Chapter 7
Klaus came back into the house not even minutes after leaving me to escort Damon outside in a less than friendly way. He didn't say a word to me as he picked up my shaking body from the floor where I had just laid after he had yanked Damon off of me. I let a whimper out when my head started to tilt a certain way from gravity. It was tender but Klaus made sure to be gentle after I let out a whimper.
It really does suck that he has to keep saving me. Over and over again. I tried my best not to whimper anymore. I didn't want Klaus to worry more than he already is.
Yet again I found myself in his bed and him feeding me his blood to heal my wounds again. "I knew it was a mistake to leave you here all by yourself. I just couldn't let myself take way this new found freedom it would seem that you've found." He runs his hands through my hair to calm me with his gentleness. "Piper there's going to be things that I do from now on for your safety, not to kill your dreams. When I tell you, you can't do something I will tell you why it's for you. I think it'd be best love if you aren't left to your own devices." I nod lightly not really moving much. Afraid if I do I'll feel the searing pain that I had felt only moments ago.
Klaus had been done feeding me his blood for a bit, but all of a sudden I could feel it pool around the corners of my lips. Klaus wiped the corners of my mouth clean with his thumb. "I understand." And I did. I really did understand because I was helpless. Damon proved that tonight.
He kept running his fingers through my hair. It was a calming gesture, and it would seem he had discovered that. I hadn't been shown such gentleness since I was with my father, Klaus had been the only one to do it recently. After a few minutes of silence, Klaus starts to move from the bed. In a spilt second thought I grab his wrist to stop him. "Will you stay with me? I don't want to be alone, please." He doesn't say anything, but he does come back to the bed and wraps me in his arms.
This is the one time it would seem that I take his advice without an issue of complaining about sleeping. You know you would think since vampires were dead there body temperature would be cold but it isn't, it's inviting and warm.
Before I could completely let sleep consume me, I was disturbed from a cell phone ringing very close to me. Klaus hurries up and silences it by answering it. He doesn't say anything to the person on the other end of the line. He waits for the person to say something. I may be the doppelgänger but it doesn't come with any super exciting extras like being a vampire, so no super hearing. I have to be like any other nosy person and hear about it the old fashion way by asking once Klaus hangs up the phone.
"Don't you think you have caused the girl an enough pain in one day. Turning her away at the grill screaming at her till she got safely in the car, or not even two hours ago when you sent Damon over to my house to strangle her." With what he said I knew Klaus was speaking to someone about me, but the mention of the grill made me think it was Ric, my dad.
He had been so mean and rough only hours ago to me. Accusing me of being someone Klaus had brought to town to play mind games with him. Why would Klaus play mind games with my father? It made no sense at all with the way he had reacted to me today.
I had been lost in thought about my father and the conversation he had with Klaus that I didn't notice when the speaking had stopped and Klaus was waiting for me to answer him. I was brought out of my thoughts by him lightly tapping on my nose to bring my attention back to him. "Love would you like for your family to come here a little bit later to meet you again?" I didn't answer right away because I wondered if Damon would be there. I wasn't sure if I could be on decent terms with someone who had found pleasure in my pain, just like Katherine. "Don't worry. I will stay with you this time." A heavy pressure was lifted from my chest with in seconds of Klaus saying he would stay with me.
"Can they give me an enough time to take a shower?" I wanted to wash up if I was going to have an actual conversation with my father.
Klaus relays my question to them without an issue. After that he ends the call without saying anything.
"They will be here in a bit, but enough time for you to shower." I didn't expect them to want to meet me after the welcoming I got today. Who would think they would want too.
Unless they were up to something. "Do they want something from me now? Is that why there coming here to see me." My eyes got wide as the thought came out.
"Shhhh, Piper. Right now they don't want anything from you yet. Do not let them know you are the other doppelgänger. The less lies you tell the easier it will be to remember them, always put a little truth in them. Right now they are just curious about you. The history teacher probably feels guilty about how he treated you this morning." Klaus rolls out of the bed sliding me to edge of the mattress as he slowly pulls me out of the bed into a standing position. He takes my hand after I'm on my own two feet, he leads me into the bathroom that was a part of his bedroom suite.
Everything was marble and stainless steel. I caught sight of the tub which was more like a swimming pool. I took a deep breath in shock. I knew I shouldn't be shocked by the bathroom. I had seen the rest of the house and it was equally as crazily expensive and beautiful. "You should take a shower and save the tub for another day. Don't want to leave the family waiting, or do we?" as he said the last part he gives me a playful wink that causes me to go into a fit of giggles.
"I'll take a shower today, maybe tonight ill use the tub if it isn't too much of inconvenience." I glance at the tub as I say it. The tub looked like something out of a dream.
Klaus takes a step closer to me lightly brushing my hair behind my ear out of my face. "Nothing you do could possibly be an inconvenience to anyone Sweetheart." He says lightly.
With that he turns to leave me alone to shower. Before he closes the door all the way he tells me to just call for him if I needed anything and he would be there in seconds. After he had shut the door completely I waited for a few seconds just in case he had forgotten something before I started to undress.
The shower was amazing. There was so many shower heads in one shower. How can anyone be that dirty to need that many shower heads. After getting the nasty feeling off my skin and rinsed the soap out of my hair. Once I got out of the shower I realized I hadn't brought any clothes into the bathroom with me, and that I didn't have any clothes in this house to begin with.
I was dripping water all over the tiles of the bathroom floor. I was making a complete mess. Throwing another one of the nice white fluffy towels down on the floor to soak up the water. Cracking the door open just a crack to see into the bedroom. I had two choices yell for Klaus or running into his bedroom and get some of clothes. I decided to just find some clothes in his room. My family said they would give me time to shower and what not, so I didn't worry about them being g here anytime soon. I had only spent fifteen minutes in the shower. I went to Klaus's dresser and found a black shirt that came down to my mid-thigh. Next on my search I was tried to find something to wear that would cover everything else. The closes thing I came to that was a pair of boxers.
Out of all the things Klaus owned it would seem that he didn't own a hairbrush. Combing my fingers through my hair to try and tame it. "Klaus I hope you don't mind that I put your clothes on." I mumble as I come out of the bedroom into the living room. When I looked up from my hair I was met with a room full of people.
Well than this isn't awkward.
"I don't mind at all, love. They look much better on you than they ever did on me." He says as he covers up his smirk by taking a drink.
The girl that looks to be the doppelgänger gets up to meet me where I stand. She holds her hand out to me to shake. "I'm Elena and I guess we are sisters."
I don't shake her hand right away. "I know. My names Piper." I decided not to touch her, but I did give her a weak smile because that's all I had to give other than hatred.
I go to sit next to Klaus on the couch. He has an entire couch to himself. He was sitting in the middle with his legs on the coffee table and arms stretched out on the back of the couch. I sit down to his left.
Damon was here too. He sat across from me and Klaus with Ric and Elena. There is also another person here. He's sitting in the arm chair by the fireplace. I don't recognize him. Damon rips away the awkward silence between us. After Elena trying to be friendly and me not responding how they thought I would. "So Klaus I'm going to ask you the question that we are all wondering about but too scared to ask. I mean you already tried to gut me like a fish what more can you do other than actually kill me and I don't think you will want to stain your antic carpet."
"Are you sleeping with Ric's daughter?" As soon as the words left Damon's mouth my eyes got wide and my face was as red as a tomato.
Klaus didn't bother saying anything at all he just laughed and looked between me and Ric.
"Damon!" Elena looks very uncomfortable at the topic of conversation.
"Come on Elena don't act like you don't want to know." He shot back.
I tried my best to find my voice but right as I'm about to tell everyone that no I wasn't sleeping with Klaus in the way that they thought I was. Klaus just kept laughing at the situation not helping in anyway. Before I could get anything out Ric cuts me off. "I don't care if Piper is sleeping with you or not Klaus. I don't want to know about my underage daughter's sex life!"
