Hey guys! So I know this is a really short chapter, but my cousin borrowed my season 4 of the vampire diaries so I'm having a little trouble deciding which episode to start on. So next chapter will be longer and we'll start to follow season 4 by the episode. But this is a pivotal chapter so let me know what you think! Thank you to everyone that is reading and for the reviews! I love them all!
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Chapter 25
"You can only lose what you cling to." Buddha
"ALBA!" I shout relentlessly banging my fists against the wall she encased me in. "SON OF A BITCH!" I growl in frustration when the barrier refuses to crumble from my strength. How could she do this? How could she do this to me? She led me around for months on a wild goose chase cleaning up her messes all so she could say it was for me then die!
The mere gall she possesses has the veins around my eyes protruding while my crystal irises turn a dangerous yellow. If she thinks this is over she's wrong. With a newfound sense of purpose I brace my hands against the barrier and with a howl in rage I push. Even when the barrier starts to pulsate with a white light around my fingers searing them with an unrelenting fire I keep pushing. Then with one last wrenching shove the barrier gives sending sparks flying in every direction not that I stick around long enough to watch.
Before the last spark dies I'm hurling myself over the cliff to plunge into the frosty water below. It's dark underneath making it very hard for anyone to see, but I'm not just anyone. I propel my arms at my sides pulling myself deeper under the surface looking for a familiar black head of hair. I brush against rocks, fish, and remains of people I have no doubt Damon Salvatore disposed of in here, but no Alba.
I feel the beginnings of fear and panic start to stir in my gut when after several minutes I have yet to find her. I want to curse, kill, and smash everything in my path. But that feeling soon vanishes to be replaced with dread when I finally see her. She's floating at the bottom of the quarry, her midnight black hair swaying lifeless around her face along with her arms that drift uselessly at her sides. In an instant, I'm by her side wrapping a steady arm around her waist before kicking off from the bottom and sending us shooting to the top.
I take an unnecessary breath of air when we break the surface, well aware, of the way Alba's head falls limp against my shoulder. I easily wrap my other arm under her knees and carry her bridal style to the shore where I lay her gently on the ground. She looks pale as the driven snow with her lips turning a pasty blue.
"Alba!" I yell in fury when I don't hear a heartbeat as I look determinedly at her frozen form. I've never given CPR before always resorting to vampire blood before I ever put my lips to another, but at this moment it seems my blood would be useless. So with quick movements I place my hands over Alba's heart and begin to pump. I recall you pump three times then apply the mouth to mouth procedure. "1…2…3," I bend at the waist tilting her chin for better air flow before crushing my mouth to hers. I blow my breath inside her watching her chest rise with the force. "1…2…3," I pump three more times and repeat the process only to get the same results.
"Damn it, Alba! Breathe!" I bellow wanting to slam my fist against her chest, but I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I would crack her sternum. "1…2…3," I press on her chest three more times before covering her lips with my own. I keep my lips to hers even when I know I should start to pump her chest again, but I can't bring myself to do it. I just keep blowing my air inside her wanting nothing more than to be the reason she lives. I want to be the reason she fights for her life. But the longer her heart refuses to beat, the longer I feel the little humanity I have slipping away.
However, my thoughts are cut short when Alba begins to cough making me draw back before she spits water in my face. My whole body slumps in relief when she turns her head and throws up the water in her stomach. I wait for her to collect herself and come crawling over to me to take care of her for the night. Because that's all I want to do; I just want to put my arms around her and protect her from the world. But the moment never comes. I jump to my feet when Alba does swatting my hands away when I try to help her up. She looks down at her drenched clothes sighing in what I can only assume to be disappointment.
"Alba, just what in the hell did you think you were doing?" I ask rather loudly crossing my arms as my anger slowly starts to build.
"Going for a swim," Alba shrugs casually like it's no big deal that she just died. "Thanks for the save Klaus; I'll make sure to let Caroline know about your newfound heroism." She winks with a condescending smirk before starting down the bank away from me. Before she can even make it six steps I've flashed in front of her blocking her path.
"Do you think this is funny, Alba!? Do you think your life is a game?" I snarl taking another step in her direction so I'm towering over the top of her. She doesn't look the least bit deterred as she sighs rolling her eyes to look up at me.
"If my life was a game I would have lost by now," Alba smirks crossing her arms defiantly. "Now if you would just step out-of-the-way, I have to inform Kol that he's officially my little bitch." She snickers making a move to step to my right, but I move with her standing tall in her path. I casually place my hands behind my back like I have all the time in the world when Alba blows out an agitated breath. "Klaus. Move."
"No." I smirk taunting the girl standing in front of me. The more I'm with her the more I can see the absolute carelessness she possesses.
"I'm only going to ask you one more time." Alba's voice hardens as her icy eyes narrow on me. "Let. Me. Go." I don't know if Alba intended for her words to have a double meaning, but from the way her body stiffens when I take another small step forward successfully brushing against her exposed skin; I think she knows.
"Is that what you really want, love?" I whisper softly brushing a stray piece of hair behind her ear before running the back of my hand gently down her cheek. She doesn't move or speak, but I can see the slight uncertainty in her eyes when I tilt her chin up towards my face. "Do you really want me to let you go?" I ask one last time running my eyes over her delicate features like I'm examining a work of art. I raise my hands to cup her cheeks so she has nowhere to turn when I slowly bring my face closer to hers.
I watch in hope as her eyes flutter shut when I nuzzle my nose against hers and bring her lips that much closer to mine. I can feel her breaths, the breaths that I gave her, mingling with my own as I take the final step. I gently capture her lips in my own refusing to rush this moment. I keep the kiss light even when the animal in me wants nothing more than to pick her up and ravish her right here and now. I can't be an animal with Alba especially when I can see she's barely put the pieces back together to keep herself whole.
I refrain from growling when Alba deepens the kiss coaxing her tongue against mine. I merely slide one of my hands to tangle in her hair so I can keep her still while one of her hands slides down to grip one of my hips as I try not to lose anymore self-control. I am the original hybrid; this one girl does not have the power to control me. Yet as she smashes herself against me our kisses becoming more urgent I lose all sense of everything around me. I don't hear the water rushing beside us, I don't see the forest around us, and I'm not aware of anything, but Alba. The anger and betrayal I had against her for abandoning me all those months ago vanished when her lips met mine.
I feel Alba take a small step away from me while keeping our lips connected and that is enough for me. I am so consumed with her that I don't expect the searing pain that tears through my gut in the next instant.
"Aaahh!" I howl in pain and rage as I jerk away from Alba. I stare down at the stake protruding from my stomach before whipping my face up in shock to meet Alba's gaze. She has her head cocked to the side looking down at my stomach with no emotion. "What have you done?" I ask in anger; my eyes flooding with yellow as I rip the stake out of my gut. I throw it uselessly to the ground as I advance on Alba with so much fury that I'm willing to snap her neck.
"Consider that a reality check, Klaus." Alba sneers standing tall even when I roughly grab her shoulders and shake her. But she's quick to whip her hands out to grasp my wrists holding me in an iron lock before kicking one foot out to impale itself in my stomach. I feel myself sail through the air before landing roughly on the ground. "I don't want to be with you, Klaus." Alba yells as I growl flashing to her carelessly grabbing her by the neck. I don't waste time picking her up and slamming her down in the soil enjoying the sound of something cracking inside her.
"Don't for a second underestimate my feelings for you as anything other than pure lust, darling." I snarl getting in her face and baring my fangs. "You were a good fuck, but that's it." Before the sentence even leaves my mouth I feel my left femur cracking in half with another kick from Alba as she shoves me off her. I land on my back in the dirt as Alba suddenly appears over me ramming her fist into my face.
"How does it feel to know that no one cares about you, Niklaus?" Alba hisses using my full name which just pisses me off even more. I quickly jerk my hips up bucking Alba over the top of me so she crashes face first into a tree. I jump to my feet and flash to her fallen form; picking her up and smashing her against the tree listening to the sickening crack her head makes when it meets the wood.
I glare over her bloody face watching her wounds already healing before trailing my eyes down to her torn clothes. She's dirty and panting, no doubt, showing me what I look like, too.
"You can say what you will, Alba." I smirk tightening the hold I have around her neck until her face turns blue. "But at least, I didn't kill my sister." I go for the low blow wanting to hurt Alba as much as she hurt me. And from the instant reaction I get I know I succeeded.
Alba's eyes instantly darken the veins around her eyes visible as her fangs lengthen into pointy tips. With a roar in anger she flashes out of my grip twisting the tables on me as she manages to spin me around and slam me against the same tree I had previously held her. I feel my own fangs come out as I show her what a true monster looks like. For a moment, we just sit there growling at one another like the predators we are before with a skillful grace Alba plunges yet another stake through my stomach. I grunt in pain at being impaled to the tree, but I refuse to give her more than that.
I don't take my eyes off Alba even when she takes a step forward letting her vampire face disappear.
"I may have killed my sister, Klaus. But let's not forget about Henrik." She spits, her eyes no longer void. My heart clenches at the anger and hate behind her eyes and her words are like salt to an open wound. I can't say another word as I glare at her wondering how we came to this. "Enjoy forever alone." Alba says clenching her jaw as she turns her back on me and walks away.
"Alba!" I howl in rage when I can't get the stake out of my stomach. She's forcing me to watch her leave me behind. "Alba!" I yell at her disappearing figure as I fight with myself doing everything I can to get off this damn tree. It's only when I don't see her anymore and I give up any chance I have of pulling this stake out of my stomach that I crack.
"ALBA!"
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