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"Dani?"
The voice, drowned out despite how insistent it was, was stuck on repeat in her hazy mind. But the more she tried to place it, the more Daniella found herself pulled further from it by the hunger itching at her throat.
She lapped at her lips desperately, tongue searching for blood, blood, blood, and her heart lurched when she tasted nothing, and the hunger swirled demandingly in her stomach.
The voice sounded again. Closer, this time.
"Dani."
Daniella's swimming eyes could just barely make out a figure coming toward her. Her knees just about gave out in relief, and her fingers itched to reach out again.
Klaus. Her mind supplied with a ravenous relief. I need...i need more. He promised more.
It wasn't until the figure stopped in front of her that Daniella realized that the figure wasn't Klaus.
Where's Klaus?
"Daniella, it's me. It's Damon."Daniella flinched when a hand stretched out for her.
Whomever it was refused to relent in reaching for her. And Daniella began to feel the pinpricks of realization, along with the sickening emergence of shame.
Damon.
"Daniella!"Damon snapped his fingers in front of her face to elicit her focus.
Breathing a sigh of relief when he cupped her cheek in his hand, Daniella raised her head and met her brother's eyes, frowning as she did so, as if she couldn't place him.
Damon followed her movements when she turned her head left and right, shaking her head to clear her vision. She blinked before obeying when Damon tilted her head up to look at him, her pupils blown wide and vacant.
It seemed as though she were looking through him.
"Dani?"
Finally, Daniella's eyes warmed fondly when she met his blue eyes with her identical ones and she exhaled a heavy breath. She blinked several more times, snapping into reality, and looked around, eyes searching out the bodies she'd drained.
And when she looked down at them, eyes zeroing in on the bite marks, she suddenly couldn't breathe.
The feeling of sheer euphoria was suddenly replaced with heavy guilt and Daniella felt as if she could've thrown up. She furiously wiped at her face, tongue running along her teeth, lingering where her fangs would extract.
Before she lost her footing, Daniella lunged for Damon, clinging to him for dear life.
"Damon."Daniella whispered, the weight of guilt crushing her shoulders as she processed what she'd done."I...I didn't want to."
Damon shushed her softly, a hand coming up to brush through her hair, and turned his head to share a worried look with their brother.
"Now, now, let's not fib."
In one, quick, harrowing moment Daniella was ripped from Damon's embrace. Daniella let out a whimper that tore from her throat, and a startled gasp passed through her parted, swollen lips.
She swallowed a scream when her back collided with a chest, and glanced down when an arm draped across her own. She sucked in a horrified breath when a forearm pressed to her throat.
"Klaus."Stefan snarled out, his eyes tearing from his sister and burning into the person who'd just literally snatched her away over her shoulder.
The acknowledgment of his prescience went ignored by Klaus whose low, hungry chuckle rang in Daniella's ear. Her hand came up to clasp at his forearm, nails digging in and eyes honing in on the dried blood smeared across his forearm.
Her mind cast back to the writhing, young woman he'd been tearing into with his fangs only minutes before.
She'd looked delicious. Her hunger rumbled, sounding worrying like the hybrid grabbing at her. Just like your own playthings. There's more, you know, if you ask nicely.
"Oh, you wanted to, alright."Klaus rumbled into her ear, mouth pressed close and voice hoarse."I'd even argue that you'd needed to, love."
Daniella's grip on his forearm slackened a little, his word piercing where it needed most, at her resolve and she suddenly couldn't get enough air into her lungs.
"You promised."Daniella reminded him, breaths coming out in pants.
The low, thunderous laughter that came from his chest lured Daniella's mind into a haze again. She tipped her head to allow him closer, to give him more access to her throat when she felt him smile against her skin.
"I did."He whispered, fingers pressing in."But you said nothing of my offer."
Daniella parted her lips to respond—to pledge whatever loyalty he wanted because he promised more—and turned her head to reply, but suddenly his smile against her skin was gone. She huffed out a breath, tongue heavy in her mouth, and was left bereft and clutched to his chest.
"Stefan, Damon, and my little blood-bag."
The Original lifted his head to greet the three."What an unsurprising surprise."
"Klaus, what a—forget it."Damon shook his head and reached out a hand, crooking his fingers."Just get the hell away from our sister, will you?"
Klaus blinked slowly at the audacious demand, a dangerous flicker of amusement dancing across his face. He pointedly maintained Damon's furious gaze as his unoccupied hand reached up to brush away Daniella's hair from her eyes.
Damon's teeth bared."You piece of―"
Damon's eyes glimmered angrily, and he took a step forward only to be pulled back by Stefan.
"Calm down."Stefan sharply said, tightening his hold on his brother."We don't need you messing this up."
"Oh, playing the role of protective brothers, are we?"He raised his eyebrows at them, amusement flickering in his eyes."I'm guessing this is where i'm meant to be trembling, yes?"
Stefan pushed his seething elder brother back and took a cautious step forward, his eyes ripping from his trapped, blood inebriated sister in Klaus' clutches.
"It doesn't need to go this way, all right?"Stefan ground out in an even breath. He shook his head."Just tell us what you want."
His hand untangled itself from her hair and journeyed down to her jawline. His forefinger traced along her jaw, other fingers settling over her throat until he pinched her chin between his fingers.
"I believe you know very well what I want, Stefan."Klaus breathed around his euphoric grin.
His eyes remained trained on Daniella's own as he replied, murmuring his wants against her flushed cheek. Daniella's mouth opened as his thumb traced below her lower lip, grazing its outline again and again.
"Or did earlier not make everything abundantly clear?"
"Why are you doing this? Last I heard of your big plan, Klaus,"Damon spat the hybrid's name as if it tasted sour."you were hell-bent on getting to Elena to make your army."
Damon's hand sliced through the air as he gestured to Daniella. Gradually her blue hues were losing any warmth or familiarity the longer she peered at them.
"What the hell has any of this gotta do with our sister?"
Klaus' smile momentarily faltered and he narrowed his brow ominously, eyes searching out the silent doppelgänger stood over Damon's shoulder.
"Oh, i haven't forgotten about you,"He drawled around his twisted, vicious smile."don't you worry, love. I'm simply enjoying everything this little town has to offer."
Elena swallowed, hastily averting her gaze from the hybrid, and took another step closer to the brothers to conceal herself.
"Now, you're not trying to nick my new plaything from me are you, gentlemen?"Klaus shook his head with an offended sniff."That wouldn't go over quite well."
He rocked with Daniella, temple lolling against hers, and his other arm winding itself around her waist. Daniella gasped as he drew her in closer, eyes vacantly peering over at her incredulous brothers.
"Especially since i've become so fond of her."A wolfish smirk graced his face as the pad of his thumb collected a smear of blood from her cheekbone."She's a live wire once you get her going, isn't she?"
Daniella sharply inhaled as she caught onto blood, blood, blood, her head turning even more and eyes tracking following Klaus' hand as his thumb to his mouth. Her tongue pressed against her teeth when the itching at her throat recommenced.
I need...
"Well, since you've stolen my sister I would usually go for yours."Damon drawled, his blue orbs clouding to a stormy blue.."But it's too easy, you know? She's kind of desperate, and that's a nice way to put it."
The tension in the bathroom became thick as all eyes turned to Klaus when his upper lip curled and a snarl passed his lips. The rumbled, baleful sound had Daniella's pupils dilating.
"What was that?"
Damon's smirk faltered slightly at Klaus, his voice frighteningly playful. His eyes remained amber, the spider veins growing underneath his eyes threateningly. But despite this Damon forced himself to stand his ground and, almost invitingly, he held open his arms.
"Did I stutter?"
Damon's mouth downturned as he valiantly took a step closer to Klaus, mimicking a fearful gasp when Klaus' fangs came forward. He batted away Stefan when his brother tried to pull him away.
Stefan backed Elena away with a call for his brother."Damon!"
"I said that your sister is desperate."Damon proclaimed, eyes widening mockingly. He feigned fright when Klaus bared his fangs."Oh, my, what big fangs you've got!"
Daniella, eyes billowing and glazing over, mouthed her awe at the sight of flickering amber eyes. She twisted and twisted until she was able to turn around in Klaus' grasp to get a closer look, her own fangs threatening to extract at the sight of his double ones.
Everything, her brothers, their voices, and the tension, was once again drowned out as her hunger and her awe completely engulfed her. Such hunger was spilling over—hunger for blood, hunger for the power looming over her and trapping her, and hunger formore.
No more taming, no more cell, no more being weak―
"Klaus."She rasped on a hitched breath."Klaus."
Unbeknownst to her, the aforementioned hybrid's hand had fluidly reached out for her brother's throat. But his fingers barely managed to graze Damon when Daniella, amid her summoning of him and aghast at his lack of response, insistently pushed at his chest.
"You're not listening."
A grunt punched out of Klaus, his vision clouding over when his back suddenly met with the wall mirror meters behind them. The wall creaked in protest of the strength behind the push.
Daniella's intense, dilated eyes and her awed features were all he could see when his vision settled.
"You promised."She reminded a third time, fingers furled in his henley.
"Dani!"
The sound of her nickname called from behind her, but she gave no heed to it because all she could hear was Klaus' impassioned breaths.
"I promised."He agreed around a breathy laugh, fingers coming up to lace around her wrists."I also made an offer to solidify my promise."
Daniella's eyes glanced down at his hands covering hers, and she allowed him to unlock her fingers from his shirt.
"I need more. I deserve more after..."She shook her head to keep the memories of the dank, dark cell away. Far, far away."after so long. I need more."
Klaus' eyes dragged from hers, landing on the three standing beside the door to the bathroom, his eyes glinting with disgust at the sight. Damon deflated when his calls for his sister when unanswered, and he pushed at Stefan's shoulders to try and free himself to chase after her.
"Damon!"
He shoved at his brother."Don't Damon me! This―"
He throat a hand out to point at his sister, getting up in Stefan's face with a hiss.
"This is all your fault!"He yelled at Stefan, voice close to breaking and face almost red with fury."This never would've happened if…."
He trailed off with a furious yell, finally able to wrench free of Stefan's hold, and watching as his brother tumbled back into the nearest sink. Elena rushed after him with a gasp of his name, her eyes following Damon worriedly as he turned to face Klaus.
"You deserve more."The hybrid affirmed, turning his head, his nose bumping Daniella's."You deserve what you were."
Daniella's hooded eyes met his own, narrowly widening at the flecks of amber that bled his own, and she struggled to catch her breath at the sight.
"There you are."He crooned around a satisfied, fascinated breath, shards of glass falling to their feet when he straightened.
She blinked curiously at him, and it wasn't until her tongue caught on her fangs that she realized her own eyes had flooded red. She leaned in when his arms liberated her so his hand could reach up and clasp the cheek again.
"You offered...you offered to give me more. To join you for more."Daniella murmured into the minimal space between them."Will you give me more?"
Klaus' own pupils dilated, and he pushed in close, fingers digging into her cheek before they dragged down, down, down until he had hold of her throat. The corners of her lips tugged up into a smile, baring her fangs, and her tongue flickered out to tease him.
"Of course."He hotly vowed, eyes following her tongue, and a crooked grin pulling at his mouth, displaying his fangs.
He walked her back towards the door, hand releasing her throat to touch her cheek again, feather-light, thumb caressing as his fingers trailed up to tuck a loose tress behind her ear.
"More."Daniella sighed, her entire world closing off to anything but more, and want, and hunger.
Damon's legs couldn't carry him quick enough as he crossed the bathroom quicker to meet them. Only to be hurled through the air, hit the wall, and tumble down alongside his brother and Elena. Klaus waved goodbye dismissively with the hand he'd thrown Damon with.
"So long, gentleman. And doppelgänger."
"DANIELLA!"
The Salvatore brothers scrambled to their feet and rushed after the departing pair, following them into the Grill bar, only to be met with low chattering and even lower music. There was no sight of them, only the distant closing of a car door outside before it zoomed away.
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