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 Fifteen

Klaus' birthday was upon her and with him enjoying a drink out of the house with Elijah, it gave her the perfect opportunity to get everything ready. She couldn't get him the most extravagant gift due to her lack of money, but she had a surprise for him and she just hoped that he would love it.

With a smouldering cigarette hanging from her lips as she filled the room with candles, Hayley tiptoed down the steps with a small smile. She crossed her arms and raised a brow and cleared her throat. Amelie jumped and swore under her breath in French before turning to Hayley.

"What are you doing?" Hayley asked as she stepped over to the dinner table set up for two.

"It's Klaus' birthday surprise, I have dinner in the oven and desert setting in the fridge; he used to love my cheesecake."

"Did he love the house smelling like smoke?" she waved some of the foul-smelling smoke from her face and relaxed a little. "You knew that Hope wasn't here, right?"

"I saw her leave with Freya earlier, I wouldn't smoke around a child." She placed her fingers around the cigarette and took a couple of quick drags before putting it out in an ash tray. "I smoke when I'm nervous or angry; well I just like to smoke. It's a thirties thing." She ran her fingers through her hair and looked around the room, inspecting it with critical eyes.

"It looks lovely, Amelie. Klaus is going to love it because you organised it."

"Do you really think so?"

Hayley laughed a little to herself and paced around the table. "You may not have noticed, but Klaus has you on a podium, in his eyes you couldn't do any wrong."

"Trust me, I've messed up his birthday before." Amelie admitted as she fixed the silver cutlery in front of her.

"What happened?"

"For his first birthday that we celebrated together, I bought him two stallions. They were the finest racing horses that I could find."

"Did he not like them?"

"He did but we lived in the city in an apartment." Amelie smiled a little to herself and shook her head. "He was furious that we had to give his show horses away. The next year I got him something simple like a hip flask."

Hayley smiled and looked down at the floor. "Well I'm glad you didn't repeat that mistake this year; a horse would be more of a present to Hope than Klaus."

"I've definitely learned from my mistake." Amelie clasped her hands and pursed her lips as the two women fell silent. "I should go get dressed, put something nice on for Klaus."

"I'll be out of your hair soon, I have to meet Elijah on his way back here with Klaus so that you two can have some alone time."

Amelie moved towards the staircase and glanced over at Hayley with a small smile. "I'll save you some cheesecake."

"That sounds delicious." Hayley watched her jog up the stairs and turned to the front door, grabbing her coat quickly as she left.

The house was unlit when Klaus arrived home. He shook his heavy coat from his build and threw it onto the coat rack before stepping towards the dim bit of light in the foyer. He was blown away by the ambiance that Amelie had created but when he saw her slink out of the kitchen with two plates in her hand and a red cocktail dress on that just about covered her body, he gulped back his desire and stepped towards her.

"What's all of this about?" his tone was low and voice raspy.

"A birthday surprise. Bon anniversare, take a seat." She set the two plates down and took her seat, watching him sit down in front of her. "I spent all day cooking this for us."

"You've gone to a lot of effort to prepare this birthday meal." He cut up the beef that she had made and took a bite with a slight groan. "Your coq au vin is just as exquisite as I remember."

"Well it is your favourite." She poured them both a glass of wine and tucked into her dinner with a smile. "Do you like what I've done?"

"I love what you did, I don't usually celebrate my birthday but I'm pleasantly astounded."

She sipped at her wine and ran her heeled foot along his inner leg with a smirk. "I wanted to give you the perfect birthday. The perfect night for my perfect man."

"You aimed to please and you succeeded." He finished his dinner and leaned back in his chair, watching her inventively. "With you being back in my life, I found myself reminiscing about past birthdays, when I still celebrated them."

"So did I, funnily enough."

"Remember the last birthday of mine we spent together, we promised each other that we would go travelling for a week or two?"

"What did you have in mind?" she leaned in towards him. "I'll follow you anywhere."

"Perhaps a trip to Barcelona? You always wanted to visit Spain."

"I could work on my tan, god knows I need it." She joked as she ran her hands up her pale arms.

"Then I'll book it, after Christmas we'll go off together."

She bit her lip and got up, walking over to him and settling down on his lap, draping her legs over the arm of the chair. "I always wanted to see the world with you, there's nothing stopping us this time."

He placed his hand on her thigh and looked up at her, taking in every inch of her face with a deep breath. "I know, we can do whatever we want this time around. I'm going to make you the happiest woman alive."

"Just keep doing what you're doing, you're doing brilliantly." Her eyes took in every inch of his face as her breathing became a little heavier; being this close to him again gave her the feeling of electricity rushing through her body. Klaus always had that effect on her since the moment they first met in that crowded bar.

"What's for dessert?"

His voice broke her out of her memories and with a smile she said, "Raspberry and white chocolate cheesecake. I know you always liked it."

"I was hoping that I could have something else, something more suited to my tastes."

She crumpled up her face in confusion but as his hand moved further up her leg, she gulped back the confusion and placed her hand on her chest. "I think I can think of something better for you."

He flashed her a devious smirk before he planted a hard kiss on her lips, with every kiss he fell deeper into her, unwilling to break it as she got onto her feet, pulling him up by his shirt and eventually ripping it open. She was always delicate with him before but now she just wanted to ravish him. She lit a fire of passion inside him and he gave into the Klaus he used to be in her presence; gripping her by the thighs and wrapping her long legs around him, he pushed the plates off the table and lay her down comfortably. She looked up at him, the flames of desire burning up inside her, she didn't want to play the games of cat and mouse that she always made him play; leaving a trail of clothes for him to find or making an entrance into the boudoir. When she pulled him onto her she knew that having Klaus everyway she could was exactly what she needed.

All he had was his spells and the bottle that kept him company during nights alone. Alexander's relationship with Margot was heating up and as much as Jon enjoyed having an ally in his plan, he didn't like that way that devilish woman took his brother away from him; there was something about her that made her one to be distrusted, but perhaps it was the alcohol that made him see clearly now.

It had been eighty something years since he had given up that evil fluid that made him a different person, but now he had nothing to lose and nothing to do except plan; a bottle of rum always helped him to make him plan more effectively. To hell with his morals, the Mikaelsons played dirty and now it was his turn, Klaus would burn in his light.

"Jon is losing his mind, Margot and I have no idea what I'm going to do about it," Alexander paced around the tiny living room in her small apartment. Unlike his older brother, Alexander could drink and not become a beast, "I fear that I'm losing him." He took a long swig from his glass of wine and threw himself into the seat beside his confidant.

She placed a caring hand on his lap and turned herself around to face him. The concern was written all over her face and he could see it, he wasn't blind. "Do you want to know what my biggest fear is, Alex? I'm going to lose you to this ridiculous scheme because Jon is going to risk his life and your life is still linked to his."

"My life is linked to Amelie's, he's not going to kill her when he's still madly in love with her and I mean madly, she's driven him insane." He filled his glass up again and went to take a drink, but Margot placed her hand over the rim of the glass.

"I looked over the spell that you used and your life isn't attached to hers, it's his that you're bound to. If he marches over to that compound half assed and drunk, he's going to be terminated and so will you." She sighed a little and took the glass of her love and took a long gulp of the sweet wine. "I can't lose another person that I love."

He watched the young woman drown her worries in the wine and shook his head as he racked his brain, searching for a solution to their problems. He was torn between the love for his brother and the first love that he had the chance to enjoy; for so long he was used by Jon as the magical link between Jon and Amelie that he never got the chance to live his own life… His life was always occupied by Amelie and he was starting to get sick of it. He didn't hate Amelie, as much as it came across, he hated the effect she had on Jon and the man that it made him. Jon was crazy to think that this plan was going to work but he was irrational.

"There is a way to ensure that I live if worse comes to worse."

Her eyes flickered with hope as she was reeled into his train of thought. She had to of had the same thought that he had. "Jon won't like it."

He smiled reassuringly at her and touched the back of her hand with his palm. "Jon never needs to know. I want you to unlink us, tonight."

"Tonight, why so soon? He isn't planning to attack until Christmas Day."

"If Klaus doesn't kill him first, the drink will. Can you do the spell?"

Margot nodded and ran her fingers through her hair. "I have all the ingredients, I just need a little time to sober up."

"Take your time, ma chérie." He watched her get out of her seat and trod unsteadily into her study. He could relax for the first time in a long time; he wouldn't be able to live with his brother but he was still unsure if he could live without him. Only time would be able to give him his answer.

Amelie stepped into the kitchen on her tip toes, the tiles were cold underneath her feet. She pulled the cheesecake from the fridge and cut a big slice for herself. She leaned against the counter, Klaus' shirt just about covering her ass and shielded it from the cold marble worktop. He leaned against the doorway and buckled his belt as he kept eyes locked on her as she ate the soft cheese topping in ecstasy.

"I was wondering where my shirt disappeared to." He walked towards her and scooped up a little bit of the cheesecake onto his finger and stuck it into his mouth, moaning in appreciation. "Just as good as I remembered, but my idea of dessert was far more pleasurable."

"This is a close second," she said as she hopped onto the counter with a smirk of her own. He moved towards her but she placed her foot on his chest and raised an eyebrow, "you're not taking any more of it; this slice is all mine."

He grabbed onto her ankle and kissed the sole of her feet and trailed some more along her soft leg. "It's not the cake that I want."

She giggled and bit the sleeve of his shirt. "Then what is it that you want?"

"This," he placed his hands by her sides and kissed the top of her head, "to be in your company for as long as I breath." His eyes met hers which made him break into a smile. "I want to make you a hybrid, I need to feel your touch on my heart for an eternity."

"An eternity with you is something that I want too, but I can't accept your offer… I just got my humanity back, being a corpse for so long makes me appreciate all the human things that life has to offer; I can't lose my humanity just yet." When his smile started to fade, she placed her hands on his bare chest and caught the look of his eye once more. "It isn't a rejection, it's a temporary delay."

"Sometimes I forget that you haven't been by my side in a lifetime but being around you again makes me feel like I haven't been away. I just wanted to make it permanent." He explained with a hint of disappointment lingering in his voice.

Amelie picked up the knife she used to cut the cheesecake and reached over to a clean glass on a rack and took his hand. She turned it over so that the palm of his hand was facing the ceiling and ran the blade across his skin. He winced, the shock of it all making the air leave his lungs and tried to move his hand away; but she kept it where she wanted it. She took the crystal glass and balled his hand into a fist, turning it onto its side so that the blood trickled into the glass. She watched it fill up to a satisfactory amount and returned his hand to him. She held the glass up as if she was going to give a toast and swirled the blood around the glass. "This is the promise of forever, when I'm ready I'll drink this. It could be a week from now, a month from now or a year but I will take this sweet ingredient and when I do we can start our eternity together."

A:N I was hoping to upload the next couple of chapters in time for Christmas, but oh well. I hope you enjoyed the chapter and the Christmas chapter will follow shortly. Leave a review and let me know what you think is going to happen with Klaus and Amelie and also Jon and his brother, Alexander. Thanks for reading!