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 Twenty-Six

"Are you certain this will work?" Klaus was hopeful, but after a couple of weeks of dead ends, his wishful thinking was starting to become dry. Jacques couldn't create anything to help Amelie and he wasn't skilled enough to create a spell.

"Alex thinks it'll work." Freya replied as she followed her brother down the stairs.

"Someone's getting cosy, what does his girlfriend think of the little nicknames." Klaus teased with the slightest smirk.

"When you spend weeks in a tiny room with someone, slaving yourself over spells you get acquainted."

"Don't get too acquainted, once this is over and I have Amelie back we can all go back to our day to day lives."

"And what about Jacques? I assume you have a plan for him."

Klaus turned on his heel and looked down at his sister. "You assumed correctly. I'm going to make him suffer for what he's done to Amelie. One thing that I hold dear is family and for him to betray his own flesh and blood; it's criminal." Klaus stepped into Freya's little lab and approached the desk Alexander was working at. "Tell me some good news."

"I think I might have a way to return Amelie to her normal self, but you aren't going to like it." He said slowly, glancing between Freya and Klaus.

"Spit it out."

"We're going to have to kill her and resurrect her." Freya said from the doorway, her eyes fixated on the back of Klaus' head.

Klaus tipped his head back and stared up at the ceiling as he tried to comprehend their plan. "That's your only solution?"

"It's the only one that'll work, Klaus." Alexander stood up, clasping his hands in front of his body. "Freya and I can channel our magic; hell, Margot will help if it means getting our lives back."

"But she'll be brought back as a human which means she'll have no chance of being a hybrid anymore seen as she took the last of the Doppelganger blood."

A human life for Amelie wasn't what Klaus wanted, it would mean that their eternity would be restricted to a few decades, she wouldn't want that even if it meant getting her humanity back. If there was no other way, then he would have to sit her down and explain the situation. She could either restore her humanity or spend an eternity craving the blood of those around her. He made a promise to her that he would let her make her own decisions even though in this moment, it was coming back to bite him.

With the warm, scarlet blood of a random vampire in her system, Amelie felt like she was on top of the world, so high up that she didn't want to come down. She knew that this wasn't what she wanted but she needed to sustain herself. The only positive she saw was the blood didn't have the same effect on her; the fuller she was, the longer she didn't have the cravings.

She dusted herself off and left the body of the drained vampire in a dumpster before making her way back to the bar where she had been spending all her time. She couldn't stand being alone and the new friendship with the witch behind the bar was the only thing she could cling onto.

"Well, did you feed?" Harley was in her early thirties, small and had the face that reminded Amelie of a baby deer. She had been kind to Amelie ever since she came to Chicago, in fact she was the only one who had been kind to her since her arrival.

"Yes, and I finally feel full. Drinking human blood, it's made me weak." Amelie sat on the barstool by the bar and watched the witch clean down the mahogany. "But I guess that's because I'm feeding for two now."

"That's the downside to having a little tribrid inside you," she leaned in towards her with a friendly smile and whispered, "it takes more blood to keep you standing."

"I know, I just need to learn how to control my cravings before I can go home, if I'm even welcome home." She rested her head on her hand and bit her lip. "I know that I wouldn't forgive Klaus if he just got up and left without saying goodbye."

"But you need to realise that you did the right thing. You're a ticking time bomb who can't escape the urges." Harley shrugged her shoulders and threw the rag in her hand over her shoulder then leaned on the bar. "Once you have that baby, all your issues will die down."

"But I'll still need vampire blood to stop myself from dying off. No matter what happens, I'm screwed."

"A couple of drops here and there will keep you on your toes. I'm sure Klaus can spare a glass or two."

Amelie sighed a little, running her fingers through her hair slowly as she thought about the possible reactions Klaus would have to her pregnancy and her return. "I guess so, all I know is I need some more of that therapy you've been giving me. I need you to make me stop craving the blood so much."

Harley shook her head and closed her eyes. "I cannot emphasise this enough, I only gave you that therapy before I knew you were pregnant. Your baby needs the blood, I'm not going to help you starve the child." She got off the bar and placed her hands on her hips. "My advice for you is to call Klaus, tell him he's going to be a dad again and that there's nothing you can do to kick the cravings."

Amelie tapped her nails off the wood and raised her brows a little. "I was fearing that you would say that." She shook her head and closed her eyes for a moment. "I'm not ready to tell him, not yet."

"He's the father, he's going to want to know."

"He will know," Amelie stared at the woman and tilted her head a little, "but if I tell him he'll come looking for me. If he hasn't already." She got onto her feet and placed her hands into her pockets. "I think it's time for me to move on from this place. You can't help me anymore."

"Where are you going to go?" Harley furrowed her brows and watched Amelie as she thought hard about her answer.

"Somewhere that I've always dreamed of going. Thanks for your help, I appreciated it."

One moment Amelie was there and the next she was gone. Harley felt a feeling of loss, a couple of weeks with that enchanting woman, nonstop, it became a distraction to her dead-end bar. Plus, she had a way of making you feel like you were the only person that mattered most in the world. She could only imagine how her other half was feeling but her feelings didn't even measure up to his loss.

"You said you had a lead for me." Klaus said as he stepped out of the elevator and into Jacques' penthouse. Alexander followed closely behind him with Jacques a little further behind.

"Did you have to bring your little lap dog?" he complained as he burned a hole into his nemesis' head with his eyes.

"Don't forget who got who into this mess. If you didn't want me here, you shouldn't have messed with your little sister." Alexander replied with a smirk as he stepped arrogantly around the apartment, knowing that it was driving Jacques crazy.

"Since when were you best friends with Amelie?"

"Since you made an appearance. I warned her that you would ruin her."

"Play nice," Klaus interrupted with his finger raised as he looked between the two men, "I'm here for your lead and that's it. It better be worth my time." Klaus crossed his arms and widened his stance as he turned his full attention to Jacques. "Time to spill your guts."

"I caught her scent down at the Bayou. I thought I'd sniff around while I was in my wolf form and that's what I caught."

"Well she was there when she turned, that's not much to go on." Alexander reminded Klaus discreetly.

Klaus glanced at Alexander and took in a deep breath. "Is that it? I was hoping you were summoning me here to tell me that you actually did something worthwhile."

Jacques put his hands up defensively and raised his brows. "Listen to me, her scent was fresh. I was going to see if she had transformed, perhaps that she was spending her time in the deep woods as a beast but she didn't. It was just the scent of her perfume that I caught. I think she tried to transform but something stopped her."

"Like what?"

"Maybe I mixed my potion wrong or perhaps she was just wanting to clear her head after attacking your brother, I'm not sure."

"Have you got any good news or am I just here for something mediocre at best?"

"I have an idea." He said abruptly as if he was distracting Klaus from his anger.

"So do we."

"I think I can reverse engineer what I made, switch out a few ingredients and change the potency. It has a good shot of working."

Alexander turned to Klaus and stared over his shoulder at the man he hated the most. "I'm not buying what he's saying."

"If it can be done, it'll save Amelie dying and being brought back." He slowly looked at Alexander, the pain that he was suffering in his heart was so visible on his face that it made his ally's jaw drop. "We have to consider it."

He nodded at Klaus once and backed away, taking a glimpse of Jacques in his glory before walking towards the back of the penthouse. "Very well."

Klaus composed himself and looked his brother in law in the eye, taking a couple of steps closer to him. "How quick can you make it?"

"I think I can have it ready in a week or so. I just need a few ingredients."

"Then get them."

Jacques snorted out a laugh and shook his head. "It's not that simple. They're very rare."

"Then find them because if you don't, I will have no problem taking away all the things you hold dear; Alec, your odd little garden and this building your father left you. I will burn this place to the ground with you inside if you do not try a little harder to make this work. Have I made myself clear?"

Jacques raised a brow and leaned in towards Klaus and said in a hushed tone, "I already said I was going to do everything I can to help my sister. You worry about your end, you know, finding her; I'll worry about getting my ingredients."

"Then we have an understanding. I'm closing in on Amelie, just be prepared."

Hayley watched over Elijah, still worried about his feelings towards his attack. With Hope on her lap, she gazed down at him with her brow raised, staring at the place on his neck where Amelie stuck her fangs into. She couldn't wrap her head around what was going on; why Jacques had targeted his own flesh and blood or the reason why she couldn't control her bloodlust. She was usually so tame when it came to feeding. It was all so odd.

"I can feel you staring at me again," Elijah said with a small smile, "I've told you so many times that I'm fine."

"I know but I'm just waiting for something to go wrong." She admitted a little foolishly. "How do you feel about all of this? You haven't really spoke much about it."

"There's not much to say," he got out of his seat and stroked the top of his niece's head, "I was furious and confused at first but then I heard why she was so ravenous and all I could feel was pity. More so for her than Nik."

"What happened that night? How did she get close enough to hurt you?" Hayley watched him as he fixed himself a glass of whiskey and left Hope by her toys. "Did she sneak up on you?"

"I was the only one at home and I knew something was wrong, she was too quiet. Then suddenly I heard her cry so I rushed up to the room to check on her. When I got there, she was taking her ring off with a suitcase on the bed and a letter in her hand." He took a sip from the glass and set it back on the table.

"Did you try to comfort her?"

"Well yes, that's how she got me." He smiled a little bit and stepped over to Hayley placing his hands on her shoulders. "She latched onto me so hard that I was just about able to push her off me. But there's no need for you to worry yourself over the details. We're just lucky that Klaus came home when he did."

"The only thing I worry about are your feelings, if you don't want to be around her then we'll move out. Start a life away from Klaus' prying eyes and Freya's partying lifestyle." She smiled up at him, wanting him to agree but she knew that he wouldn't.

"All of us are stronger together, especially with Jacques out there. I know that he's helping my brother now, but if I'm right, he'll stab him in the back as soon as he's in the clear. I know my old friend well, a little too well for his own good."

"And when all of this is over?"

He placed a kiss on the top of her head and pulled her closer to him, wrapping his arms around her warm body. "When we have peace once more, we can begin our life like a normal couple in a suburb or an apartment, as long as I'm with you, I don't care where we live."

She looked up at him, her chin resting on his chest. "I'll hold you to that promise."

"You have my word, Hayley. Once Jacques is dealt with then we'll go."

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