A/N: I own nothing, this is the result of pixie sticks and negative sleep. Read and Review. Tell me what you think? Love it? Hate it? Think I should have never touch a keyboard again? Tell me, please :)
Dressed to kill, Cali left her room clothed in a svelte emerald strapless dress, just barely hitting midthigh, her long brown hair pulled back into a cascade of curls coming down from a half bun. Meeting her at the end of the hall was Kat her blonde curls tamed for the night in a halo of waves that tumbled across her shoulders dusting the edges of her blood red dress, contrasting sharply with her pale skin, the straps sparkling beneath the lights above. Kiran rounded out the girls as she met them by the car, her pale blonde hair pulled up into a ponytail and her tanned skin complimenting the sapphire dress she had on.
Quickly, the trio got into the car and were soon speeding off towards the plantation. Flashing lights met their gaze as they pulled down the road to the house, the subtle smell of alcohol and blood wafting forwards. As the car jerked to a halt, they got out each giving a slight grin to the other.
"Remember, you're a guest Kiran, so if you say no, they have to respect it." Kat said as they took off towards the house.
"Yeah and if you need us, just say the magic word and we'll be there." Cali added.
Quickly, the girls separated, Cali heading over to the bar where Rebekah had staked her territory, Kiran to the dance floor, and Kat to the stage where Klaus was pacing back and forth.
"You know, if you do that anymore the stage is going to fall right out from under you because of the wear and tear." Kat said as Klaus turned to look at her.
"Well love, it isn't exactly easy to think of the best thing to say to your new people, I'm having some issues. Especially after those humans decided to blow up our bar." he snapped.
"Well just tell them that there's going to be a change, and that humanity won't see it coming. And as for the humans, leave them to me."
"Since when did you get so bloodthirsty?"
"Since the day Marcel took Cali and me. I ran on self-preservation for better part of the last five years Klaus, morals weren't necessary back then. And they aren't now either, this city, well people who live here should know better than to attack their betters."
"I can't say I find this change in you very good, cousin."
"Deal with it. Because this is me, and I don't change for anyone but myself."
"Ouch, better apply some water to that burn Klaus." a voice drawled from across the stage.
Turning around Klaus and Kat faced the newcomer.
"Damon Salvatore, why the hell are you here?" Klaus snarled.
"Well I couldn't miss the party now could I? Besides you two left with some unanswered questions, ones that I'd like answers to." Damon replied as he sauntered forward, his icy blue eyes capturing Kat's for a moment.
"Well, you're going to have to get used to disappointment. If you two will excuse me, Rebekah and Cali are about ready to go on a rampage, I need to calm them down." Kat said turning on her heel and walking off.
"I can't say I expected that." Damon muttered as Kat strode away from him and Klaus her blonde hair whipping around her shoulders.
"Well Damon, she is family, my family so can you honestly say you didn't expect something similar? Katerina is a very delicate soul, nice, polite yet sarcastic, and intelligent, but if you push her too far she will rip you to shreds faster than a ripper. I watched her desicate a vampire to death in less than a minute. So trust me when I say this: tread carefully with my cousin." Klaus replied staring down Damon until he turned away.
"Whatever you say Klaus." Damon smirked as he surveyed the crowd, watching Kat step in between Rebekah and a brunette as they tried to de-limb some poor vampire. "So Klaus, old friend who do I have to kill to get a drink around here?"
"Well you can go order at the bar like a normal vampire or drink from one of the many drunk women stumbling around." Klaus said offhandedly, ignoring the actual implications of the man's question.
"Wow Klaus if I didn't know any better I'd say you were infatuated with that girl. Though she is your distant cousin of some sort. Then again who knows maybe that's what floats-" Damon was unable to finish his thought because Klaus' hand was squeezing his windpipe.
"I may be many things but incestuous is not one of them. Now you were going to get a drink?" Klaus said guiding Damon to the bar.
"So what is the deal with that little witch of yours? She seems too normal to be related to you, then again it is a distant enough relation that all the psycho has been bred out." Damon said as he was being handed his glass of bourbon.
Across the ballroom Kat had met up with Cali and Rebekah, the three of them searched for Kiran. Only to see that the Mayors son had his hands up the hem of Kiran's dress.
"Awe hell no!" Cali put down her drink and walked over to the sitting area where the two were.
"I think this idiot believes that he is gonna get lucky with sweet little Kiran. Awe how wrong he really is." Rebekah said.
"Guuuys, what are you doing this guy was jusss being really sweet and making sure I wasn't lonely." Kiran was past the point of making any coherent sense drunk.
"Alright Sunshine. I think its time you get to bed." Kat said wrapping her arm around Kiran's waist pulling her upright.
"But Kat I wanna stay at the party. Niklaus will get very sad if I leave his party. I'm having fun. Why are you such a parade rainer? I just want to party and you don't wanna let me." Kiran was beginning to whine.
"Well I'm sorry sweetie but you can't and I'm sure Klaus will understand why you left." Kat replied as she dragged Kiran into the house and left her in one of the rooms, warding it from vampires before she went back to the party.
As soon as Kat had dragged Kiran off Rebekah and Cali set to playing with the mayors son, pushing him around until finally, Rebekah snapped his neck like a dry branch. Laughing hysterically the two drunk girls shoved his body into a busy and went off to go get drinks.
"That wasn't nearly as fun as it could have been." Rebekah pouted. "He barely put up a fight!"
"I know, and Kat was such a buzzkill." Cali said while sipping on her midori sour. "Kiran was hilarious she should have stuck around longer."
"And then she would have vomited all over the place and I'm sure you would have loved that part Cal." Kat said walking up to the duo "and it would be just your luck that she threw up all over your pretty new shoes."
"Then I would have had to kill, Sunshine. Poor Sunshine." Cali said taking a drink from the champagne flute that she had just picked up off the tray that had just passed in front of her face, being carried by one of the many servers that were working the lavish party.
"The fuck is wrong Cali?" Kat snapped snatching the champagne flute out of Cali's hands. "You've been behaving like a spoiled psycho bitch all night, like Rebekah."
"Well excuse me for trying to have a good time at Klaus's party. He did tell us to let loose." Cali said as Rebekah pulled her off away from Kat. "You should try to relax too Kit Kat!"
Swirling the champagne around Kat set it down on a tray and headed towards the bar. Settling down onto a stool she motioned towards the bartender.
"Tequila. Lots of it, and some limes and salt. ASAP." She said as she sank her head against the table.
"Rough night?" A voice drawled next to her, swiveling on her seat Kat turned around to see Damon seated next to her.
"What gave it away the tequila or the defeated look?" She smirked as Damon lifted his glass of bourbon in a toast. "Or was it the whole stopping a murder?"
"Stopping a murder, why on earth would you do that. It would liven up this excuse for a party." He laughed.
"If you really want to liven it up, you'll help me down this bottle of tequila, and then well you'll see some real magic." Kat replied knocking back two shots in a row. "What do you say? You in?" She said as she bit into the lime.
"You really know how to sell it, I'm in." Damon smirked taking a shot from her hands.
Knocking back shot after shot the two soon became the loudest pair at the party.
"So you dated your brothers girlfriend, dude what the fuck is wrong with you?"
"I couldn't help falling in love with her! She was so nice but different you know! And she looked like Katherine!"
"Little bitch. Come on, you fell for your brothers girl twice! That is so incredibly fucked up it's not even funny!"
"Oh like you've done any better, who was your last boyfriend little witch? Some douchey little pre law at Stanford?"
"No. Fuck no. Hmmmm the last guy I dated was. . . Oh this tattoo artist, his name was Duke I think. Yeah we screwed around for a bit but it wasn't too serious. Back to you, who else have you dated? Cause there's no way it's been just Elena or Katherine for the past one hundred years."
"Well I did have a thing with Rebekah for awhile, but she kind of hates me since I was well..."
"Fucking her for info." Rebekah snarled as she walked by flipping Damon off.
"Yeah." Damon nodded.
"Hmm, fucking Rebekah. Those are always good times." Cali said as she followed Rebekah off.
"Wait a second, your friend and Rebekah? Really?" Damon whispered his icy eyes widening in shock.
"Yeah when we first opened the Immortel, Rebekah and Matt were some of our first customers." Kat replied.
"The quarterback! Really? Damn." Damon snickered.
"He's a sweetheart but kind of dim." Kat said as she poured herself another shot. "But they paid well, the money got our offshores savings account started."
"Illegally hiding money?"
"Only to pay the bills."
"Really?"
"And to overthrow Marcel, but that's a done deal now that Klaus is in charge of the Quarter once more."
"Ambitious dreams for ones as young as you and your friend, Katerina."
"It's Kat, only Klaus calls me Katerina and that's when he wants something. And who says I'm young? I've been far more mature than most for over half my life now."
"Kat then, and yes but you do know that half of your life is nothing to a vampire."
"Yes, but it's everything to a witch/traveler hybrid, which is what I am."
"Fascinating, such a weird yet powerful combination in someone so tiny."
"I'm five four, that's almost average. I am not tiny. Besides you don't have much room to talk Mr. Five Nine."
"Well I'm taller than you, pixie."
"How did it feel when you got picked for equipment manager for the football team?"
"I'll have you know I fought in the Civil War little girl."
"On the wrong side, we won."
"Oh please, the Confederates would have won if we had more time."
"Not likely, you were losing so hard, your generals turned tail and ran away." Kat giggled as Damon knocked back another shot.
"Pixie, darling you have no idea what you are talking about! Your great grandparents weren't even thought bubbles yet when I was fighting in that war."
"Fighting in the war? More like pinning for Katherine and seeking solace in the arms of the prostitutes that followed the camps around." Kat said with a scoff and slid off her stool make her way to the bathroom.
"Where you going? Don't tell me you are gonna quit halfway through the bottle." Damon followed closely behind Kat.
"Nope, gotta pee."
Kat made her way to the bathroom stumbling over her own two feet. Damon following her making sure she didn't fall over. Which there were a few moments that he was rightfully concerned about it.
"You can't be in here. You are a boy. This is the ladies room. You sir are not a lady now bye bye." Kat said as she stumbled into the bathroom not bothering to lock the door let alone close the partition between the toilet, and the wash area of the bathroom.
"On the first date, well I guess if you're making the first move." Damon said with a chuckle as he began unbuttoning the top buttons of his shirt.
"Ew, gross no. Ain't nobody wanna see that." Kat said holding up her hand blocking the view of the top of Damon's well toned torso.
"Are you done yet? I'm bored and someone is going to drink our tequila. Come on Kat." Damon was becoming impatient with Kat's human necessities.
"Yes. I'm done, now move so I can wash hands."
Damon moved from in front of the sink where he had been perched for the last minute. Side stepping the vampire, Kat turned on the water and washed her hands. Instead of using the towels that Klaus had in the bathroom, Kat wiped her hands on Damon's jacket. Quickly checking her make up, Kat turned and left the bathroom, ignoring the look that Damon was giving the little witch.
"Well that was rude." Damon walked side by side with Kat as they made their way back to the bar.
"Aww did I hurt the big bad vampire's feelings?" retorted Kat in a mocking baby voice.
"You mentioned me?" Klaus appeared assuming it was he whom Kat was talking about.
"Well hello there pop up book from hell," Kat said hugging Klaus, nearly falling over.
"Awe dearest Katerina you say such sweet things when you're drunk." Klaus chuckled holding up his cousin, he then turned his attention to Damon. "You do know you do anything to her, I will kill you before you even make it out of the Quarter right?"
"Klaus you say that like I'm some monster that preys on drunk party girls," Damon said with fake hurt in his voice. "Besides if anything I want the brunette that fucked your sister to kill me."
Klaus obviously unaware of the past that his baby sister and Cali shared was taken aback.
"Time out, what brunette did my darling sister sleep with?" Klaus said really hoping Damon had misspoken.
"The same one that slept with your brother," Rebekah said walking over with Cali in tow.
"Why are we talking about my sexcapades?" Cali looked around the circle, finally settling on the look of shock on Klaus' face. "You know you are already hard to look at but if you keep making that face your choice in women is going to plummet, Niklaus."
"Accalia, may I speak with you elsewhere?" Klaus gripped the top of Cali's arm dragging her into his study, away from the commotion of the party.
"Klaus don't you dare hurt her!" Kat yelled as she watched her friend being dragged away.
Once the door was shut behind Cali, Klaus let loose. "Can you not keep it in your pants? I swear I've been in this state for not even six months and almost everyone I've come in contact to you have slept with. My sister, my brother, and every single vampire in Marcel's empire!" Klaus was fuming angry.
"Oh my god! You're mad because I haven't fucked you? This has to be the funniest thing ever, oh my. I can't breath." Cali started hyperventilating she was laughing so hard.
"No, that is not the point I just don't think that it is appropriate for someone so close to the ruling family to be such so indiscreet and open about her sexual partners." Klaus stumbled over his words clearly not expecting this reaction from Cali.
"Niklaus Mikaelson, I run a brothel by definition I am a whore. Now if you are done being butthurt I'm going to go get another drink." Cali turned and reached for the doorknob.
Her progress was stopped by Klaus pushing her face first against the door lifting up the hem of her dress, breathing heavily on her neck. "You are not a whore, you are an. . . exquisite woman who shouldn't treat herself any less. Remember that Accalia." And with that he turned away and walked through the door, leaving Cali panting for breath against the wall.
Unaware of the events taking place in the study, Kat was slowly beginning to sober up back at the party. Sipping at her coffee, she rubbed her temple with her free hand as Damon set to brewing another pot.
"No more tequila, ever again. And if I offer, please please refuse. My head feels like a fucking thunderstorm is battling with an orchestra." Kat whispered, her bloodshot eyes staring up at Damon.
"Got it. What about bourbon though, will you still do that? Or wine, champagne, liquor in general?" he laughed.
"Maybe in the future when I discover a spell to cure hangovers instantly, but until then, probably not."
"That would be a highly useful spell."
"It's going on my list of potentials."
"What else is on that list, may I ask?"
"Well Cali wanted me to look into creating a spell to extend the length of orgasms. I personally wanted to create a spell to detect the presence of enemies, I figured it would be a bit more useful than super long orgasms."
"I don't know about that, if you create the orgasm spell, you can cast it on your enemies. Then they'd be out of comission for awhile."
"Huh, I never quite thought about it like that."
"That's why I'm here, to provide genius ideas and look stunningly attractive."
"Ha ha ha. The first one seems a bit more plausible than the second."
"Ouch, that one seemed a bit harsh. So Pixie, what are you going to do for the rest of the night?"
"Try to stay out of trouble, but somehow I think that's going to be impossible seeing as it always finds me." Kat replied, a blush creeping along her cheeks.
"Well, I'll stay with you to help ward it off then." Damon chuckled, his icy eyes twinkling.
"You do realize that's like asking for something bad to happen right?" Kat said.
"Of course, why else did you think I said it. I love a good fight."
"I don't, they tend to end up with me losing control and desiccating a bunch of vamps, or blowing up bars."
"Sounds like my kind of party, when do we get started?"
"You're incorrigible aren't you?" she laughed, shoving his shoulder as she slid off her seat and began to walk away. "Well are you coming?"
"Where are we going?" Damon said glancing the little witch up and down.
"We are going to my favorite bar. Somewhere we can really have fun and not have to deal the judge-y look from Klaus and Rebekah. Hold on a second I'm gonna let Cali know I'm leaving."
"What is she your babysitter?"
"No she's my sister and will freak if I disappear." Kat said as she ran upstairs following her witch instincts.
"Nice throw Cal, aim a little higher." Rebekah laughed behind a closed door.
Kat knocked on the door and slowly opened not knowing what she would find
"Yay! Bex, its Katerina! Kat come play with us!" Cali greeted her friend with a hug and a handful of darts. "Its human darts. 5 points for distal sections limbs, 10 for proximal, 15 for stomach, 20 for chest, and 100 for faces." Cali was giggling with delight.
"ACCALIA! What the fuck are you doing? You are playing darts and instead of with a board, you are using a human being? Who the hell are you and what have you done with my best friend? I was coming to tell you I was leaving but you are obviously preoccupied." Kat slammed the door behind her and stormed down the stairs.
"Oh Pixie angry!" Damon mocked the look on Kat's face as he followed her out to her car.
"I have no fucking idea what has gotten into her! She was up there acting like psychopathic twins with Rebekah. Want to know what they were doing? They were playing darts and instead of a board they were using some poor drunk frat boy. How can she rationalize this? I swear its like she was one of you and flipped her switch." Kat said tossing the keys of her impala over to Damon, "I am in no condition to drive. Your up."
"You sure? With a car this nice I figured it'd be your baby." Damon said opening Kat's door then walking around to the other side to open his own.
The two drove in silence, except for the occasional direction Kat said as Damon drove them to Immortel.
"You had me drive us to a brothel? You know I'm all for being upfront, but you are far too nice for me even to consider fucking you on the first date." Damon said standing by the car as Kat walked up to the door, pausing turning to look at him.
"No, this is the brothel Cali and I run. Now are you coming or what? I know for a fact the bar is well stocked since the shipment came in yesterday and we haven't been open the last few days." Kat held the door open for Damon and followed behind him turning on the lights.
"Wow this place is nice. Who would have thought little you would be the manager of a brothel and a nice brothel too." Damon hoisted himself on to the bar where he proceed to lay on his back with his hands behind his head.
"You'll have to settle for my rusty bartending skills, ever since we hired Sunshine I haven't had to bartend." Kat said as she unlocked the cabinets underneath the bar.
"Just get out some bourbon and pour it into my mouth," Damon tilted his head back and opened his mouth waiting for his drink of choice.
"What are you a fish? How can you still be drinking?" Kat said as she set a bottle by Damon's head ignoring his request.
"Joys of vampirism, you can drink and drink and not really feel it." Damon smiled, sitting up grabbing the bottle.
There was an awkward silence that was only broke when Kat spoke up asking Damon to distract her and make her feel better. Giving in Damon began going into stories of all the terrible things Stefan had done to him. After a few stories they began taking turns going over the highlights of their shenanigans.
"So Cal and I are sprinting up a side street, her in some joke of a costume. It may as well have been bra and a pair of spankies. We finally get to the other end of the street only to find out that we are not as smart as the Forest Grove police force. We got arrested for public intoxication, minors in possession, and disturbing the peace. It was not pleasant having to call Theo to come bail us out. We still get nice cards from the officer who arrested us, I'm pretty sure Cali fucked him at some point."
"Your sister fucked the cop that arrested you two? Jesus who hasn't she slept with?"
"Um Klaus, you, your brother, umm that's about it. She means well but she doesn't know any better. I'm the closest thing she's had to a family since her cousin died. She usually just avoids real relationships and just has sex. The closest she's gotten to a functioning relationship was with my brother."
"Time out your best friend slept with your brother? How on earth did you not kill them both?" Damon said.
"Well I found out after Marcel had Theo killed, so well I wasn't really inclined to take it out on Cal." Kat replied, toasting Damon. "What about you, any sibling mishaps of the heart, besides Elena that is."
"Well there was this one time when I slept with his best friend Lexie. She was trying to get me to turn on my humanity. I left her on a roof in full sunlight when I was done."
"Ouch, that's cold blooded. Okay so one time, Cal and me were in the woods for a bonfire, she got crazy drunk and went streaking, with marshmallows smeared across her chest. I was a bit tipsy so I might have followed, but with more clothing on. The funniest part of that though, was that my brother Theo filmed it and posted it on Instagram, that's how Marcel found us."
"That's fucked up. One time, I killed Elena's brother, and her guardian, and best friend."
"Dude, you have major Elena issues, has anyone ever told you that? You need to detox and fast."
"Yes people have told me, similar things, but honestly I have it under control. Tell me another story."
"Fine, but we're not done with the Elena topic mister. I'll have you know I took a psychology course in college and you are exhibiting signs of major denial… A story….. Okay, so one time in college, I found this vamp nest. Being the innocent flower that I am, I went in to investigate. They captured me, and that's when we discovered my, ah witch side. I incinerated the lot of them, with just a candle. Cal walked in drunk off her ass when I was done, and promptly collapsed laughing."
"Bad ass little witch, remind me not to piss you off anytime soon."
"Duly noted, your turn. Any more embarrassing or revealing stories?"
"There's one, if you want to hear it?"
"Always."
"As you know, I'm a little sociopathic…."
"A little?"
"Will you be quiet? I am trying to paint a picture. Anyways, I used to be known as a bit of a Ripper myself in the old days, though nowhere near Stefan's level since he ah… tends to loose control. It was back in the forties, I had enlisted in the army to fight in the great big war, you know country pride and all that. So in training camp, I threw this guy nearly twenty feet after getting a bit drunk. Freaked the others out so much they thought I was on some experimental government drug. So I told them the truth, just to mess with them. They begged me to turn them, which I refused of course, innocent lives to be preserved you know, but oh they begged. Until finally, they tied me up in the woods one night, and shot me, effectively killing me or so they thought. I woke up a few hours later, and well let's just say those poor men never really got to make their country proud."
"Holy shit! How many were there? Did you tell you CO?"
"There were five of them, and all my CO knew was that they tried to kill me and that I protected myself, compulsion makes it so easy to rid oneself of pesky inquiries."
"But of course it does. Did you ever go off to fight in World War I?"
"Nah. Lexie talked me out of it, saying it wouldn't be healthy for me to be around Stefan when he was there."
"And it would be for him? The ex-blood junkie extraordinaire, wow this Lexie seems a bit flawed when it comes to her logistical processes."
"Oh yeah… you don't really need to worry about that. I killed her, about two years ago. To protect Stefan's and my asses as vampires. He still kind of hates me for that though."
"Well you were protecting him, so I say he should get over it already."
"You really can be heartless, can't you?"
"Oh Damon, I learned long ago that having a heart in my line of business will get me killed. So you see, I have no room to care too much. Capricious and cruel are better friends than compassion and warmth, especially considering who I am related to."
"Klaus the hybrid dick?"
"Exactly, my lovely cousin leaves a bit to be desired in the compassion department."
"I still don't get how you two are related. You are so little and sweet, except for the vamp killing sprees; and Klaus is well Klaus. He delights in killing people, he is the embodiment of eeeevil." Damon laughed at the last part knowing he was beginning to feel the effects of the alcohol.
"Klaus does have compassion, its just reserved for me, Cali, Hayley, and the baby. So long as nothing happens to the four of us everyone is safe from his wrath." Kat said as she started to brew coffee, knowing the sun would be up soon.
"What's so special about this baby that you guys keep talking about?"
"Nothing, just that Hayley getting pregnant is some supernatural miracle. I don't know. Our best guess is that one of the brothers want to fuck her, if they haven't already." Kat said pouring cream into her coffee.
"What the big bad witch can't keep up with me?" Damon said taking another shot.
"No, this witch would not like to spend the next 6 hours vomiting out whatever is in my stomach. Katerina no pretty bent over toilet bowl." Kat said taking a sip of her coffee.
"I'm sure you look lovely bent over anything." Damon smirked and downed the last of his drink.
"Well that my darling is not something you are gonna find out anytime soon. Now as I sober up do you wanna hear another ridiculous situation that Cali got me into?"
"Sure, I am sure there is nothing else that you can surprise me with." Damon said reaching for the coffee.
"It was Senior year after we'd gotten back from the first time Marcel held us captive. Cal decided that she no longer wanted to go to our latin class, so instead of just not showing up she decided to make it so no one could attend the class and barricade the door from the inside."
"How'd she manage that? There's only one door, she'd be stuck in there."
"No, Cali is smarter than that. She was able to get out of the window. I got dragged into watching to make sure she didn't get caught. Bitch finally finished up what she was doing and was climbing out the window when the campus security guard decided to walk past me just standing there playing on my phone. Of course I end up coming up with the story I was waiting for him to come let me into one of the halls. Then I had to call Cali pretending it was my mom to tell her that the coast was clear for like the five minutes it took to walk across campus." Kat had finished her coffee and had begun draining her second cup.
Kat was ready to call it quits as the sun rose. Leaving Immortel going back the compound, Kat climbed the stairs attempting to find the room where she and Cali had put Sunshine earlier that night, needing somewhere to crash. Knowing she was too tired to drive all the way back to the apartment, Kat climbed into bed with Sunshine passing out.