Thank you so much to each of my reviewer . You are the reason I'm continuing this story even when I'm mostly failing to. For you and my fellow Klamille Warriors or just Cami fans.
Cami had finished the drink Freya gave her and was on the way for her second, when she heard Vincent calling out her name. She turned to see him.
"Where were you? I've been looking for you. You are late."
"Hold on Vincent. Get a drink." She asked the bartender for one more scotch
"I don't need another one. Not in the company of so many vampires."
"Sshh. You do realize they can hear you. They have super sensitive hearing. "She almost giggled.
Vincent raised his eyebrows "Someone looks really relaxed today."
"Yes. I certainly do. It must be the drink, then. And you look handsome in a suit."
Vincent got flustered not expecting it" Forgive me Camille. You look very beautiful too."
Fully dismissing the compliment she said "Well thank you. And here's my drink."
Vincent grabbed the drink before Cami could" Enough drinking then. Perhaps it's time for us to leave. I never wanted to come here in the first place." Reminding himself it's just to keep an eye on Davina, so that all hell may not break loose. He had been right that she will turn out to be the wickedest of them all. Lately he had been regretting his decision to offer her to become The Regent.
Before Cami could answer him, the lights in the compound are dimmed and all the guests are ushered to where is supposed to be the dancing area.
She pulled him to the dance floor.
"We should have fun, Vincent. We don't get to do that often. Not in this city. It might be our last one."
Vincent alarmed at the situation said "Camille"
Cami just blurted "Just dance with me for a while. You must have danced with your wife many times."
Vincent took a deep breath which didn't get noticed by Cami and just humored her not to make a scene.
He'd be lying though; he enjoys her company with all the bunch of crazy around. It feels normal to be around her. They were just moving together, nothing fancy.
"Okay I shouldn't have said that" she stopped moving.
"It's okay Cami. But I don't want any more talks of my dead wife." To which they both laughed.
He twirled her "You know bad things happen when I dance at an event or something."
"Really? And you still want to dance because?"
"Maybe I'm curious, what more bad could happen? "Giggling like she's drunk but Vincent couldn't smell that much alcohol on her. She was speaking coherently but more freely than usual. She didn't look wasted.
He looked out for Mikaelson brothers and found no one in the vicinity, so far. It didn't seem like them missing out on their own party from what he has heard, but then this was his very first.
Vincent told Cami that they have had their fun and probably it's time to go back home for good. And she also didn't protest this time. Suddenly out of nowhere one of the servers passing by just splashed drinks all over Cami.
The server started apologizing fearing for his life probably but Cami just waved him away, not upset with him.
Freya noticed this and she offered to take her to her room so that Cami can get cleaned up. Cami told Vincent she'll be just right back. After she almost got the stains of the expensive wine off of her not so expensive dress and moved out of Freya's room .It is when she heard Hope's wailing coming from nearby. She followed to the source of the sound and finds Klaus holding the baby in his arms, trying to calm her down and apparently failing miserably.
Between not wanting to interrupt them and freeing the precious baby from her sobs, she might have released a sigh and before she could say or do anything, Klaus calls out
"Having fun on my behalf on my incapability of soothing on my own child, Camille?"
She took it as a sign to move inside the room."Making fun of you? I don't have a death wish, Klaus." Klaus understood her intention of lightening the situation.
"She is not sick and she is definitely not hungry. I don't get why she wouldn't stop crying. Freya has tried everything. Every day she'd cry for hours and then when she is exhausted of torturing her lungs, she falls asleep."
She is helpless to her control herself when it comes to Klaus and Hope. She had promised herself, she'll stay out of his business. " Maybe she misses her mother, Klaus. And Freya is not her mother. " touched his shoulder in order to comfort and support.
"She cannot miss the woman who tried to take her away from her father, her family."
"Hayley is her mother, Klaus. I told you, Hope has special powers. She saved my life and hers from the fire in the safe house. I'm sure she can sense her mother in pain."
"You know my parents abandoned Sean thinking he was a monster, their own son. My brother never had a funeral. They didn't even come after Kieran's death." She said while looking at the baby in his arms.
She took a pause and leveled him with an eye" You think you know what abandonment feels like but you don't. Your family still stands by you."
Seeing him frustrated"I get it Klaus. You felt betrayed when she took Hope with her. But understand her intention was just to keep Hope safe. It's a mother's instinct. And don't forget if you keep Hayley away, Hope will grow up resenting you or hate you. Would you be able to live with that?"
His jaw clenched. He knew what she said was right. He hated it when she was right, which was almost all the time.
Klaus informed her "If you must know Freya and Elijah have given the cure to Hayley and her bunch of lapdogs. They'll be free from their curse as we speak."
Cami gave him a smile and squeezed his free wrist" Don't drive family away, especially when you have one."
And in the meantime Hope had also stopped wailing and was sleeping peacefully now. She understood the news of getting to see her mother again, perhaps.
Klaus was about to say something to Cami when they heard commotion outside the room. Klaus handed Hope to Cami and saw Hayley barging through in tow with Elijah. Apparently the compound was empty now.
"You son of a bitch" She punched him in the face making him fall back just by a little.
"This is no way to show gratefulness, little wolf." Klaus smirked while checking his jaw.
"I'll show you gratefulness, Klaus for destroying my family."
She was shouting now"I had been right all along. Being associated with you would cost me everything. You destroyed my marriage, Klaus. They don't want anything to do with me now as long as you're there."
Klaus was outright laughing now "Ah Alpha boy left you. Good riddance. They were useless bunch of lapdogs anyway." while rolling his eyes.
At this Elijah launched at him" You are not ashamed of yourself at all, after what you've done." This is not your brother or sister's life that you destroyed Niklaus."
Klaus groaned in exasperation " Not again brother. Don't tell me you're still not over your playmate Gia."
Elijah rebuked" She was a friend. A concept you are not aware of. And how would you be? You don't spare your friends from your treachery."
Klaus jumped onto Elijah and they threw punches into each other's faces knocking out the furniture in the compound. Their faces were bloodied. Veins had popped up.
Klaus yelled "It's not like you haven't killed my first love."
Elijah roared" You dare forget that she was my first love too."
"And you said you forgave me. How foolish I had been, all this time? You are not the type to forget and forgive. That's not your personality trait."
"I'm done with you. I'm done with your ridiculous redemption. Caring for a stray pet is much better than to care for you."
Some time in between Hope woke up from all the chaos and started crying again. Elijah vamp sped towards Hope which was in Cami's arms now awake , only to be not able to go near her, something blocking his way
He looked alarmingly at Cami who didn't know what was happening. Hayley tried and failed too . Klaus smirking and stating" She is my daughter, she knows that everyone except her father is off limits" only to be disappointed that he couldn't reach her daughter either.
They all were looking accusingly at Cami who had no idea. Meanwhile Vincent returned " Cami I'm sorry . I had to get out Davina and rest of the witches back safely. What's going on here?"
Klaus grabbed Vincent by his neck "You tell me. What kind of magic trickery you have done, that we can't reach Hope?"
Freya and Vincent said in unison "Hope's created a boundary spell against her blood relatives."
I've posted this because I'm super busy for upcoming month. I can't promise an update. I didn't get to proof-read it. So you're definitely going to find mistakes.