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-Eight

The blood. The way it gushed through the open flesh… She tried not to let it get the better of her, but it was hard. The smell of the metallic liquid called to her but she couldn't let it bother her. Amelie closed her eyes and let her mind go to a better place as she took one deep breath in and then let it out.

"Open your eyes." Jay commanded as he stepped an inch closer to her, wrist extended and blood oozing onto the wooden floor below him.

"Don't come any closer, I have control over this."

"Open them!" he shouted violently.

When he raised his voice, she opened her eyes revealing the yellow iris. The veins under her eyes protruded through the skin and her fangs broke through her gums.

"I told you not to come any closer, I had it." She sounded like she was going to burst into tears as her frustration got the better of her.

He sighed and grabbed his water bottle. He opened the sports cap and aimed it at her. "You know that I have to do this."

"Just get it over with." She complained as she closed her eyes and prepared for the pain.

When he flicked the water infused with wolfsbane and vervain at her, she dropped to her knees, screaming in complete agony. Her fingers curled around her face as the tears dripped from her eyes. She knew that she wasn't allowed to act on the impulse her cravings created; she had allowed Jay to implant the fear of feeding from another vampire and now he had to test the strength of her resistance.

When his wound healed, he stepped over to her and held his hand out cautiously. When she didn't snap for him or show any sign that she wanted to feed from him, he picked her up and set her back on her feet.

"Well done, you didn't try to bite me, this time." He bit into his arm and filled a glass with the tiniest amount.

She took the glass and stared down at the blood with a small smile. "I don't know why you told me to meet up with Klaus today. I'm so scared of hurting him." She tipped her head back and let the blood slip down the back of her throat.

"Because you're really trying and you've been stuck in this apartment for days. Besides, I'm confident enough in my methods to let you out into the world."

"I'm glad one of us is confident." She set the glass down and grabbed the towel she had ready for herself from the cold radiator. She wiped the sweat off the back of her neck and motioned for Jay to move back. "Let's do this again."

"If you wish," he stayed where he was, inches away from her and bit into his wrist as hard as he could; the more blood the better.

Amelie stared at his wrist in horror and bit her lip as she tried to keep herself under control. "If I bite you,"

"You won't bite me, you want to see Klaus too much to bite me." He interrupted.

"If I bite you," she said again, "my bite will kill you… I'm a hybrid Jay."

"So, don't bite me." He said it so calmly that it was like her attacking him was nothing to him. "If you were even tempted to bite me, you would've by now."

"That's because I'm fighting it." She shouted, moving her eyes away from his wrist and up to his face.

He watched his wrist heal up slowly and smiled down at her proudly. "See, you can fight temptation. Stop building yourself up so much in your mind." He placed his hand on the top of her head, patting it roughly, "your cravings are all in your imagination."

She squinted with every slap he placed on her head and laughed a little. "Get off me and stop being so cocky." She stepped away from him and grabbed her own water bottle, taking a long gulp from it.

"I'm allowed to be, now I have two success stories."

Amelie watched him and sat down on the floor, crossing her legs. "What made you want to stop drinking from humans?"

He chuckled to himself and sat across from her, stretching out his legs. "What do you think made me stop?"

Amelie shrugged foolishly and tilted her head. "Not wanting to take any more lives?"

"I wanted to stop for the same reason you don't want to start; the fear of hurting the person you love the most." He leaned back on his hands and smiled at her. "Except my love wasn't the Original Hybrid and mine could actually die if I got too thirsty."

"She was human, why did you fall for a human?"

Jay raised an eyebrow and leaned in towards her. "Why did Klaus fall for you when you were human?" When Amelie acknowledged that she asked a silly question, Jay shook his head to himself and continued, "Her name's Florence, although she goes by Flo now but I almost let my hunger get the better of me and that's when I knew I needed to learn how to control myself."

Amelie smiled a little at him and played with a stray piece of fabric from her jeans. "Is that why you agreed to help me?"

"I agreed to help you because you needed my help. I would help any vampire that was looking to control themselves a little better." He got onto his feet and grabbed the towel Amelie had used earlier to clean up the blood on the floor. "Your situation was a little more appealing."

"How so?" she watched him clean the floor, glancing between the blood and his face.

"Because you're starting a family and I actually want to see you get over this so you can kick your brother's ass."

"That is if Klaus doesn't beat me to it."

"Either way, he's going to get what he deserves," he reached his hand out towards her and pulled himself up, "nobody messes with a baby."

"In his defence, he didn't know I was pregnant. I didn't even know I was pregnant at the time."

Jay looked at the small watch on his wrist and glanced at Amelie. "Well you better go catch a cab and tell your baby's daddy what he's going to be expecting."

Amelie pulled her phone out of her pocket and gasped when she saw the time, grabbing her coat quickly. "I can't believe it's almost four. Thank you," she patted his shoulder as she rushed out of the apartment, leaving him to do all of the cleaning up himself.

Klaus had been waiting in Times Square for what seemed like an eternity. She was late, very late and he was starting to get antsy. Alexander sat behind him on a bench, his leg crossed over the other as if he was an aristocrat but even he was starting to get nervous; both men knew that it was unlike Amelie to keep Klaus waiting.

"Are you sure she said four?" he called over to Klaus as he glanced down at his phone.

"I'm sure." He glanced over at Alexander and placed his hands in his pockets. "New York is a busy city; I assume traffic is a nightmare."

"She's a half hour late, I hate to say this but maybe she isn't coming."

Klaus held his head up high and clenched his jaw; he did think of that but he knew that she loved him as much as he loved her, she wouldn't lead him on. "She will come, I know that she will."

Alexander got off the bench and stepped over to his ally. "Do you want anything from that stand over there? I'm starving."

Klaus didn't look at him as he shook his head, he was more focused on watching every possible way that Amelie could come from.

"Suit yourself, I'll just be over there." Alexander backed away from him, shaking his head slightly; Klaus was either a fool or true to think that she would show up with everything going on inside her mind. His opinion of Klaus depended on Amelie.

She watched him, standing in the middle of their meeting place with the most optimistic look on his face in angst. Jay had faith in her, but she had none in herself. It was now or never, she needed to tell Klaus about their child; he had the right to know. She emerged from a small bistro and strolled over, picking at her nails and staring down at her feet. When she heard him step towards her, she closed her eyes and turned her back on him; the closer he got to her, the more temptation there was to sink her fangs into his neck.

"Amelie, look at me… Please." He sighed and gazed down at the back of her head, wanting so badly for her to turn to him. "I've missed you, more than words can describe."

"I know, I've missed you too; it is taking everything in my ability to stop myself from feeding off you." She took a couple of deep breaths and opened her eyes as the cravings seemed to evaporate. When she turned around and saw his sympathetic face, she lit up and latched onto him, throwing her arms around him.

He held onto her, unwilling to let her go. The smell of her hair comforted him immediately as the scent of lavender filled him. He looked down at her, cupping her face in his hands and smiled at her with such joy. "I'm glad you're okay."

As one tear rolled down her cheek, she gave him a half smile and shook her head. "I'm not okay, well I haven't been until this moment right now. I'm so sorry about attacking Elijah, I never wanted to hurt anyone."

"I came home in time to save him, he understands that it wasn't you that attacked him, but what Jacques did to you."

She nodded and wiped away her tear as she took a step back from her love. "I didn't want you to follow me Klaus, it was too dangerous for you."

"You can't kill me, Amelie. It was never dangerous."

She held herself and looked down at her feet once more. "I've been having training to control this bloodlust; as you know I returned to Chicago and I met a witch. She was the one who told me you showed up."

"I figured that one out, but why come here? Has a witch been helping you?"

She shook her head and glanced up at him. "I wanted to come here, although I confess that I wanted to come here with you but you're here now. She contacted a vampire who struggled with his cravings in the past. He's really helped me."

Klaus felt a little bit of jealousy towards this vampire; he wanted to be the one that helped Amelie but it was becoming clear to him that she wanted to do this by herself. She wouldn't allow herself to be his damsel in distress. She made that clear when she sacrificed herself to kill Jon.

"We think we have a couple of ways to undo your brother's toxin."

"Klaus," she sighed a little, placing her hand over her face. She was so overcome by nerves that she let him list all the possibilities.

"He's reverse engineered that toxin to create a new one that'll make you the way you were, a normal hybrid. Freya also suggested killing you and then reviving you but you'd be human again and I thought that it would be a solution if nothing else worked. I also had the idea that, if you let me, I could compel you." He shook his head a little and bit his lip slightly. "But that would only be with your permission."

Her eyes startled to fill up as she looked up at him; she appreciated that he spent her month away from him searching for a way to help her, but none of them would work, not now anyway. "I need to tell you something, none of them are going to work right now."

"Amelie, we need to try," he placed his hands on her shoulders, "I can't let you live in fear of hurting someone."

"I'm pregnant, that's why I've been having uncontrollable cravings."

He squeezed her shoulders and moved closer towards her, awe written all over his face; he never expected to get her pregnant. He knew it was possible but it was a surprise. "When did you find out?"

"The night I left… I went to the Bayou so that I could spend my time away as a wolf but I couldn't turn. That kind of gave me a hint so I bought a test and took it at the station. I wanted to tell you but I knew that you'd follow me to Chicago and I couldn't risk you coming when I had no control over myself."

He ran his thumb across her cheek as he gazed down at her. "Will you come home with me?" he reached into the pocket in his trousers and handed her, her engagement ring.

She stared down at the ring in her hand and placed it back on her finger. "On one condition."

"Anything."

"Nobody touches Jacques until after this baby is born because I want to be the one who ends him."

He put his arm around her waist and kissed the top of her head. "I think I can let you have this one. Just make it hurt."

She looked up at him, placing her hand on his chest. "He hurt me in the worst way, he took me away from the person I love the most; what he's got coming to him will be two fold."

A:N Amelie's finally told Klaus that she's pregnant and it's only a matter of time before Jacques finds out. Do you think everything will go well for them or will Jacques have an even more sinister plan? Let me know what you think.