Flashback

England, 1492

"Do you need help, Miss?" I was so absorbed by my thoughts that the male voice made me jump from surprise. I quickly turned around and my lips slightly parted as I faced the most handsome man I had ever seen. Blonde hair, mesmerizing blue eyes...he was tall and lean but also muscular. His lips extended in a breathtaking smile. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you. Do you need help?"

I shook my head and took a deep breath, regaining my composure. I raised my head high.

"No, thank you. One of the wheels is broken and the driver has gone back to replace it." I said , nodding at the carriage's direction. His eyes started sparkling mischievously. He tilted his head to one side and stepped closer to me. I didn't know how to react. My mind was screaming at me to get into the carriage and lock the door. For what I knew he could be a serial killer. But there was something in him, I couldn't really define it but I just couldn't take my eyes off of him.

"Do you want me to take you to the town? I'm headed there." He made another step towards me. I shook my head. "Do you really expect me to leave a young and beautiful lady in the middle of the nowhere? I know that right now the sun is shining but an hour from now it will be dark as hell. "I swallowed thickly as he moved even closer. I pursed lips and raised my chin high. I wasn't going to let him influence me that way.

"Do you really expect the young and beautiful lady to agree a complete stranger to take her somewhere?" I raised my eyebrow and stepped back. "I don't think so." He smiled even wider and I tried to ignore my pounding heart. I turned my back at him and opened the carriage's door.

"Wait!" He yelled. I turned around.

"Yes?"

"I'm Nick." He reached his hand out."There. I'm not a complete stranger. Will you come with me now?" I raised my eyebrow and for a second questioned myself whether I had completely lost my mind because I said.

"Yes." I reached my hand out and he caught it, leaning down to kiss it. And in the moment his lips touched my bare skin my entire being was filled with the freezing feel of death, for a moment I couldn't breathe. Dark and horrifying pictures went in front of my eyes and I felt how my whole body was becoming numb.

He let go of my hand and the terrifying feeling of complete numbness went away. My eyes were slightly widen as his lips extended in a dazzling smile. I tilted my head to one side and once again questioned myself whether I had gone completely mad. He was like a magnet. After what I had seen, I was absolutely sure that one way or another he was going to be the reason for my death, but even after that realization I couldn't take my eyes off of him.

And the bad thing was that he knew that.

His smile did not disappear as he reached his hand out to help me get on his horse. Dangerous smile, the smile of a predator.

"You look very familiar. What is your name?"

End of Flashback

"Klaus." I said and raised my head high. His lips extended in a wicked smile. He opened his mouth to say something but a high pitched voice interrupted him.

"Annie, that's not Klaus. That's my brother Jeremy." She moved closer and I immediately saw the impending danger, Klaus' eyes slowly moved to look at Elena, smile spreading across his lips. I puckered lips and crossed my hands on my chest, never taking eyes off of Klaus.

"I'm sorry Elena but this is no longer Jeremy." Klaus moved his eyes to look at me.

"What? What are you talking about?" The panic in her voice was obvious, she almost ran towards him but my hands darted up, making her stop.

"Elena stay out of it. Damon, take her out of here." I felt Damon moving and then how Elena tried to fight him off. "In fact, you all need to get out of here." Klaus' eyes started sparkling dangerously. "Klaus and I need to have a little chat."

But that's the thing with the switch off, I was well aware of the fact that I was standing in front of the person who wanted to kill me more than anything, but I wasn't feeling fear. All I knew was what I had to do.

"Still bossy, I see. You haven't changed a bit, Annabella. "I smiled, hearing how they were all going out.

"Belle, are you sure you'll be ok." I heard Damon's voice and was instantly surprised. I thought he hated me. Still not breaking eye contact with Klaus, I said quietly.

"Go, Damon." Klaus tilted his head to one side, his eyes starting to shine. I hated this look, I'd always hated, it was just like he was undressing me in his mind and was seeing me not only naked, but was reading my every thought .

A mocking smile extended on his lips.

"Better listen to her, mate." His eyes moved to me as we heard the quiet click of the door. "I'm surprised to see you here. Thought you were smarter than that."

"Well, I get this a lot lately. Katherine asked me to come here. Apparently she and her friends need my help." He laughed.

"Help, you say... Help with what? Me?"

"Obviously."

"Interesting. But I've been so good lately. I haven't killed anyone...yet."

"Good boy." I moved closer to him and he watched me carefully. I started walking around him, agonizingly slowly, when I finally faced him again, I was mere inches from him.

I was testing him. So far the results were pretty good. I poked his chest, feeling the warmth of the human's body.

"Isn't this getting old?"He knew what I meant and smirked.

"Being unpredictable?"I shrugged shoulders.

"Stealing human's bodies was unpredictable the first 100 times you did it. By the 1000, though, it kind of got old."

"I'm old too, sweetheart." He pulled away from me and slowly walked towards the fireplace. "Something tells me that you didn't send your boyfriend away only to have a nice little chit chat with me." His eyes darted up.

"True. "I nodded. "I want you to cure Rose, she has been bitten by a werewolf." That moment was crucial.

He looked at me for a second and then started laughing. Honestly, I wasn't seeing what was so funny.

"You have got to be kidding me, sweetheart. Why would I do something like that? I've been chasing her and Katerina and in fact, you, for 500 years. Why would I make you favor, even when it doesn't involve saving Rose? You are basically in my Top 10 People to Kill Before Turning 1040."He crossed his hands on his chest, tilting his head to one side, smirking. "Tell me one good reason not to kill you and all of your little friends this instant."

"Well...for one...if you wanted to kill me, you would have done it by now. And I don't mean only now. There was Chicago, Bulgaria, one time in Paris...right? You were the guy staring at me the whole night. Need I say more? Oh and for my so called friends, you can't kill Elena, Damon and Stefan have the moonstone, Rose is dying anyways and Katherine...well I don't think that you would kill Katherine so quickly. What did you once say? That since you were chasing her for so many years, her death was going to last at least half of that time, right?"

His expression changed. I think he was starting to realize that this time I wasn't going to be the one running. This time one of us was going down. And let me tell you, I didn't intend this one to be me.

"Interesting. But this still doesn't make me want to resurrect a vampire only to have to kill it later." He shrugged his shoulders.

Fine. We have to do it the hard way. A way that's called ' Lying And Manipulating. Petrova Style. '

"I'm offering you a deal. I help you, you help me. You want to lift the curse, I want Katherine and Rose to stay alive. You decide." He narrowed his eyes and flashed next to me. I didn't even flinch as his piercing eyes stared at me.

"I was wrong. You do have changed. " He studied my face carefully and after seeing my determination said with narrowed eyes. "You sound more reasonable now. But how can I know that you are not lying to me. I can't compel you. You know that." he said with irritation and I couldn't help but smile. Being the only witch/vampire in the world had its perks.

I looked down for a second.

"I have two options in front of me. Be a good sister and help Katherine with her suicidal mission to stop you oooor lie to Katherine, help you and get out of this mess alive. I chose the second one."I paused and looked up. I knew that even that he thought he hated me, I had always been and was going to be his one and only weakness. I was the only person he had ever loved and I guess he was right when he said that love is the vampire's greatest weakness.

After all, my whole plan depended on that.

"Do we have a deal, Nick?" I used his nickname, making his eyes look as they were made out of steel.

He continued staring at me, still not sure whether he could trust me or not.

After a few more agonizing minutes, his eyes started sparkling as his lips extended in a wicked smirk.

"We do."

God, I hoped that this wasn't the biggest mistake of my life.

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