Amelie

Summary:"You have loved and you have lost, all while I have succumbed to: the darkness, the light, to my wildest dreams and deepest fears. I have loved you while you have lived your life to its fullest, now I must live mine." Klaus kept his last love a secret for a lifetime but now it's time to reintroduce her to the world.

Chapter Six

When she finally regained consciousness, Alexander was slapping her cheek as if he was trying to revive her. She tried to move but her legs and arms were bound to a chair. Jon sat in the corner of the room, a bandage around his neck. She was hoping she had killed him but she had missed every major artery. "Well, I'm forced to listen now." She said as she bit her lip; she was so close to tears but she wouldn't cry in front of them.

"Don't be scared, if I wanted to kill you I would've by now." Jon said as he played with the necklace that was once around her neck.

"Now will you listen to his story or do we have to force you to listen?" Alexander gripped onto her shoulders and leaned in to her, whispering in her ear, "I hope you make me force you."

His breath on her neck made her shiver and she tried to shrug his hands off her shoulders but he wouldn't budge. "I'll listen, I don't have a choice."

"We met in 1928, you were only fourteen and I was a few years older than you but I knew when I looked at you that there was no one else in the world for me… We were engaged in 1929 and by 1930 when you were sixteen we were going to have our wedding, but things didn't work out like that, unfortunately you were taken from me."

Chantilly, France 1930

The town in the countryside was an unexpected place to find witches and magic, but it was the life that Amelie led. She knew all about witches, her soon to be betrothed came from a powerful family but he kept secrets from her and with a few months to go until her big day, he was starting to act out of character.

For many nights, her mother hand stitched and altered the white wedding gown that she had hoped to wear but even her mother knew that something was going on; everyone knew except Amelie. Love had blinded her to monstrous acts her fiancé was committing throughout the town. People were disappearing without explanation, Jon and Alexander were out to all hours of the morning and returning after everyone had woken up. Amelie hadn't even saw her love in weeks due to his disappearing acts. She was only sixteen, just a foolish teenager in love with the wrong sort of man for her. Mr Bouchard didn't want his teenage daughter to marry the twenty something man but she was going to marry into a rich and powerful family, he had no choice but to accept.

Lonely and lovesick, Amelie appeared one morning at the St Martine home, a basket of buns and pastries in hand that she spent most of the night baking but when Jon's mother answered the door she knew that something terrible had happened.

"Come in and take a seat my dear, Jon hasn't returned home yet." His mother informed as she clutched her pearls.

"Where has he gone?" Amelie set her basket on the floor and sat on the chaise lounge in the living room.

His mother stared at her for a moment, unaware that the poor girl in front of her hadn't heard a word of his actions. "I'm not sure." She took the space beside her and placed her hand over her lips. "I have something to tell you and I wouldn't tell you this if I didn't fear for your wellbeing."

"What is it?" Amelie grabbed her deathly cold hands and stared into her eyes.

"It's about Jon, you cannot marry him."

"I know I'm young but I love your son." Amelie replied naively.

"I know you do, but Jon has taken a bad turn and I fear that if I let you marry him, he will murder you. Maybe not straight away but in years to come." She leaned into her daughter in law and squeezed her hands. "Have you not heard that people are disappearing without a trace?"

"Yes, but that has nothing to do with Jon, has it?" Mrs St Martine's eyes held the answer and Amelie lost all the air in her body. "He's using his magic, isn't he?"

"He's crossed over to the dark side of his powers and I would be a horrible person if I didn't try to save you."

"She doesn't need saved mother," Jon said from the doorway, his brother just behind him, "I would never hurt her."

Amelie looked down at his bloodied shirt and turned away with a gasp. "It's the truth then, you have been using your magic for evil."

He stepped around to her slowly and crouched down to her level, she couldn't even see him through her tears. "Amelie, I can explain everything if you would let me."

Amelie twisted at the ring on her finger, taking it off and placing it in his hand. "I don't need an explanation. You're a mess, your shirt is bloodied and your face is drenched in sweat from the shock of seeing me here. Is this why you have refused to see me before the wedding? Were you going to carry on this murdering act of yours while I sleep under your roof?"

"It's not as simple as that," Alexander protested from behind them but his mother took away his voice with her magic.

"Alexander is right, we were born to do this just please take back your ring and I'll explain everything to you."

Amelie watched as Jon's mother sent him flying across the room, knocking furniture over and pictures from the wall. She felt the bony fingers of Mrs St Martine press into her temples with such force that it felt like needles prodding into her head. Jon tried to stop her but he couldn't move, his mother was a seasoned witch and more experienced than him; he couldn't fight her off.

"This poor girl will never have the burden of knowing who you were."

"What does that mean?" before he could get an answer, his mother and his love had disappeared right before his eyes but he still couldn't move and neither could his brother. He didn't know how long he was going to be stuck there or what his mother was going to do to Amelie, but whatever it was he knew that he was going to lose her and that was his biggest fear.

Present Day

"I assume my mother took away your memories and replaced them with whatever your own mother wished. She had to have been in on it, your mother never liked me." He said as he examined the necklace.

"If this is true, it sounds like she would have every reason to dislike you." Amelie spat out as she stared at him. "So what are you trying to do, win me back? That's never going to happen."

Jon stood up and walked towards her as he played with the amethyst gem between his fingertips. "Not while you have no memory of me and not until you know what we were doing with those people." He glanced at his brother and gave him a nod.

Alexander loosened the ropes around Amelie and leaned on the back of her chair. "We are werewolf hunters and all those people that disappeared came from the same ancient bloodline."

"You don't know that they were going to trigger their curse." She protested quietly as she looked over her shoulder.

"Oh good, you know about the curse." Jon said with a small smile. "Anyone that we killed were murders, just like your new flame and his child's mother."

Amelie looked at Jon and pressed her lips together. "Let me go, move on from me because I want nothing to do with you."

"I can't move on from you Amelie," he got down to her level and placed his hand on her thigh, "I love you more than I love anything else in this world. You can't love me until I find a way to give you back the memories of us."

"I wouldn't waste your time; I love someone else now."

"But you don't know that you love Klaus more than you loved me." He dangled the necklace in front of her, his eyes following it as it swung. "My magic is trapped inside here and once I get it back, I'll make you love me again."

Alexander untied the ropes and pushed Amelie on to her feet. "If you bring your new boyfriend to this house, we will take his daughter." He pointed at her, his eyes widening at her. "You're warned and you'll only get the one warning."

Amelie slowly turned her head to Jon and looked him once more in the eye. "You may be able to give me back my memories and yes I may have some feeling towards you return, but you have threatened an innocent child and that I will not forget." She shoved past him and ran up the stairs and out the front door. As she walked down the street and back into the heart of the French Quatre she collapsed onto the wall; her whole life seemed like it was a lie, all the memories she had of her parents were questionable now and she didn't know how to deal with it.

Just when she had got over one betrayal, another one took its place.

Klaus was a wreck as he waited for an update from Freya, she tried so hard to track her down but she couldn't worm her way around the cloaking spell. Not knowing where she was made him scared, anything could happen to her; she was only human. When she walked into his home he raced over to her and checked her over for any signs of injury but luckily she was unharmed. He ran his hands across her face and held her close to him as if he wasn't going to let her go. She grabbed onto his arms and rested her head on him.

"We need to talk." She mumbled into him.

"Okay, let's talk." He pulled away from her and looked down at her, she looked like she was going through a battle in her mind and it was so clear on her face.

"Not here, let's go to my apartment and chat." She lead him outside and made her way upstairs. Once the two of them were inside she waved towards the sofa for him to sit down. "What I've got to tell you is quite important." She sat on the small coffee table in front of him and clutched onto her knees.

"I'm all ears." He dragged out his words to try and hide his nerves.

"I know who Alexander and Jon are, they kind of held me against my will but before you go on a rampage like I know you will, they threatened your daughter."

"What!? Where are they?" he jumped up, furious that his daughter would be dragged into this mess.

"Listen to me Klaus, I'm not going to let them hurt Hope, I would never do that so I have to keep their location a secret." She placed her head in her hands and let out a deep breath. "Apparently, a couple of years before I came to America, I was engaged to Jon and I had my memories taken from me." She ran her fingers through her hair and glanced up at him. "He's going to try and give me my memories back."

"So what does that mean? Does he think that he's going to win you back?"

"He believes that, yes but I love you and that's all that matters."

"You love me while you have no memory of him." He pointed out and it made her fall silent. "I'm sure there's more to this story, there always is."

"They are werewolf hunters, witches who hunt werewolves; whatever you want to call them but they're bad news for you and Hayley." She shrugged a little and shook her head. "If you try to interfere."

"So I'm supposed to just sit back and let someone steal you away from me?"

"I'm not a piece of property," she almost glared at Klaus but calmed herself down, she felt the same way when she heard about all of the notches on Klaus' belt and now the shoe was on the other foot, "I'm human, I have all these emotions and being dragged into this love triangle hurts my brain."

"I just have one question; do you think you'll love him the way you love me?" Klaus got onto his feet and looked at her, pleading her with his eyes for her to say no.

"Honestly Klaus, I don't know until I've been brought into the light." She looked up at him sympathetically and bit her lip. "Right now I just want to cry because I feel like I'm being pulled in two directions and all I can think about is how you're feeling."

"I'll be fine as long as I still have you in my life. I need you Amelie, I need you more than I've ever needed any one." He got onto his knees in front of her and placed his hands over hers.

"See how you're feeling, this is how I felt for most of my life as I listened to you talk about Caroline and Hayley. The smartest thing I can do right now is to keep a clear head and be your friend for the time being." She reached out to touch his face but stopped herself. "I'm always going to be there for you Klaus."

Klaus felt like a teenager losing his first love but deep down he knew Amelie was doing the right thing, he just didn't want to risk the chance of losing her to another man. He had to be smart, he couldn't ruin his chances of being happy again. "You're right, as much as I hate to admit it. And as you are there for me, I'll always be there for you." He planted one last kiss on her forehead and got onto his feet once more. "If you ever need me, you know where I am."

"This isn't goodbye, I could never say goodbye to you." She called out as he walked towards the door but he didn't answer her, he just gave her a small smile and headed out the door. Once again she was alone but she was content knowing she was doing what was best for her.

A:N Thank you for all your reviews/favourites/follows. Next chapter you'll get to see a little more of Jon and if this chapter wasn't a giveaway he will also be fighting for Amelie's affections. Thanks for reading!