Hello dear readers!
Thank you guys so much for reading my story! I saw that eight people added this story to their favourites and that makes me really happy! I would have never dared to think that this story would be received by everybody.

I do have a question for you guys though, one of my reviewers said to me that I should write in past tense. Now I would like to let you know that I deliberately choose to write the story this way because it is quite a challenge to write in the present time. What do you guys think about this, do you think it is weird that I am writhing it this way? Help me out here, in Dutch literature you can write in both times so I thought it would be the same in English literature, is it? I would like to take your opinions in consideration ;)

Ok, I believe I forgot this in my latest chapter: Disclaimer, The Vampire Diaries does not belong to me and it will never. So this disclaimer also count for the last chapter ;) GO READ AND ENJOY, please =)

Oh, I also wanted to get the idea that Klaus and Hannah are going to be romantic together out of the way. People have been reviewing me about that and I do not want to let you guys on. A Klaus/Hannah coupling was never my intention with this story. It is a Damon/OC, like I told you in the Prologue.
I am sorry if you are disappointed with that, but Hannah is as good as his daughter you guys, tell me honestly that you want to be romantic with your father and I might reconsider ;)

Chapter 3: In which the princess is locked up in the highest tower of vir-fucking-ginia.

Hannah is trying to make her teacher realise she is not interested in anything she had to tell about the civil war just by starring daggers at her but Ruth was more than used to the staring after home schooling the girl for a couple of months and does not reacts. Hannah sighs and stares out of the window instead. The view from the dining table is a little bit of garden and forest. The same view she has been staring at for over five days. Niklaus had had everything set up; a house a little out of a town Hannah doesn't remember the name of, furniture, food and drinks in the fridge and cupboards and Ruth to home school her every day. After taking care that everything was in order for her to be all right he had disappeared, taking Frederick with him. He hasn't been back for three days and Hannah is bored. She misses her house in England where she had lived in a mansion on the country side with ground stretching out for miles around it. At least there she had been free to go outside. Niklaus hadn't compelled her not to here, but he had compelled Ruth. That is one of his more smarter approaches, he is too much of a pussy to really compel her when it comes to things like this - serious things. Not really wanting to not trust her, but not trusting her all the same. So he compelled Ruth to not let Hannah out and Ruth had been doing a great job so far. Hannah doesn't even want to run off, were Klaus is so afraid of, she just wants to do things without people watching her back. She wants to go out and mingle with the town residents. Ruth her voice brings her out of thoughts and Hannah decides drastic plans need to be set in motion.
"Did you know,-" she interrupts her teacher who slowly stops talking and looks at her with an irritated expression. "That Niklaus killed my latest teacher because I got a F on a test?" She makes sure to sound airy, as if she is just telling a story, not meant to scare or anything.
"You got a F on a test? That seems odd, you are a rather smart girl, haven't got anything worse than C+'s on my watch." Hannah frowns, the woman was so not getting the point.
"I know, I'm perfect." She waved off the compliment as if it was common knowledge. "I only got a F because I wanted to get a F," she explained slowly catching Ruth's eyes. "Teacher was annoying the hell outta me." She adds for good measure and finally gets the reaction that she wants.
"What?" Ruth chokes, eyes wide.
"Yeah, the man was so arrogant, thought he knew everything and was so much better than everybody else. He used to lecture me about the way I behaved and about my acting out to Niklaus. Actually, now I think about it, he would lecture me about everything! He just had to go, you know?" Ruth can't believe the girl that is sitting in front of her, talking about getting her teacher killed as if it was taking out the garbage. Sure she had murder her fair share of persons herself but that was while feeding and she is better than that now. She can stop before she kills and drinks more and more from blood bags so that she does not have to use a human at all. But this, this, child that sits in front of her is still human. She doesn't kill people out off need and by accident but just kills them because they are annoying her.
"How could you?" She can't help but whisper, utterly upset, standing up from her chair with such a sudden movement that it clatters on the wooden floor.
"Hannah!" A deep hoarse voice then calls and the girl in front of her looks away from her eyes to stare at something behind her, her eyes turn big and innocent as she ask: "Huh?"
"Please do not scare your teacher, dearest, I am afraid I will be unable to find and turn a new one for you any time soon," Niklaus drops his coat on a chair and slouches down in another one, he then looks up at Hannah with a tired expression. "Would you be a darling and look for some alcohol, you know my poison don't you?" Hannah looks at her guardian with a doubtful expression before she stands up from her chair gracefully and walks over to the kitchen to find some Bourbon. Leaving Ruth frozen by the dinner table, one glance from Klaus however, was enough for her to disappear from the room. Returning to Niklaus with a filled glass and the rest of the bottle, Hannah bows near him and kisses him on the cheek then takes place on the side table before him.
"Welcome back," She smiles, she can't remember a time where she was this happy to see her guardian. Guess lock up with Ruth does that to you. Niklaus strokes her check with an absent look in his eyes before he pulls himself together and smiles a little smile back to her.
" Does that means I will be able to go to a public school?" She asks slyly. Niklaus shots his drink and takes the bottle Hannah reaches to him.
"You will never go to a public school." He states, way too tired of the lasts couple of days to be passionate about it.
"A private school?" She tries and he sighs.
"Have you been googling again?" He asks back, not giving an answer to her question. He knows that she know the answer is; 'no', anyway. Hannah puts up puppy eyes.
"But research has proven that it is important, if not necessary, for each child's development that they interact with people of their own age." She argues; "And you're, what? A 1500 year old, how old are you anyway?" She asks, distracted.
"It's rude to ask ones age, Hannah," Niklaus sighs and places his hands on Hannah's hips to push her along the table and clear his view of the TV. "And technically, you're not a child any more."
"But I am still a teenager," she wines. Niklaus rolls his eyes. "Niklaus!" He grants her another glance. "You can't just bring me here and lock me up in this apartment with only Ruth, Ruth," she stresses, "to entertain me, I'll die of boredom!"
"Well then you will be delighted to hear that Frederick, Maddox and Greta are coming over, soon,"
"No!" Hannah seethes, re-gaining Niklaus' attention. She stands up and pricks her finger in Niklaus' chest, "If you lock me in this house, fine, even if you give me nothing to do I'll survive but DON'T YOU lock me in the same apartment as Greta or I swear to God, Klaus, I will slit my wrists."
Klaus is up and holding her wrists next to her head in just a moment, his face once again livid.
"Hannah do not ever speak like that again," he growls dangerously through his teeth. Hannah wants to step away but his grip on her arms tightens.
"Fuck, aw, Nik," She moans, "you're hurting me, Klaus, let go!"
"Tell me." He shakes her a little, making her look up to him.
"Ow, Nik," she groans. Not wanting to take it back but seriously considering it because it feels like he would snap her wrists himself, if he tightens his hold a bit more and that gives her an idea. "I will not even have to do it if you keep on holding me, you'll snap my wrists, Nik!" But it doesn't makes him stop and if she thinks about it, why would it? He hurt her worse than that in the lasts years. Nothing a little blood can't heal.
"I won't okay!" She yells, and he lets her go. Hannah immediately starts to rub her sore skin. "Jesus Christ, I'm not suicidal, Klaus! What were you thinking?"
"What was I thinking?" He roars, starting to pace back and forward. "What were you thinking?"
"I hate Greta, Nik, you know that. We never liked one other and this house, if that is what you call it, is barely big enough for me, I won't even be able to avoid her. The front door opens into the hall way and then you can either go to the kitchen, the living- and dining room or upstairs and there is only one hallway there two! This house is so fucking small I can barely breath in it," She complains.
"Don not act melodramatic, Hannah, it does not suit you," Niklaus bites back. "And what is it that makes Greta so intolerable?"
"She is an ass-kisser!" Hannah calls, throwing her arms in the air. "And it's your ass she is all over, don't even pretend like that isn't the case." She warns, pointing her finger.
"Greta has daddy issues, that is why she is so affectionate but that is also why she is the perfect witch. Her difficulties have pushed her to perform and the results are outstanding." Niklaus explains, he grabs Hannah's shoulders and makes her look at him. "Come on, Hannah, bear her for me. It is all for the ritual, you want that for me, do you not?" Hannah sighs and breaks the eye contact by looking to the ground, she wiggles her toes in her stockings to distract herself.
"Of course I want that for you," she sighs. "I know how important performing the ritual is for you, you have wanted to break that stupid curse ever since that bloody witch put it on you and I understand that,' she rambles. "I just hate that you have to use her to perform it, why can't Maddox do it? At least he is no arrogant cunt." Niklaus had let go of her shoulders and pushes a strangle of hair behind her ear. "Because, Hannah dear, I have tried to get rid of my curse for many centuries now and I have learned to always have a back-up." Hannah stays silent, understanding it all did not automatically make it all okay to her.
"You're acting like a jealous girlfriend." Niklaus states, having enough of the discussion. Hannah's faces twists in disgust.
"Ewh, don't be repulsive, you're just like a father to me," Hannah says in horror.
"I'm not your father, Hannah!" Niklaus snaps. Hannah rolls her eyes.
"Oh please, there is no one around here to hear, what does it matter if I speak the truth?"
"I am not your father!" Niklaus shouts.
"You keep saying that," Hannah shouts back. "But you are always there when you need to be." Niklaus raises his eyebrow but Hannah is far but done. "You take care of the fact that I get schooling, you turned a piano-teacher so that I could learn, you got me a fucking bodyguard so that I could go out of the house when you where gone. Here you are, caring enough to lock me away in this god damn house so that nobody finds out about me!You raised me, Niklaus, how else would you describe our relationship?"
"It hurts me to break this to you, darling, but I call it a negotiation. As long as you are a mystery to me, you can be dangerous and I do not see the need for friends but I sure as hell am keeping my enemies close!" He explains, no expression on his face but frustration and anger.
"Well, fuck you," Hannah curses, not wanting to show how much it hurts to hear him deny her once again but Niklaus sees it anyway.
"Just go to your room, I have had enough of you for one evening," and with that he turns away, he really needs some blood right now. That girl is driving him crazy.
"And you say you are not my father," he hears her say, "but yet you order me to; 'go to my room.'" He knows she is right but that does not mean he has to admit it. "Fucking asshole," he hears her murmur when she is walking up the stairs, he ignores it.

Once again thank you for reading my story! I hope you guys still think it is worth reading =)

Love, Lucky.

PS. About the next update, that will probably be Sunday. Next week I am starting a new block on school and I really want to do better than I did this time so I'll have a lot less time to write. But I am totally free this weekend and I hope to write up a few chapter so that I am still going to keep you guys happy with a somewhat regular update. But from next week updates are probably going down to two a week, and if I am really busy; once a week. But let's hope that doesn't happen! Love you guys and see you sunday!