Hello Reader,

This chapter was the hardest by far to write. The mood I tried to maintain throughout was slightly difficult but I always love a challenge and I wanted it to correspond with episode 1, season 2. Originally, I wasn't going to start so early in season 2 but it was for the best, I hope. I hope you love it and I wish to have another chapter up by this coming Wednesday.

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Chapter 15:

Kristina felt sore to the bone as she woke up from what seem liked 5 months of hibernation. Her head pounded as if someone kept slamming a door in her face and she still had the sensation of tipsiness. She almost gagged, as she tasted the metallic salty taste of the red liquid that seemed to all over her mouth. She looked around to see where she was but it wasn't recognizable. All the tree's looked exactly the same and the forest floor had all the same brown mush color except for some large blood splatters that cover certain areas around her and seemed to trail on to the distant horizon. She curled up into a ball bring her knees to her chin as she tried to remember what had happened after Niklaus provoked her.

There was a lightly crunching of branches behind her, in the act of instinct she almost jumped to her feet but remembered that she was bared from nose to toe.

"Get dressed." Stefan said from behind her, throwing a bag her way and dashing off.

Kristina let out a great sigh as she realized it was Stefan not the horrid man that seemed to always cross paths with her. She was glad she hadn't killed Stefan back in Chicago as she rummaged through her bag.

"Yes." She muttered as she saw the clothing in the little bag. The bag held the outfit she had put out for Zack's homecoming. She gently pulled out the deep blue button up blouse and white shorts and laid them out on a branch close by as she dug for a pair of underwear and bra.

"You have got to be kidding me." Kristina hissed as she saw the lace black number at the bottom of the bag. That was also Zack's homecoming. It made her feel miserable for Zack, coming home tonight to see Brittany and Joanna ripped to pieces and scattered all over the walls. It wasn't a sight she longed to see.

Once she was dressed she looked around and decided to take the path away from the blood trail. The opposite way of the blood was most likely the way opposite of Niklaus.

"Where do you think your going, love?" Said a deep British ascent from behind her. It had the dormant butterflies in her stomach flutter to life. Her mind raced now, the feeling of pure overpowering alpha male presents made her mind race with confusion.

Kristina had been told of this feeling; younger werewolves would explain the sensation to her. Her resents was over powering to them, her Alpha male status was usually too much for the new bees. But she wasn't a new bee and he wasn't something she wished to follow.

"Away." She said her mind coming back to reality. Kristina didn't remember turning to face him but she already knew it was a bad idea.

Nik's astonishing sky blue eyes bore in her eyes and all over her body.

Niklaus could take his eyes off of her. Last night seemed like a daze, something he wasn't even certain was reality. Her hair was no longer the pin straight jet-black hair he had witnessed last night, it had started waving slightly and it seemed a soft black in the light of the rising sun. Kristina's attire had also changed. She no longer wore the large white V-neck; she wore a deep blue blouse that made her naturally grey eyes have a slight blue tint and made her olive skin tone glow. Niklaus could trust himself around her. She was dangerous to his attention and intentions. Kristina captivated both with little effort and left him clueless on what he should do next.

Before he understood his actions he was inches from her rose red lips. Kristina stood her ground and both hybrids locked eyes for a long silent minute. He thumb trailed to her lower lip and down her chin, removing his dry blood from her angelic face.

"You're not going any where. I can not and will not allow it." The Hybrid said with his tone easily and clear. He was certain of one thing, she would pay for trying to kill him. If she would pay with her life, he was uncertain of. Before she could sprint for it, he had her pinned to a tree and had wolfbane coated cuffs around her wrist.

"You son of a bitc—" She started but was cut off as he flung her over his shoulder. Kristina beat his back trying to get him to put her down but it only made the flesh around her wrist burn deeper. She gave out a little hiss in agony as she felt it burn her further.

"Sorry, love." He smirked slightly chucking at her actions. Niklaus kind of liked her with a little more feistiness; it brought out her true personality.

"You can take that sorry and shove it." Kristina muttered in a slight British ascent as she hanged like a dead weight. Before they could say another word, Niklaus used his supernatural abilities to blur to the car in less then a second.

Kristina's fingers gripped onto the back of Nik's shirt when he blurred out of the woods. It made him smile at her human reaction. She hadn't changed as much as he expected. He still enjoyed her response of his supernatural aspects.

"Let me go!" Kristina said with an iron cold voice that reminded him of Elijah. Niklaus put her down and pushed her up against the car.

"Remember who you are taking to." He growled. Her attitude had reached a new level of disrespect.

Kristina laughed lightly at his comment but her face turned in solid furry.

"This isn't 1467. I'm not your property. You don't own me." Kristina said her head and heart pounding.

She was right, the time and the situation had changed extremely.

"If you are going to kill me, go ahead. Your failure will be ever amusing." She finished her grey eyes seemed full with pure irritation and a hint of fear.

Niklaus was at a lose of words and just opened the car door for her. Kristina rolled her eyes as she ducked her head and crawled in the passenger seat.

"I can't believe you." Ray said in a cold voice, spitting out blood as he got a fist full in his stomach from Stefan.

"Ray, I'm not with them." Kristina said walking towards Ray but was only pulled back from her waist by Klaus. She tried her best to push away from him but he was just a tad bit stronger and the wolfbane cuffs burned further in her already sore skin.

"Enough with the small talk, I need you to direct me to your pack. So where can I find them, Ray?" Niklaus said with his hands still around her hips, digging into her skin as he fought to hold her in place.

Rays eyes flickered to Kristina, he knew she knew, and confusion quickly flash through his chocolate eyes. He was hopeless but was able to stutter out a reply, "You can't compel me. It won't work." Ray's voice came out more like a whisper then the strong tone he had meant to use. It was silent for a minute as Stefan and Klaus gave each other an annoyed look.

"Scotch on the rock, please." Stefan directed to the bartender that also had been compelled. Kristina took the split second to mouth I'm sorry to Ray but he only gave her a disgusted look.

"Tell you what Ray, we're going to play a little drinking game. Something I like to call truth or wolfbane." Stefan said taking out the cursed herb, just the smell of it made Kristina's nose burn and her stomach turn.

"Well this is going to be fun." Klaus said with a smirk filled face and genuine amusement in his electrocuting blue eyes.

-(5 minutes later)-

Kristina flinched uncontrollable every time she heard Ray's pain filled groans as the wolvesbane-coated darts punctured his skin. The potent smell of the herb made here skin around her wrists hurt even more. She knew the location but she would never tell, she would die before telling it was her nature as the leader. The Alfa man couldn't go against her/ his pack; it was a law of living for her. A law that most didn't understand, let alone know about.

It was revolting the way Niklaus could just sit there and watch Stefan torture her friend. It made her want to storm out of his bar with Ray in one hand and Niklaus' heart in the other. But she couldn't do either because of her weak state. Tomorrow would be the full moon and she had no idea what was going to happen.

Cold hands gently grappled her burning wrists. Before she could look up to who it was, there was a soft metal click and the cursed cuffs were no longer restraining her.

Kristina softly hissed as she rubbed her now healed skin and slowly rotated them to see their true function go back to normal.

"Enjoying the show, love?" His voice rang with pure pleasure. Niklaus expected to get what he wanted. His expectations were a disappointment, and for her sake and the pack's she hoped that he didn't get the location.

Kristina, out of anger, started to get up but he caught her by the hand and pulled her back to her seat. They locked eyes. They had both changed so much but in each other's presence, they resembled themselves in 1467.

"I would try to run. Bad things will happen." He said his voice threatening.

"Go to hell." Kristina said, her words like venom but it only made him laugh slightly. Niklaus leaned in till their faces were only inches apart. Her muscles tensed but she didn't move from her position, she refused to act human around him. It would only symbolize weakness.

"I'll meet you there." He said with a wink, his words where like déjà vu. It irritated her beyond belief.

He left slightly laughing and headed to the bar table but till had good eyes on her.

A woman walked towards the vampire wolf hybrid and lightly whispered in his ear. Kristina could make out most of it; someone by the name of "the other Salvatore" was still following them. She wasn't the only one listening in. Stefan had turned to face Klaus with half angry and half shocked hazel eyes.

"My brother still on our trail?" Stefan said with ice-cold voice, it seemed like a rhetorical questions but Nik answered with a sigh.

"He is getting closer. I'm going to have to deal with that. " Klaus said placing his glass of Bourbon on down with a thud and got up to leave. There was a slight flash of panic in Stefan's face but it felt as fast as it had come.

"No, No, No, let me handle it." He said in his usual calm and collected voice, he was hiding something, she could tell.

"Why should I let you leave?" Niklaus said raising his eyebrows in a questioning look.

"Because you know I will come back."

"Do I?" Klaus said with a slight smirk on his lips.

"You saved me brothers life, you have my loyalty." Stefan replied his voice reassuring but his eyes still held the secret he was keeping. Kristina wondered of Niklaus could see it too.

"You sound so tedious and denatured. Aren't you having the least bit of fun?" His words made her blood boil; his conception of fun was to far twisted.

"I'll make sure my brother doesn't bother us anymore." Stefan said disregarding Nik's meaning of fun and walked off, leaving her and the beast alone with a bleeding werewolf.

-(Stefan returns)-

"What are you doing?" Ray said with a small voice as Nik strapped him to the pool table.

"It's a three step process, mate." Niklaus said, as he bite into his wrist, letting blood surface. Kristina looked at him baffled till he moved his bloody wrist toward Ray's mouth.

"What are you doing!?" She cried in terror, his blood would only kill Ray. The grey in her eyes took over her whole eye and a surge of power leaped from her, making all the light bulbs, glasses and fragile items in the almost deserted bar shatter under the pressure she radiated in the surrounding air.

"Love, control yourself or I will have to kill you." The vampire hybrid said barring his teeth at her as he pinned her against a wooden post. Kristina's connection with Stefan's mind broke and he stopped clenching his head in pain.

"Go for it, kill me. Better yet, let's go, wolf on wolf, no vampire power to help you this time. Who's the bigger lycanthrope?" Kristina's blood was surging throughout her body rapidly making Niklaus's mind clouded, as her powerful sent flared all around him. "Behind your vampire aspect your just a new werewolf, you have no idea the strength I obtain." Kristina said through her teeth, as she tried to shove him away but was useless against his doubled strength.

"Unlike you, I'm one with my being, I can control both aspects. I see it every time you try to use your magic or turn. You must turn one off to use the other. That makes you weak." He whispered the last word in her ear as he edged closer to her.

Kristina felt exactly like the girl she used to be in 1467. The weak, powerless, scared little servant girl that just got push around by her master. She wanted to cry, to cry her eyes out because of her anger towards the unfairness of her situation. But it was against her number one rule, which was not to cry in front of people. It seemed that when she was around the originals it was inevitable.

Niklaus knew her weakness and she was yet to figure out his. It scared her slightly. Also, the fact that he could be one with his vampire and werewolf being screamed a true hybrid, which she was yet to fully be.

Kristina was a werewolf and a witch but she wasn't both at the same time, it was complicated. Her magic would only arise when her werewolf side was nonexistent. Like wise for her lycanthrope accept, to some extent she wasn't a hybrid. More like, she was a different form of hybrid compared to Niklaus. It was really a pain in the ass.

The crack of a neck brought her attention back to the present. She finally understood what was going on. The monster was trying to make more of his kind, more destructive vampires/werewolves that would be more powerful then her.

"That was step two." Nik said with a smug face, as he walked past her with a dead Ray over his shoulders.

Kristina couldn't make words for the image she was replayed in her head. All she was certain of was that Niklaus had gotten the address to the campsite and was going to kill every one of her brothers and sisters of the moon in the attempt to make more hybrids.

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