I own nothing. This is purely my imagination running on minimal sleep and lots of sugar. There is some "big kid" themes, just a heads up. I see you all reading, why not tell me what you think? Whether its love or hate, feedback would be awesome. Thanks homies of the skillet variety. Now back the the shenanigans
"Le Baiser Immortel, this is The Mistress, what can I do to you tonight?" Cali answered the phone early on Tuesday night.
"Hi, yes I saw your ad online looking for dancers and I was wondering if you were still hiring?" Said a young sounding girl on the other end.
"Yes, we are. Sweetheart if you would like to come by this evening I can start the application with you."
"Oh no, I live in Virginia that would be geographically impossible for me to come in tonight. I wanted to know if you guys would send me an application in the mail."
"Unfortunately dear we cannot we have to do the paperwork in house."
"Oh, okay. Well thank you for your time."
"Not a problem you have a lovely evening." Cali hung up the phone walking back out from the office into the lobby where a very bored looking Thierry was ringing the bell.
"Ahh if it isn't the sassy miss of the establishment." Thierry said when he saw Cali walking out to greet him.
"Hi, Thierry what are you doing here tonight? Kat is with Marcel and all the girls have appointments for another two hours. I can't take any clients for the next few days."
"Not here for services but the walkers are stirring things up with the coven close by so I figured I'd stopped by and see the prettiest human in the quarter." Thierry, leaned over the counter closing the gap between his lips and Cali's.
"Um," Cali leaned back trying to regain her personal space. "Thierry I don't do this. Relationships don't work with the line of business I am in."
"Honey we don't need to be in a relationship, I just want you."
"Thierry, leave. You have 10 seconds until I start stabbing you with this pencil."
"Cali, you don't gotta be like that. Just come over here and we can get what we both want." Thierry started to move towards the opening in the counter.
"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, seriously Thierry get the fuck out, 1." At the end of the countdown Cali jammed the pencil Thierry's thigh.
"What the fuck? You dumb whore!" With a swift motion Thierry backhanded Cali and sent her toppling on to the floor. "Now just be a good little girl and move your hair."
However, Cal was unconscious leaving her victim to Thierry who pulled her to him so her jugular vein was aligned with his elongated canines. Sinking his teeth in he drank more than his fill of the girl's blood. Knowing exactly how much to take just enough to leave her weak. Thierry left only after licking clean the wound of any additional blood around the wound.
"Mistress?" A voice woke Cali up from a pain she could only know came from a vampire slapping her.
"Yeah what?" Cali snapped realizing that she was still in the lobby of Immortel.
"I was wondering if you needed some help." With her vision finally completely restored, Cali realized her savior was one of the regular customers who was always trying to get her to go on dates with him
"Thank you Kyle, but I'm fine." Cali said getting up slowly, gingerly making sure that nothing was hurt.
"If you want to wait out here I'm sure Katie will be out in a moment for your appointment." Cali said dismissively and walked in the back of Immortel to her office to get herself some food
When Cali made her way back out into the lobby, picking up the phone that sat in its charging station. The number was programmed into the speed dial she waited for the other line to be answered.
"YOU MOTHER FUCKER! I understand to you I am nothing but a piece of meat and you have no respect for me, but the next time one of your men come in here and feeds on me past the point of me passing out. I will drive a stake through his heart, instead of just a pencil to the thigh. Do you understand me?"
"See for someone who's life I could ruin in a split second, you do seem to think you can speak to me any way you please. Darling, never forget we can go back to that game of ours with the daggers. So don't you ever accuse me of sending my men to your establishment to feed they know better."
"You really think I would make this shit up Marcel? Thierry came in to Immortel and when I turned him down he bit me then proceeded to go greedy leech on my neck. So I'm a little pissed off. Now I suggest you do something about this because you know you won't kill me. Fuck you and your stupid rules, I wake up missing more than a pint of blood I will kill you. Do not mess with me I am not in the mood to deal with your shit."
Cali angrily hung up the phone and walked away from the desk to close the front of the Immortel, not wanting to have deal with anymore of the customers that night. Sending off an angry text to Elijah, asking for company while she waited for the girls to finish their appointments to collect the money and walk the girls to their cars.
"Dear, you know you could just call instead of reverting to that childish mechanism of texting." Elijah said as he walked towards her, halting. "Why are you bleeding Accalia?"
"Thierry went just a little too far, and Marcel doesn't believe me." Cali replied, shuffling papers across the desk.
"Where is he now?" Elijah growled.
"Don't worry about it brother, our plan for him has already been set in motion. Poor girl, he'll get what is coming to him." Klaus chuckled as he ushered the last girl out.
"What are you planning Niklaus?" Elijah muttered.
"Oh nothing, just a little show. Come brother, let's leave miss Cali to her own devices for the night. I believe she desires to be alone." Klaus said, grabbing a hold of Elijah's arm.
"No, not really. I want Kat to be here with me, but well that's not happening." Cali snapped as the brothers walked away.
Eight days passed as the Immortel's business ran rampant, the nightwalkers feeling the repercussions of Thierry's actions due to Klaus's plan. On the night of Kat's last day of service, things became complicated.
Standing in the dusty attic, Kat coughed taking in the girl before her.
"So Davina, how's being an all powerful witch, playing for Marcel's team?" Kat said, picking up a drawing off her desk.
"I'm not playing for his team. And I'm not going to tell you about being a witch, civilian." Davina snapped.
"Civilian? Really, that's funny. I'm a witch Davina, and I know you know cause Elijah told you. We're all working together, I'm here to give you one single lesson. Which I learned from an old mentor."
"What's the lesson?"
"To calm your mind. It helps control the power, which I am sort of having a difficulty doing myself. Focus on something, a picture, anything really when you start to feel as if you're slipping. Keep your mind on whatever it is, and hold on." Kat whispered, grasping a hold of Davina's hands. "Only then, can you gain control of all that you possess."
"Where did you learn this?"
"A vampire hunter, it works though. That's what keeps me from going off every other second. My heritage, well it gives me some skills equal to your own, which of course allows for some sticky situations when my temper rises. This helps, I promise." Kat replied, smiling slightly.
"Why should I trust you? Why would you even try to help me?" Davina said, jerking away.
"Because I am in the same boat as you Davina. My ancestress is Qetsiyah, she's not friendly with any of the witches, therefore once they know who and what I am, they'll want me dead as well. I understand what you're going through Davina, trust me." Kat muttered, walking away.
"I hope you do, because if you don't I will get revenge." Davina replied, sending a chill down Kat's spine.
The door to the Immortel slammed open as Kat returned, sending her bags flying across the floor as she crashed down into a chair.
"Long trip love? Care to talk about it?" Klaus drawled as he strolled up from one of the back rooms.
"Fuck off. I have been beaten, bitten, raped, and laughed at for ten days Klaus. The only plus of my time there, is that I was able to get another twenty hundred for our cause. So if you could please not mock my life, that would be great, thanks." Kat replied, lifting her head from her slump to glare over at the Original.
"Don't worry love, in time all your Marcel problems shall disappear. Now come, kick up your feet, the brothel is closed for the night, your friend Accalia is taking an interview for a new position."
"Great. Did I miss anything else important?" Kat sighed.
"Well I guess you could consider this as important. I saved it for your return." Klaus replied as he tossed a head out from behind his back. The ragged black hair barely masked the face of the bitch waitress Kristen.
"What the fuck? Seriously you killed her!?" Kat screamed as she jumped backwards into her chair.
"I thought you might be pleased seeing her malevolent actions towards you and your darling friend Cali." Klaus muttered, turning away.
"Oh no, this is a great gift. I'm just a bit freaked, I'm not used to getting severed heads that's all."
"Cheers then, let's get some drinks going." Klaus said, swinging Kat to her feet.
"Fine, but only a few. I just had to deal with Davina for Elijah and I feel the need to bash my head in with a mallet. She's a bit, ah cray cray." Kat giggled as she slid behind the bar with Klaus and started mixing.
"Thank you, I have a few more applicants for the position and if you don't hear back at the end of next week feel free to call and ask for me personally." Cali got up and shook hands with the fourth applicant for the opening, made because one of the girls got pregnant.
"Darling you look as if you have aged 5 years in the last ten days." Elijah remarked kissing the top of Cali's head, who finally could leave the Immortel for more than just going home to sleep.
"I may have, but I'm still younger than you." Sticking her tongue out in the direction of the millennia old vampire.
Elijah seized this opportunity to capture the young woman's tongue between his teeth, biting down just so she would feel pressure, but not enough to hurt.
"See just like that, tongue gone now what would you do without a tongue?" Elijah smiled as shock ran across the girls face. "How was your interview?"
"Don't think that distracting me will get you out of what you said. The girl was fine but I can't really tell until after her first week of work." Cali and Elijah walked out of the coffee shop and over to the apartment, with intentions of ordering in and watching movies. And then Cali's phone rang.
"Kat! You're back what's up?" Cali cried to into the phone, startling Elijah.
"Cali! Come to the Immortel! I cracked open some of the expensive stuff with Klaus. We're making a party out of my freedom!" Kat yelled into the phone.
"Oh God, Klaus got Kat drunk, the world is coming to an end." Cali giggled as she hung up, turning to Elijah. "I guess movie night is out of the question if we want to stay in those two's good graces."
"It seems to be so, shall we?" Elijah replied, taking Cali by the arm.
"We shall." Cali laughed at the archaic language that Elijah used.
Loud music pulsated out the front door of the Immortel. The sound of breaking glass greeted the pair when they walked in. The dance floor was littered with glass, causing Cali to internally panic.
"KATERINA! Your ass better be drunk, otherwise I will punch you so hard in the vagina that you get your period." Cali hollered as she sought to find her friend.
"Accalia that makes no sense!" Niklaus laughed as he walked out from behind the bar with obvious lipstick prints on both his cheeks.
"I don't have to make sense I need to make money and you two idiots breaking all of the glassware in this place."
"Uh oh, Klaus I think we made Cali angry." Kat stumbled towards Cali with her arms out stretched.
"Kat why are you so drunk?" Cali said as she steadied her friend who was about to topple over.
"Well it obviously has nothing to do with the fact that I was Marcel's bitch for ten days and had to endure the horrific torturous mutilations he came up with. So it must be because I'm a lush when it comes to drinking and that I have no brain and no desire except to party." Kat replied, swinging away from Cali and back onto the dance floor. The glass on the floor beneath her igniting with every step she took creating a rainbow of iridescence along the edges of the room as the glass reflected off every surface.
"Oh." Cali replied, stumbling taking a step back from her friend. "Kat stop it. Just relax he won't touch you not as long as we have them here." Cali motion toward the brothers.
With that promise the flames died only long enough for Cali to walk off of the dancefloor.
"What would you like to drink Miss Cali?" Smiling at her discomfort Niklaus offered to make her a drink.
"Something that will destroy my liver, please." Cali sighed as she sat on the barstool.
"Make that two brother" Elijah settled into the seat next to Cali placing his hand on her thigh.
"Aw how darling, tell us when will be receiving the special announcement from the happy couple?"
"Niklaus you know when you talk I actually feel brain cells dying." Cali said death glaring at the hybrid.
"Well then I best stop talking because although lying on your back doesn't require many brain cells you should at least know how to ride." Klaus chuckled at his own joke, but earned a stern look from his brother.
"Honey, we both know I do more than lay on my back. You wouldn't be able to handle me if you ever got lucky enough to get with me." Cali said draining the rest of the concoction that sat in the glass before her.
Kat began to ignite the glass on the floor again, swirling in the rainbows that danced around her. "Klaus come dance with me," she shrieked as she spun.
"That sound delightful Love, but the flames might not be best for my complexion."
"But dancing is so much fun!" Kat continued in her drunken haze.
"Haha the last time she was this drunk I almost got her to go streaking with me. I could only get her down to her underwear." Cali commented as she leaned back into Elijah who wrapped his arms around her.
Kat had lowered the flames so Nik could join her on the dancefloor and the two became intertwined and moved in rhythm with the music. The two bodies moved as one. Katerina let go of her inhibitions and let a genuine smile spread across her face for the first time in 10 days. She was free and not a punching bag for the sadist who ran her life into the ground. Winding around Klaus, she let go of every ounce of humanly ties and sank deeper into the euphoria, letting the power within rush out, washing over herself and Klaus.
"Why hello love, I can taste your power in the air. It's intoxicating love, you should let go more often." Klaus muttered as Kat swung around him.
"Thanks, I think letting it go is sobering me up though."
"Then bartender, let's get some more shots going!" Klaus yelled, pulling Kat across the dance floor back to the bar.
"I'm off duty tonight get it yourself." Cali called back, watching Kat and Klaus swing back behind the bar to grab the gold bottle of tequila.
"Who wants shots?" Kat giggled, "Why am I even asking everyone wants shots."
Placing four shot glasses on the bar Kat poured very liberally spilling alcohol all around the glasses while getting very little actually in the glasses. The party continued until the early hours of the morning. Copious amounts of alcohol was consumed by them all, leaving Kat and Cali in a stupor and the brothers laughing at them. Kat and Klaus had been continuously dancing, only stopping to drink more.
It was 1 in the afternoon when Cali finally got out of bed and began the long pain of a hangover. The first wave of nausea hit her, sending Cali running into the bathroom only to find Kat already perched in the position of shame; hugging the toilet.
"Kat move," Cali moaned pushing Kat out of her way.
"Cali," Kat said as she curled into the fetal position on the cold tile floor, "why did you let me drink so much?"
"Young lady you are a grown ass adult you can take care of yourself." Cali said as she whipped the bile out of the corners of mouth. "What time did we even get back here? All I remember is you and psycho dancing and you playing with fire."
"There was that and you and Elijah deciding to dry hump each other on the bar." Kat cringed as the images played back in her mind.
"Um, don't even woman you and your hybrid buddy were getting pretty cozy." Cali said after she finished spitting into the sink.
There was a rustling sound coming from Kat's room and no other than Niklaus Mikaelson walked into the bathroom, clad only in his boxers.
"I'm not a psycho love." Klaus laughed as he reached into the shower to turn on the water. "If either of you would like to stay for the show, I'd be happy to oblige." He said with a wink and his thumbs in the waistband of his boxers.
"Excuse me? This is my bathroom in my house, you are more than welcome to go use a different one, but not this one. Now get the fuck out." Cali said opening the door and signalling him out.
"So….I guess that you want to know what that was all about, huh?" Kat asked sheepishly.
"Well yes an explanation would be nice, now get the fuck out Klaus!"Cali snapped.
"Would love to love, but Rebekah is now here and I'd rather not face her right now. And I am not missing this explanation, please continue miss Katerina." Klaus replied leaning back against the sink.
"Fuck off Klaus. Cali, I got stupid and vulnerable. We didn't have sex, contrary to what he'd have you think though. We fell asleep talking to each other. He even talked about his family, and how he's constantly feels betrayed by them, and that's the reason why he wants Marcel dead. Then we crashed around four." Kat muttered, as her head fell back towards the toilet.
"Oh wow. No sex. Why?" Cali muttered as Elijah walked in, the bathroom crowding to maximum capacity.
"I don't want to sleep with Klaus. I mean don't get me wrong, you're fucking hot. But I'd rather be friends?" Kat said, her eyebrow twitching as Elijah wrapped his arms around Cali. "Unlike those two..."
"Katerina, just because I am sleeping with your friend here doesn't mean that we could not be friends if we are not having sex." Elijah said punctuating his sentence with a peck on Cali's cheek.
Cali turned pale and said to Elijah, "What I'm about to do has nothing to do with your actions." Just finishing her sentence another round of nausea hit the girl.
As Kat held Cali's hair back the brothers made eye contact and silently agreed to wait for the girls down stairs. It was another half an hour until the girls were even able to make their way down stairs into the living room.
"Why are you still here? You know we are capable of caring for ourselves." Kat said flopping into the armchair opposite the boys.
"We know, but thought you two could use some company," Niklaus smiled a big toothy grin. "Besides what is a movie marathon without being cuddled up next to a sexy vampires like ourselves?"
"Who said anything about a movie marathon? And I prefer cuddling with humans they aren't so cold." Cali said walking back into the living room with two steaming mugs of hot coffee.
"Thanks," Kat muttered. "What movie are we watching then?"
"Well Elijah wanted to watch a movie from your collection, so I decided on a classic." Klaus replied flashing a DVD towards the girls.
"Well tell us why don't you? Like now." Cali snapped.
"Elijah pulled for watching Casablanca, but I won, we're watching The Lord of the Rings trilogy." Klaus said, tossing the box to Kat.
"YES! You remembered from last night! Oh thank you! I really needed this break. I love it so much, and Cali never watches it with me." Kat shrieked as she launched herself from her chair to Klaus's lap.
"Well that's definitely an interesting reaction, now where is your television?" Elijah chuckled.
"It's right in front of you, and yes we know it's not very big, we have a new one coming next week." Cali said.
"Well that just simply won't do, we're leaving. We can watch it at our place." Klaus replied, pulling Kat off his lap and to her feet.
"This has turned out to be an exciting day, first LOTR and now a sneak peek at the Mikaelson family house, what a day." she chirped linking arms with Klaus as she laughed, the sarcasm dripping down her words like poison ivy vines.
"Yes, so exciting. Can we stop at the store and get crackers I feel like I am going to upchuck on Klaus' face."
"Love, that is disgusting. We will get you the stupid crackers." Klaus said from the front of the vehicle that the four had piled into so they could watch their movies on a larger screen.
Elijah walked into the store hand and hand with Cali earning a faux barf from Kat and Niklaus.
"What about these?" Klaus held up some random brand of crackers.
"Ew no those look nasty. And they are organic. What the hell are you doing trying to kill me?" Cali asked as she walked further down the aisle browsing the variety of crackers.
"How many different types of crackers can there be. This would have been so much easier if it was when I was your age." Elijah said purely exasperated at the amount of choice.
"Elijah when we were these girls age we were battling it out with swords not shopping for cheap bread substitutes." Klaus replied as Kat came running up with boxes in her arms.
"So I grabbed Ritz, Triscuit, and Wheat Thins. Sound good Cal?" She panted as the ginger ale and Mountain Dew bottles began to slide out of her grasp.
"Yes, thank you Kat. Now let's get out of here so we can watch some movies. You two do have popcorn right?" She said turning to the brothers.
"Of course, I'm insulted you had to ask." Klaus snapped as the cashier rang Kat up.
The day passed by into night as The Lord of the Rings marathon took place, with a few theatrics from Kat as she re-enacted Gollum's antics, and mock dueled Elijah for the remote. As the last minutes drew to a close, even Cali was sniffling quietly in the corner, the transcendent music echoing throughout the silent house.
"Sometimes, I really do wish I could have my own adventure like that. To be the great hero who saves the world, wins the guy, and has the power to protect herself and others. A world full of epic battles, swords, everlasting bonds of friendship, and well magic, but the kind of pure magic, the type that isn't commercialized garbage. There, I think could truly be at peace, and be happy. And then I realize that I'm virtually a sex slave to a sadistic vampire, and that it was all just a dream." Kat whispered, hugging herself as she curled further into the leather chair.
"I know you do Kat, and I wish we both could have our dream lives, but this is our reality now, and we have to face it. Unfortunately, our lives suck, we don't have that, yet but maybe someday we will. It could be worse, it could be that time in middle school when you tripped on toilet paper in the bathroom ,slid outside and ran head first into a pile of mud and fertilizer. Now, for something less depressing, it's only four in the morning, I say we watch Mulan." Cali replied as she stretched out, unwinding her limbs while yawning slightly.
"The Disney movie for little kids, really?" Are we not all adults here? Isn't that a bit, juvenile." Elijah chuckled, as Klaus began to hum "I'll Make A Man Out of You".
"Well, we're watching it and I don't really care about your opinion." Cali snapped as she pulled the DVD from her purse and slid it into the player.
"Yeah, Mulan is a classic. Don't knock it Elijah, besides you could learn a thing or two from it, brother." Klaus snickered as Kat came back into the room with fresh bowls of popcorn.
"Think of it this way, we can watch Mulan. Or I have the entire extended edition of the Hobbit Trilogy that we can watch. It's over ten hours long. And honestly I could use another dose of the precious to cure my post-Marcel slave depression." Kat said solemnly, as she passed the popcorn around.
"Fine then, play the childish movie." Elijah snapped, earning an eye roll from Klaus, and a rather offended frown from Cali.
"Dick." She muttered as she switched seats and sat in the chair with Kat.
Singing and hilarity ensued thereafter as Cali and Kat's enchanting voices filled the air joined only once, by Klaus.
"Wait so she is impersonating a man so her father doesn't die in a war?" Elijah asked completely confused by the loyalty she felt towards her father.
"Yes, because not all fathers try to kill their children." Cali retorted in Elijah's general direction. "I need more caffeine if you are going to be a sour butt."
"Fine because you asked so nicely I will get you more." Elijah got up and walked into the massive kitchen that was well stocked for a house of vampires.
"Thank you. Someone is grumpy with my taste in movie." Cali said as she stood to stretch for the first time in awhile.
"Shh! this is my favorite part." Klaus said glaring at Cali. "Let's get down to business to defeat, the huns!"
"Are you really going to sing this whole song?" Kat scoffed at Niklaus as he sang in his British accent.
"Come on Kat sing along with us!" Cali squealed.
"Did they send me daughters when I asked for sons." The two sang in unison and began to play fight along with the animation on the screen. Grabbing swords off the wall alongside the television, Cali and Klaus slashed away at each other, joined after a moment by Kat. Blow by blow steel to steel, metal clashed throughout the raucous singing. Klaus evading every blow the two girls threw at him with his hybrid speed and agility. Until, accidentally, Cali tripped on the edge of a rug while lunging towards Klaus. Falling face first into the ground, she sliced her palm on the sword trying to catch her fall as Klaus reached for her arm.
"Owwwwwwww! My fucking hand, why why ow ow. Fuckity fuck fuck!" Cali yelled, cradling the bleeding hand to her chest.
"Let me see Cali." Kat muttered, and then grasped her friends hand only to faint at the jagged gash that spouted forth a river of blood.
"Sissy. Here drink." Klaus chuckled as he bit into his wrist, and held it out to Cali. Sighing slightly, she grasped his arm and bit down in the bite drinking in the blood.
"Thanks. And she's not normally, a wuss. It just reminds her of Marcel. Now, shall we continue?" Cali replied, grabbing her fallen sword, slashing it at Klaus's collarbone. Grabbing her arm mid swing, Klaus twirled Cali around and pinned her arm behind her back against the wall.
"I think, you've had quite enough excitement for one night, love." Klaus breathed as he leaned in close, his breath mingling with Cali's.
"Ahem" Elijah cleared his throat interrupting the scene before him as Kat staggered to her feet.
"Well shall we continue then?" Klaus smirked, raising an eyebrow at Cali as he gestured back to the couch.
"What did I miss?" Kat said, as she sank into her chair again.
"Nothing much love, although I must say, you do faint quite prettily." Klaus replied.
"I don't, ugh. I'm not squeamish, ever. I just smelled the blood, and well I remembered things that I'm trying to forget. Give me that coffee Elijah, I need it more than Cali does." Kat snapped, as she took the mug from Elijah and stared stonily at the tv screen.
"What exactly happened while I was in the kitchen?" Elijah asked, settling back down into his seat.
"Not much, Klaus sang with us. We play fought with swords, I cut myself, Kat fainted. Klaus healed me with his blood and then you came back in." Cali said, as she made a pass for the mug in Kat's hands, earning a slap across the cheek.
"Oh is that all, funny it looked as if something else has transpired, brother." Elijah muttered, sending a dark look towards Klaus.
"Relax Elijah, it was just a bit of fun. Come now brother, finish watching the movie with us." Klaus replied, smirking at his older brother.
The movie ended without further drama. And then more started up as Cali sat up to unwind from her fetal position on the couch. Leaning over her, Elijah bent down and picked her up in his arms, flitting out of the room and up the stairs before Klaus and Kat could say a word.