"You have one chance to leave, Elijah. Give your niece another family member to look after her," I warn.
Bloody as he is, Elijah still stands proud, blocking Klaus from my path.
I nod and the vampires descend on him.
Klaus nearly looks impressed as my vampires - Marcel's really- finally succeed in stabbing a syringe into Elijah's thigh and he crumples to the ground.
"I don't do collateral damage," I explain dryly.
Klaus gives a nod, "Noted. But this is hardly a fair fight, love. An original hybrid going against a human witch. Hardly fair."
I said nothing, instead, I clench my fist around the knife I was holding to release more of my blood and utter a spell.
Soon he is immobile.
"Come on, let's bring him to Marcel," one of the vampires jeer, laughing in Klaus' face while Klaus grits his teeth.
I waved my free hand and they all collapse.
I raised my brow and say to Klaus, "Hardly fair, love."
"Kate and Austin," Klaus chokes out.
All the blood drains from my face.
"What do you mean," I demand.
I release my magic's hold of his throat to let him talk.
"I figured you wouldn't like collateral, so I invested in some. Just in case you actually went through with one of your threats. I was hoping you'd be too weak to succeed, but I'd be a fool if I didn't see your power," Klaus purrs, scanning over me.
"So you turned them," I choke.
Through bloodied teeth, he drawls, " I can still make vampires."
I knew I couldn't do the spell to destroy him because he was now connected to my friends. Dragged them into this supernatural world they had no wish to be a part of, however, that didn't stop me from throwing the dagger at him. It wedges right in between his ribs, above his heart.
I slump down on the wall and chuckle, "I really am damned to hell now."
I hear Klaus sigh as my magic drops. He walks over, casting a shadow above me.
"Now why'd you say that?" he asks.
"I learned to care about you, believe it or not," I sigh, "You're the monster everyone says you are but ...not. You can be really sweet at times." I smile sadly.
"Then why kill me?" he asks.
"It was your life for mine," I tell him, looking up into his beautiful blue eyes, "Congrats Klaus, you've won. I give you permission to kill me, no guilt nor anguish. I don't hold you responsible for what happens next."
He kneels down beside me, cradling my head between his hands, "Not yet you don't"
His pupils diliate, the dark purple veins beneath his eyes appear, and he buries his teeth into my neck.
"My advice would be to leave her. Be good to her and perhaps she will forgive," Elijah continues, "I think she's finally given up on killing you."
"Because I forced her hand. Besides, she's a danger to the family. There was a reason I killed the rest of her family. They're loyal to the natural world -too powerful for their own good. And we, brother are the most unantural things they've come across."
"She visited her dead lover today. A boy named Connor," Elijah starts.
"-and that's suppose to endear me to her? Knowing she's still hung up on a ghost?" Klaus snears.
"Let me finish! There's more at work than what you know. Here," Elijah says, dropping a file in front of Klaus. "You negelcted to do a thorugh background check on this girl."
"Alexandria Greyson," Klaus murmurs, opening the file.
Iniside was a thick pile of corners reports. All the pictures were removed but the decription matched Lex. Black hair 5' 6'', beauty mark on her left arm.
"This could have easily been forged. The best way to escape is-"
"To die," finished Elijah, "but look at the description of her death: animal attack. She bled out from animal bites. My guess werewolf. It takes someone incredible powerful to bring back a dead girl."
"Now that, I believe, but this? How long have you known this?" Klaus demanded.
Elijah rolls his eyes.
"I started researching when I saw Lex with the ghost of that boy. If I were a betting man I'd say he killed her."
I wake up groggy, with the familiar taste of Klaus' blood in my mouth, and again, in chains.
I smile as I hear the footsetps coming towards me.
"I'm suprised you haven't given up and killed me yet," I groan, "You must be really desperate."
"We all are," replies Elijah's cool voice, "Nikklaus is downstairs dealing with a few...unsavory chracters. He'll be up shortly."
"Gonna untie me this time?" I ask.
"I won't be able to stop him if you threat again to kill him," Elijah warns.
"He's turned my friends," I remind him, "No chance of that happening."
Klaus walks in, dapper as usual. Lazily throwing a file in front of me.
He pours himself and Elijah scotch it looks like, before he breaks my chains in one smooth motion, and hands me a glass of...
"Water," I sulk, "after the day I just had I deserve something stronger."
"I'm the one you tried to kill," Klaus pips.
"I'm the one you bit!" I shoot back, "I. Want. Alcohol."
His eyes sparkle as he replies, "Didn't know you were such a lush, dear."
"Didn't know you'd be such a jack-" I start.
"Ah-ah-ah," he warns, voice amused, "language darling."
"I'm starving and I have an iron defciency, so tell me why the hell I'm still alive, or I'll start splattering you brains on walls," I warn.
Elijah politely bows out before giving Klaus the crazy eyes behind my back. I could feel Klaus silent chuckle as he leaves and comes back with a plate of breakfast and cup of tea.
I take a deep breath and dig in.
"Alright," I order, "Talk."
"Finish eating first. You have a Mikaelson family meeting to attend. We'll decide to kill you or keep you alive. As a family. Meanwhile, you can think up a story for why Alexandria Greyson is dead in the eyes of the court." he smiles jovially.
"But I burned all the pictures," I protest.
He leans in and breathes,"Even without the pictures, I'd know you're body anywhere."
I roll my eyes, "You wish."
We ended in Klaus' study.
We passed Rebekah on the way there, giving us both disapproving, knowing glares.
"Let's start from the beginning. That hunter that tried to kill you."
I groan, excepting a glass of water from Klaus -who still refuses to give me any alcohol.
"That felt like ages ago," I gulp down the water, " As long as I don't trigger the werewolf curse, I get to keep my powers. We're a little different from normal witches. As you probably already know we used to the the guardians, the mediators between supernatural beings until the witch trials. For every real supernatural be it werewolf or vampire actually executed, three of us died. It was our duty to protect the supernatural species but, they became ungrateful. The creatures that knew of our existence began throwing us under the bus whenever the Inquisition came. They acted as if our sole purpose was to die for them. So we changed our mandate and took the small number of blood mages we had and left. Distancing ourselves.
"About two generations back, my grandmother fell in love with a werewolf. None of the blood mages had married a supernatural for centuries. Many turned against her. But, her family stayed; we -though one of the oldest and strongest bloodlines- became social pariahs in an already small circle."
Klaus nods, "That's why it was so hard to track them down and kill them."
"Track us down and kill us," I correct.
"Technicalities," he dismisses.
"I was adopted by another coven of witches. They were nice enough but... conservative. I was the only surviving memeber so I had access to everything Klaus didn't burn down," I said. "Before you start up," I add, "I've forgiven you for that long ago. But if I hear you try to do that again I don't care where I am or who you're tied to; I'll kill you for destroying another family."
Klaus shakes his head, "Again, how I love your threats."
"Do you want to hear the parts where my ex screws up and I wind up dead? Short version: I got caught up in his mess and the bad people decided a slave who happened to be a blood mage would be grand. On the other side -after I went kaput, six feet under- a woman named Ester offered me a deal: if I killed the Original hybrid I'd get by body and life back. So, here we are."
Klaus quips"Why is lover boy gone? Didn't you die so he could live? Let me guess, he was chasing a rabbit and ran into a wall or he ate rat poison by-"
"He cheated on me!" I snap, trying to hold back the hurt in my voice, "He was the only reason I made the deal, so we could be together but, he slept with someone while I was six feet under, making deals with delusional witches. The bad people he'd gotten in with found him a few months ago. I couldn't bring myself to go back and save him, because it meant I'd die. I also couldn't bring myself to go and end his misery."
"So you let him die. You wanted him to feel the betrayal and hurt you felt," Klaus realizes, "Didn't realize you were so cold-blooded."
I nod, "I didn't feel like defying fate for him."
"He betrayed you when all you gave him was loyalty," Klaus growls.
I shake my head when I replied, "He was an ordinary boy, no matter how much I loved him. It was my fault I wanted him to be extraordinary."
"So what will you do now?" Elijah asks, "You're no longer hunting Klaus. If our mother has the power to bring you back from the other side..."
"You're safe from her," I assure, "She can't do anything to you since you're alive. I'll just have to run. She'll find me eventually but I can put up enough cloaking spells to give myself some time. A month or two if I'm lucky."
"Help me and I'll help you," Klaus says, "We'd be the perfect team and we'd both get what we want."
"You're mother-" I object.
"She's dead but you still have a chance."
