AN: heres chapter three!
Grace+Leo in the bathroom
"He is the half brother that I've been wanting to meet my whole life, the dangerous Niklaus Mikaelson."
"Come on he looks harmless!"
"He's a original Grace," Leo said running his hands through his hair. "He is part of the first ever family of vampires."
"It's fine, he won't hurt you."
"I know… but then again you never know. I've heard the legends before, they've killed."
She grabbed his hand. "Now come on, it's time for you to meet your half brother Nik."
Leo sighed and looked into her eyes, finding trust swarming in them. Grace still held a grip on his hand as she opened the bathroom door and they both emerged into the living room.
Caroline sat up. "Whats going on?" She mouthed to Grace, Leo's gaze rested on Klaus who was talking to Barry by the kitchen island.
"Leo just met, well sort of met, the person he's been searching for his whole life."
Klaus heard Grace's words and got up to stand with them with them, alongside Caroline.
Barry followed Klaus. "Do you mean me? Because I'm a hoot," Barry grinned.
Leo shook his head and his gaze directed to Klaus.
"Me?" Klaus was taken aback, he saw something in Leo's eyes, something familiar. When he first saw him earlier that night he knew that something was off.
"You know that you have a brother right?" Leo got up the courage to say.
"Yeah I know, Elijah, Finn, Kol and Henrik…" Klaus responded warily.
"No… not from Mikael's bloodline."
"How do you know about Mikael," Klaus was serious now, his eyes fell flat and his face was stern. That name was like a disease for him, making him sick with every syllable. Caroline touched his arm reassuringly, knowing how much that name gets to him.
"I know that he's your step father, and that your mother had an affair with someone else, a wolf, named Ansel."
"And how might you know this?" His tone was still serious.
"Because Ansel told me," Leo let the words roll off his tongue. "He's my father too."
Klaus didn't say anything, he scanned his mind for words. His eyes were wide and his mouth was slightly parted in shock. Caroline grabbed his forearm with, now, both hands, and stroked her thumb in patterns around his soft sleeve.
"A-Ansel had another ch-child?" Klaus stuttered in shock, his old mood now fading into a more shaken up one.
"You didn't know?" He shook his head. "I've been looking for you for practically my whole life."
"You have?"
Leo nodded again.
They stared at each other.
"Well this is awkward," Barry butted in.
"Really Barry?" Grace scolded.
"Right now?" Caroline rolled her eyes, still clinging to Klaus's arm as she gave Barry an annoyed look.
"Sometimes I wondered if Ansel ever did have another child, or for that matter one before I was born," Klaus admitted.
"You did?"
"Yup," He shook his head."I wondered what that person was like, if he or she was brave and bold, or a coward… and I could tell that you, you are no coward," A smile tugged at the corner of his lips.
"How can you tell that?" Leo asked, loosening up more.
"You told me of all people, and didn't chicken out."
Leo laughed. "I've heard the stories about you…" Klaus's brief smile faded and his eyes hardened again.
"He's changed," Caroline said right away, not wanting anyone to think the worst of the man she brought on a friends trip with them. He's good and changed at heart.
"Even if he didn't change, he would still be my brother, well, half brother," He grinned, a smile playing on his lips again.
Klaus's cold eyes grew warm again as his mouth gaped open at this new achievement. Leo walked towards him and gave him a hug.
This was very difficult for Klaus, Caroline knew it. Ever since Elijah passed away he felt utterly alone. His sister was off in Europe with a man named Stefan Salvatore, Caroline's best childhood friend, though Caroline didn't know that piece of information. She knew that Rebekah was traveling with her lover, just not that her lover is her childhood best friend. His other brother Kol, was off somewhere in the world, and his other brother, Finn, died, but they weren't really close. Plus their families youngest, Henrik, was killed when they were younger along with their first born Freya, who was taken by their aunt. Caroline thought as she smiled at the sight before her. Basically everyone of his siblings are dead except Rebekah and Kol who are traveling.
"Why not we give them some alone time," Grace suggested, walking into her room. Barry and Caroline followed.
"Ansel told me about you…" Leo started.
"HE IS SO HOT!" Both girls screamed from inside, knowingly talking about each others guests. "RIGHT!?"
"Oh my god shut up!" Barry whined in protest to being locked up with two giddy girls. "I'm going to leave now if you keep girly talking."
The boys out in the main room raised their eyebrows at the squeals and smiled in satisfaction.
They sat down at the kitchen table. "He told you about me?"
"Yes, he told me that he had an affair with someone named Esther Mikaelson. He told me that he had a kid with her but Mikael, your step father," Klaus cringed at the name. "refused to let you stay with him, so Esther took you."
"How many years after were you born?"
"I was born around the same time as you, maybe a year or two after, Ansel was kinda a stud," He joked.
"So we're around the same age… just over a thousand?" Klaus said with an amused voice. "But are you somehow an original…? I know Esther only turned us."
"No, but I'm a full fledged hybrid."
"I'm glad I'm not alone."
"Me too, what about your other siblings? I would very much like to meet them one day."
Leo noticed Klaus tense a bit at the mention. "Rebekah, the only sister alive, is off in Europe with her lover, or she was… I heard she got a job somewhere."
"A job?"
"Rebekah has always wanted to go travel and be more human like… I guess she has settled for a summer job."
"Do you keep in touch?"
Klaus nodded. "My youngest brother, alive, Kol, is somewhere out there doing whatever Kol does these days."
"Do you keep in touch with him?"
"Not as much as my baby sister, but sometimes sure."
"What about Elijah? In the stories I've heard about your family Elijah was always marked as the nobleman who stayed true to his word… unlike his brother," Leo grinned.
Klaus didn't answer, his already ocean eyes turned from water to ice once again. He just looked at his hands as his mouth parted slightly.
Leo then came to his senses after 40 seconds of silence. "I'm so sorry.. I didn't mean to—"
"No, its fine," Klaus interjected. "You couldn't of known. Elijah was the one who kept me in check, without him I would go mad, and I realized that only a year before he died."
"Were you guys separated over the centuries?"
"I wasn't close to them. I put them to sleep many times, which is a nicer way of saying I stuck daggers in their chests to keep them safe… they hated me for it but got over it as the time passed. A few years ago, we all reunited and we weren't okay at first, but we started to realize we couldn't live without each other. We managed to cope when our oldest brother Finn, died, but there was a tiny piece lost of our lives."
"That's awful, I can't imagine what it's like to lose a sibling."
"Well I've done it four times."
"Four times?"
"Henrik, our families youngest was mauled by wolves when he was only an early teenager, that's what made our mother and Mikael turn us into immortal vampires. Plus, Freya, our oldest sibling was taken when she was 5. Mikael grew to hate everything after his favorite daughter left his life," Leo stayed quiet, taking in all of this information. "Elijah, well, that was the worse for me."
"When did it happen?"
"A few years ago. He was the only one that was here for me all the time while our other two siblings were off traveling."
"So he was like the only person who kept you sane?"
"At the time yes," Klaus nodded in agreement. "But he was killed, and it was all my fault."
"What happened?"
"Mikael happened."
"What did he do?"
"Well, Elijah and I had lived in the same apartment in London, but when Mikael found us we fled," Klaus said. "He managed to find us after years of hunting. I told Elijah I would be back by 10:00, then we could hang out. I was a little bit late… It was about 10:30 when I managed to leave, but, I was suddenly knocked out."
"Knocked out?"
"Yes, by Mikael," Klaus continued. "I was knocked out cold, he snapped my neck and then threw me into a nearby alley. Then he went to our apartment, found Elijah and killed him, to punish me."
"Why punish you?"
"Because I'm an abomination… a bastard. I'm not his son, so he hates me."
"So he killed your brother just to torture you?" Klaus nodded, not letting the light tears in his eyes spill. "It wasn't your fault Klaus."
"It was. I told him I would be back by 10, it was 10:30 when I left. If I left at the right time, Mikael wouldn't of snapped my neck and Elijah would be here right now because I would been able to stop it."
Leo hesitated, feeling sorry for his loss. "I'm so sorry,"
He shook his head. "Yeah, well after I woke up in the alley I rushed back to warn Elijah but when I got there, the white oak stake, the only weapon that could kill an original, was laying on the floor covered in blood and he and Elijah were gone. Mikael had left a note saying this was my fault," Leo took in the information. "I moved out of our apartment in London, then I moved around a bit and ended up here. I was haunted in my dreams and with hallucinations. It was like if you had a werewolf bite, except the nightmares and the visions you see during the day were your dead brother instead. After I found that he died, I was very dysfunctional, a worse monster than I ever was."
"How did you manage to get a grip on reality?"
Klaus chuckled. "Actually, when I moved here, Caroline was in the place next door to me. She heard the pain I was in and the things being thrown around my apartment 24/7. She became my friend, and she's what changed me. I don't have those nightmares anymore, only dreams of reuniting with my brother one day. Well, occasionally some slip in."
Leo smiled. "I'm happy you found someone that changed you, she seems lovely."
Klaus blushed. "Yeah well, you didn't really meet her yet, she's something amazing." _
Barry, Caroline & Grace in Graces room
Barry had his ear pressed up against the door and Grace and Caroline sat on the bed. They were listening to Klaus and Leo's conversation. Barry needed to be near the door because he doesn't have vamp hearing like the rest.
"Sucks to be you Barry," Caroline said laying on her stomach.
"Well I don't need to feed on blood like you."
"It's not too bad," Grace said. "It's actually pretty great."
"Yeah because you can actually stand being around it."
Caroline heard her name mentioned. "She's something amazing," She heard Klaus say. She smiled. Grace hit her side.
"Thats your man," She whispered.
Caroline rolled her eyes, but the smile stayed plastered on her face which was now blooming with roses.
"Is your bro-mancing over yet?" Barry moaned from inside the room.
"I can quite literally hear your eyes roll!" Caroline yelled, using her vamp hearing intently.
They heard them sigh, "Yes!"
The three emerged from inside of the room. Klaus and Leo were sitting on barstools at the island. Caroline could tell Klaus was intimidated by all of the people entering again.
"Leo has been looking for you for a while now," Grace said approaching Klaus. "Im so happy he found you." She went to hug him.
Klaus flinched the moment she wrapped her arms around his neck, he hugged her back with a genuine smile. Caroline also smiled at the fact that he was getting along with her friends.
"Okay so it's a quarter to 10 and we have a very early flight tomorrow! So let's get cozy and watch some movies!" Grace unwrapped her arms from Klaus's neck, one still lingering as she shouted.
"They were talking for 5 hours?" Barry stretched.
"You were asleep for three of them," Caroline shot back, moving to sit near Klaus.
"I was?!" Barry said, shocked.
The girls nodded.
"We were not talking for 5 hours," Leo said looking at the closest phone around, Klaus's, which laid between them on the island counter.
"It's 7:45, Grace," Leo rolled his eyes, showing her the phone.
"What!?"
"It's been two hours and 45 minutes," Klaus said.
"Quick math, nice," Caroline grinned.
"It's not that hard, love."
Grace smirked at her friend when Klaus said "love".
"Well I was never in algebra," Caroline rolled her eyes.
"Neither was I," Klaus smirked. "Didn't have school."
"Yeah because you were born in viking times," Caroline muttered under her breath.
"Care, you should know better than to mumble stuff under your breath in a room full of vampires," Grace outed.
"And me!" Barry said feeling left out. "And the hybrids."
Everyone looked at him. "What?"
"Do you not know what hybrid is?" Leo asked.
"No..."
"It means part werewolf and part vampire…" Caroline said.
"WEREWOLVES?! THEY EXIST!?" Barry screeched.
"Yes!" Everyone said in response.
"What has our world come to?"
"Vampires, witches, werewolves, hybrids, originals, metas, Flashes…" Caroline said replaying her words in her mind to see if it sounded right. "Wait you're a meta… never mind scratch that."
"Okay so you guys can claim your spots on the couch, or the floor if you wish," Grace told them, holding her arm out welcoming them to her sitting area.
"What are we going to watch?" Caroline asked, walking over to the couch.
"Didn't you bring Titanic?" Leo smirked.
"I'm still freaking out that you're here and miraculously my best friends half brother..." Caroline said. Everyone sat down on the couch, Klaus next to Caroline, Leo next to Grace on the other part of the couch and Barry on the reclining chair.
"Grace told me that you have OCD," Leo looked at Caroline.
"It's awful, she's nuts," Barry rolled his eyes thinking back to earlier when she almost killed him. "She almost killed me."
"I didn't almost kill you…" Caroline looked away because Klaus said something to her.
Barry looked at Leo and shook his head 'yes'. Caroline knew what he was doing, but chose ignored it.
"Please Leo, tell me your suitcase it packed and not a mess, like everyone else's was before I got to it," Caroline pleaded.
"It's probably more organized than yours," Leo grinned, knowing that comment was going to eat at her.
Caroline pretended to be hurt and put her hand over her chest. "That's not even possible."
"Challenge accepted," Leo got up to go retrieve his bag from by the door. Caroline sped off of the couch with speed and got there before Leo even reached the door. Everyone else on the couch adjusted themselves so they could see the incoming OCD war. Caroline and Leo unzipped their bags in sync and opened them up, the back part hitting the ground with a thud.
"We need judges!" Caroline yelled. Klaus sped over, followed by Grace and Barry. They sat on the ground by the door and observed the bags. They were both made for perfection. All of the clothes were organized into occasions. Socks and delegates were in the pouch above the rest and the toiletries were there too. The three examined the bags while Leo and Caroline looked at each others.
"They're both perfect," Grace admitted.
Barry sighed. "Crap, there's two of them."
They laughed. "Well you can do a tie breaker, see whose backpack is more organized," Klaus suggested, pointing over to their bags which were on the ground behind them.
They both grabbed the bags and opened them. Caroline's laptop rested at the back of the bag, followed by a kindle. Grace, Klaus and Barry noted the size order. .
Leo's bag had less stuff in it so the "Judges" picked Leo's bag. Caroline by not means happy at the fact that they picked him because of the lack of stuff in his bag making it look neater.
"Hmm, I say Leo," Grace said slowly and surprisingly. Barry joined in agreeing even though if Leo's bag was sloppier he would still choose him because he didn't like the fact that Caroline would win, because she has threatened to kill him for not being neat. Ever since Barry and Caroline met, they have bickered like siblings. Their first fight was about detective work, since Barry was a former detective and Caroline had studied it before, some heated battles have erupted.
"That's not fair, he has less stuff in it," Caroline wined.
"I think yours is great, love," Klaus grinned and brushed his hand over her shoulder.
"Well too bad," Barry said pushing Caroline's buttons. "It looks neater."
Caroline's was obviously annoyed because she was stories directly at Barry while everyone else was trying to comfort her. Should she attack head on? Or from behind? But, right before she could attempt, the door blasted open. As a cold breeze blew on them.
AN: So this chapter is mainly about Klaus and Leo... didnt expect that right? They're brothers, well half, Leo is Ansel's son. I made this up in the development of this story because my cousin and I wanted our boyfriends to have equal parts... sometime like that.
Next time it's a bit of a movie night :)
And who is it that is 'crashing' the party?
Oh and we heard a bit about Elijah and the rest of Klaus's siblings... So Elijah died which plays a big part in this story. This is one of the main reasons why Klaus is so messed up.
Heres the link to the house they'll be staying in!
vacation/all/detailpage/398/better-together