Chapter 7: Discovering by ASHDU4

Annie was becoming increasingly worried about Kol. The young Original should have returned days ago. He at least should have had the decency to reply to her texts if he wasn't returning home, though she had a nagging suspicion that something bad had happened to him.

More and more days passed while Annie and Beth took to planning out their next move, all signs pointed them to talking to Alaric again.

On the day the girls planned on questioning Alaric Beth had insisted on Annie staying at the house. She feared Annie's emotions for Kol would get the better of her and ruin their opportunity to question him. Beth had decided to go early enough to catch the history teacher in his classroom just after school ended figuring it would be best to talk in a quiet but public place.

Upon arriving at the school Beth walked down the familiar hallway to the history classroom as high school students quickly and silently cleared a path for her. She got to the class to find Alaric going through his desk drawers frantically.

"Looking for something important?" Beth asked with a sly tone to her voice.

Alaric didn't startle like she had hoped, in fact he didn't even look up at her. She continued to watch the man search his desk acting as though she wasn't even there. As she opened her mouth to speak again he stood up and turned around staring at her intensely, something about him made her skin crawl.

"Nice to see you again, sweetheart," His words were so familiar; she could almost place the feeling of recognizing him.

As he spoke he had walked up to her and was now standing quite close to her. Beth did not like the feeling of a mere human acting as though he was at her level. She stood her ground and asked again.

"Were you looking for something important?" her cool tone implied she was taking back control of the situation.

"As a matter of fact I was. I was trying to find what literature I had on old vampire legends, you wouldn't happen to know if I have some would you?" his tone was slightly playful implying that he didn't really care what my purpose for being here was.

"Can't say that I do. Have you happened to see a friend of mine? Has a thick accent, annoyingly sarcastic, goes by the name of Kol?"

Hearing the description he laughed, and that's what gave him away. Beth would know Niklaus' laugh anywhere. She decided to play along a little longer even though she was clearly shocked.

Klaus stood very close to her again looking down at her; she just looked straight back at him and spoke with confidence again.

"So have you figured out how you're going to stop Klaus yet?"

Klaus "Alaric" looked at her amused and said that he had a plan he would soon be implementing and she shouldn't worry about it.

Beth took this opportunity to grab his hands and pushed him at lightning speed towards the wall at the back of his classroom. He looked at her with wide eyes slightly amused with her antics; she was smirking at him pushing him further into the wall with her superior strength compared to the body Klaus was inhabiting.

She got really close to him bringing her face so close to his then whispering into his ear.

"Hello Nik."

The next moment she was taken over with pure lust for the man she had lost so many years ago. Despite him being in another man's body, she let it take her over and she lunged forward and took a chance. He reciprocated her fierce passionate kiss for just a moment before Beth let go of his hands and took a step back, watching as Klaus collected himself.

"I must say it took you longer then I had expected to figure it out sweetheart." He said finally.

"Yeah well I haven't seen you in quite a while. Regardless, I came here to find out about Kol though so, where is he?

"You know once I get out of this body you can attempt to throw me against the wall again if you'd like." Klaus smirked at Beth showing his amusement to her stunned reaction.

"Cute attempt Nik, but I need to know where Kol is."

"I'm guessing it's really Annie that wants to know. Those two always were a … interesting couple I should say. Doesn't matter though, he has been daggered."

"Of course you daggered him. Where is Elijah? Or did you dagger him too?" Beth asked with determination written across her face.

"He is staying in the shadows for now but I can assure he knows of Kol being daggered. Although he is unhappy about it I believe he understands the reason I am keeping our baby brother out of this fight."

"I have to go; I have Annie waiting for me at our house. Do try and be careful, for me." She pleaded.

"I might think about trying, love. Stay out of sight for awhile though, it's going to get really dangerous really fast." Klaus warned Beth sternly.

Beth thought about his warning the whole way home. She decided she should listen and stay in the shadows for awhile.

When she returned home she explained the whole story to Annie, however cleverly leaving out that Kol had been daggered and that Elijah was aware, yet they both agreed to take Klaus's warning seriously.