Chapter Fourteen:
The next day I went to The Grill to meet with Klaus so that he could tell me what I missed last night.
When I walked into The Grill I saw that Klaus was sitting at a booth and I walked over to him and sat down across from him.
"So, what did I miss last night?" I asked Klaus.
"Well, my mother tried to kill all of us, but we were able to stop her by breaking her connection to the Bennett bloodline." Klaus said to me.
"How did you do that?" I asked Klaus.
"Damon turned your witch friend's mother into a vampire." Klaus said to me.
"And was that the only way to stop your mother?" I asked Klaus.
"Yes." Klaus said to me.
"Okay. What else happened?" I asked Klaus.
"My mother and Finn ran off along with Elijah and Kol." Klaus said to me.
I then reached over and held Klaus' hand.
"I'm so sorry. I know how hard you fought to reunite your family and then they just run away like that, it's not fair to you. But perhaps it's for best for now since you're all linked together. It'll make it less easy for your mother to find you all." I said to Klaus.
"Perhaps." Klaus said to me.
Then a waiter came over carrying two plates of cheeseburgers and fries in his hands and sat them down in front of us before walking away.
I then smiled at Klaus.
"You remembered that I liked cheeseburgers and fries after all of these months?" I asked Klaus in disbelief.
"Of course, love. It was what you were eating when I first saw you in my own body." Klaus said to me.
Klaus and I then began to eat our lunch in a comfortable silence until I broke it.
"So, what do you want to talk about now?" I asked Klaus.
"I wanna talk about you." Klaus said to me.
I then chuckled.
"Your hopes, your dreams. Everything you want in life." Klaus said to me.
I then laughed.
"Wow. That's a lot of personal stuff you want to you know. Why?" I asked Klaus.
"I'm just trying to get to know you, love. You can ask me anything you want to know." Klaus said to me.
"Okay. Where were you the most happiest?" I asked Klaus.
"That's easy. In New Orleans." Klaus said to me.
"Why New Orleans?" I asked Klaus.
"My family and I practically built it to what it is today. It was where we were the most happiest." Klaus said to me.
"I've always wanted to go to New Orleans. It sounds like an interesting place." I said to Klaus.
"Where else do you want to go?" Klaus asked me.
"I definitely want to go to Europe. France, Italy, Spain, and England to be more specific. I want to experience their art and culture before I die." I said to Klaus.
"I'll take you to see it all." Klaus said to me.
I then smiled at Klaus and then took a sip out of my drink before asking Klaus something more serious.
"Do you plan on turning me into one of your hybrids?" I asked Klaus.
"No. Not unless you want me to. I would never turn you against your wishes." Klaus said to me.
"Thank you." I said to Klaus.
"Have you thought about becoming a hybrid?" Klaus asked me.
"It has crossed my mind once or twice, but I'm not sure what I want to do yet." I said to Klaus.
"Take all the time you need, sweetheart. There's no rush." Klaus said to me.
I then looked over at the bar area where Stefan and Damon were sitting at and then I noticed Rebekah walking over to them.
"What's Rebekah up to? When I walked in she was talking with Mayor Lockwood and now she's heading over to the Salvatores." I said to Klaus.
"Rebekah's doing research." Klaus said to me vaguely.
"Research? Anything I can help with?" I asked Klaus.
"No, love. It's best you stay out of it." Klaus said to me.
"Fine. I get it. It's of personal nature that you don't want me to know about. I'll stay out of it." I said to Klaus.
I then stood up.
"Thank you for lunch. It was nice." I said to Klaus.
I then went to walk away but Klaus stopped me by grabbing my wrist and I looked at him.
"Oh, come on, love. Don't be mad. I just don't want you getting hurt." Klaus said to me.
"I'm a big girl, Klaus. I can protect myself. And I get that it's hard for you to trust people, but you should be able to trust me and know that I would never betray you." I said to Klaus.
"I do trust you." Klaus said to me.
"Really? Then what is Rebekah researching?" I asked Klaus.
"I can't tell you." Klaus said to me.
"That's what I thought." I said to Klaus.
I then went to walk pass Klaus but he got in front of me.
"It's not that I don't want to tell you, love. It's just that I can't. Not Here." Klaus said to me.
I then noticed that Klaus was eyeing Stefan and Damon and I understood what he meant.
"All right, then. Let's get out of here and head back over to your place so we can talk about it." I said to Klaus.
Klaus then paid for our lunch and then we left The Grill to go to his mansion. There he told me that Rebekah found out that 300 years after they had all fled back to the Old World a white oak tree grew to replace the one they burned and now she is trying to find out what happened to it so that she could destroy it before it could be used to kill them.
If Stefan and Damon found out about the white oak tree they would want to find it and use it against Klaus and his siblings.
Now it was a race against time to see who gets to the white oak tree first to destroy it or to use it.