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 Thirty-One

With Jacques coming to the compound, Klaus sent Hayley and Hope away for the night; he didn't want any casualties and he definitely didn't want Jacques anywhere near his daughter. When Amelie told him about his emotional ambush at the park, he was furious. If Amelie hadn't had claimed his life, he would've taken it for himself. Whatever she had planned for him, he hoped it was ruthless. He stepped into the kitchen and watched her as she prepared the meals for the feast. Her mind had been taken off her bloodlust and her nervousness as she concentrated on her cook books.

"Why don't you let me finish up in here, you go rest." He said as he stood behind her, he wrapped his arms around her and placed his hands on the small bump.

"I'll be fine, I want to make sure that everything is perfect. I want him to think that we're making amends and that means putting the effort in." she glanced over her shoulder at him and placed a hand over his for a moment. "If you want to help me, will you set the table up? I want it to be grand."

"I will give you the grandest table setting you've ever laid your eyes upon." He teased as he placed a kiss on her cheek. He let go of her and took a quick glance over the meals that she was preparing. "Is Jacques coming alone tonight?"

"Yes, from what I know, Alec has gone MIA. I think my brother is worried about him." She sighed a little and shook her head. "But he wants to make up with me more so he's still coming."

Klaus leaned against the door frame and nodded to himself. "How are you feeling about tonight?"

"I'm excited but also nervous. I'm nervous because I feel like something is going to go wrong and I'm excited because a small part of me wishes that Jacques would just drop his whole idea of taking over the city. I'm probably a fool for feeling like that."

"You're not a fool, he's the only blood you've got and that means something to you."

"Blood doesn't do this to blood." She let out a sigh and started to furiously chop at the carrots spread out in front of her. "I'll get over it soon enough. Go get the table set up." She smiled at him and shrugged her shoulders. "Please?"

He gave her a comforting smile and nodded. "As you wish."

It had been a while since Kol had been in the compound and very little had changed, the only noticeable difference was how tolerable Klaus had become. He put it down to the good graces of Amelie and the bun she had in her oven. Kol put his arms around his brother and patted him on the back.

"I hear you finally let her out to play in the real world." He smirked a little as he took a seat at the dining table.

"Well, all of our enemies were dead or dealt with and I thought it was time that met the modern world."

"Where is the lovely Amelie? It's been a while since I've laid eyes on her."

"She's in the kitchen," Klaus placed his hand on his brother's shoulder as he attempted to walk around Klaus, "give her a little bit of space for now, she's feeling the pressure of this dinner and she doesn't need you teasing her."

"I wasn't going to do that, brother. I was simply going to pass on my congratulations."

"You can congratulate her tonight, as for now I need you to do a little bit of digging for me."

"What is it?"

Klaus lowered the tone of his voice, just in case Amelie was eavesdropping on their conversation. "I need you to see if you can find out anything about Jacques' partner, Alec; Amelie says he's missing and if my suspicions are correct, Jacques has him working on something that'll help him take our city."

"I'll see what I can find."

"Thank you, Kol I would do it myself, but Amelie is keeping me on my toes, she wants this place sitting like a pin for her brother's arrival."

"Why go through all this bother if she's just going to end up killing him?"

"Because she wants him to feel the betrayal she felt. One thing that you didn't know about her is she has a wicked temper."

"I would put that down to the werewolf gene, it's a pesky little thing, isn't it?" Kol smirked and started to head towards the front door. "You would know all about wild tempers, wouldn't you?"

"And you'll have the sharp end of mine if you don't hurry up and find out some information for me."

"I'll be back before the dinner with something of use, I can assure you that."

"I'll hold you to it."

The Mikaelsons waited for eight patiently, they could feel the tension radiating from Amelie as she sat in the corner of the room, checking her watch every couple of seconds. Elijah looked at her and frowned slightly, he couldn't imagine how she was feeling; it was all so complicated for her. To make matters worse, Kol and Klaus were conspiring about something upstairs. It meant that Freya and himself would have to make sure Amelie didn't explode.

"How are you feeling?" Elijah asked her softly.

Amelie looked at him, her hand pressed to her mouth as she chewed on the ends of her nails. "I'm nervous. What if he doesn't show up? What if he knows that I'm planning on betraying him?"

"I know Jacques well, he's confident enough in your bloodline to make an appearance and too arrogant to suspect you of anything. Mark my words, you have nothing to worry about."

"If he still plans on taking the city, he's going to want you by his side." Freya interjected with a kind tone. "He needs to show up to have you on his side."

"This all feels very strange to me, I wish I was an only child; at least that way I wouldn't want to eat my family."

"It's the baby that's making you feel like that. Just think how quickly the next seven months will go." Freya tried to be reassuring, but it wasn't really working. She could tell that Amelie was a ball of tension.

"I hope they go quick, I don't know how much more of this bloodlust I can take."

"We'll get you through it, the Mikaelsons always prevail."

"Well, what did you find out?" Klaus asked as he crossed his arms across his chest.

"Very little, no one has laid eye on Alec in a week or so. I don't think Jacques really noticed until a few days ago which means he was sent to do a task; it probably went unfinished."

"Did anyone see what happened to him?"

"His last known location was the train station, so he was probably leaving town when he vanished."

Klaus nodded and poured himself and Kol a drink. "I'll have people keep an eye out for him, if he steps foot back into the city, we'll be the first to know about it."

"What do you think Jacques and Alec were planning?"

"If my guess is right, they were probably going to try to get someone's help and the only person that would help them is Marcel."

"How would they even know about Marcel?"

"Both of them have been around for a while and I would say that Alec is the best at staying under the radar." Klaus shook his head to himself. "Alec's probably been part of Marcel's posse since before we returned to the city. But that's just a feeling, it would explain why he's comfortable enough to approach him for help."

"Or it's smart, two of your enemies teaming up together to wipe us all out."

"We'll get to the bottom of it." From downstairs, he could hear Jacques step into his home and he could hear the nervousness in Amelie's voice. "Looks like he's here."

"I'm going to need a drink." Kol remarked as he walked out of the room.

"Make that two."

Jacques sat across from Amelie and watched as she fidgeted in her seat. He knew that his presence made her squirm, but he wanted to fix things between them. Jacques was all alone now, he didn't know where Alec was he hadn't heard from him and he couldn't stand facing the world all alone. He looked at every Mikaelson before he cleared his throat, wetting it with a sip of red wine.

"I want you all to know that I'm dropping my plan of taking over this city; it's not really worth it."

"Worth what?" Freya asked.

"Losing my sister. Well, I'm afraid that I've already lost her."

"You don't have to speak about me like I'm dead, I'm right here." She held her glass of water close to her chest and chewed the skin off her lip. "There's still a chance for you to make things right between the two of us; between all of us. I wouldn't have invited you here for no reason." Amelie looked at Klaus and took his hand under the table. "Klaus is willing to forgive you, we all are."

Jacques looked at Elijah and then to Kol with a raised brow. "The two of you included?"

"We're going to be family by law soon, a family that stays together, rules together." Kol said with a smirk.

"I didn't realise that wedding planning had been set in motion." Jacques watched the plates as the servers placed them in front of the Mikaelson family and then himself.

"I want to be married to Klaus before our child is born, it's a little bit old fashioned of me but it's what I want."

"It's what both of us want." Klaus added as he looked down at Amelie, giving her a nod.

"I want you to walk me down the aisle." She looked at her brother and watched as he almost choked on the piece of meat in his mouth.

"You actually want me to be the one to walk you down the aisle?"

"You're the only blood that I have left, who else would I have picked?"

"Elijah or that pitiful Alexander; I know that the two of you are close friends."

"Blood is thicker than water, and if you're willing to drop your plans then I am willing to give you another chance. One of my redeeming qualities is that I forgive. Alexander can tell you all about that."

"I would be honoured to walk you down the aisle, as long as that isn't going to cause any tension between the rest of the family." He looked around the table, lingering on his old friend.

"We would be delighted for you to accept Amelie's olive branch." Elijah was the only one that was going to be able to convince Jacques to accept; he knew him the longest and they had a very resourceful friendship back in the day.

"Then I accept." Jacques smiled at Amelie and held his glass up in the air. "May I propose a toast then, to my darling little sister and her soon to be betrothed; thank you for allowing me to have this second chance. I know that if I were in your shoes, I wouldn't even consider the idea."

Amelie leaned over the table and clinked her glass off Jacques' and smiled as sweetly as she could at him. "To forgiveness."

The rest of the dinner went the way Amelie had hoped it would. She couldn't tell if Jacques suspected anything, but by the way he tried to linger around the compound longer than he was welcomed to, she assumed that it went off without a hitch. She was proud of herself, she was able to refrain from showing her anger and her hurt, but she didn't know if she would be able to hold off until after her wedding. She wanted to find a way to get rid of him long before then, she couldn't fathom the idea of having to walk beside him, arm in arm.

"You should be proud of yourself," Klaus said from the doorway, resting his shoulder against it, his arms folded across his chest, "you're turning into a Mikaelson. All the planning and scheming. It's very devious of you."

"I've always been devious, you just haven't saw that side of me." She stepped over to him, wrapping her arms around his waist. "At least you're on my good side."

"I don't want to see you angry at me again, I've had enough of that for a lifetime." He stroked the back of her head and gave her a half smile. "Are you sure you want to go through with this though? I don't want you to have any regrets because you'll have to live with it for an eternity."

"Trust me, if I let him live, that'll be my only regret." She placed a kiss on his cheek and removed her arms from him. "I'm going to go for a walk, try to clear my head before I go to bed."

"Want me to go with you?"

"No, it's fine. I won't be too long. Just wait up for me, okay?"

Klaus nodded and rolled up his shirt sleeves. "I'm going to make a start on clearing up so just get me when you come back."

Amelie nodded and watched him for a moment before leaving their home. She couldn't let Klaus know what she was doing, the only person that was ever going to know would be her.

A:N I know I haven't updated in a long time, so this chapter probably wasn't the best it could be, it's hard getting back into the swing of things. I still have a lot of things planned for this story, I'm just hoping that I still have the willpower to continue on with it. Thank you for reading this!