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Chapter 4: Everything has changed

Charlotte sighed as she was released by the Mikaelson's. More like forced out of the room so they could 'deal' with their big bad brother. She made sure to give Elijah a small glare as she was forced out of the now crowded room, and she sighed once the door was shut. Obviously she could hear them, but she would be powerless to do anything anyway as she was… well, not an original and in truth – although it pained her to admit – much much weaker than them. Charlotte huffed and leaned against the wall opposite the room and just glared at the door.

Klaus was the only one talking – well not really talking, more like wheezing. He was, of course, trying to save himself from the horrible torture that was most likely headed his way. Charlotte wasn't all to fussed, she knew that the Mikaelson's wouldn't be able to do more than hurt Klaus – although Elijah might be tempted, considering what Klaus had done to his beloved Katerina. Charlotte sighed, still fuming yet slightly more calm.

That right there was probably why the whore was involved. A true love story! With that thought, Charlotte's face mirrored one of someone who had eaten something far too sour, she was repulsed by the idea of true love (her thoughts from that morning already leaving her cold heart and head) and she knew that there was really no such thing. The idea that someone had only one person to love in the world was crazy.

And if we didn't just have one exclusive love, then how many 'ones' do we have? Charlotte asked herself as she stared at the door, deciding that while Klaus may never forgive her, that it wasn't worth bursting into the room and demanding they let him go as they most definitely wouldn't. So instead she just listened to the voices, and she was surprised to hear Elizabeth's voice ring out in the silence of the large house.

Elizabeth was all but glaring at Klaus, as he pretty much hung from Finn's vice like grasp on his neck. She was so mad at him after how he'd treated her, year after year. She wouldn't give into his charms anymore. The conversation she'd overheard at the Grill had made her think, who's side was she on here? The side of the wicked or the righteous? The answer seemed clear in her head now as she stared into Klaus's beautiful eyes. He just looked back at her, seeming slightly terrified of his siblings.

"Now now darling" Elizabeth said, trying to calm him by using his own sickly sweet language back at him "Calm yourself, we're just going to have a little chat" she told him quietly, giving one small glace back towards Elijah. This plan revolved around him being able to control himself, which under most circumstances was easy for him. However, Klaus had pulled Elijah's last straw by killing the love of his life – while Elizabeth truly hated her, she still felt for Elijah – and by locking him in a coffin. "What did you want?" Klaus snapped at Elizabeth, his polite tone that he tried to have during these situations was completely gone from his voice, he was in no mood to be played. Elizabeth looked back at Kol who was standing by the door, he flashed her a small smile and she looked back over at Klaus.

Elizabeth couldn't help but feel slightly unnerved, which annoyed her. She'd promised herself she wouldn't let him have any control over her and yet there it was, the complete control he'd always had over her was slowly returning and her stomach was doing tiny backflips. She let out a small irritated sigh and looked into his eyes again, "Elena is going to her parents lake house to get away from you, I thought you'd like to know. However, we're not going to let you leave this room, without apologizing to everyone in it first." Elizabeth couldn't help her voice fade a little as she said the last few words, she knew it was stupid even before Klaus laughed loudly, and even before Charlotte's giggles radiated through the room.

Elizabeth gave a small hiss "SHUT UP" she yelled, her fists clenching. "I'm not joking, I'm sick and tired of being treated by a whore but you, having me whenever you want me! And Elijah, you have broken your brothers heart over and over and he's finally sick of it! And Kol, you locked him in a box for 100 years and Finn for 900! You've got more than enough to apologize for" she yelled, her frizzled hair had fallen out of its neat braid and made her look a little crazier than she felt she should be. However, she was acting slightly crazy, asking Klaus for an apology… only she would dare. Klaus gave a very very small nod and Finn released his throat a little and he began to speak. "Fine… I'm sorry for treating you like a whore – even though you technically are one. I'm sorry for killing the doppelgänger bitch that my charming brother was in love with, and I'm very sorry for locking my beloved brothers in coffins for their own protection from our rabid father" he finished, giving Elizabeth a sly smile.

She gave him nothing but a frown in return and then looked at Elijah who was glaring at Klaus with everything he had. Elizabeth gave a small nod and turned back to Klaus and muttered "Like I said, Elena is at her lake house… this is the last time you'll see me" Elizabeth said before walking out, and leaving Klaus's house and hopefully his life, forever.

He couldn't believe it. Klaus really couldn't believe it. One of the women who he had almost admitted to loving had just walked out of his life, claiming it would be the last time. Elijah was the only one left in the room now, it appeared he thought that he needed more from his brother, he would be disappointed, Klaus thought with a small but weak smirk. Elijah stared at him for a few more minutes, even after Charlotte had come back into the room and watched them curiously. "If you love them, protect them Niklaus. Don't lose them" he muttered before speeding away from the house.

Charlotte raised her eyebrow and looked and Klaus, a small smirk on her face "Big bad Klaus had to apologize, oh how his ego must have been hit!" she taunted, leaning against the open door frame. Klaus rolled his eyes, terrified that she would read into Elijah's comment about loving them rather than her. Klaus paused for a moment before walking past her and out of the door, and of course she followed. Not that Klaus was all that upset about that fact, he wanted her to follow and this scared him. Because he was terrified that he actually did love Charlotte.

Charlotte followed Klaus, watching his expression closely, if she was right Elijah had made it sound like Klaus was in love with not only the whore, but herself as well, which shamefully delighted her more than she would ever admit to. "Where, pray tell, are you going?" she asked him as she followed, making sure to keep a little way behind him as she did not want to seem so eager.

"Are your ancient ears not working Charlotte?" Klaus muttered rather grumpily "My charming doppelgänger is running, and we've got to stop her" he finished, storming out of the house with Charlotte following him. She followed him to the car and hesitated as he waited for her to get in.

Did she really want to get into the car with the man she knew that she wasn't ready to love. Wasn't ready to love… Charlotte wasn't sure if she'd ever be ready to love anyone, but she knew that if she did love, it would be Klaus that she loved, and so she wasn't really sure why she was so hesitant to love him. She sighed and got in the car, refusing to look at him as she did so. Klaus seemed not to notice and Charlotte got lost in her thoughts once again.

Early 1400's

Charlotte stood in the woods, watching the Mikaelson's in their large house celebrating Niklaus's stupid birthday. She was furious not to receive an invitation. Even if the last time they'd spoken he'd yelled at her and then she'd received a visit from his father.

Shivers spread down her spine at the thought of Mikael and what he'd compelled her to do. She hated herself but she knew that she simply had no choice but to complete his wishes and to never utter a word of her task. She sighed and began her journal towards the home, she was dressed elegantly, of course, it was a party after all.

As she took each step she revised her plan in her mind, deliberating each move carefully and making sure not to attract too much attention – well too much of the wrong kind of attention. She was, after all, only here to make sure the rumours were true, she was here to see if there was in fact another girl. She stepped through the front door and walked through the foyer, her heels clicking loudly on the pavement and echoing through the surprisingly deserted halls. The only other sound she could hear was the sound of music, elegant music playing from a room in the far back of the house. As she walked towards it she thought even more deeply about the task that was given to her. She must kill the next doppelgänger.

Present time

Elizabeth walked back into the Grill and smiled widely when she saw Matt sitting at a table, the Grill was otherwise deserted and it was obvious – by the uniform – that Matt in fact worked at the Grill. She approached him and sat down, smiling sweetly "Hello again" she said to him, making her voice soft and sweet.

He grinned at her, his blue eyes glowing and Elizabeth couldn't help but notice how kind they were, so unlike the eyes she was used to. Klaus's eyes were nothing like his, they were not as kind, not as pure and not anywhere near as honest. For a moment Elizabeth felt like cursing, she couldn't manage to think a single thought without relating it back to Klaus, everything revolved around him and she hated it.

Since when did he become her life? Never! She restrained herself and smiled again "Sorry I'm late, I got caught up with an old… friend I guess" she told him, looking down when she said friend for just a fraction of a second. Elizabeth hated how she was acting, she was making it seem like she had a secret (other than the fact she was a vampire of course) and she didn't want Matt to think of her as a liar or two faced.

She wanted this to work. Elizabeth didn't care if it sounded crazy, she really thought Matt would be a good… rebound she supposed. He seemed so kind and caring and he was, of course, insanely beautiful and Elizabeth couldn't look past the fact that they were both blonde with blue eyes – like it was meant to be. Elizabeth knew that to still believe in fate and love at first sight after all she'd been through with Niklaus was stupid, but what could she say? It was just who she was.

The house was peaceful, almost as if no one was inside but for vampires like Charlotte and Klaus, they could tell people were inside. More specifically, Elena, Stefan and Damon. Charlotte watched Klaus's expression carefully, she had no idea what he was planning but she was sure that it wasn't going to be pretty, not for Stefan anyway. Charlotte tried not to feel anything as they moved towards the house, although she couldn't help her excitement and blood lust creep in on her, she always felt this way when it came to the prospect of violence.

She loved it. It was shameful. She tried not to think about the Stefan she met in Chicago, because that would only feed her sadness at losing such a poetic and yet incredibly tragic 'friend' in the gore. She knew that what was coming for Stefan would be the last thing coming. Charlotte also tried to remember that the Stefan she met in Chicago was gone, and while he might be able to be lured back, he would never be the same and that in itself gave Charlotte a small and yet annoyingly familiar feeling of sadness deep down in her core. And when she even so much as considered how she felt about Damon, her insides did backflips.

He was her friend, they'd spent endless nights together and they'd hunted, tortured and killed entire towns together, she couldn't even comprehend the feelings she would feel if his death occurred. She hated herself for the emotions Mystic Falls was making her feel, and she hated that she was getting softer than she had ever been, and she hated that she was even beginning to admit to herself that she indeed had feelings for Niklaus Mikaelson, her best friend of one thousand years.

Elena was staring into the fire in the big house that her parents used to own. She couldn't help the sadness that seeped through her entire body, she was just so incredibly sad. This was the first time she'd been in the house since her aunt had died, and since the sacrifice went down. She had been through it and somehow – after a lot of death – came through unscathed and surprisingly O.K. Of course she'd lost her 'uncle' John, and she hated how that made her feel, after spending her entire life hating the man she found it so confronting to be consumed by sadness from his death. Not to mention the death of her Aunt Jenna.

She remembered walking home after that day at school and seeing her aunt's lifeless body just lying on the floor at some red heads feet, little did she know that this red head – her aunt's murdered – was in fact an old friend of both Stefan and Damon, two of the people she actually had left in the world. This gave her chills, she couldn't believe that they'd both been friends with her, that they'd both slept with her and that they both defended her when they realised who it was. "She's being compelled by her love of Klaus" Stefan had said the moment Elena revealed to them who it was. "There's no way Charlotte knew what you meant to us" Damon had dared to say when Elena sat crying in the large lounge room.

She had hated them for sticking up for her, and she'd hated that they had the audacity to even think about telling Elena about her. As far as Elena could see, Charlotte was the bitch who killed one of her 2 remaining family members and she would never, ever be forgiven. It was at that moment that Damon walked in and stood in front of the far, cutting off Elena's vision. She steadily and slowly raised her eyes to look into his piercing ones "Damon I can't be here, he's going to either find me, or go after Jer, I have to get home!" she pleaded, fearing for the life of her brother.

She'd made a deal with Klaus, a deal that she would give him her blood and he wouldn't harm any of her friends or family – the one family member she had left anyway – and she had just betrayed the deal. She'd been whisked away from her house and brought here to a place the Salvatore's were certain Klaus would never find out about. "Forget it Elena, you're staying here, where you're safe" he told her, just simply rolling his eyes and looking out the window "even if he found you he can't get in the house. You own it, remember." Elena sighed and then stood up, storming off to the room that her and Stefan were sharing – the only plus side to this entire thing – and flopped down on the bed.

Charlotte was looking at Klaus, waiting for instructions, he slowly snaked his arm around her waist and pulled her to him and leaned in, his breath hot on her neck. He lowly whispered into her ear what she was meant to do and she nodded, and walked towards the front door of the house, which she entered – getting in with absolutely no problem at all. Once she was inside she went into what she assumed was the lounge room to find the two brothers inside, she gave them a wicked grin and then sat in the arm chair that was in the centre of the room.

"Hello boys" she said with a very seductive edge to her voice. They looked at her, utterly confused. She was sure they were wondering what she was doing here, and in fact if it was her who had killed Elena's beloved Aunt. And it was. Stefan was the first to speak, as Charlotte was sure he would be, considering Damon just looked at her for a while, his eyes looking all over her body – with emphasis on her chest. "How did you get in?" Stefan asked, the surprise clear on his face. Charlotte simply gave a sly smirk and shrugged her shoulders before sitting in the big arm chair in the middle of the room. "I guess it's because your girlfriend died, it gave the house to Jeremy" she muttered, twirling a piece of hair in her fingers.

"Now look boys, I'm just here to warn you that Klaus is going to hurt what's left of her family if she doesn't get her skinny little ass back to Mystic Falls" she told them, still playing with her hair. "And look, while I'm obviously not her biggest fan I think family is very important and that the deal she agreed to was really all about their safety, and honestly I don't think it was too much of him to ask. He just wants to make hybrids after all and he obviously needs her blood to do so, it's really just kind of her, she shouldn't need to be provoked" she rambled, distracting the Salvatore's from what was going on upstairs.

And it was working, the brothers were so entirely baffled by Charlotte's incessant rambling that they didn't hear Klaus taking Elena out the window upstairs. It was originally going to be a kidnapping, but from what it sounded like, it was rather mutual. Elena wanted to go with Klaus. It made sense, Charlotte supposed, Elena wouldn't have wanted her little brother getting hurt, or any of her friends. So Charlotte kept talking to the brothers, not really about anything in particular, basically just avoiding any of their questions.

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