AN: Hello people! Please review, it helps keep me motivated to write, also sorry this is a short chapter but I hope you enjoy nonetheless.
Klaus woke up to an empty bed, the early riser in Antonia only apparently increased in her back at her home. After groggily getting up and leaving the cocoon of a bed that smelled like Antonia he found his mate and her best friend sitting at the kitchen table chatting away.
"I wish I could have seen the look on her face-"Antonia laughed as she listened to a story that Katherine was telling.
Sipping on her cup of tea Katherine spotted Klaus coming in, "Good morning"
Turning Antonia greeted Klaus with a kiss he leaned down placing on her lips, "Morning, sorry I sneaked out, I couldn't wait to catch up"
"No worries love"
"Coffee is in the pot" Katherine directed him pointing to the coffee maker om the counter.
"So, Klaus let me cut to the chase when do you seeing Antonia turning into a Hybrid?" Katherine inquired directly and off hand that the girl in question nearly choked on her own coffee. Setting her coffee cup down aggressively on the platter causing a clinking Antonia interjected, "I would like to restate that I only got used to being a werewolf, I think we could wait a while. Transitioning was already extremely painful…"
Klaus keeping a cool façade up against being taking back by the vampire. Leaning his hips back onto the counter top he addressed Katherine, "Sooner rather than later, werewolves can be easily killed, not as hard to kill as say a Hybrid"
"While I detest your guts I'm glad you and I are on the same page for Antonia" Katherine admitted giving Klaus a once over in from her dropped shoulders and sudden settling into her chair seemed relieved at Klaus' opinion on the matter. All morning Katherine had tried to convince Antonia to turn, believing no doubt on the same line of thinking that Klaus had about knowing that a new werewolf was Klaus' mate in the supernatural world he might have some enemies would find it easy to target her in an attempt to get access to Klaus. A hybrid would be putting Antonia into a safer as Klaus' mate. Antonia just didn't see the rush, having such strong true werewolf family Antonia had no objections to staying and being in touch with her just purely werewolf bloodline.
"I've told you both before my thoughts on this, I don't see any immanent threats that make me being a Hybrid such a dire need right now. I want to get a chance to experience what my parents and my entire village got to experience and live. Not forever but for now." Antonia let out for what for her felt like the 100th time.
Sliding into the bay window with Antonia Klaus tried to sooth the seemingly starting to get upset Antonia, "It's not that we don't hear what you're saying we validate what you are saying but I do believe what Katerina and I are saying is that is the point, you won't see a threat until it is upon you"
"You know what is upon us?" Katherine asked all knowingly breaking the silence that started to surround the trio after Klaus' ending of the conversation.
"The full moon" Klaus nodded in agreement as he gazed down at Antonia.
"I hadn't realized…" Antonia drew out a long breath, how had she not checked. It appeared that Antonia would experience what her parents and village truly experienced as a werewolf a lot sooner than she thought.
It was a lot later that night when Antonia was sitting in the middle of forest chained to a few trees by chains coming from her wrists and ankles. Antonia hadn't had to convince Katherine to leave and be back the next night when Antonia would be out of her wolf form and presenting herself as no longer a threat to her vampire best friend.
Klaus sat next to Antonia seated on a tree stub. He himself was starting to sweat from the humidity in the air as he tried to keep Antonia who was starting to wither in pain as her bone's aches started hinting at the first signs of transition.
The moon was getting higher and higher as the seconds past. The leaves rustled and seemed to be on blast into Antonia's ears as her senses heightened to wolf level senses.
"This hurts" Antonia sobbed between shaky breaths.
"I know baby I know, you're going to get through this. Just keep breathing and breath into it, this is natural" Klaus tried to coach the girl in front of him. The pain of his first transition was but a distant memory, too many other emotions clouded his memory of it but he remembered a thought clearly, that he was being torn apart from the inside out.
It felt like eternity before real progress in her transition started. Pure black hair started to sprout from Antonia's skin as her wolf nose started to form.
A whimper broke from Antonia's set of teeth as her back appeared to break back only for her to curl over seconds later looking up at Klaus in full wolf form. Her eyes were yellow furry as Antonia howled up to the full moon. Klaus knelt down about to reach out to caress his wolf's head when Antonia took a step forward.
It was then that they both looked down to see that due to her small stature that Antonia's slim paws slipped right out of the cuffs that were hours ago holding her human form steady.
A low growl was let out as Antonia took a few more cautious strides towards Klaus, "Antonia love, recognize me"
It wasn't uncommon for werewolves not to recognize their loved ones when first or second or even at all when they transitioned but Antonia's head dipped at his words and she backed up as if she didn't recognize him as her mate but as her Alpha. Much like last time she transitioned it was clear that Antonia did not have a true human conscious yet when she turned.
Just when Klaus was about to reach out again towards his mate in fascination of actually being so close to her as a wolf there was a twig snap a distance away that caught Antonia's attention and she was off like a bullet.
