Chapter 5
After a while we settled into comfortable silence. I didn't understand why I had felt bad about lying about my eyes. I mean yes I knew about right and wrong but I had never found guilt in small lies. I didn't find guilt in being a murder. These were things I had done almost my entire life so far to survive another to a day. I had a twisted look on my own faith. I knew that. I believed there was a god, but he could be so cruel like he had been to me. I knew it was a sin to murder, but if god could let these things happen to me how could he say doing what you had to was a sin. Klaus made me feel protected even though he was the one I was raised to fear. I didn't understand these things.
Just like tonight when Alaric had called me Elena I found a new hatred for her. The sister I never knew. The sister that had unknowingly sentenced me to death. These things were hard to come to terms with. In my mind it felt odd that I was using Klaus as my support my safety net. He had been my savior when I was little I guess he was taking the job back.
I was too busy over thinking about everything that I didn't noticed that Klaus had already gotten out of the car and opened my door for me. No words came out as I stumbled clumsily out of the suv, but I did nod my head in thanks. Looking around at my surrounding I realized we were at a house. A beyond beautiful house. Really it was huge a big difference to Zanders cabin in the woods. I didn't say anything as I followed Klaus inside
The inside was more beautiful than the outside. It took my breath away. As Klaus closed the door behind us he put his hand on my back directing me to a bedroom. As he gently pushed me into the bed I watched as he walked around the room doing little things here and there. In that moment yet again I had taken his bed. "Klaus I can't take your bed again." I say as I push the comforter back trying to get out of the big four post bed.
Before I had time to react Klaus had used his vampire speed to push me back into the bed and put the blanket over me. "Piper you've had a shocking morning already you should take a nap. I don't sleep often so it's fine if you stay in my room."
Pushing the blanket back again I try getting out of bed again, but as my feet touch the wood Klaus has me laying in the bed again. I pout. I think you could call it a pout. "I've slept all day Klaus I'm not tired. Yes seeing my father didn't go how I expected but nothing in my life ever goes how I expect to go." I stay where I'm at in the center of the bed with the blankets all around me. I didn't want to try to get out of the bed only for Klaus to throw me right back to where I am now.
"I have somethings that I need to do and I have to leave the house I thought it'd be best if you stayed here but if you would like you could come with me. I could show you around town but you may or may not see your family. I didn't think you'd would be ready for that." As he say this he actually lets me get out of the bed. I take my time walking around the room taking in everything. It was so much history.
As I found myself wondering around the room the idea of staying at the house didn't sound too bad now that I had something other than sleeping to do. I wasn't someone that could just lay around and do nothing. It wasn't something I had been able to do with Zander and his wife. I had tried to spend as much time as I could doing something productive.
"Piper." Klaus says pulling me out of silent wondering.
"I think I'll stay here if you don't mind me looking around. You have such an interesting home." I ask as I ran my fingers across the binds of well-worn books in many different languages. "How many languages do you speak?" I question before I could stop myself. I couldn't not ask questions. Curiosity killed the cat but brought it back.
Klaus walks behind me as I continue to slide my hand against each book giving each and every one a different thought and respect. Books, how I loved them. "More than I can count. I've been around so long some of the languages me and my siblings are fluent have long ago died out, sadly." I could feel his breath on the back of my neck. For every step I took he followed close behind. "I don't mind you staying here. Just don't go outside. I would hate for the Salvtor brothers to think you are Kathrina."
"Thank you." I whisper barley.
Turning around I gave him a hug because he had given me something few had ever given me. At first he stood still and didn't return my hug. But as I started to pull myself away thinking I had finally crossed one of the big bad hybrids lines he returned it.
His arm circling me holding me close to his chest tightly. We stood like that for more than a few minutes. "Don't ever think you have to say thank you for something as simple as this. This is what normal human being deserve." With that he lets go of me and heads out the door.
Yet again he had surprised me more than I could ever tell anyone.
Klaus
He felt a soft spot for the girl. For Piper. He had known she would have lived such a life pf pain and mental abuse. He could see it plain as day especially when she would thank you for something as minuscule as letting her stay awake, or apologizing over something that should never thought to be a regret. Had he known he would have taken her far away from that place. He had planned on waiting for the next doppelganger or till she was old and decrypted. Ruined by time and the cruelty of the world.
In his mind he could have waited. He had waited a thousand odd years one human life time would be nothing. After all he was immortal.
Some forget that he had been raised as a child with the first doppelganger Tatia. Even on that day he had found Piper the first time he had recognized her. Long ago he had decided, yes he was a monster. But never a monster that would hurt children. He had met Piper as a child and forever he would look at her and think of the child he had found nearly frozen to death to the rusted metal of a junk car hiding in fear.
She would never be the girl he would murder for the relief he had craved for so long. Piper was innocent no matter what anyone had to say. But her sister was entirely different he had seen it. She was just like the rest of them. A doppelganger to the bone. They always would cause brothers to fight. They would always cause someone to die, and they would always have someone put there life on the line to save them for the sake of love. He would be doing them a favor by killing Elena before they tried to kill one another for her affections. She would only cause them great pain and loss. Just like Tatia had done so long go for him and his family.
There would never be a question about it. He would do everything to save Piper, and everyone in this town would try to save Elena and fail.
The binding spell that had been performed on Elena and Piper was old magic and that was why it was easy to led most into believing that it was undoable. He had seen it before and knew it was a twisted kind of magic. It had to be done at birth. The child that would be the anchor giving there life essence would have to come close to death. Walk between the worlds, so they could suffer the brunt of having two souls drain at them every waking moment. He had kept his mother's books and thanks to both Elijah's and Kol's attractions to powerful witches he had kept eyes on some of the most powerful witch lines the world had ever seen.
Yes that Bonnie girl was a powerful witch but she had limits and no one to teach her the real stuff. Yes she knew protection and other things similar to that. But the witches he watched over owed him quite a few favors and most of time when he cashed in a favor they were at a steep price. The way he liked it most of the time.
His goal tonight wasn't to track down and kidnap Elena like most in her little group thought he did on his Friday nights. No tonight he would be calling in a favor. Yes someone would die tonight but it wouldn't be Elena just yet.
Piper
After hours of reading books from all over the world from different decades of time she was interrupted thinking it was Klaus returning from his errands that he had said he had to do earlier. She waited for him to say something to her. Not wanting to really put the book down. She had many all around her scattered open as she laid on the one of many fancy rugs that he owned.
But the book was ripped out of her hands and thrown against the wall making a thud when it hit the ground. She stared up into a set of icy blue eyes. They held no warmth or patience. She didn't know who this man was. All she knew was he wasn't Klaus and he was a vampire.
"Ric said Klaus had Katherine playing tricks on him, but you're not Katherine." As that was said the man put his hand around my throat and held me against the floor. I started to cry. I was helpless I was still recovering from whatever Elena had done to herself in the past few days. Yes the blood helped but it hadn't done everything. The only thing I could be thankful was that I had vervain in my system at the moment. "Who the hell are you!"
My hands are ripping at his arm trying to get air. How he expect me to speak if I have to air. Soon he realizes that im about to pass out from lack of oxygen. He lets me go standing up staring at me. I'm coughing trying to get my breath back. When I can breathe I start crawling away from him to put distance between us. He lets me.
"I'm Piper Elena's twin." As I say this my eyes automatically cast downward. I'm afraid. Ric is my father." My voice is horse from being choked by the stranger.
He takes a few steps towards me and I start to curl up in a ball. Klaus had no weapons just laying around that I could use. I guess he didn't think they would be brave enough to seek him out and attack him in his own home. And maybe they wouldn't have. Maybe they knew he wasn't here but I was. "Elena doesn't have a twin and Ric doesn't have a daughter."
"Isobel was my mother. She was seeing both Ric and Elena's father. Elena was left with the Gilberts and I was raised by my mother and father, Ric." When I say the word mother I say it was such a hatred that he doesn't pick up on. "She separated us at birth and when some vampire turned her she ran off with me only to abandon me. I have no reason to lie about this. I wish I was, but I'm not." The tears are hot on face. They won't stop. I probably look pathetic.
"If your Elena's sister why are you with Klaus. If your Rics daughter why are you here instead of living with him." I don't respond as quickly as I did before and starts to come closer. Only to be yanked away from me in the last seconds.
"Now Damon don't you know it's rude to come into someone's home without being invited." Klaus says as he breaks one of the chairs in the dining room to use the chair leg as a stake shoving the sharp end into the man named Damon. He didn't kill him but it did hurt. He couldn't fake a face of anguish like that. "If you or any of your friends come into my house again without being invited here I will personally end you. And I'll make Elena's death especially painful." My eyes only saw the blur of the two men as they used vamp speed outside.
Klaus came back with blood all over his clothes. "Don't worry love it isn't mine." He soothes my worries as he noticed my eyes on his clothes.
