Klaus Pov
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I drunk down the bottle of bourbon and threw it in the trash can and resumed my pacing. Hayley and Luna were due to show up at the compound at any moment. They would be the only ones. Hayley and Luna's pack had decided to stay down at the Bayou. Elijah had suggested it was safer. I didn't argue more bourbon for me.
My own pack was also going back to Georgia. Things were getting too dangerous. I promised to contact them back as soon as the baby was born.
Damon came into the room, and I smiled on the inside. It felt nice to have another brother, especially with one I can get along with so well and relate to.
The original plan was for me to go pick them up but Hayley had other plans. While on the phone I briefly heard them arguing. I had been surprised because usually, Luna didn't argue. Though ever since the Tyler incident she had become quitedefensiveof me. I hated to be the source and subject of their fights I couldn't help but feel somewhattouchedat her sudden protectiveness over me.
"Damon I got your call, is everything all right?" asked Elijah a glass of bourbon in his hand also.
"Just Stefan asking me to come home and share Elena with him." Kol laughed and said "kinky." He was sitting next to Davina on the couch, Davina slapped him on the back of the head. "Oww, what was that for."
Davina glared at him and folded her arms.
Marcel smiled, "I am sorry but I have to agree with Kol, D it does sound a little bit kinky."
Rebekah rolled her eyes but she had a small smirk on her face. I knew that she must be dying to see Hayley and Luna almost as much as I was.
Almost.
Cami walked into the room with my brother Finn following closely behind. Cami went to sit by Rebekah and Marcel. I noticed that Cami had bruises on her arms and neck. Finn was now sitting by Kol and Davina who looked uncomfortable.
I looked at Damon who was sizing up Finn. I looked at Elijah, this should be interesting.
The door to the compound opened and Hayley ran inside. She was sweaty and out of breath. She was clutching her stomach. I went to her immediately and offered her some of my blood but she pushed my wrist away.
"Hayley, it's okay love, just breathe little wolf," I said trying to calm the mother of my child down.
Elijah came then and so did everyone else. "Where is Luna?" asked Davina.
Hayley looked around at everyone and then paused at Damon. "Your sadistic, ass-hole of a brother, just took her. Stefan then knocked me out and he said he was going to give her to the witches. So they can kill her."
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Luna Pov
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"You are a dead man."
The man stopped and slammed my head up against one of the family's tombs. I winced feeling a cut open. Suddenly I wished that I would have just kept quiet and let him keep dragging me on. But then if I had then that would mean that I was done fighting.
And I wasn't done, far from it.
The blood dripped down into my eyes, obscuring my vision.
"Oh yeah, and why is that?" Stefan growled into my ear pushing my face into the concrete even further. How could someone with a name meaning honor be so un-honorable?
He let go of the back of my head and I stepped back away from the tomb. I wiped off the blood off my face as I gave him a pained smile. He released my hands.
His mistake, my opportunity.
"I have made a lot of friends, and one of those friends happens to be Klaus Mikealson."
'You know the really good looking, diabolical, ruthless, original hybrid' I said in my head. Continuing to speak to hide my nervousness...
"He and I happen to be close. I will be happy to tell him all the pain and discomfort that you have caused me."
Stefan shook his head, "Damon would never let Klaus hurt me." I smiled wider. "He would. We also have a special bond. To him, I'm considered, off-limits"
Stefan snarled at me and then looked at my neck. Dark spidery veins started to appear under his eyes before anything went any further. I punched him in the throat. He was hunched down momentarily, I took that chance to mutter a spell that Sabine and Agnes had constantly used on me. To buy me some time to run.
I didn't like having to use the arsenal of what they used on me. I had my own spells but that particular one happened to pop in my head.
Seconds later, Stefan was leaning up against one of the tombs and started throwing up blood.
I started to run, focused on nothing else when someone grabbed my arm. Stopping me in my tracks.
"Oh my dear, you must be Luna. It is a shame that a pretty thing like you must perish. I will make sure that your power is great," muttered the tall dark man in a white suit with dark skin.
The man stepped in front of me and muttered some words while holding a snake. I almost gaged that snake smelled horrible and looked so disgusting.
He looked up in confusion and muttered, "I don't understand."
Using that as an opportunity I lifted my hand and a metal fence post flew threw the air and buried itself in his chest cavity. The man grunted and looked passed me. He said a spell in Latin, and the next thing I knew, rocks were flying at me. I blocked most of them, but one got me in the mouth, which was now bleeding.
I was seeing red. The blood from my head wound clouded my vision.
The man was lying on the ground, trying to pull the piece of fence post out of his chest. I looked behind me and grabbed one of the rocks he had aimed at me with his spell. I picked a large one up and started hitting him in the head until I was covered in his blood. My eyesight was blurred, but his face looked unrecognizable for it to even, be a person.
I returned to running my feet were hitting the ground so hard that it hurt. I didn't care though, I just had to get out. This place was like a maze. Every turn seemed more confusing than the last.
My heart was beating so wildly that I thought it was going to beat out of my chest.
I saw a dead body, but I jumped over it. Not, wanting to stop for anything or anyone. I made it out of the cemetery finally. I was so relieved I could cry, but that didn't stop me from running. People gave me weird looks, but I paid no attention. One look back, one wrong turn could cost me my life.
Everything that had been given to me, taken away in an instance. No way was I going out like that.
My main priority was to get to the compound and Klaus. Had he picked me up in the first place, this would have never happened, but nooo, Hayley didn't want him to come pick us up. If I survived, this she and I were going to have a long talk.
I was so close to the compound I could practically see it. Someone grabbed me from behind, and I screamed, thinking it was Stefan.
I turned around to find it was Marcel. I ran into him and put my head in his chest.
I was finally safe.
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Marcel Pov
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I had been so relieved when I found her. As soon as we made it into the compound, ignoring everyone else's hugs she went straight to Klaus.
I looked around to see everyone smiling. Luna could be really cute sometimes. She then hugged everyone else but then went back to Klaus. Almost like it was her default setting.
"So what you're saying is that Papa Tunde is alive?" asked Elijah wanting confirmation.
Luna shook her head, "Not anymore."
"I mean are you sure-" Hayley began but Luna shook her head and and closed her eyes.
"I'm sure Hayley. He won't be hurting anyone anytime soon."
There was finality in her voice. Looking at the blood on her clothes it wasn't hard to tell who's it was. Luna didn't seem to be too affected by it. The way she thought about it was as simple as survival. Even though it had been only months since she was free from the witches she would be ready and willing to fight for what and who she had.
She reminded me of her mother in that way.
Klaus fussed over her offering his blood. Luna accepted Klaus' wrist and Elijah's handkerchief. Everyone seemed satisfied that the little wounds she had were going to soon be healed.
As the room feel back into a steady silence Klaus spent it trying to pull apart the strands of her curly hair that had stuck together because of the dried blood.
Damon's sigh broke it. I wasn't surprised, he never could close his mouth. "Is it too much to ask that the dead stay dead."
Everyone in the room laughed, including some of my vampires who were normally tense. Things were getting better. Maybe a year from now everyone would be buddy buddy, though it was unlikely.
"Well, we do live in New Orleans, brother," Klaus walked over to Damon and put his glass against his.
"Oh, great, I have another brother, can I just have another sister instead," remarked Kol. Everyone laughed, it felt good to do so. Papa Tunde had been a threat, a dangerous one. And now thanks to Luna that threat was no longer viable.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Hayley and Luna look briefly at each other before looking away.
Something was going on between them, a rough patch, I just didn't know what or why.
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Luna Pov
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"You dodged a bullet today."
Hayley. Of course, why would I have a moment of peace. I had heard of judgemeant being everywhere but from my sister, the witches, the city. I just wasn't sure how much I could take.
Klaus and I had a thing.
Or rather a connection that I had with no one else. I wasn't about to just stop seeing him because she wanted me to.
For the first time inmylife, I had the power to do what I wanted. And I wanted Klaus. If need be I was going to fight like hell to spend even a few moments of him. Just a few moments of his time would be more than enough.
I looked up from the book I was reading, (Pride and Prejudice) one of my favorites. I stood marking my page before closing it.
"I wouldn't have needed to if you just would have let Klaus pick us up."
"What's up with you? Ever since you've been at the Bayou, you've been distant."
I hated disagreeing with her, it just moved us further apart, but I couldn't keep saying nothing at all much longer. I needed to stand up for myself, even if it was to my big sister.
"I don't like your attitude towards Klaus," I confessed, folding my arms across my chest.
"My attitude?"
"Yeah, Hayley, your attitude. You get all huffy and try to push me away from him as much as you possibly can."
"Look, I just don't want you to spend too much time with him. He knows how to get into people's heads. He can be very persuasive."
"Why are you being so prejudice towards him?"
"Luna, don't start this, not again..."
"I don't understand why you hate him so much."
"It's not that I hate him. I just worry about you being around him."
"Why? Give me reasons other than you wanting to spend time with me."
"He gets angry."
"Not with me."
"He drinks."
"So do Elijah and Rebekah shall I go on. Everyone in the compound drinks, that's the best you could come up with?"
"He has enemies."
"So do I."
"He's not good."
I glared gritting my teeth. Here we go.
"Why isn't he any good?"
"He's killed before-"
"OH SERIOUSLY?! Like Elijah hasn't? Hold up, wait, I forgot he's the one who gets all the passes because you have feelings for him."
"Luna, let me tell you something-"
"No! Hayley, let me tell you something! Klaus is a good, a damn good man for pulling me out of the hell I was in, for pulling you out too. He didn't have to do that. He could have just said fuck it, and left. The point is, Hayley, he didn't. He could have walked away but he didn't. What other proof do you need to know that he is a good man that is sadly and often misunderstood by those around him. I truly wish you weren't so blinded by your own ignorance. If you weren't you might see the kind, brilliant man that you strive to find things to argue about every day before noon."
"I'm your sister Luna. I don't have to give you reasons why I don't want you to do something."
I shook my head recognizing the building feeling of anger in my chest.
"Right, you are my sister, not my superior okay. If I want to spend time with him, then I should be able to do that without you being angry with me. You treat me like I'm some animal that needs to be trained, and I am so done..."
She sighed, shaking her head like I did moments before.
"Why can't you just listen?"
"Why can't you just understand that I won't ever be controlled by anyone or anything again? I left that life behind me when I left that cemetery."
"Luna, you don't know him."
This had not been the first time she said this to me. However, this time I knew what to say or rather ask the easy questions that could be answered if someone really knew the other person.
It wasn't just about knowing the deep stuff, the simple, seemingly light hearted stuff mattered too.
"What is his favorite color? Who was his first love? What's his favorite song? Where is his favorite place to visit? Do you know what his favorite time was in the past? When is his favorite time of day? What is he afraid of?"
"Luna, those questions don't even pertain to this conversation-"
"Yes, Hayley, they do. If you truly, truly knew him, then you could answer every single one of them without problems."
Hayley remained silent before speaking. "Hmm, let me guess blue. Caroline Forbes. Guns n' roses Welcome to the Jungle. Paris. The 80's. Dusk. Dying."
What a shame, she was so hellbent on keeping me away from Klaus and so wrapped up in Elijah she didn't realize how remarkable of a person Klaus really was. And for that, I felt sorry for her.
"His favorite color is orange, not bright like neon light but soft like a sunset. His first and only love's name was Aurora De Martel. That's the closest he's ever come to love, he told me that relationship was more on the lust side. His favorite song is What I've Done by Linkin Park. His favorite place to visit is a western town in Turkey called Pamukkale. His favorite time in the past was the 20's because that when jazz was born. His favorite time of day is night, he says that's when the city comes alive under the light of the moon. He is afraid of no one loving him, afraid that everyone hates him, afraid that everyone thinks he is a monster..."
"And he is anything but," I added after she said nothing.
"He told you all that?"
"And more. We talk so much Hayley, about everything. Heunderstandsme. I know you do too, but Elijah understands you in a way that no one else can. That's what you told me the other day. Can you at least respect the fact that Klaus is like that for me too?"
