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Lea and Klaus spent the remainder of the night talking. Derek and his pack seemed to relax when Klaus didn't threaten any of them and they eventually fought over who was going to sit on the sofa when Klaus told them to go ahead and get comfortable. Although with a just a single glare directed at all of them, Derek was the first to sit on the sofa while Scott and Erica fought for the remainder of the space. Needless to say, Scott and Erica were squished tightly against one another as Scott tried to give Derek as much room as possible.
Allison had happily taken a spot on the floor, her back leaning against Scott's legs, Isaac on the floor in front of Erica, and Boyd half sitting on the arm rest next to Erica as well. Stiles had nervously rocked back and forth on the balls of his feet before Lea took pity on him and pushed him into her seat, choosing to sit on the armrest next to him.
Throughout the night, Lea told Klaus tales of her time when they weren't together. He was surprised to know that Elijah helped her when he had first left but when she mentioned that he too had disappeared, he didn't have the heart to tell her it was because of him that his brother went missing.
As the night had progressed, the wolves were on high alert but the humans were slowly falling asleep where they sat. Scott had attempted to wake Allison to walk her up to a room but she was adamant about staying with everyone. If she had to lean against him to sleep, well the was leaning up against him to sleep. Stiles, on the other hand, fell asleep and he was a lost cause. Derek and his betas only grinned in amusement when Lea tried to shake him awake but that only caused him to plant his face in her abdomen and wrap his arm her legs.
The Hale Pack snickered as Lea blushed, Klaus slowly smirking at her discomfort but when she narrowed her eyes at him, he put his hands up in surrender.
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By the time morning came around, Klaus departed from the group. He had mentioned to Lea that he needed to eat, clean up, and then head out for business but that he'd be back by mid day. He had also talked to Derek, telling him that if he or anyone else had clothes or anything they brought with them and wanted to put it in their chosen room, they were more than welcome to. There was no point in sleeping in a room while leaving everything else in their vehicles. And before Klaus had left, he also mentioned about people milling about outside and to not worry about them. They were just people he had hired to clean the yard and entry way up to the mansion.
As soon as Klaus was out of hearing range, Lea took it upon herself to look through all the rooms that Klaus hadn't banned them from. Of course she thought about snooping through the banned rooms as well but she figured that if she needed to get on with Nik, snooping through his stuff wasn't one of the ways. Erica and Allison had happily accompanied her, Boyd and Scott leaving the girls to get their rooms ready while Derek and the boys wandered around the first level.
Once everyone got appointed a room, they all took their time to clean up before heading out to find something eat.
While Derek, Boyd, and Scott are all showering in their own bathrooms, a visitor made himself known by walking through the front door without so much as ringing the doorbell. Erica, Allison, and Isaac are back and forth, pulling bags out from the cars and placing them by the bottom of the stairs that they weren't really paying attention as to who was walking around them.
Lea is quick to sense another presence, blurring down the stairs to face the newcomer who is standing just right in the middle of the room. "Who are you?" She asks him. By discreetly sniffing the air, she realizes he smells like Niklaus smells just without the scent of so much power. He's another hybrid but a very, very young one.
The hybrid is pretty much the definition of a high school jock; his cheekbones and jaw structure very defined, dark hair cropped short and spiked up with the help of some hair product, and muscles rippling beneath a skin tight green tee. Dark eyes study Lea from head to toe but they quickly flicker behind her where Lea knows Stiles is descending the steps. "I'm Tyler." He tells her with a hint of authority in his voice. "I heard a rumor that Klaus had puppies running around." He says as Erica, Allison, and Isaac enter from behind him. The two wolves freeze for a second before Isaac grips Allison's arm and drags her toward Lea with Erica by his side. Dropping their bags, each wolf takes a stance in front of Allison. "And as I can see, the rumors are true."
Lea narrows her eyes at him, taking a step closer. "Nik wasn't expecting any company today. If he were, he would have told me."
"Klaus and I aren't friends."
"Then I suggest you leave." Lea glares at him. "Leave before I throw you out."
The hybrid rolls his eyes at Lea. "As if you could." He scoffs. "Listen, I'm just here to tell his pups that I'm alpha around here. Klaus likes to bring in his new toys but after a while when he gets tired of them, they all look up to me. I'm doing them a favor by letting them know who I am so they're not lost little wolves when he's done with them."
Lea growls at his arrogance, blurring up to Tyler and shoving him with both her hands. Much to Erica, Stiles, and Isaac's amusement, Tyler goes flying through the open door and lands on his back with a grunt.
"They already have an alpha, you little insignificant piece of shit." Lea just manages to keep her transformation in check. "You better run before he comes down and I let him rip into you."
Tyler stands up with yellow glowing eyes, black veins highly visible beneath said glowing eyes, and fangs elongated. "That was a mistake." He growls before running away in a blur.
Lea is panting heavily, willing her anger away when slow clapping sounds from behind her. Turning around, she's met with her amused looking friends and a highly proud Nik. Though when or where he came from, Lea doesn't know. "There's nothing more amusing than watching two of your children fight." He chuckles.
Lea huffs, rolling her eyes before walking back towards the steps. "Really? You had to turn him? He's an ass."
"Yes, well, I didn't count on him breaking the sire bond." Klaus retorts and when Lea quirks an eyebrow at him, he scowls. "Yes, just like you did. Since you managed to slap me last night and felt no remorse, I pretty much knew. Anyway, we'll be having company in a short while so I suggest you go get cleaned up."
"Why?" Lea whines. "We were just going to go get lunch after the guys came down."
"I'll send someone." Klaus says. "We have some things to discuss with the Salvatores and their friends. If the vampire Council is coming, it would be in everyone's best interest to team up for the time being."
Lea is quiet, her brows furrowed in thought as her mind is willing her to remember something. "Salvatore?"
"Yes. You met them last night. Stefan and Damon Salvatore." Klaus sighs. "Honestly, you can't tell me you have that short of a memory."
"No." Lea frowns at him. "It's not that, it's just-" A grin slowly makes her way to her lips. "If they're uncooperative, I know a way to make them."
Klaus takes a moment to beam at her. "Please, do share."
"Uh-uh." Lea shakes her head. "You said I needed to shower so I'm going to go shower." She laughs. "Please feed my friends while I'm away. I have a feeling this is going to be one interesting talk." And just like that, Lea is gone in the blink of an eye leaving her three friends with a thousand year old hybrid.
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When Lea skips down the stairs, she oddly feels at home in Klaus' home for having only been reunited with him last night. There are bags still by the the foot of the stairs and she wants to move them out of the way but voices drifting from the kitchen catch her attention.
Hands tucked into the back pockets of her obscenely short jean shorts, Lea skips towards the voices, her damp hair framing her face. She isn't too surprised to see Stiles, Scott, Isaac, Allison, Erica, and Boyd all standing around a marble top island and stuffing their faces but she is surprised to see Derek standing off to the side, leaning up against the counter and nursing a beer with Nik at his side nursing type of dark liquor.
When Klaus senses her presence, his grin turns into a frown. "Must you dress as a child?" He sighs as Lea grins down at her red Iron Man shirt, shorts, and red high-top converse.
"What?" She laughs. "I like the element of surprise." Lea defends herself. "And I feel like surprising a few people."
Klaus' lips twitch in amusement as Lea skips over to her friends, instantly piling up tacos on a plate that was passed to her. All the while, Klaus notices that the pale teen was staring at her in awe. (He really needed to ask them what their names were).
After a quick lunch, everyone sans Derek and Klaus make an effort to move the bags from the foot of the stairs. Isaac and Scott are halfway up the steps, Allison leaning down and picking up one of her own bags when the front door slams open. Everyone's attention is now on the doors as a group of people trickle in led by none other than Damon Salvatore. Behind him is his brother Stefan, a girl who looks as young as every other girl in the room with pin-straight brown hair that sets anger coursing through Lea, another girl whose loosely curled blonde hair and blue-ish gray eyes makes her the picture of innocence, Tyler, and another kid who looks similar to Tyler though he's very much human and aiming a crossbow at Klaus.
Lea narrows her eyes at their supposed guests, moving to stand near Klaus and Derek as Allison's hand slowly inches it's way towards the opening of her bag and stays there.
"Rude much?" Stiles scoffs from behind Boyd and grows nervous when all eyes swivel over to him and in the midst of his nerves, he points to Boyd as if he was the one who spoke.
Klaus bites his tongue to keep from smiling. "Well it seems the riff-raff have shown up. Shall we?" He gestures to the sitting room behind him and turns his back on them, making his way over to the armchair he had occupied the night before.
Damon leads his friends to the room, each of them standing on guard as Derek and Lea lead their friends into the room after them. Standing on opposite sides of the room, Lea notices that more chairs have been placed in the room to make everyone comfortable for this talk but no-one is sitting. Well, all except Stiles who threw himself down on the sofa that Derek, Scott, and Erica had occupied the night before and stretches out comfortably.
"Are you going to put that away?" Lea glares at the teen holding a crossbow, it's arrow still pointing at Klaus' form.
"No." The teen tells her. "We don't trust him." His hair is short, skin slightly pale though he has a strong beating heart. He clearly has trained before since he's handling his weapon expertly.
"And I don't trust you or her." Her gaze flickers to the girl who sent her anger through the roof. "She looks like Katarina. So I think since Nik is allowing you the courtesy of easing your distrust, do you mind if we ease ours?" When their guests plus Klaus strangely look at her, Lea catches Allison's gaze and nods. In a split second, the bag hanging from Allison's shoulder drops, a small crossbow with a trigger mechanism gripped in her hand and swiftly points it at the teen. Gone is the smiling and giggling girl that Klaus had studied earlier and in her place is a fierce soldier, protecting her own, face void of any emotion. "Just so you know, if you shoot, she shoots. And trust me, she aims to kill."
"But Jeremy's human!" The familiar looking brunette female shrieks in rage. "Surely she wouldn't kill another human?!"
Lea only grins in response, having known Allison's family. Everyone else remains silent, too caught up in the mini verbal dispute to really care about shushing them. "Nous chassons ceux qui nous chassent." Allison murmurs, her voice deadly.
Damon and Stefan suddenly look like they're sick, Klaus merely raising an eyebrow in awe. "We hunt those who hunt us." He smiles. "You must be an Argent."
Allison's attention is torn from Jeremy as she offers Klaus a sheepish grin. "You would be correct."
The Hale Pack looks proud of their resident hunter as Damon and Stefan pull their brunette friend back by her sleeve. "Come on, Elena. Leave it. She comes from a family of Hunters. There's no arguing with her."
Elena huffs but complies and allows the brothers to pull her back. Jeremy and Allison are now having a stare-off, Jeremy's crossbow pointed at Klaus, Allison's crossbow pointed at Jeremy. Tyler is glaring at Lea and Lea is smiling innocently at everyone.
"Okay, okay." Damon has finally had enough of the tense silence. "What is it that you wanted all of us gathered here for? I'm pretty sure it's not to brag that you have an Argent on your side."
"Of course not." Klaus agrees. "I've gathered you here to discuss the Council."
Stefan crossed his arms, sighing in annoyance. "But you already have the Council in your pocket."
"Not Mystic Falls' Vampire Council." Klaus tells him.
Stefan and Damon freeze, the rest of their friends now confused. "What's he talking about?" The blonde questioned as her gaze flickered between Stefan and Klaus.
"What I'm talking about, Caroline," Klaus practically purrs the name which made Tyler clench his jaw in anger. "Is the vampire community's very own Vampire Council that's on it's way here to attempt to kill Lea and her friends."
"But what does that have to do with us?" Damon demands. "If they're coming here to kill them," He pointed to Lea. "Why would we care?"
"Very good question, Mr. Salvatore." Klaus applauds him. "And to tell you the truth, I was going to make up some lies to gain your allegiance but Lea, here, has some information I believe."
All eyes turn to Lea, who standing there smiling without a care in the world. When she says nothing, Damon scoffs. "This is just a waste of time. Let's go."
Stefan follows his brother as they attempt to make an exit but Caroline and Elena remain rooted. "What's the Vampire Council?" Klaus appraises Caroline as her curiosity got the best of her.
As Klaus' eyes rake up and down the blonde vampire, Tyler growls and lunges at him in a fit of obvious jealousy, a white wooden stake with a metallic handle being pulled from the back of his jeans. But before he can even make it halfway, Lea lunges as well and has Tyler pinned up against the wall, one hand wrapped around his throat and the other pinning his wrist with the stake against the wall next to his head.
Klaus stands, shaking in rage and the Hale Pack has the right idea in mind when they take a step back. "You tried to kill me," His voice dripped with venom. "In my own home when I'm trying to help you?!"
Lea glares deeply into Tyler's eyes before allowing herself to glance back at Klaus. "I thought you were invincible." She mocks him by allowing herself a split second of amusement.
"It's from a white oak tree." He tells her without taking his eyes off of Tyler. "Magicked by my very own Mother to be indestructible."
"That bitch." Lea grumbled before going back to glare at Tyler. She, of course, knew everything about the Mikaelson family and their weaknesses.
"I'm getting real tired of your disrespect." Tyler snarled down at Lea. She watched as his eyes glowed, his free hand coming down and shoving her shoulder back so he could be released but Lea didn't budge and she only grinned in response.
Leaning up on her tiptoes, she placed her lips right next to his ear. "Show me your fangs and I'll show you mine." She pulls back grinning, feeling smug as her fangs descend, veins make themselves visible, and eyes glowing brightly.
Tyler goes slack-jawed, and in the moment of his sudden shock, Lea rips the stake from his hand and tosses it at Klaus' feet. Leaving her face transformed, she turns her head to the side and grins at the Mystic Falls vampires. Elena and Caroline gasp, Jeremy swiveling his crossbow towards Lea now. "Everyone," Klaus beams proudly. "I'd like you all to meet my progeny.. Lea." Damon is quick to pull out two stakes from somewhere behind him, ready to strike as Stefan unsheathes a small machete. Where the weapons came from, no-one knew and the females of their group are slow to react when pulling out their own stakes.
Pouting, Lea releases Tyler and flounces back next to Derek and Klaus who's barely containing his anger. "Now, now. This isn't a fair fight." She quickly bends down, picking up the white oak stake and handing it to Klaus. "Four vampires, a hybrid, and a hunter against two hybrids and a hunter." She purposely left out Derek and his betas because everyone was still under the impression they needed the light of the full moon to shift, and a small part of her hoped they'd put their weapons away so the Hale pack didn't have to out themselves so early on.
There's a tense moment of silence before Jeremy lets an arrow fly but it's easily caught by Lea and the arrow that Allison let fly in retaliation is easily caught by Elena who hisses at her. "Whatever. You brought this on yourselves." Lea snapped the arrow in half and chucked it to the floor. Turning to face Derek, she smirked. "I think it's time we play fair, don't you?"
Derek's clenched jaw relaxes as he surprisingly returns her smirk; Scott, Isaac, Erica, and Boyd now grinning as well. One by one, they step forward as a line letting their happy facades fall as their eyes glowed unnatural colors. Derek roars first, his red eyes flaring even brighter as he puts all his anger behind it. Scott follows second, his eyes a golden yellow as Isaac, Erica, and Boyd roar as one. Their canines are glistening, fingernails turned into claws, and faces completely wolfed out.
The entire room is shocked into silence but that's completely broken by a hushed, "This.. is.. awesome!"
Kudos to those who guesses the person who broke the silence ;) And in case you forgot why Lea is angered by Katarina's doppleganger, it's because Katarina was the first doppleganger to flee after Klaus made Lea which then resulted in Klaus leaving. So basically, Lea blames Katarina for Klaus leaving her.