Mia was careful not to wake Kol as she snuck out of her room and out into the corridor and down the stairs into the living room, where Klaus sat casually on the couch with his sketch pad out. Mia smiled at the focused expression on his face while he drew whatever he was drawing.
She walked up behind to see his pencil creation, a drawing of a young girl, "that's good" she complimented his skills that she missed so much. Before the spell was placed on her she loved to watch Klaus draw. She thought his work was simply outstanding. Art was the only thing in common she had with him, she too loved to draw and she was just as good as Klaus; until her brother burned all her drawings as a warning.
She was always drawing pictures of a boy she knew from her human life, it was someone that she cared about deeply. He was a boy her brother didn't particularly like. And when she continued to draw him to refresh her memories he burned her drawings reminding her that he's dead and she had to let him go. "When was the last time you drew something?" Klaus asked her after placing the drawing on the table in front of him. "Not since you put that spell on me" Mia reminded him. "You're not still angry about that are you? You should be grateful I did it" Klaus told her.
"I know and I am. If I wasn't in that coffin I would still be with him. Because of you I'm free of him that bastard brother of mine. So thank you Klaus" she said to him. She was grateful for it, now that she thought of it. If it wasn't for Klaus she'd still be tied down by his chains and never truly free to live her own life. "Leaving so soon?" she heard Kol ask as he entered the living room fully clothed this time. "I thought we'd spend the day together" he said and sat down next to her and kissed her lightly on the cheek with a smile.
"I have errands to tend to" Mia said.
"My name better be on that busy schedule" Kol hoped.
"Nope not today" Mia said.
"You're so mean even after I saved your life" Kol said.
"You did not save my life, you broke Damon's neck" Mia stated.
"Only to protect you. And Stefan's next on my list of things to do" Kol remembered. He wasn't finished with the Salvatore brothers just yet. He would drive their punishment out slowly and painfully.
"Leave them alone please" Mia said.
"Why should I do that?" Kol asked.
"Because I'm asking nicely" Mia said.
"Politeness means little to me, what else do you have" Kol asked.
"If you don't go near them, I will gladly be called your girlfriend" Mia told him which spread a smile across his face.
"That is sad...bargaining love" Klaus joked. He was still in the room and chuckling softly at every word of their conversation.
"Shut up Klaus at least I have a real woman instead of a romantic drawing" Kol replied to his brother's comment.
Again Stefan had ruined a perfectly good plan with his craziness, and how would Damon act on it; by downing several liquor shots from the bar at the Grill as always. It was late morning and happy hour wasn't until two o'clock but some compelling helped to get what he wanted.
"Leave the bottle" Damon told the pretty red head behind the counter who kept giving him shy glances. From the corner of his eye he saw a familiar girl with dark eyes enter the building. She wore jeans with black high heeled boots and a black cardigan over a white singlet. She also wore the same locket around her neck as to when he first saw her in that coffin.
"Why hello there sleeping beauty" Damon greeted as she walked past him. She turned around to face him as he strode over to her, his hand extended out for a handshake. "Damon Salvatore, you must be Mia the secret Salvatore" he introduced himself to her with one of his charming smiles. "I know who you are. You and your brother have some issues as to how you handle things" Mia judged him in an angry but also gentle tone of voice.
"Wait just let me apologise for last night. It wasn't supposed to go down that way, I assure you" Damon said before she could walk off. She had good reason to be angry with them both. "I think it's time we had a little chat" Damon suggested and pulled out the bar stool beside him for her to sit. She ignored the gesture and folded her arms across her chest, "no not here. If you want to know the truth, we go somewhere else" Mia said. The Grill was too public for the upcoming conversation.
So they drove out into the forest where no one could hear them. They walked side by side in silence along a path to an old broken down house. "Is this the witch house? Klaus mentioned this is where your brother hid the coffins" Mia said. She didn't dream of entering. The witch spirits would surely hurt her and she'd had enough pain for once. "You must have a million questions for me" she noted and sat down on a near-by rock.
"Actually just one...how are we related if we really are" Damon asked.
"Your ancestors came from Italy, by ancestors I mean my brother and me" Mia said.
"You'll have to be more specific" Damon told her. He needed more information.
"I am the one responsible for carrying on our bloodline" Mia said softly. It was the first time she had said it aloud for a long time, ever since she turned. "Hmm you got knocked up didn't you" Damon joked lightly.
"Yes I did" was all Mia could manage to say.
Mia returned at dark to the mansion. She knew Elijah would be waiting to hear the story she told Damon, except with Damon she left many parts out as to not go into detail. Family or not she didn't trust him fully just yet. And she was right, there in the sitting room was Elijah, "I believe you promised me a story" he greeted.
"It's not exactly a fairytale if that's what you wanted to hear" Mia said and removed her jacket and sat down on the red velvet couch opposite a white leather one by the fireplace. "Hold on I'd like to hear this" Klaus said and leaned against the wall behind her.
"What would you like to know?" Mia asked.
"Tell me about your brother" Elijah said.
"My brother was strict and controlling. He was also quite cruel, but Klaus knows all about that don't you Klaus" Mia said and turned her head to look at him.
"That is true. Antonio the big bad ripper, almost as good as me" Klaus said.
"He was cruel long before he turned. When I was five I killed my rabbit just because I didn't do my chores, at thirteen he killed my horse because didn't listen to him. And at eighteen he took my baby from me" Mia said truthfully.
"What baby?" Elijah asked and looked to Klaus who had no clue of what she was speaking of. He didn't know about the baby.
"I had had an affair with one of the village boys one night. It was later learned that he was the father to the child I was carrying, the child who was to carry on the Salvatorri bloodline after us" Mia explained.
"Salvatorri?"
"It's where the name Salvatore comes from" Klaus said to Elijah.
"What happened after that?" Elijah asked.
"My baby was given to my grandmother to care for. Antonio was furious and he fled home. He returned home months later as a vampire. He came home for one reason...to turn me into a vampire as punishment" Mia said.
"What? Your brother told me it was because he loved you, and he wanted you to come with us" Klaus denied it. No family member could be that cruel, even Mikael had good reason for turning him and his siblings.
"No Klaus you're wrong. He told me himself I deserved it, that I deserved to suffer for my mistakes. That he would either turn me or kill me for what I did" Mia said sadly which silenced both brothers now. Klaus never heard that part of the story. He watched closely at how Mia contained all her sadness and she shut it out. She had grown stronger without Antonio being here.
"And what of the boy, what happened to him?" Elijah asked.
"He was killed...by an animal or something. I never got to see his body clearly. Antonio refused to let me see" Mia said firmly.
Klaus knew that wasn't the real truth. He knew very well who killed the boy, he was there.
He watched with an approving smile while Antonio ripped the boy limb from limb, his blood pouring out in a thick red puddle.
Mia didn't know the real story.
Author's note:
okay this time for sure the next chapter will be a flashback on her human life
please review even if this chap wasn't that good, i just wanted to get it over with