Chapter 12: Chicago
Written by Fireworks8725
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Santana told the girls she would work on getting the men undaggered from a distance, but Annie and Beth still didn't fully trust her.
Beth remembered Klaus' offer for her to join him in Chicago. She figured it was the perfect cover to get closer to the coffins undetected.
They left Tieri in charge of Santana and Beth sent word ahead to Klaus that she was heading to Chicago with Annie to join him and Stefan.
Annie wasn't very excited about another reunion with Klaus, and never really cared much for Stefan anyways, so this trip was not thrilling. Thinking of Kol's poor cold body alone in some coffin filled her with dread.
Annie lay down in the back seat of the limo and covered her eyes with her arms, listening to the hum of the engine and the blasting music from Beth in the front passenger seat, beside the compelled driver. She thought back to a time when the girls had much simpler lives and yet still littered with secrets, because of Niklaus.
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Annie was cuddled on a haystack with Kol. The memory of the year was a blur, thinking back on it now, but nothing could change the feelings she had that day. Kol was whispering in her ear, knowing that there were always ears all over the settlement. Kol had just taken a break from Marcellus' vampire training, and had slipped away to talk privately with Annie.
"Annie, darling…I am leaving."
Annie stopped nuzzling her head into his shoulder for a moment. "Am I coming with you?" She asked.
"I don't know. It may draw too much attention. Niklaus cannot know where I am going if I am to be free. Then after a time you could join me, follow me to Romania where we can build a life together."
"I don't want us to be apart." She said sadly. Annie was a quiet and weak woman who often did as she was instructed, at that time.
Kol kissed her nose and he stood up, holding onto her hands.
The next minute was a flash of images to Annie. Niklaus was suddenly beside them.
"Romania, Kol? How dare you, how could you betray this family?" he growled, pulling a dagger out from his inside coat pocket and ramming it into Kol's heart.
Kol slid down to the floor to the sounds of Annie's long shrieks and screams. She fell to the floor with him, trying to hold onto him, but Klaus snatched him up as soon as he hit the floor, and ran off, leaving Annie sobbing on the floor, unable to comprehend what had just happened.
She didn't see Kol again for 200 years. It was then that she became a very different person, having to survive without her love.
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Annie never forgave Klaus for 200 years of loneliness without Kol. Not knowing where he was ripped her apart, and now she was in the same situation. Klaus was the reason she had no stability in her life. Every time he daggered Elijah, it was the same thing for Beth. It was cruel and unfair and Klaus needed to be stopped. Beth could never see how that was the only way things could be finally solved. Klaus needed to die.
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Arriving in Chicago was very awkward. Klaus and Stefan were staying in a very snazzy place, and Klaus welcomed the girls openly and gave them free range of the building. Stefan was uninterested in them being there, completely.
Beth got dressed up fancy and took off with Klaus almost right away; they had a date at a dance. The plan was for Annie to scope out the house while they were gone, what they didn't count on was the suspicion from Stefan. Klaus for once didn't suspect anything from Annie. He knew she didn't think of him in the best regard, but he didn't think she was a threat to him.
Annie stood in the front entrance and watched Stefan, watching her. He glared at her while he sucked the blood from a half dead blonde. Annie rolled her eyes, wishing Beth was here to back her up.
Beth however across town was having the night of her life…