Chapter Nine

I was giggling now as Klaus pulled me through the town at a run, heading to some unknown destination.

"Where are we going, Niklaus?" I now asked in a laugh as we turned a corner. Now he looked back at me and grinned.

"You shall see in a moment, Sweetheart."

We ended up on the beach, him leading me up into the high dunes that were shrouded in long yellowed grass.

"This is to your liking?" he asked me as he sat down, running a hand through his long brown-blonde hair for a moment. I smiled and sat beside him, then lay back and looked up at the stars twinkling above us in the night sky.

"It is overwhelming." was all I could say, that smile still tugging on my lips. "No one has ever done something so very... nice for me before."

Klaus now sighed and lay back with me, pulling my form into his arms, kissing my bare shoulder. "That is very hard to believe, Claudia." he told me and I chuckled, burying my face in my monsters chest. "Maybe, but it is the truth. I have never met a man that I cared for truly."

"Until now?"

"You push your luck, Niklaus."

Now he sighed and got up onto me, lips at my neck. "Why do you insist on calling me by that?"

I laughed, pushing him away for a moment. "Because it is your name."

"But I-"

"No more talk on the matter-" I pulled him close and giggled into his ear. "You are Niklaus to me."

Now he sighed and gave in, knowing that my errant mind would not be persuaded otherwise.

"You are going to be such a pain over the coming Centuries." he sighed now, kissing my neck.

"You mean I am actually going to live to be there (?)" I scoffed, making him laugh and go. "Dear one... you have a gift. I have never seen someone so very fluent when killing a man. It is very... admirable."

"Unllike your ability to please a woman, then." I retorted with a smirk, making him raise an eyebrow and ask in a mock hurt voice. "Are you insinuating on my abilities in the bedroom?"

"I may be." I giggled, making him laugh for a moment, but then I felt him bite into my neck, raising a hand to put around my shoulders. Now I sighed and closed my eyes- I was too used to it. Besides, I rather liked it. Anything to make him happy.

Besides, two could play at that little game.

Now I grabbed his arm and sunk my own fangs into his wrist, thinking; this was probably as close to a romantic night out with him I was going to get. He could have brushed me off and made some excuse not to bother, but he had made the effort, and the location truly was beautiful.

Maybe this future wasn't looking quite so very bloody after all.

-FORSAKEN-

I turned over with a groan the next morning, reaching out with a hand, but found empty sheets next to me.

Now I frowned and sat up- Klaus was gone.

There was a clink from downstairs that made me sigh, then get up and untwist my chemise that I had worn to bed. Klaus was all for no clothing at all, but a woman had to retain and keep some of her dignity somehow.

He was sat on the balcony, eyes closed as the morning sun warmed him up, a glass of red liquid in his hand.

"Good morning." he now said, eyes still closed as I sat down next to him and looked out across the bay from our "new" housing that we had taken last night.

"Good morning." I smiled, kissing his cheek and making him chuckle a little, then-

"We have business to attend to, today." he told me, opening his eyes and looking at me. I nodded. "What kind?"

Klaus put his head back against the door, then raised his glass to his lips.

"Torture and murder, no doubt. Being an evil psychopath is incredibly hard and tiresome work."

I sighed and leaned forwards, my lips touching his for a moment. "Then let's get started." I smirked, getting back to my feet and stealing his drink, walking into the room while he laughed under his breath.

Yes, the future did look long and immensely bloody.

Later that night, I stood beside the exit to the ball, staring inside for the man Klaus had described and saw him straight away. He was moving towards me now, and I swiftly dashed into the shadows, waiting with bright eyes as the man walked out alone, prompting me to sit down on the floor and start to "cry."

It worked, for the man came over and knelt down next to me, wondering what was so very wrong.

But as he went to pull me up by my arms, I snarled and jumped forwards, sinking my fangs into his neck and drained him a little like Klaus had asked me to.

The man backed off now, his body shaking as he put a hand on his neck. He was a vampire, I realized, for he took off into the woods where I heard a nasty crunch as Klaus caught him and no doubt ripped something off. Very gentlemanly (!)

I walked into the clearing where the vampire was begging to the Original pinning him to the tree with a single hand, that demon like smirk upon his face.

"And where was she?" he now asked coolly, and the vampire stuttered out. "Sh-she- I do not know! She was heading to Wisconsin! Please! I do not know anymore!"

Klaus let the vampire drop to the base of the tree, then he snarled and said. "Wisconsin? You are sure?"

"I- I may have mis- misheard..." I saw him say with wide and fearful eyes- he knew who Klaus was then. Everybody seemed to be so very terrified of him. Myself included when he grabbed the vampire and threw him at the opposite tree where a branch pierced his heart, silencing him in an instant as he died.

Klaus walked over to another tree and snarled into it, losing his temper and hit it so hard that it near enough snapped in two, falling onto another with a loud, earsplitting crash.

"Klaus?" I now asked quietly, unsure of how his frame of mind was at the current moment. He turned to me with a sigh, walking over to my rooted form and took my face in his hands.

"Yes?" he asked me calmly, and I sighed, putting my head against his chest. "We should get out of here, yes?"

Klaus just nodded, taking my hand and leading me away from the scene where the other partygoers were congregating. A scream or two later, and I knew they had seen the very dead body of the vampire in the tree, a branch skewered through him.

Was this life from now on? Blood, blood and yet more blood?

I just had this feeling...

That eternity had only just begun.

Sorry it's a little shortXD but its a filler chapter before the next big one:D so, thanks so much for the immense attention so far, and more reviews very much loved:D next up soon! x Nicc