she couldn't hear him. Why couldn't she hear him? It was as if she was underwater. She could see his mouth moving but there was no discernable sound coming over, the only sound that reached her ears was the sound of her own labored breath.

Opting to just do what Abby had said earlier and not focus on trying to figure out why she couldn't hear she scooped up the dagger and slowly stood.

The rest must have caught on that she couldn't hear after Antonia shook her head and pointed to her ear with her free hand as they tried to speak to her again.

Abby tapped her wrist where a watch would have been if she wore one, indicating Antonia needed to hurry and she moved to walk to the criminal. The man was sweating, beads of sweat dripped down his face, the flames flickered in his eyes as she approached.

Tyler who had been holding the man in place within the circle stepped back from the man and outside of the circle of salt. All eyes were on her as she made her way into the man's personal space. Her head tilted inspecting him as she walked around him, coming to his front again she crouched down so they were face to face.

When the man yelled something at Antonia she noted that she was able to hear him better than the others before. Unfortunately, for the criminal she was able to clearly as she could, hear the word bitch.

"I was going to make this quick just to be nice but since you called be a bitch I'll make this a little more painful" She informed the man, her voice sounding distorted and very muffled but she knew what she was saying.

The man wore a terrified look on his face as Antonia dragged the blade aimlessly along his cheek drawing a lot of blood. She cut him more on the other side of his face before getting up going around back dragging the dagger into his neck as she went.

The man must have been screaming as she went gauging by the other's faces. Antonia knelt down behind the man and made eye contact with Klaus holding it with a devilish smile, she was about to mouth I love you to him when Abby popped into her line of sight. Abby tapped on her wrist once again, it was then that Antonia noticed how the candles weren't burning as bright as they once were. She was running out of time so without a second thought she drew the dagger deeply across the man's throat killing him.

The man gargled on his own blood a few moments before collapsing forward dead and with the life force leaving the man Antonia's hearing came back in full force, "I did it!" she exclaimed.

Blood coated Antonia's hand as she stood up only to fall herself seconds later. The dagger clattered across the floor as she cried out in pain. Her palms flat on the floor Antonia's back arched unnaturally so crying out in pain again.

Falling onto her side curling into herself in agony as her mate came rushing over. "You're going to be alright love, I promise, just breath into the pain" Klaus encouraged his hand coming to rest on her back. Tears poured down Antonia's cheeks as she tried to take Klaus' advice breathing into the pain but this was like nothing she could have imagined it was as if every bone in her body was splintering into a million pieces and migrating through her muscles.

Antonia's shoulder popped while she arched back giving creepy snaps of bones that echoed through the entire house. Her hand came into her line of sight, but it was no longer a hand but rather a pure black paw.

A cry of pain came out as a howl as Antonia's vision blurred turning muted colors but not before she could see Tyler dragging the dead criminal's body out of the living room a crimson trail following.

Antonia wasn't sure how much time had passed when she opened her eye but she knew she was cold. Freezing to be exact.

The sun was bright and birds were chirping outside as Antonia tried to roll over covering her face with the sheets. It was then that she realized she wasn't in bed rather she was on the forest floor and it wasn't a sheet she had tried to pull over her but a big old pile of leaves which were now promptly tangled in her hair.

Antonia cracked her eyes open just ever so slightly. The forest surrounding her was peaceful, the trees were so tall she could barely see the tops, dew glistened on the moss and flowers throughout.

She shot straight up. She was naked and in the middle of a forest.

Then it all came back, she turned, she turned into a werewolf last night. Slowly her mind put all the pieces back together.

Shivered from a crisp fall breeze but also the painful memories of turning the previous night Antonia became acutely aware of how naked she was. After seeing her paw in the front of her the first time it was mostly a blur of withering in pain until suddenly Antonia burst through a window and out into the night. She remembered Klaus' face when he saw her morphed into her werewolf form, his eyes shown gold looking on in awe. It was a memory Antonia wished to play on repeat forever.

She remembered the indescribable feeling of freedom, being at peace with her body and with the world. For once in her life she felt as if she belonged as she sped to the woods the grass swooshing past.

For once being in the woods surrounded by nature didn't bother her, didn't make her want to shower or go inside rather she felt comfortable, it was as if the black magic had been holding her back from connecting to nature and her natural werewolf side. The separation she had so hated herself for creating wasn't her fault she knew that now, she felt it. Overwhelmed with such revelations brought tears to her eyes as she moved to stand.

She had to figure out how to get back. Just as Antonia was about to start walking she heard a twig snap.

She spun around and there was Klaus.

"There you are my little wolf"

"Klaus!"

He swooshed to her within a blink of an eye wrapping a gray wool blanket around her.

Klaus kissed her cheek, "are you alright?"

"I'm so much better than alright, I've never felt so free so liberated" Antonia exclaimed smiling ear from ear.

"Then why were you crying love?" Klaus said holding her right against him with one hand and wiped away the remaining tears with the other.

"Because I'm free, I never realized how oppressed the black magic was making me, keeping me from my true form and hiding my connection to nature I just it's a lot to take in and process" Antonia said starting to cry again towards the end.

"Darling when I saw you morph into your werewolf form you came alive in a way I haven't seen you before I'm so happy for you and for what this means for us"

Antonia reached up hands on either side of Klaus face and kissed him. "I can't believe everything is falling into place" she said when they pulled apart.

"Can you two finish up your cute speeches to each other back at the house? It's buggy out here" Rebekah cut in from farther back swatting at the bugs around her.

Antonia quickly leaned to the side to see a very impatience blond leaning against a tree.

The blond smiled at her, stopping the swatting for a moment to say, "I'm glad you're okay Antonia"

"Thank you, Rebekah" She pulled back to look at Klaus, "Take me home"