Part 26 – Pack life
"Where is baby witch?"
"Which one?" Elijah asked Bonnie.
"The one who can work her way around a spell"
"I believe she is in the nursery" With that Bonnie basically hopped up the stairs barely paying mind to Ester.
"You house guests are quite rude."
"The only attention Bon is going to give you is the kind that involves ending your new undead life. I guess its better you stay this way seeing as you keep finding a way back from the other side"
"Didn't Bonnie destroy the other side?" Klaus asked.
"Yeah but I don't trust this woman to not come back"
"She is very much like an unpleasant disease. Marcel take her away, I wish to speak with Hayley and Damon alone"
"What's up Klaus?"
"I don't feel anything?"
"Tell us something new" Hayley joked and Klaus rolled his eyes.
"He is talking about the pack bond... he doesn't feel what we do"
"Because he doesn't have a pack..."
"Actually he does, even if it is one Mystic Falls jackass"
"Oh no, you can't be serious"
"Tyler is the only living member of your pack... I actually spoke to Jackson about it"
"You spoke to Jack"
"Calm down, alpha queen. Sometimes men need to discuss men issues. Tyler is a dormant wolf" Hayley rolled her eyes at Damon.
"He's the only one linked by werewolf venom to you. The rest of your hybrids are dead"
"What about you?"
"I am an anomaly thanks to Bon's blood and I have accepted Hayley as my Alpha."
"There is a small pocket of wolves descended from the blood of your biological father's people... if they accepted you into the pack..."
"It's not that easy... I'm sorry if what I am about to say will offend you" Damon said turning towards Hayley.
"Klaus is an apex predator, he's always been at the top of the food chain, always been king... you want the King to step down and become a subject?"
"That gave me another emotional scar" Klaus said holding his hand to his heart theatrically.
"Good lord Caroline is rubbing of on him" Hayley said wide eyed.
"Damon, I'd like to speak with Klaus if you don't mind" Damon nodded and ran off to find his witch
"Shall we walk?" Hayley gestured the woods to Klaus.
"Are you planning on murdering my newly fragile self?"
"Oh shut up and move your prehistoric ass"
"Listen Klaus... You've always been a proud vampire, always been proud of being the first hybrid but you have never actually accepted your wolf... You've used the power boost from it but you haven't yet learned to love that part of yourself. You've shunned it. We have a daughter who is more than likely part wolf - we need to show her how to love her wolf. You've only ever changed once during you transition into a hybrid you never did it again. You haven't learned to embrace your beast. The pack is a beautiful thing. I want you to be a part of it. You are free to join my pack but you have to accept my authority as the Alpha. It's that or hunting down what's left of your dad's pack or Tyler who I am sure is going to be stronger if he changes as he accepted his wolf."
"How are you feeling love?"
"Much better now. I really, REALLY needed my mom. She brought so many things for me… I didn't even consider things like nipple cream."
"I'm glad she's here for you. I just checked in on the girls… they're so beautiful, so perfect. A lot like you"
"Flattery will get you everywhere" Caroline trilled as she sat herself on Klaus's lap.
"Are you okay with not being a vampire anymore? I mean for real"
"My children are mortal, even though they will live longer than most humans they have a limited time frame to live. When I was unconscious I had a horrid dream… I buried Bonnie with Damon and watched both him and Stefan remove their daylight rings and burn in the sun, I watched myself bury Jackson with Hayley then I saw us bury our aged daughter, we buried Kol and Davina, we even buried Patrice… I saw you crying, as young and beautiful as you were the day you lost your human life while holding the hand of an aged woman in a casket while one who looked just like her called you mom and tried to comfort you. It felt wrong, I don't want to have to bury our kids one day… I am happy we have this chance, I am happy that we aren't completely weak. I am still a wolf… well I want to be a wolf. I want to embrace it and love it like the rest of the wolves do."
"What about Elijah?"
"If he wants to, he can take the cure from Elena."
"Speaking of Elena… the trial has been postponed… they've had to institutionalize her."
"Serves her right, I didn't know much about Rick, but he watched over all of you and protected you. I am grateful to him for that. It was a horrible way to go, he was the next best thing the doppelganger had to a father."
"Wow, Klaus Mikealson look at you, as sensitive and considerate"
"Don't tease me" Klaus growled, pressing his wife into the mattress, staring into her wondrous blue eyes with so much intensity her insides quivered.
"I love you, so so much…. Make love to me Klaus"
"But-" at Klaus's objection Caroline pulled out a little square package from her back pocket.
"It's grape flavoured, mom brought formula for the girls next feeding and she said she will be on baby duty… so we have some time to… christen these human bodies."
Elsewhere… Bonnie and Damon had the same idea while Kai was acquainting himself with Freya who he found crying near the lake on a night time stroll. Stefan was in the woods on his knees, his eyes trained on the moon which seemed to mock what he was about to do.
"I haven't done this in a while… but if there is some almighty being out there, he or she is supposed to be omnipotent. Firstly thank you for making both myself and Damon human so he can't hear me with his vampire hearing" Stefan scowled at the moon, he was starting to think it may really be laughing at him.
"Thank you for uniting Damon and Bonnie, and giving them a chance at normal, thank you for the health of our friend Caroline and her children and thank you for all our friends who have helped us protect this strange family. We have had so many lucky breaks recently and I didn't want you to think we were ungrateful for any assistance you may have sent our way directly or indirectly."
Stefan frowned at the moon
"This is stupid"
"I don't think it's stupid" Lucy Bennet said standing against a tree looking directly into Stefan's forest green eyes.
In that moment, Lucy Bennet looked like a goddess to him. He could almost taste her power in the light of the moon. Somewhere deep inside him, dreams; he thought were dead and buried began to take a new birth like a phoenix.
The days preceding the equinox was a flurry of activity, the witches were on tether going through every spell book and potion they could get their hands on. Kol was helping Freya get her magic back on track and Lucy had managed to convince Stefan to try and train his magical muscle, thus far he could light a candle after much concentration… he had a long way to go.
Klaus was working with Damon and Jackson to embrace and accept his wolf. He politely declined Hayley's offer. He didn't need to be an alpha, he could be a lone wolf until he was able to gain the trust of his father's pack. They had no true Alpha and if they someday trusted him enough to take his birth right as Alpha he swore he would be an Alpha they could be proud off.
Liz helped Caroline with the kids while she went through Alaric's possessions. She decided she would become a hunter like he was to honour the twin's biological father.
Kai had been sick for a while, no one noticed it until he was found passed out on the kitchen floor with a strange greenish tint. It was later revealed that he drank a potion Patrice administered to keep his true love, Freya, safe and he was absorbing some really dark magic as a result.
"Freya is his true love! My sister and this man servant! That is preposterous"
"Come on Klaus, he's killing himself for her, even before he knew who she was" Hayley said in Kai's defence as Caroline and Bonnie tried to make Kai comfortable.
"You did this with me so many times. Let Freya have her life" Rebekkah hissed at Klaus.
"Fine but, he can't remain a manservant. He needs to do something else. Only once he has proven himself can he court Freya."
"But he's well trained." Bonnie pouted then laughed at Klaus.
"He's a good guy, strange but good" Caroline added.
"As long as he isn't mooning at my wife I am good" Damon said trying to pull Bonnie away from her soon to be former servant.
"I remember it like yesterday, stuffing his little face with pork rinds in the prison world…" Bonnie reminisced.
"So that's where Freya got that disgusting taste for pork rinds from" Elijah complained.
"Lucy is starting to brood like Stefan." Davina announced then ran as said witch tried to give her a concussion with a grimoire.
"He has healed" Damon smiled happily as his brother grabbed Lucy around the waist and swung her around to save Davina then ran away as he became the target of her ire.
"I guess we will be welcoming another Bennett into our home soon." Bonnie said wrapping her arms around Damon's neck and giving him a quick peck.
"I'm happy to see him smiling and being active again… I never thought I would see him so free before."
"Well, let's get back to work so we can win this battle. I want to have a whole coven with you Mr Salvatore" Bonnie said nipping Damon's ear.
"Christ, woman; I will impregnate you on the spot if you keep teasing me." Damon smacked her ass and kissed her teasingly.
"Mrs Salvatore Bennett, I hope you're learning from Liz and Caroline. I've lived for over a century. Once this is over I want to bring our child into the world… I never thought we would have this chance. Now that we do I want a family, I want to venture through the rest of this mortal adventure with you by my side."
"Isn't it romantic" Davina sighed, watching Bonnie and Damon.
"You're too young. Keep reading your grimoire" Marcus almost growled watching the young witch and Kol Mikaelson as they kept sneaking glances at each other.
A/N: I was going to update sooner, but I was arguing with myself over having 2 small chapters or one large one... I hope you enjoyed the update.
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